Guy Ritchie and part owner of London nightclubs Mahiki and Whisky Mist – Nick House – plan on opening two pubs in America after the success of the Punch Bowl in Mayfair.

The punch bowl on Farm Street is no ordinary pub attracting A-list celebrities such as Justin Timberlake, Jude Law and Kevin Spacey.

Mr House said: “We want to start with a branch in New York first. It will be just like the one in Mayfair, styled like a traditional country pub with traditional pub food and real ales that we’d like to import from Britain. We’ve looked at one place, but we’re still in the early stages. We’re looking around the centre of Manhattan near Central Park. We’re busy launching the new Mahiki brand of rum at the moment but once that is out of the way we will put all of our efforts into New York.

“Then we’d like to open in Los Angeles. Lot’s of people keep saying that there aren’t enough drinking places with outside seating in LA, so we’d love to open a place with a traditional English beer garden.”