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"Four Seasons Ten Trinity Square Announces Japanese Restaurant Partnership with Endo Kazutoshi"

"Four Seasons Ten Trinity Square Announces Japanese Restaurant Partnership with Endo Kazutoshi"
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Four Seasons Ten Trinity Square has announced a new Japanese restaurant in partnership with Michelin-starred chef Endo Kazutoshi, the chef behind Endo at the Rotunda in west London. The restaurant, which will occupy the hotel's existing private dining wing on the building's ground floor, will open as a 16-seat omakase counter in late June, with a menu built entirely around seasonal Japanese produce imported directly from Tsukiji Outer Market.

The partnership represents a significant addition to Ten Trinity Square's food and beverage offering and a new chapter for Endo Kazutoshi, who won his first Michelin star at the Rotunda in 2021 and has built a loyal following among London's most committed restaurant-goers.

The format

The counter will offer a single omakase sitting each evening, Tuesday to Saturday, with a second lunchtime sitting on Friday and Saturday. Menus will run to 16 to 18 courses, with Endo shaping the progression around whatever has arrived from Japan that week — a format that requires complete trust from the diner and complete precision from the kitchen.

"Omakase is the purest form of hospitality," Endo told The Mise. "You are saying to the guest: trust me. And everything I do must justify that trust. It is also the most demanding format because there is nowhere to hide. Every plate, every cut, every temperature — the guest sees everything."

The seasonal import programme will bring in items including seasonal sashimi-grade fish, specialist vegetables unavailable through standard UK Japanese food supply chains, and specific varieties of rice, dashi kombu and aged soy sauces that Endo uses as the foundational flavour architecture of his cooking.

The hotel context

Ten Trinity Square is an unusual property in the Four Seasons portfolio — a former headquarters of the Port of London Authority, opened as a hotel in 2017, with architecture and interior spaces that carry genuine historical weight. The building's food and beverage programme has previously included a French restaurant from Anne-Sophie Pic and a Cantonese restaurant that ran until 2023.

The Endo partnership follows a period in which the hotel's food and beverage strategy has been under review, and represents a deliberate choice to work with an individual chef of significant culinary reputation rather than a branded concept or a group operation.

"We wanted to create something that exists nowhere else in London," said the hotel's general manager. "There are other omakase counters, and there are other luxury hotels. There is not another Endo, in another building like this one, doing what he does."

Pricing and reservations

The omakase counter will be priced at £320 per person, inclusive of a non-alcoholic pairing. A sake and wine pairing will be available at £180 per person additional. Reservations will open on a rolling four-week basis via the hotel's website, with a waitlist for high-demand dates.

The opening is currently scheduled for 24 June.