Kettner's

"How Soho can absorb one more hotel defies belief, but Kettner’s, in Nick Jones’s signature fashion, feels like it has been there from the start. The property dates to 1867, and if you believe the rumors, it was once owned by the chef to Napoleon III. Most recently, it has been restored to all its Georgian glamour. The hotel restaurant is straight out of Paris with mirrored walls, elaborately sculpted cornices, and lavishly upholstered seats. The champagne bar feels like an old-world lounge with an original mosaic floor, sink-into armchairs, and horseshoe-shaped marble bar. Each of the thirty-three bedrooms is a hybrid of an English country manor and a 1920s boudoir. The sofas are clad in rich buttery velvet, the wallpaper is vintage, and the sheets Egyptian cotton. Thoughtful touches like deep tubs and Cowshed products in the Georgian-style bathrooms, Roberts radios, and proper alarm clocks make it feel more like the home of an incredibly chic friend than a hotel. Go big and book into the Jacobean suite for a dose of period grandeur—wood-paneled walls, a bed the size of a small ship, a freestanding copper tub, and your own entrance. "

"For drinks, London's Soho House location Kettner's Townhouse has a snazzy-yet-chill champagne bar that serves up a variety of bubbling drinks until early morning hours."

London’s Oldest Restaurants Like Sweetings Put History on the Menu | Eater London

"Opened in 1867 by Auguste Kettner — chef to Napoleon III — Kettner’s has attracted the likes of Oscar Wilde, Agatha Christie and Bing Crosby over the years. It has changed hands and guises in drastic fashion in its life time — including a period as a Pizza Express — most recently relaunching under the direction of the Soho House group. Despite the questionable nature of a venue that proclaims to be “all about affordable glamour” (Nick Jones, ladies and gentlemen), many listed features, including the mosaic floor in the champagne bar, have been restored tastefully. If history is anything to go by, Kettner’s will long outlast this latest incarnation too, so those of the Jay Rayner persuasion need not fret. Sadly, only the Champagne Bar remains open to the public." - Tom Ford

Rihanna Joined the Annabel’s Restaurant Celeb Parade in Mayfair | Eater London

"A long-established Soho favourite that has since become members-only, yet still serves as a high-profile venue for industry events — recently the setting for a Vogue and Netflix dinner celebrating BAFTA Breakthrough Brits attended by prominent figures such as Edward Enninful, Sadie Frost, Alexa Chung and Ncuti Gatwa." - Guy Pewsey

The Royal Family’s Favourite London Restaurants | Eater London

"A Romilly Street venue once frequented for clandestine royal rendezvous that has since been restored by a contemporary hospitality group, now pairing a glitzy champagne bar with bedrooms above for a boudoir-meets-club atmosphere." - Leah Hyslop