Indian Accent, the World’s 50 Best-featured restaurant concept helmed by chef Manish Mehrotra, is coming to Mayfair.
The brand, which has sites in New Delhi and New York, is due to open Albemarle Street in Autumn, and will replace Old World Hospitality stablemate Chor Bizarre.
The original Indian Accent in New Delhi is one of the highest rated places to eat in the subcontinent and is currently the only Indian restaurant in India to feature on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list (number 78 on the 51-100 list).
It has been named the best restaurant in India by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants for three years running.
Mehrotra is planning to move to London to oversee the launch of the restaurant, which will serve creative modern Indian dishes that use local produce and reference “home style nostalgic cooking”.
Mehrotra’s dishes include chicken kofta with Punjabi kadhi and onion pakora; crab claws with butter, pepper, garlic and cauliflower; and goat brains with Khasta roti.
Design LSM is overseeing the design, which is described as “contemporary and clean using reimagined materials familiar in Indian architecture”.
The lobby will be dark and intimate and is designed to contrast with the lighter, minimalist interiors in the main restaurant, which will have combed pearl-plastered walls.
Rohit Khattar, Old World Hospitality founder and chairman, said: “We are so very grateful to the loyal diners of Chor Bizarre, London for their love and patronage, that kept us going for 20 glorious years. This decision to close Chor Bizarre was hard.
“However, it did need major refurbishment after so long and whilst we were looking for a home for Indian Accent, we realised that there was no space more perfect than Albemarle Street. We do hope that London embraces Indian Accent as warmly as New York has.”
