Hakkasan Mayfair

Hakkasan Mayfair is the second London restaurant opening in November 2010. It was awarded a Michelin star less than a year later.

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Establishing itself as a leading destination for modern Cantonese cuisine in London, Hakkasan opened its second London restaurant in November 2010 in Mayfair.

Located on Bruton Street, Hakkasan Mayfair spans two floors for up to 220 guests.

The lower ground floor encapsulates the traditional intimate Hakkasan setting surrounded by intricate wooden screens, whilst the ground floor features a relaxed dining space combined with a vibrant bar area.

Executive Head Chef Tong Chee Hwee oversees the kitchen, where dishes unique to Hakkasan Mayfair have been created, such as steamed New Zealand mini lobster, Black truffle roast duck, and Sliced blue abalone in Hakka sauce.

In October 2011, less than a year after opening, Hakkasan Mayfair was awarded a Michelin star and has maintained it ever since.

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It’s 8PM on a Friday night at Hakkasan Mayfair and a urinal is leaking piss.

Even if you haven’t been to Hakkasan, you know what it’s like: sometimes jewel-like, sometimes delicious, sometimes impractical, sometimes average, always expensive food.

But it is for someone, for quite a lot of someones: at 8PM on a Friday night, Hakkasan Mayfair is heaving.

And I can imagine the arguments in favour of Hakkasan: it’s cool; it’s clean; the food may be expensive but it’s of the highest quality and, besides, it’s not about the food, not really: it’s fun, it’s a vibe, it’s not like those boring restaurants other people go to, all soft furnishings and deathly acoustics and starchy sommeliers.

It’s 9.45PM on a Friday night at Hakkasan Mayfair and the sparse scatter of leaves in my fresh mint tea have bled their chlorophyll into the liquid but it is still thin, pallid, the colour of piss.

Hakkasan Restaurant | Michelin Star Cantonese Cuisine

Hakkasan’s fine-dining Cantonese cuisine has placed the group at the forefront of modern Chinese restaurants It includes signature dishes such as Peking duck with caviar and grilled Wagyu beef with king soy sauce, which can be found in Hakkasan restaurants worldwide.

Extensive dim sum and dessert menus are also available to enjoy alongside Hakkasan’s award-winning wine list and signature cocktails.

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Hakkasan Mayfair has relatively nice low lights, but C objected to the lacquered black surfaces on the grounds that only evil people gather in such places; they like to see their faces reflected as they would look in hell.

C had the black-truffle roast duck (£28.80), which was the man of the match: the truffle was married to a sweetish, five-spice undertone to create something truly unusual and memorably good.

C was full, so I wandered lonely into the pudding section, settling on a pretty chestnut tart (£8.50), which was a disc of flaky pastry with flowers of crème de marron, and a nice, poky blackcurrant sorbet that brought unexpected zing to a rich dish.

Try the roast duck breast with braised red cabbage and butternut squash purée (£49 for three courses) Meet at this Bollywood-bright café for a more casual rendezvous and bond over a platter of Goan fish curry, lentil dal and Keralan salad (£7.95).

Kitsch and comfy, it's an award-winning 'cheap eats' destination Softly lit and decorated in shades of modish plum and grey, this is a chic modern setting for a romantic dinner-date.

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To pay tribute to its ripe and ever-present food influences, Hakkasan Mayfair is celebrating Chinese New Year with an eight-course, limited-edition signature menu (£88) created by Hakkasan’s collection of international chefs.

Marking the Chinese New Year sense of occasion, Selim Buyuk, the attentive and warm Assistant General Manager, came to our table with gold-traced red ribbons, on which we were encouraged to write our wishes for the new year, before we hung them on the wood panelling.

Eating fish during Chinese New Year is said to bring fortune, and so it features heavily on the menu.

The Happy Daisy—an exclusive Chinese New Year cocktail comprised of Tanqueray No.10 gin, Chartreuse Yellow, lemon, spiced mandarin jam, egg white and soda water—is a refreshing way to start the meal.

An expertly translated, modern interpretation of a Cantonese Chinese New Year Feast.

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Australian lobster in spicy black bean sauce was stir-fried and served on a basket of crisp noodles with mushrooms.

Lobster is easily overcooked, but the shellfish in this dish was superbly tender, the crisp noodle basket and mushrooms adding additional textures, the spice level lively but not overwhelming: this was a really top-notch dish (16/20).

Also lovely were langoustines wrapped in vermicelli glass noodles, resting in a Gu Yue Long Shan rice wine and garlic sauce laved with chilli.

The noodles were extremely delicate and the shellfish was terrific, sweet and tender, their flavour nicely lifted by the garlic and hint of spice (easily 16/20).

When I arrived at Hakkasan I checked this bottle in its marked bag into the cloakroom along with my coat.

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"The main requirement for Chinese food is “xia fan” which means, poorly translated, “goes well with rice” – no complaints there.

And, as my friend admitted, Hakkasan delivered well on the sixth taste, umami, which is a particularly delicious type of savouriness and a crucial part of Chinese cooking."

Hakkasan Mayfair, London W1, restaurant review - Telegraph

Hakkasan Mayfair has relatively nice low lights, but C objected to the lacquered black surfaces on the grounds that only evil people gather in such places; they like to see their faces reflected as they would look in hell.

C had the black-truffle roast duck (£28.80), which was the man of the match: the truffle was married to a sweetish, five-spice undertone to create something truly unusual and memorably good.

C was full, so I wandered lonely into the pudding section, settling on a pretty chestnut tart (£8.50), which was a disc of flaky pastry with flowers of crème de marron, and a nice, poky blackcurrant sorbet that brought unexpected zing to a rich dish.

Try the roast duck breast with braised red cabbage and butternut squash purée (£49 for three courses) Meet at this Bollywood-bright café for a more casual rendezvous and bond over a platter of Goan fish curry, lentil dal and Keralan salad (£7.95).

Kitsch and comfy, it's an award-winning 'cheap eats' destination Softly lit and decorated in shades of modish plum and grey, this is a chic modern setting for a romantic dinner-date.

Hakkasan Mayfair | Restaurants in Mayfair, London

A carbon copy of the original high-end Chinese restaurant in Mayfair, with the same stylish interior and innovative Cantonese cooking.

Luxury items were folded into the dishes with shameless abandon: bouncy prawn balls burst with a molten centre of liquid foie gras, a playful twist on Fuzhou fishballs (normally stuffed with minced meat), while prized ingredients such as abalone, crab, lobster and wagyu feature heavily.

A new dish of black truffle roast duck with tea plant mushrooms comprised of beautifully cooked duck breast, moist and tender with crisp skin, but the truffle element was muted and failed to add anything to the plate.

Braised pork belly in double soy sauce (soy sauce that has undergone two fermentations for a fuller, richer flavour) with osmanthus flower on the menu made us think fondly of Dongpo pork, but it was barely recognisable when it came to the table – it tasted more like sweet-and-sour pork without the tang, the delicate aromatic flowers lost among the overly sweetened soy.

For £3.60, the glutinous rice balls filled with sweet black sesame paste from the dim sum menu is a cheaper, more traditional and enjoyable dessert.