Second helpings: Other born-again dining-rooms

Mju Millennium Hotel, 17 Sloane Street, London SW1 - West 12 Marriott Hotel, 12 Hagley Road, Five Ways, Birmingham - Sri Nam 10 Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, London E14

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Mju Millennium Hotel, 17 Sloane Street, London SW1, tel 020 7201 6330 Out goes cold minimalism and in comes warmth and colour at this first-floor dining-room. Mju opened last year, with food from Australia's master of French-Japanese cross-cooking, Tetsuya Wakuda. Now Wakuda is back in Sydney, but his chosen successor, Chris Behre, is still executive chef and the room has been revamped with olive-green marble, beaten copper panels, Japanese paintings, oxblood-red carpets and crushed velvet walls.

West 12 Marriott Hotel, 12 Hagley Road, Five Ways, Birmingham, tel: 0121 452 7007 Out go the frills and formality of the Sir Edward Elgar Restaurant, and in comes West 12 with its understated contemporary vibe. After £500,000 worth of cosmetic surgery by the Marriott Hotel group, new chef Nigel Parnaby, of Oxford's Randolph Hotel, sweeps clean with his neo-British menu of potted salmon with brown shrimps, confit of rabbit with lentils and (very cute) Scotch eggs of black pudding and quail eggs.

Sri Nam 10 Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, London E14, tel: 020 7715 9515 Out goes the Ken Hom-endorsed pan-Asian food of the Yellow River at Canary Wharf, and in comes the Ken Hom-endorsed Thai food of Sri Nam, a Thai dining-room that comes with its own Oriental café bar. It seems the world cannot get enough of pad Thai noodles (quite rightly) and ostrich with spicy Thai herbs (not quite as obvious), especially served amid vibrant Thai silks and sculptures.