Mayfair wellness guide
by Annabelle Spranklen
Discover a wealth of restorative, soul-soothing and endorphin-building activities in Mayfair to totally rejuvenate your physical and mental wellbeing.
Healthy restaurants in Mayfair
Ella Mills – aka Deliciously Ella – is behind this popular vegan restaurant teeming with healthy, nutrition-packed dishes. Whether you’re after something savoury such as harissa and garlic butter beans with zesty rainbow chard or fancy dosing up on your vitamin intake with a homemade smoothie or raw juice, this is your place.
There’s no such thing as a boring salad at The Salad Kitchen where you can build your own tempting salad box in minutes. From poke bowls filled with marinated edamame beans and pickled red cabbage to boxes teeming with protein-rich pulled chicken or roasted tempeh, a healthy lunch never looked better.
Eco-conscious Mayfair restaurant Apricity has garnered a reputation for serving up simple, hyper-local and strictly seasonal food in the most delicious of ways. The flavours are fresh and dedicated to low-waste and even the elegant interiors are upcycled – with chairs fashioned from decommissioned Coke bottles and low-carbon masonry.
King Charles and Queen Camilla have already given Mount St. Restaurant royal approval and who can blame them, with decadent lobster pie and beef wellington on the menu. Healthy eating is also easy here thanks to classics like roast chicken salad and raw Cornish blue fin tuna with fennel and orange.
New year, new hair: Best hairdressers in Mayfair
Duck & Dry are masters when it comes to getting your new year hair off to a great start. Offering a selection of signature styles – from a classic smooth and bouncy blowdry to chic up’dos and braided twists – with a prosecco bar and selfie station, it’s the perfect pitstop to beat the January blues.
New to Mayfair’s Duke Street is FOUR London, so-called because it was set up by four hair colour experts. Billing itself as the go-to destination for all your hair colour and styling needs, FOUR also offers hair extensions and beauty treatments, including manicures, waxing and facials.
Best gyms in Mayfair
One: Personal Training Mayfair
There’s a reason why celebrities flock to personal trainer Henry Barratt at One: Personal Training Mayfair when they want to get in shape. The former rugby pro (who played for Harlequins, Wasps and England U20) is a master of creating a workout that’s tailored to your specific needs, interests and goals, all while being fun and keeping you completely motivated.
Matt Roberts knows a thing or two about coaching – he ran London’s first gym exclusively tailored to personal training and is an industry expert. His Mayfair fitness club, Evolution, combines clinical science with luxury facilities – think sweeping views over Grosvenor Square, infrared heated yoga and a chic meditation studio.
Jab’s goal is to help you keep your mind clear and your body fit by throwing punches, with a toe-tapping playlist and sessions that mix cardio, bodyweight and resistance training. You’ll be trained by former pro boxers who will help you feel empowered, pushing your performance and getting you fitter than ever.
Refresh your wardrobe at Browns
There’s nothing quite like the thrill of shopping for a new capsule wardrobe and the Browns Brook Street boutique offers a totally unique experience, combining the luxury of a historic bricks-and-mortar store with digital technology – think virtual mirrors, QR codes to view infinite shopping shelves and an in-store concierge to get you home.
The best wellness spas and boutiques in London
Bringing a dose of old-world skincare wisdom and ritual to Mayfair, Omorovicza’s first institute outside of Budapest offers individually targeted treatments for face and body, helping you get your glow on for the year ahead, with products infused with ‘healing’ minerals from Budapest’s thermal waters and bespoke skincare prescriptions.
Whatever your skincare concerns, Dr. Barbara Sturm’s London MediSpa serves as a beacon of skincare discovery, where you can indulge in the full suite of Dr. Sturm’s most sought-after face and body treatments, backed by her clinical experience in anti-inflammatory science, including Morpheus8, Platelet-Rich Plasma and her famous bespoke MC1 Cream.
Get the new year off to a blissful start at the Beaumont Hotel’s spa, a gorgeous art-deco oasis with a hammam, steam room, sauna and plunge pool. Choose from a range of treatments including facials from British skincare brand, Oskia, as well as knot-melting massages, manicures, pedicures and even a haircut at the in-house salon.
Nestled two floors beneath the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair, the tranquil Aman Spa feels like a peaceful, elegant cave, with candle-lit treatment rooms, a fitness centre and heated indoor pool. Designed to treat the mind, body and spirit – with treatments inspired by ancient healing methods – you’ll leave feeling fully zen.
Audley Street’s Bamford boutique is a peaceful place to stock up on wellness goodies. Full of sustainable cashmere throws, essential oil-infused candles and delicious Bamford organic products, like the pleasingly pebble-shaped soaps and bath oils that smell like an English garden, it will be hard to tear yourself away.
Treat yourself to flowers: Florists in Mayfair
A firm favourite with the fashion crowd and Mayfair’s discerning locals, every Neil Strain bouquet or installation is an extraordinary work of floral art, created using show-stealing rare blooms and foliage. Purchase one of the haute couture bouquets and your home will instantly become magazine cover-worthy – you won’t miss that Christmas tree at all.
Responsible for some of London’s most stunning flower arrangements, if you’re in need of a new year pick-me-up, you’ll want to make a beeline to Wild at Heart for a hand-tied bouquet using the freshest, blousiest seasonal flowers, wrapped up in recyclable and biodegradable packaging, with sprigs plucked from the flower fields of British growers.
