This month, the much-anticipated Tobi Masa restaurant, by celebrated sushi chef Masayoshi (“Masa”) Takayama, will be unveiled at Rosewood’s opulent new hotel in London.
Tobi means “to fly” in Japanese and the name is a nod to the gargantuan golden eagle sculpture perched on top of The Chancery Rosewood. As the all-suite hotel’s roof art suggests, it takes up the former United States embassy building on Grosvenor Square and has inherited the previous incumbent’s avian symbol, now presiding over the rooftop Eagle Bar.