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We’ve previously reviewed the Andaz Liverpool Street’s quintessentially British 1901 Restaurant and featured its creative Diamond Jubilee afternoon tea. But the hotel also has a surprise for seafood enthusiasts. Catch is the Andaz’s fine dining restaurant specialising in sustainable fish. Head Chef Martin Scholz sources most of the seafood from within the UK and Catch was recently [...]
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With winter rapidly becoming a distant memory and spring well and truly in the air for London’s big Olympic year, now is a great time to enjoy a stay at one of the UK capital’s world-class boutique hotels. March saw a number of interesting developments in the boutique hotel scene and April is looking set fair to [...]
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The 5 star Andaz Liverpool Street is offering diners the chance to turn their afternoon Royal Tea into diamonds and no, I am not joking! The hotel is giving one lucky person who partakes in the Jubilee Afternoon Tea series running at the hotel between 1st February and 30th June a pair of rather expensive (£1,250) [...]
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I recently went on an afternoon tea tasting with Laura Porter of About.com London – but one with an unconventional and distinctly Nippon flavour. As a committed Japan-o-phile who has already blogged about London hotels for Japan addicts, I was keen to check out the Miyako sushi bar nestled inside the beautiful Andaz London. And with Laura being just about the [...]
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London has world-class boutique hotels, offering the perfect antidote to high-rise sterility and big-brand anonymity. To help you keep up with the ever-changing scene, we proudly present our monthly round-up of all the latest news from the very best London boutique hotels. The family-owned Goring Hotel is certainly no stranger to famous guests, so staff were no doubt [...]
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The luxury five-star Andaz Liverpool Street hotel is offering guests the chance to learn all about seafood in a series of workshops this October. The workshops coincide with the popular London Restaurant Festival which runs from the 3rd to the 17th of October. The Andaz after all offers no less than 5 in-house dining options including the 1901 restaurant which [...]
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Attention all Japan lovers! This weekend (22-24 July) sees the second running of Hyper Japan at London’s Olympia Two exhibition centre, with a share of the proceeds going to the region affected by the recent Tohoku Pacific Earthquake. The exhibition is a fun extravaganza of all things Japanese, celebrating all aspects of Nippon culture including [...]
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Some people will queue all night for the best view of the Royal Wedding. Others, I suspect, will want to get as far away from it as possible. But with London in Royal Wedding mania mode, “escape” may not be as easy as it sounds. There are a few ‘alternative’ events – but the trouble [...]
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If you want art in London, you might head to Tate Britain, the National Gallery or Sotheby’s for example. Or for something more cutting edge, you could be tempted to check out the Saatchi Gallery or Tate Modern. But you might also find your hotel to be an equally good place to find contemporary art [...]
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The London Olympics will certainly boost revenues for the capital’s hotels in 2012. But while the majority of hotels are in the West End, most of the Olympics events will be in the East End – and it’s not an easy commute. East London isn’t traditionally the most attractive area for top-class hotels. But both [...]
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London’s railway hotels were one of the wonders of the High Victorian age. The best known was the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, a Gothic wonder more like a baronial castle than a hotel building; but each of the London termini once had its own hotel, from the GWR at Paddington to the Great [...]
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I’ve had some truly horrible meals in hotels. After all, hoteliers know they’ve got a captive market – people who are too tired, lazy or jet-lagged to want to head out to a restaurant; so the quality of the food may often be compromised even in otherwise decent hotels. Bland ‘international’ cuisine that’s low on [...]
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London hotels have contrasting views on this particular topic. Flagship hotel restaurants are often seen as a selling point. This especially applies to luxury hotels, with Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester and Gordon Ramsay at Art Deco gem Claridge’s notable examples, along with Galvin at Windows (Hilton on Park Lane) and Apsley’s at the Lanesborough. [...]
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I recently went for an evening meal at the 1901 restaurant in the Andaz Hotel, Liverpool Street – a venue specialising in “modern British” cuisine and the flagship eatery of a London hotel which dares to be different. The Andaz cultivates a unique, barrier-free ambience where staff don’t have fixed job titles but are simply [...]
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The “East End” of London is a funny old place. Let London Hotels Insight take you on a tour of its hidden side – the part tourists rarely get to see. Parts of the area look like they are just street on street of 1960s concrete and 1950s brick. Other areas are still wasteland, bomb [...]
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We’ve featured the Andaz before on this blog as it rises up the TripAdvisor rankings, currently sitting just outside the top 50 London hotels. On top of that, the Andaz’s management seems to have a real flair for innovation. Not only does this manifest itself in the hotel’s “barrier-free” ethos but also in the way [...]
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