London hotels

• The BT Tower is being turned into a hotel

  

  If you're of a certain vintage you may have had the great pleasure of dining at the top of the BT tower back when it used to be a revolving restaurant in the 1970s. Now it seems that a whole new generation of Londoners will get the chance to enjoy those same views with the news that the tower is being turned into a hotel.

  The folks who've just spent £275m buying one of London's most iconic buildings are

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• Hyde London City hotel is opening on Old Bailey, complete with a modern Turkish restaurant

  

  Just when you thought the city couldn't possibly fit any more upmarket hotels, another new opening is on the horizon. This time it's the turn of boutique hotel brand Hyde, themselves part of Ennismore, the people behind the Hoxton hotels. They're opening Hyde London City on Old Bailey.

  It's not the first time that this particular building has been a hotel.

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• Yannick Alléno is opening Pavyllon London at the Four Seasons on Park Lane

  

  Updated 2/6/23 with the opening date

  After a while, all roads lead to London. Chefs across the globe may open their multi-Michelin-starred restaurants wherever they choose, but it does appear that to be considered a truly global culinary star, they need to have a London outpost to cement their reputation. In recent years we've had Scandinavian giants Niklas Ekstedt and Björn

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• It's all change for The Dorchester with The Grill by Tom Booton opening

  

  For the past 92 years, the Grill at The Dorchester on Park Lane has been known as just that, The Grill. But now they're ringing in several changes by switching that up to The Grill By Tom Booton, naming it after the restaurant's Executive Chef for the first time.

  Booton, who joined the restaurant back in 2019 (he was previously at Alyn Williams), has been hard at work on a brand new

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• 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.