Gymkhana

Gymkhana is the Mayfair club dining room that still sets the London standard for classic Indian cooking at Michelin scale. Siblings Jyotin, Karam, and Sunaina Sethi of JKS Restaurants opened it in 2013 as a homage to India’s gymkhana social clubs, with a jade-green ground floor inspired by Kolkata and Pondicherry mansions and a Kashmiri-red lower floor for a tighter night. Michelin awarded one star in 2014 and two in 2024; both held into 2026. The kitchen leans northern with tandoor work, chatpatta sharing plates, and British produce under Indian spice, so the meal rewards a table that wants ceremony without tasting-menu rigidity. Book through the official Gymkhana or JKS channels as soon as dates open; weekend dinner and private vaults disappear first. Dress smart casual and leave buffer for a long service if you add the cocktail lounge, 42. A Las Vegas outpost at ARIA opened in December 2025 for Strip travelers, but Albemarle Street remains the reference room when you want to know what the brand tastes like without resort noise. Confirm current menus, deposit rules, and vault capacity before you lock a client dinner or family celebration into Mayfair traffic, and ask the reservations team how long a typical dinner runs with drinks so the rest of the evening stays honest. If you only have one Mayfair Indian reservation this trip, make it Gymkhana and keep the others for a longer stay.