Loulou Groupe brings its new Les Amis membership to a Grade II* listed Mayfair house once remodelled for Margaret Greville, with a ground-floor brasserie that stays open to the public.
Loulou Groupe has spent a decade building restaurants around the idea of a host at home, from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris to the beach at Pampelonne. 16 Charles Street, a five-storey townhouse in Mayfair, is due to open in autumn 2026 as the London base of Les Amis, the group’s new membership, with a French brasserie on the ground floor that will stay open to the public.
A Georgian house remodelled for a hostess
The house dates from 1753, built by the carpenters John Spencer and William Timbrell on a Berkeley estate lease. Its interiors owe more to 1913 and 1914, when Mewès and Davis remodelled them for the Hon Mrs Ronald Greville, the society hostess better known as Margaret Greville. The Grade II* listing records a marble-clad, top-lit grand stair with a wrought-iron balustrade in the Louis XVI manner, and panelled rooms worked up in a neo-Georgian and French taste.
Five floors for Les Amis
Loulou Groupe plans salons, bars and restaurants across the five floors, and members of Les Amis are to have access to every Loulou address. Gilles Malafosse, who founded the group in 2016, and his sister Claire, its artistic director, have brought in Festen Architecture, Corinne Sachot and Hadrien Breitenbach for the interiors, and the group’s executive chef, Benoît Dargère, is to lead the kitchens. Their stated intention is a house that feels like the private home of a well-travelled collector.
The group has given no date more precise than autumn, and its own careers page names none either.