Decimo Takes Dinner Into The Late Night With Music, Mexican Cooking And London Skyline Views

High above King’s Cross, Decimo is extending its hours beyond dinner, turning its tenth-floor setting at The Standard, London into a late-night destination built around food, music and the atmosphere of staying out a little longer. Friday and Saturday nights now run until 2am, with DJs and live acts joining the restaurant’s existing mix of cocktails, late-night bites and panoramic views across London. The shift gives the space another rhythm after dark, moving naturally from dinner into something more social without losing the restaurant’s identity.

The programme is split across two distinct Friday and Saturday night concepts. Sobremesa takes over Fridays, borrowing from the Spanish tradition of lingering at the table after a meal to talk, drink and let the evening stretch out. Decimo Latesbrings a rotating musical programme spanning Latin jazz, salsa, cumbia, psychedelic sounds and diasporic influences, creating a soundtrack that moves beyond the conventional restaurant playlist. Music begins from 10.45pm, while dinner and drinks are available from 7.30pm, allowing the night to build gradually.

Food remains a major part of that transition. Since Mexico City-born chef Paola Arenas took over the kitchen in 2026, Decimo has shifted towards a more distinctly Mexican point of view, drawing on her upbringing in Milpa Alta and experience across international hotel kitchens. Arenas has described her approach through the influence of family, generations of cooking and the food culture she grew up around, bringing a more personal voice to the restaurant’s menu.

That approach carries through into the late-night offering, where freshly pressed tortillas, vibrant salsas and produce cooked over fire sit alongside dishes designed for sharing and lingering. Fried okra and black bean tacos, suckling pig carnitas and gildas give the menu enough range to move between dinner and drinks, while mezcal martinis and caipirinhas extend the experience into the bar. The food is designed to keep pace with the room as the evening develops, giving people a reason to stay beyond the final dinner course.

The setting adds another dimension. Decimo occupies the entire tenth floor of The Standard, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking across the London skyline and the distinctive red exterior lift providing the route upstairs. Its warm, 1970s-inspired interiors, open kitchen and central bar already give the restaurant a strong visual identity, but after dark the relationship between the room, the city and the music becomes more pronounced.

The music is not being introduced as a standalone club night dropped into a restaurant; it is part of a longer evening that begins around the table and gradually shifts towards DJs, live performances, cocktails and dancing. That progression reflects a London nightlife culture increasingly interested in spaces that can hold several moods across one night, moving from food to drinks to music without requiring a change of address.

By extending into the early hours, Decimo is giving its tenth-floor setting another purpose within London’s after-dark landscape. The combination of Arenas’ Mexican cooking, a rotating programme of Latin and diasporic sounds, mezcal-led drinks and uninterrupted skyline views makes the late-night offering feel considered as a complete experience. Dinner becomes the starting point, the music takes over gradually, and the night can continue until 2am with the city still visible beyond the windows.