London hotels

• Test Driving The Ritz Restaurant - one of London's truly special restaurants

  

  It's a restaurant that can accuratly be called iconic, and is blessed with a spectacular menu from John Williams and amazing service. Almost a decade since our last visit, we went back to give it a new look.

• Lee Westcott is opening Elodie and Vervain restaurants at Birch Selsdon in South Croydon

  

  The team behind Birch in Hertfordshire is gearing up for a second launch, and this time they've brought in top chef Lee Westcott to take charge of the food. Selsdon, the group's new hotel and club in South Croydon is another grand old house that's getting Birch's laid-back boho hotel treatment.

• Restaurant at Sun Street sees ex-Roast chef serve up modern British in the City

  

  Tucked in between Moorgate and Liverpool Street a luxury boutique hotel has just opened its doors. Sun Street Hotel is part of a new City development called One Crown Place. And, as you might expect, they've got a restaurant and bar they want everyone to know about.

  Restaurant at Sun Street is going to be a modern British affair run by chef Stuart Kivi-Cauldwell who comes here via Gordon Ramsay's The

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• Tableside drama at The English Grill at Rubens at The Palace

  

  We head for a dinner at The English Grill at Rubens at the Palace of British dishes with a modern twist - and a lot of tableside theatre.

• King’s Cross station’s Great Northern Hotel relaunches its restaurant and bar, now called RAILS

  

  If you’ve been looking for somewhere new to dine while waiting for a delayed train at King’s Cross, then the answer is here: RAILS. It’s the relaunch of former Plum + Spilt Milk, the restaurant within the Great Northern Hotel.

  Frequent Eurostar travellers will be aware that the Great Northern Hotel opened in the final stages of the ...

• London is getting a Porsche hotel

  

  Their cars are all about world-class design and luxury, so we suppose it makes sense that one of the diffusion lines Porsche is working on right now is a hotel group.

  In an announcement yesterday, the car manufacturers revealed they'd teamed up with hotel group Deutsche Hospitality to form the Steigenberger Porsche Design Hotels group. In the first big release, 15 hotels are planned and London is on the list, along with

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• New London hotel openings - the most interesting hotels coming soon to London

  

   London's hotel scene is a barometer of the city's health. Judging by what's coming our way, it's in rosy health with all manner of hotels with interesting bars and restaurants you'll want to know about.

• The Goring gets ready to reopen with a new Secret Garden but no Nathan Outlaw

  

  We've talked a lot about restaurants and bars being closed during lockdown, hotels - not so much. But an email received over the weekend reminded us that London's hotels have been busy behind the scenes, getting themselves ready for the time when they can receive guests again.

  The Goring, just around the corner from Buckingham Palace, and a favourite dining spot of Her Majesty, has been using the time to make

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• Sette at the Bulgari Hotel London will be the first UK restaurant from the folks behind NYC's Scarpetta

  It's all change at the Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge where Rivea is being replaced by Sette and the whole restaurant and bar is being turned, literally, upside down.

• Cheeky overnight - dinner, bed and breakfast at the royal's favourite The Goring

  So close to Buckingham Palace it's a home from home for the Queen, this traditional London hotel may be a classic but its bar and restaurant are still as good as ever.

• Cheeky overnight - staying at Mayfair institution The Connaught

  So far, as part of our Cheeky Overnight series, we've already stayed at two of the Maybourne Group's three hotels in London - Claridges and The Berkeley. They say good things come in threes and we don't like to leave a work in progress, so we'd always wanted to finish off with a stay at The Connaught. And there seemed no better time to check it out than with the arrival of New York chef Jean Georges and his new restaurant at The Connaught.

• Cheeky overnight: we check into The Berkeley in Knightsbridge

  We check into The Berkeley the day after its new entrance by Richard Rogers is unveiled

• Cheeky overnight: we check into Claridges

  We check into Claridge's, one of London's most prestigious hotels, to try the whole package from dining in Fera to tea on the terrace.

• Cheeky overnight: we check out The Beaumont

  Cocktails in The Cub Room, a ride in the hotel Daimler - we'd happily move in let alone check into The Beaumont.