Poppy / 19 November 2025 / Categories: City, What to do, Food & Drink, Restaurants

Hakkassan Mayfair is a Cantonese delight but hold onto your wallet

For most people Hakkasan would be without doubt a true celebration or a special occasion

Snooping works. I went to a restaurant off Berkeley Square this weekend I never even knew existed until I read a review on here by Poopsnoop founder Shirley Yanez.

Hakkassan is a beautiful dark and sultry Asian paradise where the servers are exquisite and the service even better.

Hakkasan Mayfair's exquisite menu, offers a blend of authentic Cantonese flavors with modern flair. A beautiful combination of signature dishes, explained with passion and experience and crafted cocktails, delivered with aplomb.

It’s off the beaten track, with a disguised entrance on Upper Brook St, correction Bruton St, (Upper Brook St is one over but parrallel) it doesn’t attract attention but I suppose a restaurant this good doesn’t need to.

For anyone who wants to find it, it’s the black door next to the Bugatti showroom, it does have a subtle black roped area outside but nothing else to tell you what’s beyond the heavy door.

We went for the £75 set menu, which was opulent and delicious in equal measure, gorgeous individual dumplings, mouth watering rice dishes, beautifully spiced and seasoned, sweet and sour morsels, the food kept coming and we kept eating.

We made a reservation, we got a table at 6pm (it opens for lunch everyday at noon) closing at 11.30pm Sunday through Thursday and 12.30am on Fridays and Saturdays and when we arrived surprisingly for me it was already pretty much full and the crowd was a mix of ages, when I went to the bathroom the ladies, there were some pretty fabulous handbags on display.

And when the desserts arrived, we were blown away by how beautiful they were, alsolute works of art, we opted for the Hakka platter which offers five smaller versions of popular desserts, all with creative and fantastic names, like spiked lemons and Green Apple pavlova, sweet caviar and Lycee dumplings, my favourite was the hazelnut parfait which I will be ordering all to myself when I get to return next time.

We order one bottle of wine at the cheaper end on the list and it was £120 so for two the bill was pricey, with tip around £400.

It was a magnificent evening, we stayed around 3 hours, weren’t rushed in anyway and loved every minute of the experience.

It's a smart place so not the kind of place you sit like a blogger taking pictures. Also we were so excited and engaged by the food, we'd eaten it before we thought, shoot should've got more pictures. I'll snap a few more of the food next time.

If you haven’t been to Hakkasan yet, put it on your list for the holidays, I am told the decorations in December are extra. And if you cannot find it, look out for Bugatti and you are there.