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Raffles Singapore is a historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road, in Singapore. It was established by Armenian hoteliers, the Sarkies Brothers , in 1887. The hotel was named after British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles , the founder of modern Singapore.
Raffles Hotel, Singapore. While Marina Bay Sands is a marvel of modern-day Singapore, its predecessor, Raffles Hotel, was built in the late 1880s and was named after a British colonial official ...
Mok seats eight guests three times a week, from Thursday to Saturday, for a 2.5-hour meal. Her eight-course menus, refreshed every three months, are priced at 168 Singapore dollars, or $130 ...
In 2005, Colony Capital bought Raffles Holdings for $1 billion from the Singapore government. Raffles and Swissôtel joined Fairmont Hotels in the newly formed holding, FRHI Hotels & Resorts, in 2006. [8] In December 2015, Accor announced the acquisition of FRHI Hotels & Resorts, taking over the Fairmont, Raffles, and Swissotel hotel chains. [9]
In 2024 RAW did a two week pop-up restaurant in the Raffles Hotel, Singapore. [2] In 2024 Chiang announced that RAW would be closing and that he would be opening a cooking school in its place. [3] [4] [5]
The brothers' cousin Arathoon Sarkies (1882–1932) also managed the Adelphi Hotel in Singapore from 1903 to 1908, [11] while Hotel Majapahit (as Hotel Oranje) in Surabaya, Indonesia was founded in 1910 by Martin's son Lucas Martin Sarkies (1876–1941), [12] [13] which stayed in the hands of their descendants until 1969. [14]
The success of the brand led the brothers to establish sister hotels, the Raffles Hotel in Singapore in 1887 and the Strand Hotel in Rangoon, Burma, in 1901. Under the management of the brothers the E & O hotel would receive several major expansion works, culminating to the completion of the present hotel complex in 1929.
Regent Alfred John Bidwell (12 June 1869 – 6 April 1918), also known as R. A. J. Bidwell, was an English-born architect noted for his colonial era buildings in Singapore. His best-known works include the Raffles Hotel and the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall in Singapore and Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur.