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Restaurants11
Sabor★4◆
Destination · Spanish · Mayfair · $$$
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The Segovian suckling pig comes out of an oven Sabor had built for it, and upstairs in El Asador is the only part of the building that will take a booking.
Gymkhana★★4◆
Destination · Indian · Mayfair · $$$$
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Four working industry people, asked separately over two years, all named this room. Three of them run restaurants themselves.
BiBi3◆
Solid · Indian · Mayfair · $$$$
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Chet Sharma's own account of the problem he set himself: "The tasting menu is 15 courses with the supplement.
IGNI
Solid · Live-fire tasting menu · Mayfair · $$$$
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The tuna course ends on chutoro aged two weeks and then dressed with foie fat rendered down over the fire, which is the clearest statement of what the kitchen is for (Hot Dinners).
Apricity RestaurantGreen ★
Solid · Modern British · Mayfair · $$$
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Chantelle Nicholson puts British vegetables at the center of the menu and sends the regeneratively farmed meat and line-caught fish out as the side option.
Fonda
Solid · Mexican · Mayfair · $$$
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No avocados and, the kitchen says, no lime, so the guacamole is built from pistachio and cucumber and the Baja taco is Cornish cod, all of it worked on masa off a clay comal set in the middle of the kitchen.
HIDE
Solid · Modern British · Mayfair · $$$$
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Order any of about ten thousand bottles from Hedonism Wines at your table on Piccadilly, and allow fifteen minutes for it to arrive.
Noble Rot Mayfair
Solid · British / wine · Mayfair · $$$
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Head chef Adam Wood's first job out of school was three years with Marcus Wareing, whose custard tart went to the late Queen's 80th birthday banquet, and the duck egg custard tart here is the direct descendant (Hot Dinners).
Ikeda
Solid · Japanese · Mayfair · $$$$
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Fifty years on Brook Street, and Jake Missing's 8.3 rests on the rice: warm, lightly vinegared, and worth a handroll on its own.
The Mayfair Chippy
Listed · Fish & chips · Mayfair · $$
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There is a permanent queue, and the way past it is the takeaway counter, where the guide says "you get dealt with immediately" (The Good Food Guide).
Park Chinois
Listed · Chinese · Mayfair · $$$$
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Dinner is downstairs in Club Chinois until September 2026, with the DJs on until 2am and last entry at midnight.
Pubs & cask3
The Guinea Grill
Solid · Steakhouse · Mayfair · $$$$
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On the way to your table you walk past a fridge of dry-aged beef and pick the cut you are about to eat, which is the whole argument for a room that has not changed much since 1952.
The Audley Public House
Solid · British · Mayfair · $$$
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The beef and the lamb come off Durslade Farm in Somerset, which the pub's owners also own, and the sausages come from the same farm shop (The Audley).
The Barley Mow Pub Mayfair
Listed · Modern British gastropub · Mayfair · $$$
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Drink downstairs, eat upstairs. Harden's reporters are blunt that the first-floor dining room is where the cooking happens.
Cocktails5
Connaught Bar4◆
Destination · Cocktail bar · Mayfair · $$$$
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The current menu, Stream, holds the same ten drinks for its entire life and rewrites their recipes as the seasons move, so Stem currently arrives as cognac infused with argan oil, Michter's rye, Acqua Bianca, Persian cordial, new-make wine and coriander bitters (The World's 50 Best…
The Donovan Bar
Solid · Hotel cocktail bar · Mayfair · $$$$
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Salvatore Calabrese keeps a personal collection of spirits up to 230 years old behind this bar, and pours them into drinks: 1788 Clos de Griffier Vieux cognac, 1770 Kummel, 1930s Angostura (The Spirits Business).
Kwãnt Mayfair
Solid · Cocktail bar · Mayfair · $$$$
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The signature martini here runs gin through a langoustine distillate, fino sherry and sea oil, and the garnish on it was grown hydroponically in the building.
Nipperkin
Solid · Cocktail bar · Mayfair · $$$$
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Angelos Bafas builds the list out of British seasonal produce and Japanese spirits, most of the flavor arriving through distillates and cordials made in house.
Mr Fogg's Apothecary
Listed · Cocktail bar · Mayfair · $$$
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Under the dry ice and the smoke bubbles there is beeswax-infused tequila, a bergamot syrup and a pandan leaf syrup, which is more house work than a themed bar usually bothers with.
Bakes & sweet1
Arôme Bakery (Duke Street)
Listed · French-Asian patisserie · Mayfair · $$
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Alix André came out of Lyon through Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, then Yauatcha and Roka, which is why the laminated dough here ends up carrying miso and palm sugar.
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