The Thesleff Group, which operates Sale e Pepe, the highly regarded bar Viajante87, and the smallest omakase restaurant in London, Juno, has doubled up on its Los Mochis concept with a new rooftop opening on Liverpool Street on Thursday April 11.
Housed in the newly developed Broadgate development at 100 Liverpool Street, Los Mochis London City follows the original in Notting Hill, and will cover a vast 14,000 square foot, making it one of the City’s largest restaurants. Spread across the ninth floor, the restaurant will include a main dining space, an Agaveria bar and a large lounge. The dining room will seat 150, but the venue can hold up to 420 people at a time.
The space will also include a sushi bar, two private dining rooms and an expansive 3,000 square foot outdoor terrace, with panoramic views across the city.
The ninth-floor vantage point should give diners a decent enough view across London, including window side tables that’ll face southwards to the Shard and southwest to central London, including vistas of St Pauls and the London Eye.
The stylish interiors look an ideal setting to relax into those views, with plush seating, amber lighting and curved ceilings in the main room, and a smart terrace with a large central bar outside, with plenty of raised and standard seating all housed under a vast retractable roof. The bar is set to host a regular lineup of DJs and will stay open on the weekends until 3am.
As for the food, executive chef Leonard Tanyag has created an accessible menu that is both tree nut and gluten free, where all vegetarian dishes are also intentionally vegan. The restaurant will continue the theme of the Notting Hill original, fusing what the group describe as “Japanese elegance with Mexican vibrancy”.
The result? The dining room includes a sushi bar and robata grill, specialising in a range of Kushiyaki (grilled skewers) alongside sharing dishes that include “make your own tacos" and theatrical tableside elements such as a Caesar salad trolley.
Los Mochis City will have a strong beverage offering too, with a seven-metre-long wine and sake room adjacent to an Agaveria lounge bar — mirroring the success of the Agaveria at the Notting Hill restaurant — which is slated to serve one of Europe's biggest range of fine and rare tequilas and mezcals.
Speaking to the Standard, Markus Thesleff, owner of Los Mochis and the wider Thesleff group, said: “I am extremely excited about the great unveiling of our new rooftop flagship in London City. It is the culmination of two and a half years of work.”
He continued “We have worked with an amazing design team alongside artists from Mexico and beyond, as well as my amazing team [in London] who helped make this happen. We want to make sure our regular guests and people in this part of town will appreciate Los Mochis as much as we have enjoyed creating it.”
