A chef’s counter on the ground floor and a room modelled on Japan’s listening bars below give A.M. Dupee’s Brixton handroll bar a bigger home in Mayfair.
A temaki is eaten in the hand: a cone of seaweed wrapped around rice and fish. A.M. Dupee built a bar around it in Brixton in the summer of 2021, after the handroll counters of California. On 1 June 2026 Temaki opened again, in a bigger home at 11 Maddox Street in Mayfair.
From Brixton to Maddox Street
The name is the dish: te for hand, maki for roll. Temaki describes its cooking as classic Japanese food with a relaxed West Coast approach, and the move was first planned for February before it settled on June.
Dupee said the team “loved our time in Brixton” and had been “working on some fun new dishes”, with the signature handrolls kept. The street belongs to The Crown Estate, whose leasing director, Sarah McLaren, called Temaki a rapidly growing independent operator ready for the heart of London.
The menu
The list starts with miso aubergine with spring onion and sesame, and seasonal mushroom for anyone not eating fish. Spicy trout comes with ikura, cucumber and shiso, the lobster with egg yolk, miso and citrus, and the baked scallop with a homemade chilli sauce.
Two rolls sit at the top. One is A4 wagyu with fresh black truffle. The other, named simply The Temaki, is akami, otoro and caviar. Sets of four, five or six rolls are built from the same list, and the six-roll set is the one that includes the lobster.
In Mayfair the menu leans further towards small plates for sharing. Crispy rice comes topped with spicy trout or akami tuna. Seared chutoro is dressed with truffle ponzu, yellowtail sashimi with a jalapeño sauce, and butterfish with crispy shallots.
The A4 wagyu appears twice more, as tataki with garlic chips and as sliders with a quail yolk. There is a soft shell crab sando, monkfish karaage with spicy mayo, and gyoza listed on the board. A wine list, saké and a short cocktail menu sit beside the food.
A counter upstairs, a listening bar below
On the ground floor, guests sit at a counter facing the chefs, which Temaki calls a nod to traditional Japanese dining. Downstairs, the room takes its cue from Japan’s listening bars.
Both floors can be booked privately, at lunch or dinner, seven days a week. The ground floor seats 15 at the bar, and the lower ground has 13 places at its bar and a table for 14, and a private party can ask to stay late.
Open daily for lunch 12:00 to 15:00 and dinner 17:00 to 23:00, last seating 22:00. Handrolls £7 to £25; sets £36, £42 and £52; small plates £5 to £40. A discretionary 12.5 per cent service charge is added.
Temaki, 11 Maddox Street, London W1S 2QF.
Discover more at temaki.co.uk