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Hotspot White City Gets Another All-Day Restaurant

Maple is yet another addition to the £600m Westfield development

Confit duck leg with pancetta, blackberries and white beans at Maple in White City, London Maple [Official Photo]

The group behind The Botanist will bring a new all-day restaurant and bar to White City. The restaurant — part of the long-planned £600m Westfield development running in parallel to the long-planned White City Place regeneration — will be called Maple.

The space is geared towards the photogenic: interiors aside, a “see and be seen” table with raised seats will add a dash of performativity to a meal already theatrical from its open “theatre” kitchen, while a bookable garden terrace offers a metropolitan alternative to the best way to dine al fresco in the city.

Ingredients will be sourced from rare breed farmers and day-boat fishermen to produce not unheard of all-day dining staples: tuna tartare with avocado; beef carpaccio with cheese (Berkswell) and crunch (hazelnuts); “the best burger in town.” A bar menu will offer sliders and wings, obviously, with the former soft-shell crab and the latter maple-glazed; poached chorizo will come with turmeric mayo. Breakfast and brunch will offer granola; sweetcorn fritters; crumpets; fruit plates. It sounds a solid menu: a touch more eclectic than Westfields’ many all-day restaurants that usually focus on a single cuisine, but no less steady. Wheels waiting to be reinvented can breathe easy.

The bar and dining room at White City all-day restaurant Maple, in London
The interior: wood; hanging lamps; central bar
Maple [Official Photo]

“A carefully curated list of contemporary cocktails” reads as a list of classic cocktails with an extra ingredient: spritzes with grapefuit, a rhubarb sour. With the likes of Homeslice, Patty & Bun, Soho House, Ichiba and Kricket all open or coming soon in the immediate area, joined by struggling Byron, Carluccios and Jamie’s Italian as well as mid-market successes Cabana, Wahaca and Wagamama, Maple is entering a fiercely competitive buzzy neighbourhood.

Kricket

12 Denman Street, , W1D 7HH Visit Website

wagamama

1050 Howell Mill Road, , GA 30318 (404) 446-3344 Visit Website

White City Place

201 Wood Lane, White City, London , W12 7TU Visit Website

Soho House

76 Dean Street, London , W1D 3SQ Visit Website

The Botanist

7 Sloane Square, London, SW1W 8EE Visit Website

Patty & Bun

14 Pembridge Road, , England W11 3BU 020 7229 2228 Visit Website