william wolfe’s guide to excellent living in london
The grand hotels of London
6 of the hotels Mr Wolfe recommends in the Guide to Excellent Living in London, each reviewed at length, with an address and a fair warning where one is due.
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Albemarle Street, W1S 4BPBrown’s HotelFresh but cosy, grand but homely: only an establishment as invincibly English as Brown’s could marry its contradictions so beautifully.…C
Brook Street, W1K 4HRClaridge’sTo write about Claridge’s is a tall order. How can I do justice to a place I love so well? Defying superlatives, this grandest of all grand…C
Carlos Place, W1K 2ALThe ConnaughtA casualty of The germanophobia that swept Britain during the Great War, The Coburg, which could trace its origins back more than a…D
35 St James’s Place, SW1A 1NYDukesTucked away down its own discreet little cul-de-sac, Dukes is as integral to St James’s as any of the other establishments – Lock & Co…D
George Street, W1H 5BJDurrants HotelThere’s A dearth of affordable hotels of genuine character in Central London. Not everybody can or will splash out on the likes of…R
150 Piccadilly, W1J 9BRThe RitzI daresay The Ritz answers every would-be Eloise’s conception of the ‘grand hotel’ more completely than any other establishment in London.…
Albemarle Street, W1S 4BPBrown’s HotelFresh but cosy, grand but homely: only an establishment as invincibly English as Brown’s could marry its contradictions so beautifully.…C
Brook Street, W1K 4HRClaridge’sTo write about Claridge’s is a tall order. How can I do justice to a place I love so well? Defying superlatives, this grandest of all grand…C
Carlos Place, W1K 2ALThe ConnaughtA casualty of The germanophobia that swept Britain during the Great War, The Coburg, which could trace its origins back more than a…D
35 St James’s Place, SW1A 1NYDukesTucked away down its own discreet little cul-de-sac, Dukes is as integral to St James’s as any of the other establishments – Lock & Co…D
George Street, W1H 5BJDurrants HotelThere’s A dearth of affordable hotels of genuine character in Central London. Not everybody can or will splash out on the likes of…R
150 Piccadilly, W1J 9BRThe RitzI daresay The Ritz answers every would-be Eloise’s conception of the ‘grand hotel’ more completely than any other establishment in London.…