Ambassadors Clubhouse

Ambassadors Clubhouse sits on Heddon Street just off Regent Street, and it’s the most maximalist thing JKS Restaurants has opened, which given the group also runs Gymkhana and Lyle’s is saying something. Karam Sethi and his siblings named it after their grandfather, a former ambassador, and built the room around his old residence in Punjab and the faded grandeur of abandoned party mansions in the region, a story that comes through clearly in the decor rather than staying as background detail.

It’s mirrored, jewel toned and genuinely loud in places, with bhangra on the sound system in the basement bar giving the place its after dark energy. Food centres on Punjabi and North Indian cooking, and in 2026 it became the first Punjabi restaurant in the UK to be awarded a Michelin star, a notable moment for a cuisine London’s fine dining scene had mostly overlooked despite the huge popularity of Punjabi food in general.

Reviews since opening have been more mixed than the JKS name might suggest. Time Out gave it three stars out of five, calling the room a jangly, sparkly, mirrored monument to maximalism while praising individual dishes as very, very nice. Other diners report standout plates alongside less consistent ones on the same visit, which tracks with a kitchen still settling into a large, ambitious menu that spans small plates through to bigger sharing dishes.

Prices sit at the upper end of Mayfair, unsurprising given the postcode and pedigree, and this isn’t the place for a quiet dinner: the basement in particular is built for a party rather than conversation. Book the ground floor if you actually want to hear your table talk, and expect the later basement sittings to run considerably louder than an early one.

For anyone curious about where Punjabi cooking can go in a Michelin context, it’s a genuinely important opening, even if the room sometimes tries harder than the plates strictly need it to.