Guy Ritchie is planning to open two pubs in America following the success of his Mayfair pub.

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The Sherlock Holmes director has already seen one potential venue near Central Park in New York and wants to roll out the brand to Los Angeles.

His country-style pub in Farm Street attracts a regular A-list crowd, with celebrities including Justin Timberlake, Jude Law, Kevin Spacey and Bono propping up the bar.

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Ritchie, 41, co-owns The Punch Bowl with entrepreneur Nick House, who owns Mayfair royal haunts Mahiki and Whisky Mist.

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.”

It comes a day after a licensing review, in which Westminster council imposed a series of restrictions after receiving 70 complaints about rowdy drinkers over the past 18 months.

Residents have complained about noise levels, broken glass and crowds of up to 150 people spilling out of the pub and drinking in the middle of the road. They also claim that some revellers urinate against their houses.

Conditions imposed included customers not being allowed to drink outside after 8pm and smokers being restricted to a certain area.

Leo Charalambides, barrister for the residents who made a 23-page application to get the licence reviewed, said the pub's regulars were members of the “leisure classes” who could afford to “cause a nuisance on seven days of the week”. He claimed that the pub hosts live music acts, which Ritchie has mentioned in press interviews, despite not having a licence to do so.

Speaking after the hearing Piers Adam, a director of the pub along with Ritchie and Guy Pelly, a friend of Princes William and Harry, welcomed the council's decision, adding: “Now we can move on and be a good asset to the community.”