London hotels

• The Berkeley announce La Môme London as their new main restaurant

   

  

  Well, we've been waiting for this news. It's been almost a year since Marcus Wareing's restaurant at The Berkeley had its last service. Now the Knightsbridge hotel has finally announced what's going to take its place. They're bringing in restaurateurs Ugo and Antoine Lecorché to open a London branch of the brothers' Southern French restaurant La Môme.

• Michelin announces its new hotel keys awards and London does very well

  

  Last year the Michelin Guide announced it was starting a whole new award category for hotels. In the same way that a Michelin star gave you an idea on whether a restaurant was worth going to, the Michelin key would hopefully do the same for hotels.

  So far, keys have been announced for Japan, Italy, Spain, France and the US. Today, it was the turn of the UK and

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• Three London hotels make the World's 50 Best Hotels 2024 list

  

  Right now London appears to be having a moment when it comes to luxury hotels. Over the past year or so we've had a slew of high end establishments opening their doors to guests including the Peninsula London, The Emory and Raffles London at The OWO. Now one of that new band has made it onto the list celebrating the most amazing hotels in the world.

  Last night the 2024 list of The World’s 50 Best Hotels was announced at a

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• Francesco Mazzei is opening a new restaurant at Corinthia London

  

  London's top hotels do like getting a named chef to run their restaurants, from Jean-Georges at The Connaught and The Emory to Tom Kerridge at Corinthia London's Kerridge's Grill. Now, the Corinthia London has announced a shake-up for its second restaurant. What's currently The Northall is about to get a full overhaul by Italian chef Francesco Mazzei. 

  Mazzei is probably

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• Mimosa at The Langham has already closed its doors

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  They had a star-studded party to launch it, but just five months after it opened Mimosa at The Langham has already closed its doors. All mention of the restaurant has been removed from the hotel's website and, when we called, a representative of the hotel told Hot Dinners that it was shut 'indefinitely'. That was later changed to "Mimosa has now closed."

  It's one of the

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• Kaso is the new rooftop bar and restaurant at One Hundred Shoreditch

  

  It's been just two years since the East London hotel One Hundred Shoreditch opened its doors, but it's already changed both of its restaurants in that short time. On the ground floor Sticks 'n' Sushi has taken over from the original spot Goddard & Gibbs and now on the rooftop, the unimaginatively named The Rooftop has given way to Kaso.

  Although the look hasn't changed, the menu certainly

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• Test Driving: Akira Back at the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair - glamour in the heart of town

  

  Chef Akira Back is the man behind all the restaurants and bars at the new Mandarin Oriental Mayfair in London. We went to check out his first opening there.

• Test Driving abc kitchens - Jean-Georges Vongerichten brings his NYC hits to Knightsbridge

  

  Top chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten has brought together an amalgamation of his three abc kitchen restaurants in New York and transferred them to London. We made a reservation at The Emory hotel to check out its brand new restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

• Cheeky overnight: sushi and maximalism at Beaverbrook Town House

  

  Fancy pretending you're on Made in Chelsea? Booking an overnight stay at the gorgeous Beaverbrook Town House hotel would be a good start.

• The Brush Grand Café, Lounge and Cocktail Bar is coming to Hoxton’s new art’otel

  

  If we told you there’s a new all-day dining concept coming to the art’otel, you might be thinking of Battersea Power Station, but we have some double-barrelled news today: Hoxton is also getting an art’otel; its ground floor will house The Brush Grand Café, with upstairs home to the Brush Lounge & Cocktail Bar.

  If you’re a fan of whimsical grand cafes a là Vienna and Paris, then you’ll feel at home at The

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• Cheeky overnight: Mark Jarvis meets Henry VIII for a Hampton Court revamp at The Mitre

  

  Anglo's Mark Jarvis is now in charge of all the food at The Mitre, a hotel that's just across the road from Hampton Court Palace itself. We stayed for a night at the hotel to see what he's cooking up there.

• A Petrossian caviar cafe and shop is popping up at The Savoy

  

  The latest pop-up to take over the shop space in The Thames Lobby at The Savoy, following their Gucci one, is by caviar specialists Petrossian. The Parisian-based caviar merchants have opened a shop and cafe serving up an array of luxe food. You'll find it through the first section of the lobby, down the stairs just before you hit the Beaufort Bar.

  Outside the shop are a handful of

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• 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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