About Amaya
Amaya occupies the Halkin Arcade off Motcomb Street in Belgravia and has held one Michelin star since 2006. The kitchen is the dining room's centrepiece — three live cooking stations (tandoor, tawa, sigri) visible behind a granite counter — and the menu is built for sharing rather than the traditional Indian starter-main-rice format.
The dishes are ordered small-plate style and arrive as each finishes cooking, which creates a rhythm that suits team dinners and mixed-group celebrations. Signature items include a tandoori lobster, a sigri-grilled seekh kebab, and a lamb chop marinade that has been on the menu since opening.
The room is large, theatrical, and unusually well-lit for a Michelin-starred Indian restaurant — more modern-steakhouse than Mayfair-hotel in temperament. The Belgravia address and the Halkin Arcade location make it walkable from the serious hotels and from the Belgravia embassy circuit.
Best Occasion Fit
Amaya impresses clients who enjoy watching food being cooked. The open grills, the sharing-plate format, and the Belgravia address combine into a restaurant that reads as confident rather than showy. Particularly good for team dinners where the menu needs to accommodate varying spice tolerances and dietary preferences.
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