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Part of the Duke of Westminster’s Mayfair estate, Brown Hart Gardens sits just south of Selfridges and has been a large and quirky but rather underutilised open air space for decades, although an increasing number of initiatives have gradually made it more relvant. This latest September 2026 launch involves a takeover of the terraces and glazed café space, formerly run by Benugo, by the much posher The Beaumont, adjacent to the square. In keeping with the upgrade, the garden will be replanted; and the menu – under consultant exec chef Lisa Goodwin Allen – will also be much more luxurious, with breakfast items including filled croissants with lobster; and an all-day menu with crudo and caviar-topped chicken Milanese.

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What the Newspaper Critics are saying

The Sunday Times

Camilla Long wielded her knife in a scathing review of this new venue at The Beaumont hotel near Grosvenor Square, describing it as “another money pit posing as a restaurant”, in a glass building she likened to a “premium MRI/CT/medical screening service advertised by disgraced TV stars on Instagram”.

A dish of “overcooked lobster linguine” was typical of London’s modern luxury hotels in pushing poorly executed dishes of expensive ingredients and disgusting concepts like “caviar on ice cream” on a wealthy transient trade who don’t really care what they eat.

Staff were friendly and knew when to apologise but, she said, “not a single one of them led me to believe they had been in any restaurant before”. The atmosphere felt like “an elaborate organ donation trap and we were both about to be chloroformed”. She “would have preferred a colonoscopy”.

Camilla Long - 2026-11-01
Brown Hart Gardens, London, W1K 6WP

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