June Round-Up

✉️ HI FELLOW FOODIE

What a heatwave to end the month on in the UK — luckily I escaped the heat for a week in the Algarve😎(its not often you can say that th Algarve was cooler than the UK). If you are off to the Algrave we had two stand out meals, I can recommend Sandbanks in Vale Do Lobo & Cabana Sass (it was a bit lumpy), Quartaria.

A big newsletter this month (look at it as a beano summer special addition) so let’s start as always with the reviews.

🍴 THIS MONTH'S RESTAURANT REVIEWS

Langan's, Mayfair

A slightly disappointing visit for Langan’s Prix Fixe menu — not quite hitting the mark this time when we visited this iconic Mayfair restaurant

Read my full review →

Lillies & three other new Olympia restaurants

I headed to Olympia for the opening of Lillies and three other restaurants in a stunning new development — long overdue for the area. Find out what’s landed.

Read about the new Olympia restaurants →

👨‍🍳 IN THE KITCHEN

I’ve been experimenting with few recipes this month including a deluxe version of a cauliflower cheese below, which I was so happy with how it turned out, see all our recipes (over 60 in total) here

My Roasted cauliflower cheese

This recipe takes the humble cauliflower to the next level. When the weather cools down a little, I’d love you to try it and let me know what you think.

Get the recipe →

New Article-Chef Secrets: Essential Cooking Tips for Home Cooks

 I have been working on a little article that I’m excited to share with you, its called “Chef Secrets: Essential Cooking Tips for Home Cooks, Straight From the Professionals", Ive asked some of the best chefs in London for their tips to help us amatuer cooks, it’s a great insight into the professional chefs world with some really good tips and even though I say it myself worth a read. Big thanks to the chefs for being so keen to help

📰 WORD ON THE STREET

Mayfair Foodie × Wylde Market

I wanted you to be the first to know — I'm delighted to announce I'm back working with Wylde Market, the online farmers' market founded by Nick, who moved back from Spain and couldn't believe how hard it was to find genuinely good, fresh fish here in the UK. What started as a way for independent fishermen to sell their catch directly to customers has snowballed into a whole community of regenerative farmers, growers and artisan producers — all setting their own prices, with everything delivered to your door in one box.

Wylde's ethos — championing small, independent producers and getting their stories (and their produce) onto our plates — is something close to my heart, which is exactly why I'm so keen to support both Wylde and British producers more widely. I'll be using their excellent produce to create new recipes, and from time to time you'll also see guest posts from the Wylde team here on the website, shining a light on the British farmers and producers behind it.

Masala Zone — Grand Trunk Road Odyssey

Limited menu · 15 June – 7 September · All four London sites

Masala Zone is marking 25 years since its first Soho opening with The Grand Trunk Road Odyssey, a 12-week limited menu (from Monday 15th June across all four sites — Soho, Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus and Earl’s Court) that eats its way along the ancient 2,500km highway from the North-West Frontier to the Bay of Bengal. Expect Chapli Kebab from the Khyber Pass, Amritsar’s Dhaaba Duck Egg Masala, a fragrant Lucknavi lamb biryani and a celebratory Wedding Fish Curry from West Bengal, before finishing with Anglo-Bengal fish croquettes in Chittagong. The touch I rather like is the physical “passport” you get stamped region by region on return visits, with complimentary dishes and a supply of Kingfisher up for grabs. One for anyone who reckons they already know the full sweep of Indian regional cooking.

The Cocochine — New Head Chef

Chef-patron Larry Jayasekara has promoted Kushal Rai to Head Chef at The Cocochine, effective immediately. Nepalese-born Kushal joined as Junior Sous Chef when the restaurant launched in 2024, having previously worked at The Goring, A. Wong and Restaurant Story. Jayasekara praised his "superb palate and impressive cooking skills" alongside his understanding of the restaurant's key supply chains, including Rowler Estate in Northamptonshire and Tanera Mor in Scotland.

27 Bruton Place, Mayfair, London W1J 6NQ

Delamina EAST — 10th Anniversary

In a corner of town where openings come and go at speed, a decade is no small thing. Delamina EAST is celebrating across the summer, opening with a Founders Dinner on 10th June and a “Pour & Plate” wine pairing on 8th July — both one for the diary if you’ve not yet made the trip.

Novikov — Weekday Dim Sum Lunch

You needn’t trek to Chinatown for serious dim sum: Novikov — my Best Asian Restaurant of last year, and a room I never tire of — has put on a weekday Dim Sum Lunch in its market-style Berkeley Street dining room. Served Monday to Friday, noon till 4pm, it runs on a tiered format: three kinds for £52, five for £78 or eight for £105, taking in har gau, chicken and morel siu mai, black cod dumplings, beef gyoza and duck winglets. A contemporary, Pan-Asian spin on the Cantonese classics. Having tasted dim sum at Novikov, I can’t wait to go back for lunch.

London Craft Beer Festival 2026

One for the beer lovers’ diary: the London Craft Beer Festival returns on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th July, and this year it’s decamped to Southwark Park in Bermondsey — a proper open-air green space, handy for Bermondsey and Canada Water on the Jubilee line. The draw is the ‘All In’ ticket (from £64.50pp): your beer is included, full stop, across more than 150 breweries and some 800 beers. Expect a strong home showing — Deya, Verdant, Tiny Rebel and south-London neighbour Anspach & Hobday, whose London Black porter topped the UK Top 50 last year — plus a new ‘Wet Led’ area for the craft-adjacent crowd (mezcal, whisky, Somerset cider) and a knock-out street-food line-up to soak it all up. Three sessions across the weekend; well worth the diary entry if a sunny afternoon of good beer appeals.

📍 NEW RESTAURANT OPENINGS

Latine

 French–Latin · Mayfair

Lancashire Court has a glamorous new arrival. Latine opens this June in the cobbled mews just off New Bond Street, part of the new Mayfair Quarter development, and it’s an ambitious one: classic French technique as the backbone, Latin American flavour and colour as the soul. Executive Chef Francisco Lafee — Le Cordon Bleu-trained, with time at El Celler de Can Roca and Barrafina behind him before he went travelling across South America — sends out the likes of wild seabass with beurre blanc and ají amarillo, chargrilled beef fillet with Périgord sauce and dark chocolate, and a plantain tarte tatin with coffee caramel to finish. Seafood leads, with a dedicated Crudo Bar turning out ceviches, tiraditos and tartares on the ground floor. It’s built as a stay-all-night sort of place across several floors: ‘The Restaurant’ and a champagne terrace at street level, the livelier ‘La Candela’ lounge above, a hand-painted private room ‘El Cielo’ seating 20, and a low-lit South American cocktail den, ‘LACAV’, following in September. The wine list comes from Romain Audrerie, late of The Savoy and Chiltern Firehouse. One very much for the diary.

10–11 Lancashire Court, Mayfair, London W1S 1EY

Langosteria at The OWO

Opening 1 July · Italian seafood · Whitehall

File this one under ‘I’ll believe it when the doors open’. Langosteria — the cult Milanese seafood house and long-standing fashion-world haunt — was first announced for The OWO back in 2023, to coincide with the hotel’s grand opening. Several missed dates later, it’s now confirmed for 1st July. Founded by Enrico Buonocore in 2007 and already established in Paris and St Moritz, this is the group’s third international outpost, taking the ground floor of Raffles London at The OWO. Expect a seafood-led menu — black grouper tagliata, John Dory and borage tempura, blue lobster alla catalana on the Milan original — reworked with an emphasis on London’s own local catches.

57 Whitehall, London SW1A 2BX

Go Greek Yogurt

Opening 11 July · Greek yogurt café · South Molton Street

LA-born yogurt café and lifestyle brand Go Greek Yogurt makes its UK debut on South Molton Street this July, bringing its Mediterranean-inspired menu of fresh and build-your-own frozen Greek yogurt bowls (vegan options included) closer to its roots for the first time, with over 30 sweet and savoury toppings on offer. Founded in LA in 2012 and a favourite of Gigi Hadid and the Kardashians since, it's grounded in the Greek concept of meraki — creating with passion and purpose. The first 100 customers on opening weekend (11th–12th July) get free frozen yogurt with toppings. I will be popping in next month.

South Molton Street, London W1K

Rosina

Opened 29 June · Italian · Wandsworth

Adam Byatt — the chef-owner of Clapham’s Michelin-starred Trinity — is staying in his beloved south-west London for his next, and doing something he’s never done before: going Italian. Rosina, named for his young daughter Rosie, opens on 29th June on Bellevue Road by Wandsworth Common, taking over the old Brinkley’s Kitchen on the corner of Trinity Road (yes, really) — the same handsome stretch that’s home to Chez Bruce. It’s his first neighbourhood project in over a decade and his sixth restaurant, and he’s bringing a good chunk of the Trinity team with him. The cooking is a love letter to Italy by way of the best British produce: early word points to fried Taleggio in chard with tomato fondue, conchiglie with veal and bone marrow ragù, a cacio e pepe to be judged against the city’s finest, and rabbit Milanese — plus, joy of joys, a dessert trolley. Fifty covers inside, 25 on the terrace, a stand-alone bar and a private room. I’ve added it to my wishlist.

35 Bellevue Road, London SW17 7EF

Tagine & Grill at The Sun & 13 Cantons

Residency — open now · Moroccan · Soho

Fans of modern Moroccan food, step this way. There’s going to be a whole lot of charcoal grilling and spicy sharing plates coming to popular pub The Sun & 13 Cantons in Soho, with the arrival of Tagine & Grill, now that Mamapen’s two-year residency has ended. Chef Yassir Chair, founder of the ambitious Afuego Burger, is bringing his skills to Soho following a successful five-week pop-up with Tagine & Grill at King & Co in Clapham. Expect chargrilled chicken thigh with ras-el-hanout dressing and harissa mayo, lamb kofta with lemon and mint yoghurt, halloumi kebab with pomegranate, and a new tagine showcased each week. A residency, so don’t dawdle.

21 Great Pulteney Street, London W1F 9NG

Mour

 Mediterranean · Marylebone

Mour opens its doors at The Leonard Hotel on Seymour Street on 26th June, taking over the old Seymour’s site and giving it a proper Mediterranean makeover. It’s a genuinely personal project for founder Saachi Sehgal, who grew up next door at his family’s Leonard Hotel — the name is a nod to Seymour Street itself, and to the philosophy of “the more” in life: longer lunches, another bottle, conversations that run on. The 60-cover dining room sits inside a reimagined Georgian townhouse with double-height ceilings and fireplaces, but the real trick up its sleeve is a 20-seat hidden courtyard with a retractable roof — a proper year-round Tuscan escape in the middle of Marylebone. On the menu: tataki di seabass with roasted garlic ponzu, brie tortelloni with rainbow chard and grana padano foam, and a duo of lamb with rosemary jus, alongside a martini-led drinks list (the Blind Faith Martini, where you hand the bartender free rein, is one to try). I’ll be booking in for one of those long lunches very soon.

13 Seymour Street, London W1H 5BT

💰 BEST VALUE LUNCHES

I often say it, and I’ll keep saying it — London’s set lunch scene is one of the great undiscovered bargains in dining. Here are five of the best I’ve found this month, four of them in Mayfair. and one made in Chelsea

Kitty Fisher’s

Shepherd Market, Mayfair · From £30

A weekly working lunch with a menu that rotates every week — two courses for £30, three for £34. Consistently good value from one of Mayfair’s most charming little dining rooms.

Claridge's Bakery — Mayfair Meal Deal

Mayfair · £15

Tucked away on Brook's Mews, Claridge's Bakery has become one of Mayfair's most beloved lunchtime rituals, devoted to celebrating the art of British baking and nourishing the neighbourhood. Executive Baker and Creative Director Richard Hart and Head Baker Frederic Doncel-Latorre have introduced a perfectly composed, daily Mayfair Meal Deal — a signature sandwich, drink and sweet treat, all for £15. A perfect pick-me-up, whether pausing between meetings or picnicking outdoors — delicious sandwich fillings complement freshly-baked bloomers and artisan breads, and nostalgic British cakes span Belgian buns, Bakewell tarts and the bakery's signature Jammy Dodger.

Available daily. Monday–Friday 8am–6pm, Saturday–Sunday 9am–4pm.

Brook's Mews, Mayfair, London W1K 4HR

Willett's — Set Lunch & Willett's Hour

Chelsea · Two courses £32 / three courses £36

Willett's, the new British bistro inside The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, has launched a set lunch at £32 for two courses or £36 for three — a genuinely fair price for this postcode, and built around seasonal British cooking with herbs grown on-site. Better still is Willett's Hour, daily from 6pm to 7pm on the terrace and at the bar: £8 signature cocktails (normally £14), £6 lagers, and the headline act — £1 oysters and £1 sausage rolls. A quid for an oyster in SW1 is the kind of thing that makes me want to set a reminder.

75 Sloane Street, London, Sw1X 9SG

Isabel — The Welcome Lunch

Mayfair · Three courses, £19.95

To mark the arrival of new Head Chef Catarina Almeida, Isabel has launched The Welcome Lunch — three courses for £19.95 with complimentary tea and coffee, available every day from 12pm to 4.45pm through till August. Expect whipped feta with padron peppers and thyme honey, troffie alla nerano with courgette and parmesan, and a coconut parfait with mango and toasted coconut to finish. A proper introduction to the new kitchen, and very good value for Mayfair.

26 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4HZ

The Chesterfield Arms — Workers’ Lunch Special

Shepherd Market, Mayfair · £15

Down the road from Kitty Fishers enjoy a different freshly prepared special every week at The Chesterfield Arms, served Monday to Friday from 12pm to 4pm, paired with your choice of Estrella Galicia, a 125ml house wine, Peroni 0% or a Fever-Tree soft drink — all for £15. Perfect for a quick lunch break or a relaxed afternoon catch-up, and something new to look forward to every week.

50 Hertford Street, Mayfair, London W1J 7SS

📅 ONE FOR THE DIARY

Pied à Terre Wine Dinner: Weingut Bernhard Ott

30th July · £250pp

Another treat for the wine-minded: Pied à Terre turns its attention to Weingut Bernhard Ott, one of Austria’s leading producers of Grüner Veltliner. The family-run Wagram estate, biodynamic since 2007, takes a low-intervention approach — whole-cluster maceration, full stem inclusion, spontaneous fermentation in Stockinger fuders. A five-course dinner matched to the wines, £250pp.

34 Charlotte Street, London W1T 2NH

🔮 COMING NEXT MONTH

As well as hopefully enjoying the World Cup and Wimbledon tennis, I’ll be doing some work (if you can call it that) — I’m looking to publish three or four reviews, including a visit tonight Masala Zone to try the Grand Trunk Road Odyssey menu, and a new Thai restaurant that opened last month in Mayfair.

I officially start my collaboration with Wylde Market on 1st July, so expect some market-inspired recipes to hit the website soon.

Finally I’m in the process of writing about my four favourite foodie streets in London; it's something I’ve wanted to write for ages, hopefully it will be published next week.

👋 SIGN OFF

I’m signing off now. I hope my chef’s tips article inspires you to rattle those pots and pans. Thanks as always for reading and making it this far— have a fun-filled July.

Best,

Martin (The Mayfair Foodie)

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