The man who put the fizz back into Soho House

...and his stunningly chic new 'club within a club' in Mayfair

- DYLAN JONES

The opening dinner, like the venue, was next level. At one table, James Corden compared celebrity war stories with Stanley Tucci; at another, Douglas Booth blew kisses to Sheherazade Goldsmith.

Edward Enninful gossiped conspiratorially with Christopher Kane, and Olivia Colman and Jodie Whittaker danced the night away. An hour earlier, as guests arrived at Soho House's latest Mayfair iteration, Soho Mews House, Nick Cave serenaded us all. "I was asked to play some of my more upbeat songs," he said, setting up his own punchline. "I've written something like 300 and I realised I don't have any." The man in the middle of all this A-lister madness was Andrew Carnie, CEO of Soho House, who replaced founder Nick Jones two years ago (after Jones revealed a prostate cancer diagnosis). He stood quietly in the background surveying the room, watching his waiters and his bartenders, soaking up the vibe, and - I hope perhaps taking some pride in opening what is already, after just three weeks, the chicest Soho House in London.

Sitting in a quiet cobbled mews off Bond Street, Soho Mews House is deliberately different and an emphatic retort to those who had started to say the company was a victim of its own success. Not only has Carnie improved the membership experience in all Houses globally, but with Soho Mews House he has created a private members' club that rivals 5 Hertford Street and George.