Located within the four-star Hux Hotel on Kensington High Street, Hux Restaurant is an eccentric, boundary-breaking restaurant with modern British food, quirky design, and a live DJ soundtrack. The restaurant and hotel are well known for their unusual design style, featuring a display of zebras, flamingos, and penguins and a DJ booth stationed in a church pulpit. This is experiential fine dining at its best, with a good helping of hedonism and the signature Hux Restaurant style.
Following the vibrant and unexpected theme, the 60-cover dining room features royal blue walls, jade green accents, hanging foliage, and an impressive lion feature highlighted by a backdrop of lemon yellow and pale pink. You’ll also spot a large giraffe and stuffed parrots peppered around the room. Above the restaurant, is an upper dining enclave which doubles as a secluded venue for private parties. And should you venture down the concealed staircase, you’ll uncover an underground music lounge with relaxed sofa seating and exceptional cocktails paired with soulful Afro-Latin music from the house band, Baldo Verdu.
The Hux Restaurant menu, devised by head chef Stephen Collins, is an ode to British cuisine with a modern tilt. Picture confident dishes like poached salt beef, carrot, parsley, and foie gras terrine; coq au Riesling mushrooms and shallots with creamy truffled potatoes; and a bittersweet chocolate mousse served with peanut butter cookie and espresso syrup. Collins trained in classical French cuisine, so expect carefully considered dishes, confident sauces, and fine-tuned details.
The same goes for the cocktail list with characteristically eccentric titles inspired by Hux Restaurant’s singular decor. Pingu’s Pride, for example, blends Thai basil-infused Tanqueray, Tio Pepe, and pineapple. While The Parrot One arrives fully fledged with mezcal, coffee-infused Campari, chocolate bitters, and a saline element.