Omar Shah has quietly built one of the most interesting restaurant empires on a single stretch of road in London, and Belly is his boldest chapter yet. Anchor your order around the Tempura Cod Pandesal and the Scallops Bicol Express, which arrive swimming in coconut cream. Make sure to wash it down with the smoky Tita's Spiked Atchara. The Michelin inspectors have already taken notice. The locals, as ever, got there first.
Housed in a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse on Conduit Street that was once Christian Dior's London atelier, Sketch is one of Mayfair's most spectacular and deliberately hard to categorise destinations. Created by restaurateur Mourad Mazouz and French chef Pierre Gagnaire, it spans five wildly different spaces, from the forest-filled Glade and the golden Gallery to the three Michelin starred Lecture Room and Library upstairs, all united by an obsession with art, design and theatre. The egg shaped pod toilets alone are worth the visit.
