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CORD
CORD by Le Cordon Bleu occupies a listed building on Fleet Street. Its restaurant combines international culinary techniques with seasonal British ingredients, alongside a café and culinary institute.
Evelyn’s Table
A twelve-seat chef’s counter beneath The Blue Posts in Soho. The tasting-menu format brings together British ingredients and French and Asian cooking techniques in a shared counter setting.
Stein’s Berlin
Stein’s Berlin is a German restaurant in Kensington, occupying a listed building on Exhibition Road. The venue includes a dining room and a terrace overlooking Princes Gardens.
Cây Tre Soho
The Soho branch of Cây Tre serves Vietnamese cooking on Dean Street. Its menu includes phở, curries, summer rolls and salads, with seasonal ingredients and a Vietnamese-inspired cocktail selection.
Harry’s Knightsbridge
Harry’s Knightsbridge is an Italian restaurant on Basil Street, behind Harrods. It offers all-day dining in Venetian-inspired interiors, with Italian dishes and seasonal additions to the menu.
Pinna
Pinna is an Italian restaurant on Curzon Street in Mayfair. Chef Achille Pinna’s menu draws on Sardinian cooking, with fresh fish and handmade pasta central to its offering.
Ognisko Restaurant
Set within the Polish Hearth Club on Exhibition Road, Ognisko serves Polish and Central European cooking. The venue combines a restaurant, cocktail bar and garden-facing terrace in South Kensington.
Bancone
Bancone is a London restaurant group centred on pasta made by hand. Its menus draw on Italian and wider European influences, with several locations across the city.
Da Paolo
Da Paolo is a neighbourhood Italian restaurant on pedestrianised Charlotte Place, near Goodge Street. It serves traditional Italian cooking and provides a private dining room for larger groups.
福1088 · Fu 1088
Fu 1088 serves Shanghainese cuisine in a townhouse on Zhenning Road. Its dining spaces occupy private rooms within the historic building, retaining architectural details associated with early twentieth-century Shanghai.
Lu Style（鲁采·黄浦）
Lu Style’s Huangpu restaurant serves Shandong cuisine at Uni Elite on South Huangpi Road. Its cooking centres on seafood, with produce sourced from the Weihai and Bohai Sea regions.
Meet the Bund（遇外滩·新天地）
The Xintiandi branch of Meet the Bund presents Fujian cuisine in Shanghai’s Huangpu district. Its interior combines references to Fujian culture with the architectural character of the Xintiandi neighbourhood.
Hang’s Delicacy（叶马·西湖）
Hang’s Delicacy serves Hangzhou cuisine on Zhijiang Road in the West Lake district. The restaurant is situated near the Qiantang River and Liuhe Pagoda, with a menu of regional dishes.
Jiangnan Wok（江南灶）
Jiangnan Wok is the Chinese restaurant on the first floor of Shangri-La Nanjing. Its menu focuses on Huaiyang cooking and regional flavours at the hotel’s Central Road address.
惠食佳（海珠）· Wisca
Wisca’s Haizhu restaurant serves Cantonese cuisine on Binjiang West Road in Guangzhou. Its menu includes traditional preparations and claypot cooking, within the Haizhu location of the restaurant group.
炳胜品味 · Guangzhou
BingSheng Pinwei is the Cantonese dining brand of BingSheng Group, rooted in Lingnan culinary traditions. This Guangzhou entry covers the brand at city level, without selecting an individual branch.
炳胜品味 · Shenzhen
BingSheng Pinwei is the Cantonese dining brand of BingSheng Group, rooted in Lingnan culinary traditions. This Shenzhen entry covers the brand at city level, without selecting an individual branch.
P3 by pLeace（必乐时·福田）
P3 by pLeace is a restaurant in the first phase of Futian COCO Park. This Shenzhen location occupies the B1 level of the shopping centre on Fuhua Third Road.
Connaught Bar
Connaught Bar is located at The Connaught in London’s Mayfair. Its drinks programme combines classic cocktails, seasonal creations and a selection of wines and spirits, with a dedicated martini trolley.
Bar Leone
Bar Leone is a neighbourhood cocktail bar on Bridges Street in Hong Kong’s Central district. Its Italian-inspired approach centres on classic cocktails, with a drinks programme framed as cocktail popolari.
COA
COA is a Mexican-inspired cocktail bar in Hong Kong. Its drinks programme focuses on agave spirits, including tequila and mezcal, alongside cocktails drawing on Mexican ingredients and flavours.
RMK · 深业上城
RMK is a cocktail bar at UpperHills in Shenzhen’s Futian district. The venue is listed on level three of the development, at shop T3093 on Huanggang Road.
naive理想国 · Shanghai
naive理想国 combines books, coffee and cocktails in a cultural space associated with the Imaginist publishing brand. Its Shanghai location occupies the Anren Building on Huqiu Road in the Rockbund neighbourhood.
BAR MOOD（吧沐·深圳）
BAR MOOD’s Shenzhen venue is a cocktail bar in the OCT area of Nanshan. The confirmed location occupies unit G-04B on the ground floor of Qiaocheng One Plaza.
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