Hakkasan coming to Mayfair
August 18, 2010 by Rob Powell
A Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant is to open a new venue in Mayfair later this year.
Hakkasan, which currently has one other restaurant near Tottenham Court Road station, will open its new site in Mayfair’s Bruton street.
Hakkasan describes itself as a “cinematic vision of the sexiest night club you’ve never been to” where “impossibly glamourous waiting staff emerge to deliver dishes from a Michelin-star winning, modern Cantonese menu.”
The kitchen will be overseen by executive chef, Tong Chee Hwee.
Additional information at CatererSearch.com
Cielo coming to Mayfair
February 9, 2010 by Rob Powell
A new Italian restaurant is soon to open in New Burlington Street, Mayfair.
Caterer Search reports that Cielo will open on March 1st and have a northern Italian menu, with Paolo Iaiani the head chef.
The new 40-seat restaurant will open above the Luxx club.
Mirabelle To Get 1930s Makeover
January 22, 2008 by Rob Powell
Design Week has reported that Mayfair restaurant Mirabelle is to close for six months to allow a major refurbishment and 1930s makeover to take place.
Mirabelle was purchased from Marco Pierre White by Joseph Ettedgui Stephen Schaffer last November, having previously also bought Quo Vadis and Drones from the renowned chef.
The work on Mirabelle in Curzon Street should be completed by the summer.
More Praise for Scott’s
January 10, 2008 by Rob Powell
Mayfair seafood restaurant Scott’s has received top marks in Tatler‘s restaurant guide for 2008, being described as the “top of the A-list”. The praise for the Mount Street restaurant follows on from it being named as London’s coolest restaurant by Harper’s Bazaar in November.
Tatler didn’t have such good news for Gordon Ramsay. It praised the food in his Claridge’s restaurant, but described the service as “duff”.
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester Scores 8/10 in Telegraph Review
November 24, 2007 by Rob Powell
Legendary French chef, Alain Ducasse’s new restaurant, Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, has come under the reviewing eye of Mark Palmer from the Telegraph .
Palmer review says “this is a restaurant for dedicated followers of food fashion and people with deep pockets or on generous expenses… the food here lives up to its billing and should not be missed.”
Scott’s Voted London’s Coolest Restaurant
November 4, 2007 by Rob Powell
Mayfair restaurant Scott’s has been voted London’s coolest restaurant in a new “Going Out Guide” compiled by Harper’s Bazaar and Moet.
The Mount Street restaurant, which dates back to 1851, specialises in fish dishes, and earned this praise from the guide’s editor, Sophie Denning: “It looks gorgeous, it exudes confidence, and the simple pleasures of oysters and Dover sole are very London.”
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Chor Bizarre Celebrates 10th Anniversary
October 31, 2007 by Rob Powell
Popular Indian restaurant, Chor Bizarre, is celebrating its 10th year of trading. To mark this achievement, the Albemarle St based establishment is unveiling a new interior design, new chef, new a la carte menu and a new wine list.
Find out more about how Chor Bizarre is marking it’s 10th birthday…
Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s
August 28, 2007 by Rob Powell
Harden’s Restaurant Guide has given Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s a pasting in its latest edition. The Financial Times has reported on the verdict given to the Mayfair restaurant:
…slipping down the list is Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s, behind Oxford Street,
which is labelled “conservative, going on boring†by one critic. “What a
disaster!†wails another at the much-derided La Noisette, the latest addition to
the Ramsay group, in Knightsbridge.