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Large parties of up to 12 can dine from the a la carte menu – a rare find in this part of London – below Mark’s celebrated collection of mobiles.

The elegant oak-panelled private dining room is perfect for meetings and discreet lunches or dinners for up to ten guests.

Tucked beneath HIX Soho is the subterranean sanctum Mark’s Bar.

With a sunken bar, large chesterfields and a cocktail list championing British libations, Mark’s Bar is the unequivocal jewel of HIX Soho and widely known as one of the best bars in London.

We will be open 11-10.30pm on May Bank Holiday Monday-Saturday: 11.30am-1.00am (last orders at 12.30am) Sunday: 11.30am-12am (last orders at 11.30pm) Mark’s bar will be closed for a private events on the following dates:

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Hix Soho review: This week's working lunch is at Mark Hix's stalwart ...

Hix Soho turns eight this year, and it’s celebrating by going fanatical about fish.

Its new menu is focused on seasonal seafood, with a new wine and cocktail list to match.

Mark Hix, of course, our esteemed columnist and owner of eight restaurants, not including Mark’s Bars.

Comfort is the name of the game at Hix Soho.

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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.

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Hix, 66-70 Brewer Street, London W1 | The Independent

Mark Hix, the chef behind this week's restaurant, writes a food column for our sister publication The Independent Magazine.

So I'll start by telling you what's wrong with his new establishment, Hix, in London's Soho.

I find detailing the provenance of every dish a little tiresome, although this practice is spread far beyond just Hix.

His new venture features some of the "greatest hits" of his Clerkenwell and Lyme Regis restaurants – hanger steaks, roast grouse, meat and oyster pies – with an emphasis on British fare.

Hix, who until now has been keeping an eye on diners and the dishes coming out of the kitchen, moves in to guide him around the room.

London restaurant guide: Hix in Soho, London - Telegraph

He is one of the few chefs whose food a seasoned restaurant goer could eat blindfold and declare instantly: "Hixy."

The chef (pictured above) ran the kitchens at Le Caprice and the Ivy before going solo with his charming, eponymous Oyster and Chop House in London's Farringdon.

The menu reworks Chop House favourites while offering more fish.

After we've sampled a great selection of Monmouthshire cured meats we are wowed by "heaven and earth", the best black pudding I've tasted, devised with a Cumbrian farmer.

"Earth" is the Archbishop's potato, mixed with garden chives and Bramley apples.

Hix Soho | Mark Hix's Flagship Restaurant, In Soho - London ...

Hix Soho | Seasonal British Fare A staple in the “favourites” list of many a discerning London diner, Mark Hix’s flagship restaurant on Brewer Street in Soho has been entertaining and impressing guests from around the world since it first opened its doors in 2009.

Located in the heart of the West End, Hix is a classic spot for dining pre or post-theatre, and there are good set menus on offer for each of those options.

NOTE: Hix Soho is open now.

You can find out more or book a table right HERE.

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Mark Hix, who for years worked for Caprice Holdings, now has an empire of his own, with outlets in Selfridges and Brown’s Hotel, standalone restaurants Hix Oyster & Chop House and Tramshed (see pxx), plus the Hix Oyster & Fish House in Lyme Regis.

But this Soho venture feels like the essential Hix, dotted with YBA artworks, nicely buzzy, and with an air of having been here for years (though it only opened in 2009).

Mark’s Bar in the basement is a further lure, with its speakeasy vibe and trad cocktails.

The carte majors in British meat (with steak to the fore) and fish; we relished chargrilled Launceston lamb cutlets with cucumber and mint.

It’s no bargain; the cutlets cost £22.50 and a side of spring veg was tiny at £4.25.