Hakkasan Mayfair

Mayfair nights

London’s Mayfair is as clearly defined  by its boundaries – sequestered between Oxford St and Piccadilly, bordered on the west by Park Lane and on the east by Regent St – as it is by its reputation as a hig...
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Blossom on the menu in Mayfair

Mayfair is not for the faint-hearted diner, where even a sandwich can punch a fist-sized hole in your wallet. But I was persuaded by a friend last week to have lunch at Sake no Hana, off the millionaire str...

A melange of metropolitan chefs

  Chef Tong Chee Hwee grew up in Malaysia and he remembers the delicious meals his Hakka grandmother used to cook before he went to Singapore in 1982 to take up his first job in a kitchen. His talen...

London in Bloom at Sake no Hana

walking around most cities at this time of year blossom trees are proudly in bloom, and aplenty so. To celebrate one of the most popular seasons in the Japanese calendar, Sakura at Sake no Hana has brought the ...

Style and substance

Few people who walk past HKK, the city branch of Hakkasan, will stop. There is no sign, just a softly lit door you could easily miss or mistake for a high-end stripclub. Once inside, you might, initially, t...