Café Royal’s restored public rooms from the 1860s and 1920s give this Regent Street hotel its architectural weight. Their Grade II-listed interiors became part of a new chapter in 2012, when the former café opened as a hotel following a conversion designed by David Chipperfield. Today, understated contemporary rooms and suites sit within that historic framework, with Soho, Mayfair, and St. James’s close at hand. Dining remains central to its identity: Café Royal Grill serves British cooking in a listed setting, Alex Dilling offers French tasting menus overlooking Regent Street, and Albert Adrià’s Cakes & Bubbles makes desserts and Champagne an occasion of their own.
"Five-star hotel Café Royal on Piccadilly Circus knows this and welcomes VIP families who want that once-in-a-lifetime experience (including past guest Muhammad Ali who famously took a press conference here while bottle-feeding his daughter after the babysitter cancelled)."
London’s first skyscraper hotel still makes its height count, with guest rooms and suites looking across Hyde Park, Mayfair, and the city skyline. Opened in 1963, London Hilton on Park Lane has carried its midcentury roots into a redesign inspired by the park below: organic forms and muted tones shape the interiors, while Park Corner Brasserie’s marble floor recalls stepping stones along a garden path. The modern British restaurant gives that connection to the park a culinary setting. Upstairs, suites on the 26th floor draw on 1960s style and the tailoring traditions of Savile Row, giving the hotel’s history a place in its present-day character.
A restored bank vault beneath the New Yorker Hotel now houses Butcher & Banker, a steakhouse that gives the building’s history a place at the dinner table. Above it rises a 43-story Art Deco hotel designed by Sugarman and Berger and opened in 1930. A restoration begun in 2006 helped preserve that architectural character, which also carries into the guest rooms. Accommodations range from compact Metro Queens to larger doubles, with designated View rooms overlooking the Manhattan skyline. On Eighth Avenue, steps from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, the New Yorker puts rail arrivals, concerts, and games close at hand; its architecture and subterranean dining room give travelers reasons to linger in the building itself.
The 1893 World’s Fair clock is back at the center of the Waldorf Astoria New York’s lobby, a fitting anchor for a hotel whose recent restoration makes its architectural heritage central to the stay. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon restored its exterior and interior spaces, preserving the scale of the Art Deco architecture. Upstairs are 375 redesigned rooms and suites; the King Room includes a seating area, writing desk, and deep soaking tub. Downstairs, Peacock Alley returns alongside Lex Yard, chef Michael Anthony’s brasserie. The Park Avenue address places guests in Midtown, near Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center, and Fifth Avenue’s shops.
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