About KOL
KOL opened on Seymour Street in Marylebone in 2020 and won its first Michelin star in 2022, followed by a second in 2024 — making it the highest-awarded Mexican restaurant in Europe. Chef Santiago Lastra previously ran the pop-up that became Noma Mexico and built KOL's concept around a deliberately difficult premise: Mexican cooking using only produce sourced within the British Isles.
The tasting menu format (around £150 per person) runs through eight or nine courses that systematically reinterpret classical Mexican dishes with British ingredients — Cornish sea urchin in mole negro, wood pigeon mole, a langoustine tostada that has been the restaurant's signature since opening. The mezcal list is one of the most serious outside Mexico itself.
The downstairs bar, Mezcaleria Kol, operates independently with a parallel menu and runs past midnight. The Seymour Street location places the restaurant a three-minute walk from Marble Arch and ten minutes from Mayfair's main restaurant cluster, which makes it accessible without being on the obvious Mayfair circuit.
Best Occasion Fit
KOL impresses clients who track Michelin's recent additions. The two-star award, the British-sourced Mexican premise, and the critical consensus that KOL is the single most interesting restaurant opened in London since the pandemic combine into a reservation that communicates that you follow the category. Among the harder 2026 London bookings to secure.
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