If it’s basic English attraction you’re in search of throughout your London keep, look no additional than Beaverbrook City Home—though you also needs to know that the lodge’s tackle the standard comes with a twist. An offshoot of the favored Beaverbrook lodge on an enormous property in Surrey, their London property options 14 suites named after iconic West Finish theaters (full with classic applications and posters for every on the partitions), decadent interiors that mix basic English nation model with extra modish, maximalist touches, and a restaurant serving—shock!—stellar sushi and a top-tier omakase menu, together with loads of deliciously deadly cocktails. Positioned steps away from the purchasing meccas of the King’s Highway and Sloane Avenue, you possibly can spend the day wandering the picture-postcard streets of Chelsea earlier than retiring to your cozy bathtub. In terms of discovering a house away from house in London, what extra may you ask for? —Liam Hess, residing editor
Photograph: Courtesy of The Berkeley
One of many true grande dames of town’s lodge scene, The Berkeley’s mix of old-school hospitality with a number of modern twists—and a powerful capability to put on its illustrious historical past flippantly—means it firmly occupies a spot on the high of any checklist of five-star London stays. Step by means of the glossy glass and metal entryway designed by starchitect Richard Rogers, and head down certainly one of its rabbit-warren corridors to seek out the elegantly-proportioned Blue Bar or the comfy comfortable space of the Berkeley Bar with its playful, hand-painted murals, or just make a beeline for the brilliant, ethereal café to take pleasure in one of many metropolis’s hottest (and deservedly so) afternoon teas. In the event you’re in search of a critical deal with, nonetheless, e-book your self in for one of many spectacular counter service tasting menus of wildly intricate pastries and truffles courtesy of the award-winning pâtissier Cédric Grolet. So far as the lodge’s 190 individually-designed lodging go, with its minimalist, quietly luxurious design scheme, there isn’t a nasty room in the home. Arguably the best star attraction, nonetheless? That might be the breathtaking rooftop pool, with its expansive views throughout Hyde Park and the Thames. Regardless of the favored notion of London as a land of drizzly skies and pea-soup fog, when the summer time months roll round, the flexibility to take a cooling dip on a sizzling afternoon gives slightly slice of paradise. —L.H.
Photograph: Durston Saylor/Courtesy of Rosewood London
