The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park has completed its phased £60 million renovation and reopened the property's food and beverage spaces this week, with the headline addition being a new 12-seat chef's table experience situated within the hotel's main kitchen and a comprehensively redesigned Mandarin Bar operating under a new creative direction.
The renovation, which has been underway in stages since 2023, has also seen the complete refurbishment of the hotel's 181 rooms and suites and the expansion of the spa, which at 16,000 sq ft now ranks among the largest in central London.
The Chef's Table
The new chef's table — named The Kitchen Table at the Mandarin — seats twelve guests across a counter that looks directly into the working main kitchen. The format follows the now-established model of a single nightly service with a set menu of 10 to 14 courses built around produce sourced from a curated group of British suppliers with whom the hotel maintains direct relationships.
Head chef Daniel Sherwood, who joined the property in 2024 from a senior position at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, has designed the chef's table menu as a distinct offering from the hotel's main restaurant programme — more personal, more experimental and explicitly tied to the seasonal availability of the supplier network.
Covers cost £285 per person excluding drinks. The Kitchen Table opens for service from 1 April, with reservations available via the hotel website.
The Mandarin Bar
The Mandarin Bar has been repositioned as the hotel's flagship cocktail destination under the creative direction of head bartender Sofia Reyes, previously of The Connaught Bar. The redesigned space seats 48 and operates a programme of seasonal cocktail menus alongside a raw bar focused on British and Irish shellfish.
The bar will open Sunday through Thursday from 5pm and Friday and Saturday from 4pm.
The wider renovation
Beyond the chef's table and bar, the renovation has refreshed the hotel's principal dining room — Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, which continues its long-term residency at the property — without altering its format or concept. The spa, now anchored by a 20-metre pool and a cryotherapy suite, has been the most structurally significant element of the building works.
General manager Claire Forsythe described the completed renovation as "a reaffirmation of what Hyde Park Corner means in London luxury hospitality — a property that takes nothing for granted and continues to invest in the experience of being there."
Rates at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park start from £750 per night.