Eat Out London!Ham Yard Restaurant
Firmdale Hotels - Ham Yard Hotel - Ham Yard Bar & Restaurant
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Hix - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens
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Mark Hix's very central new restaurant - on the former Soho site of Aaya (RIP), two minutes from Piccadilly Circus - offers his trademark English food, produced to a very high quality; given the rather unforgiving nature of the brightly-lit space, however, the food and wine prices struck us as rather high.
Even with his own name over the door, Mark Hix always give us the impression of being caught opening his restaurants 'on the hop'.
So when, on our early-days visit to his new Soho venture, menus were not available until 20 minutes into the lunch service, we thought: here we go again.
Our bare-minimum-basic lunch for one came to £37, but a standard dinner would easily tip £65 a head: you're beginning to enter the realm where you hope not just for decent food and service, but also something special on the ambience front.
Like his ex-Caprice group colleague Russell Norman (of Polpo, a couple of blocks away), Mr Hix seems to be having something of a New York moment: coffered ceilings (composed of a series of embossed tiles) are quickly becoming the must-have Soho design feature of the moment.
Ham Yard Hotel | Luxury Hotel in London England
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Junior Suites include separate sitting areas and exemplary baths clad in attractive gray marble.
Expansive, colorful public areas include an animated restaurant serving a seasonal menu of modern British cuisine; adjoining bar offers a selection of small plates.
Also residents-only library, roof garden and bowling alley, plus small spa (no pool) and well-equipped basement gym with personal trainers.
Ham Yard Restaurant, Ham Yard Hotel - London Restaurant ...
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Remarkable in location and setting - just two mins from Piccadilly Circus, and with a large terrace - the latest Firmdale Hotel offers the group's usual dining formula; the establishment's all-round charms, though, may well make it a real destination.
You've got to hand it to Tim & Kit Kemp, the Londoners who've built up a small but perfectly formed hotel empire, with nine establishments, stretching all the way from Soho W1 to SoHo NYC (and a second bite at the Big Apple in prospect too).
Who'd have thought you could create a whole new 'urban village' (their phrase) - complete with a large and elegant terrace for dining and drinking - in a forgotten corner of Soho?
It's not often this reviewer feels something close to astonishment on entering a new establishment, but this, dear reader, was one of those occasions.
How odd that a bastion of tradition like Claridge's has now gone all small plates and flower-to-eat, whereas this wholly new establishment doesn't really seem to have reflect any changes in the way people have eaten since, ooh, 2000.