Where to eat during Frieze Week 2026, and the art to see
Frieze London and Frieze Masters return to The Regent's Park from 14 to 18 October. Two tents, fifteen minutes apart across the park, plus Frieze Sculpture in the English Gardens between them, and somewhere north of 85,000 people moving through the lot.
But anyone who has done the week properly knows the fair is only half of it. The real pleasure is the city around it, the gallery shows timed to open while collectors are in town, the queues outside restaurants that have taken a month of bookings in a week, the conversations that happen over a table rather than in a booth. So we've paired them up. Here are fifteen places to eat, and what will be on show within walking distance of each table.
Mayfair
Mount St Restaurant
Image courtesy of Mount St Restaurant
#FLODown: The obvious place to start a Frieze week, because this is one of the few restaurants in London where the art on the walls would hold its own in the tents. Matisse, Warhol, Freud, a Louise Bourgeois, and a commissioned marble floor by Rashid Johnson. That is no coincidence, the restaurant comes from Artfarm, the hospitality arm founded by Iwan and Manuela Wirth of Hauser & Wirth, and it is located on the first floor above The Audley, which is worth a drink on the way in. For Frieze week there is a limited edition Palette to Plate menu, on from 10 to 31 October, which follows the newly published A Cookbook for Iwan: From Studio to Stove and brings together recipes contributed by artists, Berlinde de Bruyckere's pheasant pâté en croûte, Dame Phyllida Barlow's Scottish smoked haddock, Pedro Chillida's tarta de queso and Anj Smith's Simon's Lethal Negronis. Executive chef Jamie Shears is cooking it alongside the usual menu, which is where you’ll find the famed lobster pie for two that people book months ahead for. And we can confirm it’s well and truly worth it!
First floor, 41-43 Mount Street, Mayfair, W1K 2RX. mountstrestaurant.com. @mountstrestaurant
Art to see: Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson at Hauser & Wirth on Savile Row. Sherman shows her new Fabric Matrons series, women wrapped in elaborate drapery, much of it fabric from the Chanel archives. Simpson's Previous & Ongoing brings new paintings, collage and sculpture built from archival news photography. Both from 13 October until 23 December, free. Eight minutes on foot.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #710, 2026. Chromogenic color print. 101.6 x 152.4 cm / 40 x 60 in. © 2026 Cindy Sherman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NYCourtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET. hauserwirth.com. @hauserwirth
DakaDaka
DakaDaka. Image courtesy of DakaDaka
#FLODown: Modern Georgian cooking over open fire on Heddon Street, with a charcoal grill at the centre of the room. The khinkali are their signature, hand folded dumplings holding a hot broth you drink before eating the rest, and the grill is where the kitchen is at its best, turning out whole fish and big cuts of meat built for sharing. The Georgian wine list won Gold Star for Best Short List at this year's Star Wine List awards and the cocktails lean on chacha, the local grape brandy. Open for lunch and dinner, with a supra roast on Sundays.
Click here to read for a review from our visit.
10 Heddon Street, Mayfair, W1B 4BX. daka-daka.com @dakadaka.london
Art to see: Martine Syms’s Knot Eye at Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, featuring two new films and a concept store. RW-LO is set in New Orleans in 2000; Ex Voto was filmed in a New York apartment. Until 7 November, four minutes away. Then Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy, with 160-plus works tracing the Côte d’Azur’s influence on modern art from the 1870s to the 1960s. Until 31 January, £24–£26, four minutes south on Piccadilly.
Martine Syms, The field is the only reality, 2026, wall painting, edition of 3 + 1 a/p. Image courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles.
Sadie Coles HQ, 62 Kingly Street, W1B 5QN. sadiecoles.com. @sadiecoleshq
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD. royalacademy.org.uk. @royalacademyarts
Fitzrovia
Akoko
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#FLODown: A West African tasting menu in Fitzrovia from Aji Akokomi, and one of the best in London. The cooking leans on smoking, fermenting and fire, and the menu is built around Nigerian, Ghanaian and Senegalese dishes reworked with British produce, so jollof arrives with beef fillet and ox tongue in mbongo sauce, moi moi with wild seabass, ojojo with cocoyam and scallop. Nine courses at dinner, with a shorter lunch menu for anyone with an afternoon to get back to. The Akoko pairing of African wines and cocktails is the one to take, and the soft pairing has had as much thought put into it, which is still rare. Lunch Thursday to Saturday, dinner Monday to Saturday, closed Sundays. Allow two and a half hours.
21 Berners Street, Fitzrovia, W1T 3LP. akoko.co.uk. @akokorestaurant
Art to see: PAWILON by Marcin Dudek at Edel Assanti on Little Titchfield Street, eight minutes away. Dudek explores football terrace culture, crowds and the violence of belonging, a bracing counterweight to a quiet lunch. On show from 16 October to 12 December 2026.
Marcin Dudek, Klatka VI Here, 2026. Acrylic paint, wood, steel, image transfer, paper mâché, medical tape, UV varnish; 46 x 74 x 8 cm, 18 1/8 x 29 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (open); 46 x 24.5 x 4 cm, 18 1/8 x 9 5/8 x 1 5/8 in.
Oula at Ibraaz. Image Courtesy of Ibraaz. Image credit of Ollie Hammick.
#FLODown: A Tunisian café on the ground floor of Ibraaz, the Mortimer Street centre for art and ideas from the Middle East and North Africa, and arguably one of the best in London according to many. Boutheina Ben Salem cooks the Tunisia she grew up in, and the menu is short and rewritten daily, with dishes drawn from matriarchal rituals that are still kept at home and rarely cooked out of it. Mornings bring bsissa, roasted grains, nuts and dates blended with olive oil and drunk, and sohlob, a warm sorghum and geranium drink that is Tunisia's answer to hot chocolate. At lunch there is brik, filo folded around tuna, capers and egg and fried to order, or keskrout, the Tunisian street sandwich made here on bread from Quince Bakery. Mint tea arrives with pine nuts in it. The room is Sumayya Vally's, done in warm terracotta plaster with chairs made in Bethlehem and matched to the walls.
Maktaba at Ibraaz. Image Courtesy Ibraaz. Image credit Ollie Hammick.
Across the foyer is Maktaba, the bookshop curated by the Palestine Festival of Literature. Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm, with lunch from midday.
93 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia, W1W 7SS. ibraaz.org/oula. @oula.london
93 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia, W1W 7SS. ibraaz.org/oula. @oula.london
Art to see: In the same building, Ibraaz has an exhibition programme marking its first year. Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy fills a room with eight funerary monoliths carrying voices and moving image, a work the artist has been building since 2015 and which arrives in London after the South African Pavilion in Venice was cancelled and the show went ahead on its own.
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It is on until 17 January. Earshot, the organisation Lawrence Abu Hamdan founded to use sound as evidence in human rights cases, takes over the library for nine months, with field recordings filling the room and three listening stations on weapons ballistics, deepfake detection and earwitness testimony.
Taring Padi Rakyat Pasti Menang, Ibraaz. Image courtesy of the artist and Ibraaz. Image credit Ollie Hammick.
Taring Padi's Rakyat Pasti Menang is the Indonesian collective's first UK show, protest banners, woodcuts and cardboard puppets made for demonstrations instead of galleries, until 22 November. Joe Namy's Cosmic Breath plays recordings of the adhan through horn speakers, the volume rising at prayer times, until 7 March.
Ibraaz, 93 Mortimer Street, W1W 7SS. ibraaz.org. @ibraaz
Soho
Kiln
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#FLODown: Ten years on and people still queue down Brewer Street for it, and it is worth the wait. This small plates restaurant takes inspiration from the cuisines of the Thai borderlands over charcoal and clay, with influences from Laos, Myanmar and Yunnan. Nothing beats an evening sitting at the counter, taking in the well-curated soundtrack and watching the chefs grill items from their seasonal menu. The claypot glass noodles with Tamworth pork and brown crab are the signature and the curries are hot, with none of the toning down you get elsewhere. The ground floor counter is walk-ins only, the basement takes bookings for up to six, and it closes earlier on Sundays.
58 Brewer Street, Soho, W1F 9TL. kilnsoho.com. @kilnsoho
Art to see: Unseen, a major exhibition of work by Colin Self at Frith Street Gallery in Golden Square. His first London retrospective since the ICA showed his work in 1986, the exhibition fills two floors and is curated by Ian Collins. It brings together rarely seen works from public and private collections, alongside the first presentation of 365: A Journey in that Direction, a wall-based installation Self has been building since 2000. On until 7 November, just a three-minute walk away.
Installation shot from Colin Self, Unseen. Image courtesy of Frith Street Gallery
Frith Street Gallery, 17-18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ. frithstreetgallery.com. @frithstreetgallery
Speedboat Bar
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#FLODown: Luke Farrell's tribute to the late night canteens of Bangkok's Chinatown, on Rupert Street. Loud, fast, strip lights and a pool table upstairs, with Thai pop on the speakers and serious wok cooking underneath all of it. The tom yam mama is the signature, a vast portion of instant noodles in a hot and sour broth, but be sure not to miss the spicy prawn ceviche starter and the crispy pork with black pepper curry. Drinks always flow at Speedboat bar, with a 3 litre tower of Tiger available tableside, and an upstairs bar open until midnight most nights and 1am on Fridays and Saturdays serving signature Thai inspired cocktails.
30 Rupert Street, Soho, W1D 6DL. speedboatbar.co.uk. @speedboatbar
Art to see: Two shows at The Photographers' Gallery on Ramillies Street. William Eggleston, All That Goes Unnoticed marks fifty years since William Eggleston's Guide, with dye transfer prints of diners, suburban streets and domestic interiors across the American South. Sanlé Sory, Colour Years gathers the Burkinabè photographer's rarely seen colour pictures of youth culture, fashion and nightlife. Both open 14 October and continue until 21 February, £12 and free on Fridays after 5pm, eight minutes away.
William Eggleston. Untitled, Memphis, 1970, from the Wilson Centre for Photography. © Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy of the Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner
The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1F 7LW. thephotographersgallery.org.uk. @thephotographersgallery
Notting Hill
Pollini
Pollini at Ladbroke Hall_plated food. Image credit Melisa Coppola (24).jpg
#FLODown: Emanuele Pollini's first London restaurant, on the ground floor of Ladbroke Hall, the 1903 Beaux Arts motorworks that Carpenters turned into an arts and social club in 2023. The cooking goes back to the kitchens he grew up in on the Adriatic coast and in the Alps, with a weekly à la carte and the spaghetti gambero rosso, pesto, stracciatella and red prawn served lukewarm, the one to order. Vincenzo De Cotiis designed the room, with four Christopher Le Brun paintings for the seasons and Nacho Carbonell's iconic monochrome chandelier overhead, and a small sculpture garden behind the hall by Luciano Giubbilei. Closed Monday and Tuesday, open Wednesday from 5.30pm, Thursday to Saturday from midday, Sunday 11am to 5pm.
Ladbroke Hall, 79 Barlby Road, W10 6AZ. ladbrokehall.com. @ladbrokehall
Art to see: You're already in the building. Carpenters, which dropped the Workshop Gallery from its name in September for its 20th anniversary, opens five shows at Ladbroke Hall on 13 October. One is DRIFT's Aeolus, an installation of hundreds of suspended glass rods from the Dutch duo, on until 25 October.
Artist Impression of Aeoulus, DRIFT.
Thukral & Tagra's Arboretum brings the Delhi duo's tree paintings, part glitch and part realism, and Gareth Mason's Flights of Fancy shows his heavily worked ceramics, both until 19 December. Anne Holtrop's Low-relief and the group show Dissent, Notes from Underground open the same day and close on 19 December. Two others are already on show. Vincent Dubourg's Blue Weather and František Vízner's Beyond the Vessel have been open since 17 September and close on 19 December.
Vincent Dubourg, Blue Weather, Carpenters. Image credit Benjamin Baccarani.
Carpenters at Ladbroke Hall, 79 Barlby Road, W10 6AZ. carpenters.art. @carpentersgallery
Shoreditch
Duchy
Duchy. Image credit Amy Heycock. Courtesy of Duchy.
#FLODown: A French Italian restaurant in an intimate corner room on Phipp Street, and a good enough reason to head to Shoreditch. The name comes from the old Duchy of Savoy, the stretch of land that once reached from Lyon to Milan, so a French dish will follow an Italian one, and often the two meet on the same plate. The menu is printed with the day's date and changes with whatever the growers send, so expect the likes of brown crab arancini, anchovies on crostini and house diot sausage. The old Leroy bar and wall of vinyl are still in place, and the regional wine list is the other reason to come, with a Negroni Savoyard to start on. Open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Sunday and Monday. Midweek lunch is the easier booking and the set menu changes weekly. Click here to read our full review.
18 Phipp Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 4NU. duchyrestaurant.com. @duchy.restaurant
Art to see: Sung Tieu, How is your day?, at Emalin's Helmet Row space, her second solo show with the gallery and a continuation of her work on surveillance, bureaucracy and institutional control. On show until 14 November, about fifteen minutes west. Yuyan Wang's Pilgrims opens at The Clerk's House, Emalin's second location, on 9 October. The Paris-based artist works with moving image and the visual language of advertising. A few minutes further on.
Image courtesy of Sung Tieu and Emalin
Emalin, 4-8 Helmet Row, EC1V 3QJ, and The Clerk's House, 118½ Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JN. emalin.co.uk
Clerkenwell and Farringdon
Morchella
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#FLODown: A former Victorian bank just off Exmouth Market with sky-high ceilings, from the team behind Perilla. The cooking is modern Mediterranean and the early part of the menu is where it shines, so order plenty of snacks and small plates before you get to the sharing dishes. There's a separate wine bar and a terrace looking onto the market. Lunch Tuesday to Saturday, dinner Monday to Saturday, and Sunday is a daytime service only.
84-86 Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4QY. morchelladining.co.uk. @morchelladining
Art to see: Staging: again, again and again by Annie Ratti is on show at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery on Farringdon Road. This is new work from the Italian artist, who works across sculpture, film and installation. It is open until 20 November, ten minutes south. Ring the bell at the black door, which is easy to walk past.
Annie Ratti, Animal Memory (vi), 2025/2026. Wool felt, cotton thread, aluminium, galvanised steel, rubber, electric lamp. Copyright The Artist
Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, 1st floor, 47 Farringdon Road, EC1M 3JB. amandawilkinsongallery.com
St. JOHN
St. John, Farringdon. Image courtesy of St.John
#FLODown: The benchmark for London cooking, and still the room that taught the city to eat nose to tail. Whitewashed walls, paper tablecloths, no decoration to speak of, and a menu that changes twice a day. Bone marrow and parsley salad, Welsh rarebit, whatever offal the kitchen has that morning, and the madeleines baked to order if you can wait fifteen minutes. The bar at the front takes walk-ins.
26 St John Street, EC1M 4AY. stjohnrestaurant.com. @st.john.restaurant
Art to see: Ten minutes east of St John, the Barbican has two exhibitions on. In The Curve is Yuko Mohri, In Concert. Mohri's kinetic installations turn leaks, dust and household objects into instruments It is on show until 24 January 2027.
Credit: Yuko Mohri: In Concert Installation view The Curve. Thu 1 Oct 2026-Sun 24 Jan 2027. © Thomas Adank / Barbican Centre.
Also at the Barbican, The Real Thing, the first major UK exhibition of the American painter, Robert Ryman, in over 30 years. It brings together over 60 works from the mid 1950s to the early 2010s. Ryman mostly used white paint and a square canvas across almost six decades, and the exhibition shows the variety he found within that, working across linen, aluminium, Plexiglas and coffee filter paper. It is on show until 28 February 2027.
Credit: Robert Ryman: The Real Thing, Installation view, Barbican Art Gallery. © Thomas Adank / Barbican Centre / DACS, London
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS. barbican.org.uk. @barbicancentre
De Beauvoir
Goodbye Horses
Goodbye Horses, Islington. Hand mural by Lucy Stein. Image credit Adam Kang.
#FLODown: A neighbourhood wine bar that draws an arty crowd from across the city. The room on Halliford Street is small and warm, with a mostly low intervention list and seasonal small plates, including mussels, cured mackerel and a cheese toastie that has built its own following. There is ice cream across the road. It opens at 5pm midweek and 2pm from Friday, and fills quickly.
21 Halliford Street, N1 3HB. goodbyehorses.london. @goodbyehorsesldn
Art to see: Desert of Promise, Lyndon Barrois Jr., at Alma Pearl in Reliance Wharf on Hertford Road. The New Orleans-born artist works across painting, sculpture and print, often with found images and salvaged material. Jessica Sarah Rinland's Mutual Interruption is on at the same time. Both until 24 October, open Thursday to Saturday 12 to 6, a ten-minute walk.
Lyndon Barrois Jr. Farfanicchio (Archived), 2026, Archival artifact box, film canister, oil painted cast iron donkey door stop, twigs, brass, felt, archeology centi scale, 26 x 69 x 43 cm, 10 x 27 x 17 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
Alma Pearl, Unit T, Reliance Wharf, 2-10 Hertford Road, N1 5ET. almapearl.com. @almapearlgallery
Borough
AGORA souvla bar
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#FLODown: David Carter's Greek grill at the edge of Borough Market, beneath his older restaurant Oma. Souvla means skewer and agora means market, which is the whole idea, Athenian market cooking stripped back to skewers, dips and flatbreads with a giant rotisserie turning in the middle of the room. The pork comes off that spit with the crackling still on, the flatbreads arrive puffed straight from the oven, and the hummus comes under a pile of hot crisps. Open seven days, mostly walk-ins, with a few bookings released two weeks ahead. Expect to queue.
2-4 Bedale Street, Borough Market, SE1 9AL. agora.london. @agora.ldn
Art to see: Gabriel Orozco's Chronotopic, open at White Cube's Bermondsey location, features more than 100 works, new and old, across sculpture, painting, photography, assemblage and works on paper, arranged as a kind of log of observations gathered over time. On show until 8 November, free and a twenty-minute walk.
Installation view, Gabriel Orozco, La DS (Cornaline) 2013
White Cube Bermondsey, 144-152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ. whitecube.com. @whitecube
Covent Garden
HENRI
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#FLODown: Jackson Boxer's Parisian bistro on the ground floor of Henrietta Experimental, a few minutes from Covent Garden's Piazza. The menu works through the Parisian repertoire with British produce, from grilled snails to steak frites to a truffle and Tunworth cordon bleu. The room, redesigned by Dorothée Meilichzon, looks the part, with Art Nouveau details from the old French brasseries softened by something of the British pub in the dark panelling, leather and velvet. There's a terrace for the warmer afternoons and a bar inside the door if you only want a drink. Open every day from 7am to midnight, and there's a two or three course set menu at lunch and before the theatre.
14-15 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, WC2E 8QH. henriettahotel.com. @henriettahotel
Art to see: Tim Walker's Fairyland, Love and Legends is on show at the National Portrait Gallery, five years of photographing queer activists, performers, artists and writers brought together as 250 new portraits staged after Renaissance painting, with sitters including Ian McKellen, Isaac Julien, Miriam Margolyes and Chappell Roan. It opens 9 October and is on show until 7 February, alongside the free Issy Wood self-portrait display, which opens the same day, five minutes away.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, 1876. Oil on canvas, 131.5 cm x 176.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 2739). Gustave Caillebotte Bequest, 1896 © photo Grand Palais RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Mathieu Rabeau
The National Gallery is next door for Renoir and Love, more than 50 paintings from the Musée d'Orsay, Boston and beyond, on show until 31 January. Click here for our review of Renoir and Love.
Somerset House has Jenkin van Zyl's Enclosure, a film and installation made during his residency there and set in a decaying cryonics facility, on show until 29 November. 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair takes over the building from 15 to 18 October, seven minutes the other way down on the Strand.
Installation view Jenkin van Zyl, Enclosure. Image credit MTotoe/ FLO London
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE. npg.org.uk. @nationalportraitgallery
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN. nationalgallery.org.uk. @nationalgallery
Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA. somersethouse.org.uk. @somersethouse
Whitehall
Ekstedt at The Yard
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#FLODown: Niklas Ekstedt's first restaurant outside Stockholm, in the Great Scotland Yard hotel, where the kitchen has no gas and no electricity at all. Everything comes off a fire pit, a wood oven and a wood-fired stove, and the menu is Nordic technique on British produce, smoked, cured and charred, down to the desserts. The flambadou oyster is the one to try, cooked with boiling beef fat, finished in beurre blanc and handed to you straight off the fire. Tasting menus or à la carte, in a room of exposed brick and dried herbs with the fire at one end, so ask to sit in view of it. Dinner Tuesday to Saturday, and the Sunday roast gets the same treatment at a fraction of the evening price.
3-5 Great Scotland Yard, SW1A 2HN. ekstedtattheyard.com. @ekstedtldn
Art to see: The restaurant is also within walking distance of Renoir and Love at the National Gallery, and Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends at the National Portrait Gallery. Ten minutes on foot. The ICA on The Mall has Autumn Knight's I Can't Complain, the first major showing of the New York artist's work in Britain, built around her performance practice, until 29 November 2026, with a Frieze artists' film programme from 12 to 18 October 2026, eight minutes the other way.
Autumn Knight, I Can't Complain, 2026. Installation view at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Photo © Luke Walker.
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN. nationalgallery.org.uk. @nationalgallery
ICA, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH. ica.art. @icalondon
Kensington
Maggie Jones's
Maggie Jones’s. Kensington. Image credit MTotoe/FLOLondon
#FLODown: The antidote to a week of white walls. Candlelight, mismatched chairs and farm tools hung around a room that feels like a country kitchen, tucked down a cul-de-sac off Kensington Church Street. It opened in 1964 as Nan's Kitchen and took its present name from the alias Princess Margaret used when booking a table, which she did often, with Lord Snowdon, in a booth on the ground floor. An electrical fire closed it for two years and it came back in November, with the same British cooking as before, Maggie's creamed fish pie, chicken and artichoke pie, pork belly with apple sauce and a proper Sunday roast. The set menu is good value for W8 at £36.95 for two courses. Click here to read our full review.
6 Old Court Place, Kensington, W8 4PL. maggie-jones.co.uk. @maggiejonesrestaurant
Art to see: The first UK institutional show by Justin Caguiat, ‘Change Ringing’, is on show at Serpentine South. Bronze bells chime to a score by Lily Pickett, and the sound triggers heating pads behind copper panels painted with heat-sensitive pigment, so their colour and shape shift as the bells play. It opened 8 October 2026 and is on until 10 January 2027, free, fifteen minutes from South Kensington through Kensington Gardens. Amar Kanwar is at Serpentine North, an installation of new and existing films by the Delhi-based artist and filmmaker, free until 31 January, five minutes across the park.
Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing, installation view, Serpentine South, 2026. Courtesy Serpentine. Photo: George Darrell
Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA, and Serpentine North, West Carriage Drive, W2 2AR. serpentinegalleries.org. @serpentineuk
St James’s
Claro
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#FLODown: Modern Mediterranean cooking with Middle Eastern influences, in a former banking hall on Waterloo Place where the ceilings are double height and the open kitchen is built around a robata grill. Fire and spice carry the menu, and everything comes out in generous plates meant for the middle of the table. For Frieze week there's The Frieze Edit, five dishes chosen for how they look as much as how they taste, among them a beetroot salad with pickled apples, smoked labneh and crispy kale, and a yellowtail crudo with freekeh tabbouleh and pistachios. Open from midday Monday to Friday, with brunch at the weekend.
12 Waterloo Place, St James's, SW1Y 4AU. claro-london.com. @clarolondon
Art to see: Thomas Dane has Paul Pfeiffer's Pasodoble, the American artist's first London solo show since 2021, made from found footage of sport and mass entertainment, from 13 October until 19 December, free, five minutes away on Duke Street.
PAUL PFEIFFER, Caryatid (de La Hoya), 2015, digital video loop, chromed television/DVD combo. Image courtesy of the artist.
White Cube Mason's Yard has Firenze Lai, new paintings made in her London studio over the past year of figures caught slightly off balance in crowded city space, and the Hong Kong-born artist's first exhibition in Britain, from 13 October until 14 November, free, a minute further on. The ICA is also just a three minute walk towards The Mall.
Thomas Dane Gallery, 3 Duke Street, St James's, SW1Y 6BN. thomasdanegallery.com. @thomasdanegallery
White Cube Mason's Yard, 25-26 Mason's Yard, SW1Y 6BU. whitecube.com. @whitecube
ICA, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH. ica.art. @icalondon
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