Tucked away in a side street near Holland Park is one of London’s best kept secrets. A neighbourhood restaurant with exceptional service and extraordinarily good food.

Kitchen W8 has held a Michelin star since 2011, and that’s due to the immense skill of our chef Mark Kempson and the influence of co-owner Phil Howard.

Kitchen W8 also boasts one of the best value set menus of any Michelin-starred restaurant in London and you can enjoy three courses of Mark Kempson’s exceptional cooking at lunchtime and in the early evenings for just £49.50. We change the set menu every few weeks to include seasonal ingredients that are at their very best, so whenever you join us you will find something new and exciting to try.

I would describe my cooking as flavour-driven. The menu is dictated by what’s in season at any given time, using ingredients when they are at their freshest and ripest which means they have the utmost purity of flavour.

Each dish should be a really harmonious balance of flavours and I love adding flavour notes that really make a dish sing.

We pay huge attention to our food sourcing making sure we work with small producers. Each year we dedicate special menus to key ingredients, and in autumn you’ll find both a special truffle menu and our renowned game menu.  I’m really honoured that I’ve been named Game Chef of the Year, as game is one of those ingredients that exemplify what we’re about. It’s seasonal, it’s local and it’s totally sustainable.

We offer menus at every level, from tasting menus for special occasions to our incredibly good value set menu, and just as much care and devotion goes into producing a dish for the set menu as it does for anything on our À la Carte or Tasting Menus.