Mash II
Brainchild of entrepreneur Oliver Peyton, Mash is a novel combination of restaurant, bar, micro-brewery and deli, housed in a bright, open space just off Oxford Street.
The bar and micro-brewery downstairs is open until 02:00, serving a trendy post-work crowd stylish cocktails, heady own beers and modern European dishes, ranging from the snacky to the more substantial.
Enormous beer vats encased in glass line the back wall, while chairs are space-age pods; there is also a sunken cushioned seating area.
Upstairs, the quieter restaurant is more exclusive and the food slightly classier, such as roast rack of lamb with ratatouille of courgettes and peppers with green olive tapenade, or baked halibut with sauteed potato, artichoke and Swiss chard with anchovy salsa. Trendy places come and go but this remains a reliably stylish West End choice. Closed Sunday.