Ahead of its opening next month, new luxury hotel The Chancery Rosewood has announced five new restaurants and bars opening in the billion-pound property.
Inside the Grade II-listed former U.S. Embassy at Grosvenor Square will be a total of seven restaurants. Perhaps the most high profile of these is Carbone, the American-Italian celebrity haunt where regulars are said to include Taylor Swift, the Obamas, Beckhams and Kardashians, and Rihanna. It will welcome guests from mid-September.
Carbone, which opened first in New York in 2013 and held a Michelin star until 2022, now has locations in Las Vegas, Miami, Hong Kong and Riyadh. It serves “red sauce Italian” — lots of pasta, steaks and chops, plenty of seafood.
Alongside it, the hotel’s co-headliner is Tobi Masa, from sushi master Masayoshi Takayama. Masa, who left his dining room in Harrods earlier this month, is best known for his New York restaurant Masa, where menus begin at $750-a-head. The three-Michelin-star restaurant, which turned 21 this year, is considered one of America’s most coveted bookings. As with New York, Masa will lead a Japanese operation, featuring an omakase counter, a main dining room and a separate bar. According to Hot Dinners, the menu will feature “a Mayfair interpretation” of the NYC menu, including the likes of Peking duck tacos and a toro (tuna belly) tartare. Masa is expected to be in-situ, preparing food himself, at least for the launch. Like Carbone, it will open a little later in September, on the 16th.
The hotel’s third act topping the bill had previously been slated to be a reinterpretation of Le Caprice, by Richard Caring. However, the Standard understands this is unlikely to go ahead. Instead, a new project is expected to be announced in the coming months.
Elsewhere, former Berenjak executive chef Alex Povall, whose experience also includes Angela Hartnett’s Murano, will helm the kitchen at Serra, pictured at the top of this page. A southern Mediterranean restaurant, it will draw mostly on Greece and Italy — where its name translates as “greenhouse” — and is promising a relaxed menu designed for sharing, including bits like crudo and flatbreads. It will open for breakfast, lunch and supper and appears to be the hotel’s equivalent of a “house” restaurant; an upscale, Mediterranean brasserie.
Joining it will be the Eagle Bar, a rooftop bar with a terrace boasting views over the capital. This terrace features giant sculpture of an eagle. Leading it — the bar, not the eagle — will be Liana Oster, formerly of the NoMad London. Besides the cocktails — expected to be first rate; Oster is a talent — will be plenty of vinyl, as is presently the trend. The bar will have its own terrace, open from 5pm “til late.” Hopes are high for this: Scarfe’s bar in the Chancery’s sister hotel in the capital, Rosewood London, remains one of London’s very best spots for a cocktail.
The hotel will also have its own delicatessen, called GSQ. Open from 8am-8pm, it will serve the usual bits like coffee and freshly baked pastries, later moving on to salads and sandwiches. It will have its own outside space in Grosvenor Square.
Finally, the Chancery Rosewood will have a tearoom and dessert salon, called Jacqueline, run by top pâtisserie chef Marius Dufay. On offer will be various pastries from his “Flower Collection” — press material says it “captures ‘the flavour of the scent,’ with pastries inspired by single blooms and created using perfumery techniques”, make of that what you will — and a three-course afternoon tea. It will open from 11am until 11pm.
Serra, the Eagle Bar, GSQ and Jacqueline will all open when the hotel does, on September 1.
The Chancery Rosewood opens on September 1 at 30 Grosvenor Square, W1K. For more information, visit rosewoodhotels.com
