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Favourite Restauraknts
Take a seat in the stylish ground floor restaurant or perch on a stool at the omakase sushi bar and prepare to sample some of London’s best sushi at Kouzu. Chef Kyoichi Kai, previously of Zuma and the Arts Club, leads a team of all-Japanese kitchen staff at the Belgravia restaurant. As you sit at the open sushi bar you can admire the incredible skill and talent of the chefs as they put together each plate. Everything on the menu is wonderful but the sushi is the star of the show, particularly the spicy tuna. Pair it with a delicious yuzu bellini from the restaurant’s cool cocktail bar.
Kouzu
21 Grosvenor GardensTake a seat in the stylish ground floor restaurant or perch on a stool at the omakase sushi bar and prepare to sample some of London’s best sushi at Kouzu. Chef Kyoichi Kai, previously of Zuma and the Arts Club, leads a team of all-Japanese kitchen staff at the Belgravia restaurant. As you sit at the open sushi bar you can admire the incredible skill and talent of the chefs as they put together each plate. Everything on the menu is wonderful but the sushi is the star of the show, particularly the spicy tuna. Pair it with a delicious yuzu bellini from the restaurant’s cool cocktail bar.
Chef Blumenthal is best known for the Fat Duck, where you may wait months for a table and a meal costs 220 pounds plus drinks and service. Dinner by Heston serves more accessible food at less elevated prices, but it’s still not cheap. Most mains cost 30 pounds to 40 pounds. The set lunch is 38 pounds for three courses but isn’t very exciting—although it includes the restaurant’s signature “wow,” the Meatfruit (a liver parfait in a mandarin gel).
21 habitants recommandent
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
66 KnightsbridgeChef Blumenthal is best known for the Fat Duck, where you may wait months for a table and a meal costs 220 pounds plus drinks and service. Dinner by Heston serves more accessible food at less elevated prices, but it’s still not cheap. Most mains cost 30 pounds to 40 pounds. The set lunch is 38 pounds for three courses but isn’t very exciting—although it includes the restaurant’s signature “wow,” the Meatfruit (a liver parfait in a mandarin gel).
Hawksmoor singlehandedly raised the standard of steak restaurants in London when it opened in Spitalfields in 2006. The new Knightsbridge outlet has similarly top-notch meat, along with fried oysters and a lobster roll with sriracha mayonnaise and yuzu. The attention to detail in the menu and the design means Hawksmoor is still a winner, although it can still be expensive.
9 habitants recommandent
Hawksmoor Guildhall
10 Basinghall StHawksmoor singlehandedly raised the standard of steak restaurants in London when it opened in Spitalfields in 2006. The new Knightsbridge outlet has similarly top-notch meat, along with fried oysters and a lobster roll with sriracha mayonnaise and yuzu. The attention to detail in the menu and the design means Hawksmoor is still a winner, although it can still be expensive.
This French establishment is the hidden gem in Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant empire. Having moved more than once, it now sits on a quiet street and there are no fireworks in the décor. But the new chef, Neil Snowball, is putting fizz into the menu with a cooking style he developed at the Fat Duck. Better still, his mentor is Ramsay’s star chef, Clare Smyth. The word isn’t out yet on just how good the food at Petrus has become, with dishes such as Anjou pigeon with smoked onion purée, glazed turnips, pigeon pie, and ginger jus.
17 habitants recommandent
Petrus by Gordon Ramsay
1 Kinnerton StThis French establishment is the hidden gem in Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant empire. Having moved more than once, it now sits on a quiet street and there are no fireworks in the décor. But the new chef, Neil Snowball, is putting fizz into the menu with a cooking style he developed at the Fat Duck. Better still, his mentor is Ramsay’s star chef, Clare Smyth. The word isn’t out yet on just how good the food at Petrus has become, with dishes such as Anjou pigeon with smoked onion purée, glazed turnips, pigeon pie, and ginger jus.
Best Bars
The Rib Room is a suave restaurant and bar in Knightsbridge that's been serving up traditional authentic British cuisine for over 50 years. It currently displays a combination of green seating areas with dark chocolate wooden tables bringing about an air of authenticity and Mad Men vibes.
153 habitants recommandent
Arc de marbre
The Rib Room is a suave restaurant and bar in Knightsbridge that's been serving up traditional authentic British cuisine for over 50 years. It currently displays a combination of green seating areas with dark chocolate wooden tables bringing about an air of authenticity and Mad Men vibes.
It is hard to imagine a more polished and refined bar than Bulgari Bar at Bulgari Hotel in London. The sumptuous interior of the bar consists of mirrored surfaces, an arctic cold-like stainless steal bar and charcoal coloured seating areas.
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Bulgari Hotel London
171 KnightsbridgeIt is hard to imagine a more polished and refined bar than Bulgari Bar at Bulgari Hotel in London. The sumptuous interior of the bar consists of mirrored surfaces, an arctic cold-like stainless steal bar and charcoal coloured seating areas.