Park Chinois Is Bringing Live Music Back to Luxury Dining
Hakkasan founder Alan Yau wants “Haiku Swing” to become a thing.
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It's usually difficult to make a restaurant profitable. At luxurious, elegant Park Chinois, now open in London's upscale Mayfair, it must be a nightmare.
Restaurateur Alan Yau describes Park Chinois as the most expensive opening in Mayfair, where his neighbors include Sexy Fish, Novikov and Nobu Berkeley St., three of the city's most glitzy. He sees it as an entertainment venue rather than just a restaurant. Costs are generally believed to be just below £40 million ($57 million), include the cost of acquiring the site – almost 16,000 square feet (1,485 square meters) – which stretches from Berkeley Street to Dover Street. Yau says he spent "north of £1,000" a square foot getting the place ready.