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For a timeless afternoon tea in Oscar Wilde style, pastry chef Loic Carbonnet puts on a decadent display of sandwiches, scones and desserts in the Hotel Café Royal’s Grade II-listed Grill Room ...
The Stafford is a five star hotel in St James's Place in London, England. [1] Built in the 17th century, its wine cellars may be the oldest in London. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Previously used as private residences, the buildings were opened as a hotel in 1912.
In the 1970s, Sofitel became an international chain of hotels. The first Sofitel in the United States opened in 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Sofitel entered the US market with a French approach to hospitality, making French baguettes on site, offering a wide selection of wines, providing bidets in 1/3 of the rooms, and hiring French chefs to manage the kitchens.
Sofitel St. James: St James's: 186 Opened c. 2000 in a grand classical former bank headquarters Soho Hotel: Soho: 96 Part of the Firmdale Hotels group Stafford Hotel: St James's: 80 English country house style St Martins Lane Hotel: Covent Garden: 204 1990s Philippe Starck minimalism in a 1960s office block St. Pancras Renaissance: Kings Cross: 245
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The establishment was originally conceived and set up in 1865 by Daniel Nicholas Thévenon, who was a French wine merchant. He had to flee France due to bankruptcy, arriving in Britain in 1863 with his wife, Célestine, and just five pounds in cash.
The first house was built on the site of 22 Jermyn Street in about 1685 and, during the 18th century, it was occupied by tradesmen who served the grandees of St James's Square. Since 1685, it functioned as a hotel, with tradesmen supplementing their incomes by sub-letting the top rooms as residential chambers to "wealthy men-about-town."
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