Chef Heston Blumenthal has shut his central London restaurant after it was hit by an outbreak of a vomiting virus.
A total of 24 diners and 21 members of staff were taken ill at the two Michelin-starred Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Hyde Park due to the norovirus.
It was the same bug which forced him to close his award-winning Fat Duck restaurant in Berkshire in 2009.
Dinner’s website said that it was expected to remain closed for a week.

