After eight years in Peckham, husband-and-wife team Amy Corbin and Patrick Williams brought their South African-inspired restaurant group Kudu to Marylebone in 2025, consolidating Kudu, Kudu Grill and Curious Kudu under one roof on Moxon Street. The move marked a significant new chapter for the business, which launched as a small neighbourhood restaurant in 2018 before developing into one of south London's most celebrated dining destinations.
For Corbin, the attraction of Marylebone was its village-like atmosphere and sense of community, something she says mirrors the neighbourhood feel that helped Kudu flourish in Peckham. The relocation also allows the pair to focus their attention on a single larger site, rather than operating multiple venues simultaneously. "We really wanted to have one focus and have our team all at one site and put all our efforts into it," Corbin says. "Patrick is a perfectionist, and he wants to be at the restaurant every day and we couldn't do that across different sites."
The new Marylebone restaurant combines elements of all the previous venues into a larger and considerably more polished operation centred around an open-fire braai grill. The menu continues Kudu's signature style of modern European cooking infused with South African flavours and techniques, drawing on Williams' Cape Town roots. Familiar dishes from the Peckham years remain, including the restaurant's well-known Kudu bread with flavoured butters and peri-peri prawns, alongside new additions developed specifically for the larger kitchen.
Design-wise, the Marylebone site draws heavily on South African colours, textures and materials without leaning into clichés. Interiors feature earthy pink plaster walls inspired by Cape Town sunsets, red marble tables reminiscent of the Karoo landscape and rope detailing referencing beachside restaurants in South Africa. At the centre sits the braai grill, reinforcing the live-fire cooking that remains core to Kudu's identity.
