Mayfair
This showcases our coverage of Mayfair, London’s premier dining and hospitality district, known for luxury venues, flagship restaurants, and high-spend clientele. We report on fine dining launches, chef appointments, brand expansions, and operational strategy from some of the UK’s most prestigious operators. With insights into premium pricing models, guest experience design, and elite F&B service, this is essential reading for executives, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals navigating or benchmarking against the high-end market.
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Apr- 2021 -23 AprilRestaurants
Pataka to offer alfresco dining whilst it undergoes interior renovations
Pataka has announced that it will expand its existing kitchen concept to offer alfresco dining for up to 20 people whilst its interior is renovated in time for 17 May reopening. The restaurant opened during lockdown and began delivering authentic Indian food around central London from their kitchen in Grosvenor…
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16 AprilPeople
Kerth Gumbs, announces departure from Ormer Mayfair
Kerth Gumbs, head chef at the Ormer Mayfair restaurant in London, has announced that he is stepping down from the role. Gumbs, who headed the restaurant for five years, took to Instagram to confirm his departure – stating that the “time has come” for him to start a “new chapter”…
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Feb- 2021 -26 FebruaryPeople
Yo Sushi appoints new chair
Yo Sushi has announced that John Walden has joined the group as its new chairman. It comes as present chairman Eric Nicoli is stepping down to pursue other interests, having joined the group in 2015 following the acquisition of the company by Mayfair Private Equity. According to the group, he…
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Jan- 2021 -26 JanuaryAwards & Events
Two London restaurants awarded three Michelin stars
Two London restaurants have achieved the highest accolade at the 2021 Michelin guide for Great Britain and Ireland that was launched via an online event yesterday (25 January). Headed by two female chefs, Clare Smyth and Hélène Darroze, the restaurants both received the maximum three stars, taking the total number…
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Dec- 2020 -1 DecemberNews
Langan’s set for grand reopening Autumn 2021
Restaurateurs Graziano Arricale and James Hitchen have announced that Langan’s will reopen as a french brasserie in Autumn 2021. Founded by Irish restaurateur Peter Langan in 1976, in partnership with actor Sir Michael Caine and former head chef of the Michelin-starred Capital Hotel, Richard Shepherd, Langan’s in Mayfair was a…
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Aug- 2020 -18 AugustComment
Take me home – The future of the food industry
For better or worse, whether it be multi-channel cable television, police sirens or chlorinated chicken, the UK will always lag behind the US, and then eventually catch up. Right now, the Covid-19 pandemic has joined forces with the tech revolution (and our peculiar national obsession with copying the Americans) to…
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17 AugustRestaurants
Yo Sushi to axe 250 jobs following CVA
Yo Sushi has announced it will shutter 19 sites and axe 250 jobs in a bid to restructure the business following the crisis. The move comes after the dining group launched a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) in light of “changes in consumer behaviour” that have made its rents “unsustainable” across…
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6 AugustRestaurants
Yo Sushi eyes CVA
Yo Sushi has reportedly drafted in Deloitte in a bid to negotiate rent concessions with landlords and secure a potential CVA, Sky News has reported. While the sushi chain has not yet made a formal decision to proceed with a CVA, sources told Sky that the group would have “little…
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Feb- 2020 -6 FebruaryPeople
Elystan Street’s head chef exits amid ‘professional difference of opinion’
Toby Burrowes has departed as head chef from Phil Howard’s Michelin-starred restaurant, Elystan Street in Chelsea amid a “professional difference of opinion”. Burrowes announced his departure in an Instagram post, which said: “Well the time has come, I have stepped down as head chef at Elystan Street, due to a…
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5 FebruaryRestaurants
Hoppers announces opening date of King’s Cross site
Sri Lankan and Southern Indian inspired restaurant, Hoppers, has announced its new King[s Cross restaurant is to open on 11 February. The opening of the new site takes the portfolio of Hoppers restaurants to three sites in the UK, which includes Soho and St Christophers Place. The menu will feature…
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