The Restaurant
Row on 5 opened in late 2024 at 5 Savile Row in Mayfair — the address that previously held Sketch's offshoot and, before that, Gieves & Hawkes' tailoring archive — as the flagship operation of Jason Atherton's restaurant group following the closure of Pollen Street Social. The name is shorthand for 'Refinement of Work', and the room is the most carefully composed new fine-dining space in London since Mountain in Soho three years ago: a single fifty-cover dining room behind a black-marble bar, oak-panelled walls, low-lit Murano fixtures, and a small open-pass at the back of the room where executive chef Spencer Metzger and his senior team work most services.
Metzger leads the kitchen — his CV runs through Atherton's Pollen Street and a long tenure at Jason's Row on 45 in Dubai's Atlantis the Royal, where he held a star in 2023–24 before the Mayfair move. The cooking is a tightly-edited modern British-and-French format presented as an eight-course tasting menu (£245) and a longer ten-course chef's table (£295) with optional wine pairing. Signature courses across the 2025–26 menu have included a Cornish brown crab with verbena beurre blanc; a slow-cooked Cumbrian lamb saddle with the kitchen's signature five-spice glaze; a Périgord black truffle and Jerusalem-artichoke composition; and a Yorkshire-rhubarb-and-yoghurt dessert that has been on the menu since opening.
The wine programme is one of the most ambitious in London — about 1,200 references organised by region with particular Burgundy depth, a serious German Riesling section, and a Champagne grower-producer programme that the room's head sommelier has built over six years with Atherton. The 2026 Michelin announcement sharpened the room to two stars, joining a peer group of about fifteen across the United Kingdom; the dining room was already booking three months ahead by the start of the year and is now effectively a four-to-six-week lead time across most of 2026. Service runs at the international fine-dining tempo — captain-led, multilingual, and entirely composed.
Why This Is London’s Impress Clients Pick
For impressing a client in London — particularly the international finance and family-office circuit working out of Mayfair and St James's — Row on 5 has become the signal evening of 2026. The two-Michelin-star promotion gives the table the kind of cultural cachet that London's senior business dinners require without the impossible reservation of Sketch or the long-running familiarity of The Ritz. The Savile Row address connects the dinner to the most respected craft tradition in the British wardrobe — a particularly elegant signal at a tailoring-and-finance dinner. The wine cellar's Burgundy depth lets a serious bottle anchor a long evening. And the room's discretion — no street signage beyond a brass plaque, no social-media performance — keeps the conversation entirely in the room.
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