Hotels, Venues & Event news
A year on from its opening, The Curtain, a lifestyle hotel and members club in east London has launched The Design Studio, described as “an innovative new co-working space that mixes business with pleasure”. Open to The Curtain’s members and hotel guests, the Design Studio “functions both as a space to work and a cultural space, garlanded with beautiful artwork and a schedule of events and talks planned for the coming months”.
Concurrently, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Bar Boulud will reopen. The former, which will relaunch under the leadership of chef John Barber, promises classic French cuisine with a contemporary British twist. The latter, helmed by chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, will unveil a new selection of dishes while continuing to offer its famous “meat fruit” chicken liver parfait. The Rosebery, which offers an afternoon tea service and treats by executive pastry chef Paul Thieblemont, will also be open to the public.
The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park will partially reopen on Dec. 4, having undergone extensive repairs and renovations since a fire in June, after which the hotel was shuttered. The hotel will initially reopen revamped public areas, restaurants, the spa and event spaces. A full reopening, including the unveiling of all new guest rooms and suites, is slated for spring 2019. The updated public spaces include the transformed lobby lounge and reception areas created by designer Joyce Wang, both of which will be anchored by floral-inspired glass chandeliers. Restoration of the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park’s event spaces — including the Loggia, Ballroom, Asquith and Balfour venues — has also been spearheaded by Wang.
Concurrently, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Bar Boulud will reopen. The former, which will relaunch under the leadership of chef John Barber, promises classic French cuisine with a contemporary British twist. The latter, helmed by chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, will unveil a new selection of dishes while continuing to offer its famous “meat fruit” chicken liver parfait. The Rosebery, which offers an afternoon tea service and treats by executive pastry chef Paul Thieblemont, will also be open to the public.
The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park will partially reopen on Dec. 4, having undergone extensive repairs and renovations since a fire in June, after which the hotel was shuttered. The hotel will initially reopen revamped public areas, restaurants, the spa and event spaces. A full reopening, including the unveiling of all new guest rooms and suites, is slated for spring 2019. The updated public spaces include the transformed lobby lounge and reception areas created by designer Joyce Wang, both of which will be anchored by floral-inspired glass chandeliers. Restoration of the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park’s event spaces — including the Loggia, Ballroom, Asquith and Balfour venues — has also been spearheaded by Wang.
Concurrently, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and Bar Boulud will reopen. The former, which will relaunch under the leadership of chef John Barber, promises classic French cuisine with a contemporary British twist. The latter, helmed by chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, will unveil a new selection of dishes while continuing to offer its famous “meat fruit” chicken liver parfait. The Rosebery, which offers an afternoon tea service and treats by executive pastry chef Paul Thieblemont, will also be open to the public.
London’s first Pan Pacific hotel is set to open at the City’s One Bishopsgate Plaza in 2020, this will be the first for the Pan Pacific group in the UK.
The 43-storey development will comprise 160 luxury apartments and the 237-bedroom, five-star hotel.
The hotel will feature a meeting and events space, including a double-height ballroom, which will accommodate a banquet for up to 370 guests. The property is also set to have a fourth-floor pool, spa and fitness centre.
Pan Pacific is one of two hotel brands owned by Singaporean property group UOL. Pan Pacific Hotels Group has a portfolio of nearly 40 upscale hotels, resorts and serviced suites in Asia Pacific and North America.
Kensington Roof Gardens, one of Londons best known party venues, is set to re-open as a restaurant or members club by 2020, according to its landlord.
The popular Roof Gardens, famous for its flamingos, had been welcoming guests since 1933 but was closed in January by its operator Virgin Group.
A shortlist of new operators is being drawn up, with Cushman & Wakefield hoping to name a successful bidder early next year with a view to re-opening in late 2019 or early 2020.
The site at 99 Kensington High Street consists of the sixth & seventh floors of the former Derry & Toms store. It includes the Babylon restaurant, a nightclub and bar housed in an art-deco former tea pavilion and three distinct gardens: the Tudor courtyard, the Spanish garden and the English woodland.
AccorHotels has been selected to open a Novotel hotel and aparthotel in Liverpool City Council’s £1b Paddington Village scheme.
The £35m development, will include a 160-bedroom Novotel and 60-bedroom upscale aparthotel.
Subject to planning approval it is anticipated construction will begin in summer 2019 and complete in 2021.
The four-star hotel will include a reception foyer and atrium with multi-purpose conference and event facilities, function bar, restaurant and executive bar lounge, fitness suite and meeting rooms.
The green light has been given for the development of a 192-bedroom Premier Inn hotel in Finsbury Park, north London.
Islington Council granted permission to Whitbread, Premier Inn’s owner, to develop the property in conjunction with partner Ide Construction. Whitbread has a 25-year lease on the site, where the newly built hotel is expected to open in 2020.
The eight-storey hotel on Seven Sisters Road will feature Premier Inn’s steak-led Bar + Block restaurant concept on the ground floor, which Whitbread introduced two years ago and is now rolling it out in new and refurbished hotels in place of existing brands, Thyme and Beefeater. There are currently five Bar + Blocks open.
Louise Woodruff, acquisition manager (outer London) for Whitbread, said: “Working closely with the council’s planning team we have designed an attractive hotel building that will make a positive contribution to Seven Sisters Road, and the ongoing regeneration of Finsbury Park station, and create many permanent job opportunities – with recruitment focussed in the borough.”
More than 80 jobs are expected to be created at the hotel.
Luxury Hampshire hotel Tylney Hall Hotel & Gardens has invested £300,000 in its meeting and events facilities with a modern new refurbishment. The upgrades to six of the hotel’s meeting and event rooms marry contemporary facilities and design with the luxurious country house setting. The hotel has also unveiled a brand-new meeting and event space, the Boardroom, which is now available for private hire for the first time in the hotel’s history. The wood-panelled former chairman’s study is located above the entrance porch, with picturesque views across the parkland to the neighbouring golf course.
Luxury Hampshire hotel Tylney Hall Hotel & Gardens has invested £300,000 in its meeting and events facilities with a modern new refurbishment. The upgrades to six of the hotel’s meeting and event rooms marry contemporary facilities and design with the luxurious country house setting. The hotel has also unveiled a brand-new meeting and event space, the Boardroom, which is now available for private hire for the first time in the hotel’s history. The wood-panelled former chairman’s study is located above the entrance porch, with picturesque views across the parkland to the neighbouring golf course.
Hilton has announced its second Curio Collection property, the Lincoln Plaza London, will open in January 2019.
The hotel has 129-bedrooms, includes by pan-Indian restaurant Mr Todiwala’s Kitchen by chef Cyrus Todiwala, Jack Speak bar and terrace which will serve cocktails and small producer wines and over 465 sq m of event space across seven meeting rooms.
Launched in 2014, the Curio Collection by Hilton is a soft brand featuring “upper upscale hotels with character” and is one of Hilton’s 15 brands.