Is Sushi Kanesaka’s reputation as the UK’s most expensive restaurant already about to be eclipsed? The Park Lane dining room opened in July serving a tasting menu priced at £420; October, however, sees the arrival on Clarges Street of the first location outside Japan of Aragawa, a Kobe beef specialist where bills including wine are expected to be upwards of £750 a head.
Most of us are familiar with the expression of the Westminster Bubble to describe the isolation of the political class. Perhaps it is time to coin the new phrase of the Mayfair Bubble to express the disconnect between prices in the West End’s dearest restaurants and the spending power of diners in the rest of the capital.
