A new high-end French restaurant from the team behind Sparrow Italia will launch in Mayfair next month.
Mazarine will become the latest opulent place to dine in the West End, and is the second from the restaurateurs Khaled Dandachi and Fred Srouchi, who are trying their hand at French after seeing success with Italian.
The venture will open on Hanover Square and with a focus on coastal French cuisine: “Atmospheric, gastronomic, convivial, and always elegant,” said the pair.
A press notice went on: “[The restaurant is] conceived and curated with the discerning guest in mind… the restaurant will showcase exceptional seafood crafted by a world-class culinary team.”
No word on who that culinary team will be, nor menu prices, but expect them to be fairly high.
On the menu, which reads superbly, will be dishes such as smoked eel croquettes (or a signature “Croque Mazarine”), salade niçoise, octopus béarnaise, raviole of Cornish crab with lobster broth, and — impressively — le grand aïoli marseillais (salt cod, sea urchin, langoustines).
Larger plates will include coquelet with piment d’espelette, an aromatic, peppery dish which calls for a young chicken from the Basque region of France, and beef with truffle sauce.
Dandachi said: “Mazarine, in all things, aims to epitomise the virtues of timeless refinement, technical perfection, and peerless hospitality in every gesture.
“At Mazarine, we believe in dining over eating, elegance over opulence, ritual over routine, and guests, above all else.”
Mazarine will open in late November at 22 Hanover Square, W1S 1JA, mazarinerestaurant.com
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