YOPO Zaytoun

YOPO Zaytoun is the signature restaurant of The Mandrake, and since 14 May 2026 it has been a different restaurant to the one that carried the YOPO name before it. Zaytoun is Arabic for olive, and the kitchen now reads Eastern Mediterranean: head chef Viktor Yordanov, previously at Mazi in Notting Hill, builds a sharing menu out of Levantine flavours and seasonal produce — harissa-glazed ribeye, yellowtail with preserved lemon, green chilli and olive oil, native oysters with citrus gremolata. Tim Lang directs food and beverage; Rami Fustok, the hotel's founder, holds creative direction.

The room runs to 89.7 square metres under a painted ceiling, with distressed plaster walls, herringbone floors and full-height glazing onto Newman Street. Fashion designer Leo Prothmann shaped the relaunch interiors in what he calls Stable Glam, a leather-and-equestrian language that gives the space its sculptural edge, and the restaurant carries a soundscape of its own. Alongside it sits YOPO Bar, a separate pink-walled room with a brass counter, a floral canopy and a rotating art collection assembled by Fustok.

For private events the two rooms work as one. The restaurant seats sixty, and taken together with the bar it holds a hundred and thirty for a standing reception — a rare thing this far into central London at that scale, and the reason it reads as a party room rather than a dining room. There is a DJ deck, a cloakroom and an open floor plan, so a dinner can be cleared and turned. Enquire through the hotel's events team.