The Berkeley Hotel
Editor's Pick
Hotel Iconic Elegant Contemporary
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The Maybourne sister to Connaught and Claridge's, Wilton Place, a rooftop pool over Hyde Park, and a 2024 redesign that finally looks contemporary.
Luxury & Hotel-led
Knightsbridge & Belgravia
Hyde Park-side luxury-hotel axis, Pétrus, Marcus, Zuma
Knightsbridge and Belgravia together cover the SW1 + SW7 wedge between Hyde Park and Sloane Square, the chapter's diplomatic-and-luxury-hotel axis. The rooms that earn the slot are mostly hotel-led (The Berkeley's Marcus Wareing, Mountstreet-orbit Mount Street Restaurant, Apsleys at the Lanesborough, Pétrus, Ametsa) plus the Knightsbridge sushi cluster (Zuma, Park Chinois). The traveller uses the hood for the hotel-with-a-spa weekend rather than the Mayfair lunch.
Highlights
The Berkeley + The Lanesborough Pétrus (1 Michelin star) Zuma Knightsbridge Hyde Park axis weekend hotels
8 places
3 Categories
Hotel
4 places
The Peninsula London Hotel
Editor's Pick
Hotel New Elegant Destination
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The billion-pound 2023 opening at Hyde Park Corner, Brooklands by Claude Bosi on the roof, and the most architecturally serious new hotel in W1 in decades.
The Lanesborough Hotel
Iconic Elegant Traditional
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The Oetker Collection mansion at Hyde Park Corner, Regency interiors, a personal butler in every room, and Céleste under the cupola.
The Goring Hotel
Iconic Elegant Traditional
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The only hotel ever granted a royal warrant, fourth-generation family-owned in Belgravia, and the address that hosted Catherine Middleton the night before the wedding.
Cafe
1 place
Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley Cafe
Modern Elegant See & Be Seen
The Berkeley's pastry counter, Grolet's first London room, the trompe-l'œil fruits the audience has only seen on Instagram
Restaurant
3 places
Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay Restaurant
Refined Wine Focused Discreet
Kinnerton Street's claret-walled tasting room, Gordon Ramsay's Belgravia one-star since 2010
Zafferano Restaurant
Classic Elegant Convivial
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Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995, the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta
Em Sherif Restaurant
Elegant Convivial Destination
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Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.
