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London
IF THERE’S ONE CITY THAT IS NEVER OUT OF FASHION IT’S LONDON.
You may not understand British
humor (not even the British do) and
you will almost certainly encounter
inclement weather, but with her
hyper-fash forward design scene,
vintage and custom tailoring that’s the
envy of the world, history, romance
and intrigue in every footstep and
treasure in spades, it’s little wonder
that travelistas the planet over put
London at the top of their pilgrimage
wish list. Add a startling resurgence
of fine, artisanally-sourced British
cooking and a world class bar scene
and nightlife, and you won’t just be
visiting, you’ll be immigrating.
The cult pocket city guides and mobile
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• Heathrow to Central: 50
mins / £50 by cab; 15 mins /
£18.00 by Heathrow Express to
Paddington Station; 30 mins / £5
by Underground.
• The Tube: Depending on which line
you take, travelling on London’s vast
underground network can be either
easy and convenient or a necessary
evil, either way, buy a multiple
journey Oyster Card, grab a free
map at the ticket kiosk, and avoid
rush hour if you possibly can.
• Metered black cabs can cost as
much as air tickets, and drivers do
expect a tip as well (min 50p), but
the upside is all drivers have the
world famous ‘knowledge’, know
all the streets and tend to be
chatty, cheery types.
Blah blah• Mini-cabs (non-metered) need
to be booked ahead and you can
agree the fee upfront, but be wary
of illegal cabs soliciting you on
the street, they often don’t have
insurance and you could end up
on a wild goose chase.
• Best deal in town? Most major
museums/galleries in London are
free. How fabulous is that!
• If you’re on a budget, make
lunch the main meal of the
day, most of the city’s wish list
restaurants feature an excellent
set lunch prix fixe.
• Bear in mind that clued-in
Londoners hit bars, restaurants and
clubs on weekdays as the weekends
in town can get, shall we say, a tad
bridge and tunnel.
• Tipping 10-15% is customary, but
do be aware that some restaurants
add it to the bill as a discretionary
charge, so do check your bill first.
• The international code for Britain
is +44, and all landlines begin with
020, the numbers you encounter
prefixed with 07 are mobiles.
• In all emergencies call 999
(this does not include when
you break a nail, or need a
restaurant reservation).
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For over a decade Roland Mouret has
created some of the world’s most coveted
womenswear collections. The designer
has defined the era of the iconic dress,
which, has become known by a single
name – Galaxy, Titanium, Moon ¬– and
has earned Mouret a reputation as
magician, master of structure and
silhouette, and as a man with an intuitive
understanding of the female form.
www.rolandmouret.com
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Roland Mouret
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1) WHAT DO YOU MOST LOVE ABOUT LONDON?
London has such an eclectic mix
of people and styles. It’s such a
vibrant city and a constant
source of inspiration!
2) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NEIGHBORHOOD TO VISIT FOR A DAY OF SHOPPING?
My favorite neighborhood is the
Southbank. I particularly like to
shop at Borough Market early in the
morning and spend the rest of the day
cooking up a storm.
www.boroughmarket.org.uk
3) WHERE DO YOU GO TO GET CLOTHES TAILORED/BESPOKE?
Anderson & Sheppard on Saville Row
always do a fantastic job.
www.anderson-sheppard.co.uk
4) WHAT ARE 3 OF YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANTS IN LONDON?
Helene Darroze at The Connaught,
The Wolseley on Piccadilly, and Scotts
on Mount St.
www.the-connaught.co.uk
www.thewolseley.com
www.scotts-restaurant.com
5) WHERE DO YOU GO TO UNWIND AND RELAX IN LONDON?
I like to go to St. James Park and
watch the birds. I love the birds
and the ducks!
www.royalparks.org.uk
/parks/st-jamess-park
6) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE STORE FOR VINTAGE AND/OR ANTIQUE PIECES?
Jerome Dodds’ store in Notting Hill
Les Couilles Du Chien. Jerome is a
great friend of mine, he helped source
numerous pieces for my showroom
at 8 Carlos Place and his space in
Notting Hill is a treasure trove, I never
leave empty handed.
www.lescouillesduchien.com
7) WHERE WOULD YOU GO FOR A COCKTAIL AND WHAT WOULD YOU ORDER?
You can never go wrong with a
Mojito at Momo.
www.momoresto.com
8) WHERE DO YOU TAKE VISITORS WHEN THEY COME TO VISIT YOU IN LONDON?
The Victoria and Albert Museum is
always on my list of places to visit.
They have just opened their
Ballgowns exhibition in which I am
honored to be showcasing the
dress Maggie Gyllenhaal wore to
the 2010 Golden Globes.
www.vam.ac.uk
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THE CONNAUGHT Hotel
More like a friendly luxury club than a
hotel, with creamy, classic, supremely
comfy and wired-up rooms, personal
butlers, fine dine Hélène Darroze,
svelte socialite Connaught Bar, quieter
hideaway Coburg Bar, and thoroughly
swish Aman Spa. Its location at the
very center of the happening Mount
Street scene places it perfectly for
gentle ambles in nearby Green Park
as well as all important shopping in
Mayfair and Jermyn Street. Divine
DORSET SQUARE Hotel
After an extensive and expensive
revamp, the Kit Kemp-designed Dorset
Square Hotel has finally reopened
in retail central Marylebone. Inside
its beautiful Regency townhouse
exterior are 38 individually designed
bedrooms, each appointed with
bespoke furniture and bold color
palettes, many with picturesque
garden views. Downstairs, The Potting
Shed restaurant and bar serves Brit
classics, while the high-ceilinged
Drawing Room is perfect for a spot
of afternoon tea.
THE LEDBURY Dining Chef Brett Graham’s deft antipodean
hand has fashioned a constantly
evolving modern European menu
that has become one of the city’s
most important and desired dining
destinations. The wonderful surprise
with this 2-star Michelin eatelier is the
perfect fine dining blend of urbane
and sophisticated, but deliciously
relaxed and welcoming. It really is a
treat, and you really will need to
book far ahead.
16 Carlos Place, W1 / T: Bond
Street /+ 44 020 7499 7070
www.maybourne.com39-40 Dorset Square, NW1 / T: Baker
Street / +44 020 7723 7874
www.firmdalehotels.com
127 Ledbury Roadd, W11 / T:
Westbourne Park / + 44 020
7792 9090 / Closed Mon lunch
www.theledbury.com
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TEA AT CLARIDGE’S Dining
Quite apart from being one of
London’s most iconic hotels, with
a legendarily beautiful deco foyer,
Claridge’s has becomes the glam-
daddy of champagne, pastry and
piano with its perfectly balanced
afternoon tea service and palm court
atmosphere. If the mood takes you,
afterwards you can always drift into
the divine little Fumoir bar for an early
evening refresher, it’s but five steps
off the lobby.
EXPERIMENTALCOCKTAIL CLUB
Bar
So you think you know about
cocktails? Direct from trouncing all-
comers in Paris, the ECC melts silkily
onto the London scene with glass
after glass of classic reinvention,
which takes this rare spirits ultra-
speakeasy way beyond most of its
competitors. Set over two floors of a
Georgian townhouse with a £5 cover
charge payable after 11pm, it’s as well
to reserve a table ahead if you can.
COBURG BAR Bar
Sometimes you just want a nice quiet drink,
but in London that can be hard to find. Step
into the deeply lovely Coburg nestled in the
bosom of the venerable Connaught Hotel.
The spacious, contemporary India Mahdavi
interior features warm, dark paneling and
Julian Opie art, while the bar concentrates
on extremely well made classic mixed drinks,
expertly served without fanfare, faff or
cocktail umbrellas. Sheer bliss.55 Brook Street, W1 /
T: Bond Street / + 44 020 7107 8872 /
served daily 3-5.30pm
www.claridges.co.uk
13A Gerrard Street, W1 / T: Leicester
Square / + 44 020 7434 3559 /
email to ensure entry at
www.chinatownecc.comKeizersgracht 359 / 9 Streets /
+31 20 639 0067
www.van-ravenstein.nl
DINNER BY HESTON BLUMENTHAL Dining
The wizard Mr. B strikes platinum with
his forage through historic and heritage
British recipes, tweaking them as only
a true genius can and serving them up
redux via a startlingly effective and
knowledgeable staff who clearly love
what they do. The spacious dining room
looks out over Hyde Park, but it’s more
likely your eye will be firmly on your
plate. The Meat Fruit and Tipsy Pudding
with roast pineapple are already the
stuff of legend.
THE WOLSELEY Dining
How do we love the Wolseley, let us
count the ways… for breakfast or
elevenses, lunch or brunch, afternoon
tea, pre-theatre, dinner and supper,
this carbon and cream marble ultra-
glam verve and vibe café-salon of mod
Euro classics heaves from breakfast to
nightcap. And what’s more, if you like
the table settings, from condiments to
tableware, napery and cake-stands, you
can buy them all online. Hurrah!
DABBOUS Dining
Don’t let the industrial mesh, metal piping
and strictly functional corporate canteen
fitout put you off, this is an oasis of pristine,
full-blooded modern European flavor,
as you’d expect of Ollie Dabbous whose
previous work at Scandinavian bistro
Texture has seen it appear in all editions of
LUXE London since it launched. No wonder
then we’re fans of his new baby, although
getting a reservation here now is an Augean
challenge. If you are lucky enough to have
booked far in advance and been granted
a table, you’ll find produce-centric small
and large plates with a detectable
Scandinavian simplicity and acute attention
to clarity of taste.
9 Whitfield Street, London W1 / T:
Goodge Street / closed Sun-Mon /
+44 020 7323 1544
www.dabbous.co.uk
160 Piccadilly, W1 / T: Green Park /
+44 020 7499 6996
www.thewolseley.comMandarin Oriental Hyde Park /
Knightsbridge, SW1 /
T: Knightsbridge / + 44 020 7201 3833
www.dinnerbyheston.com
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LUXE LovesSIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM Activities
Piled to the rafters with art, sculpture,
wonders and curiosities, the eminent
Victorian architect Sir John Soane
filled his house with museum quality
artifacts and then very sweetly left
them to the nation. Once a month the
museum opens in the evening and is
candlelit, and while the queue to get
in beggars belief, it’s an absolutely
unique treat.
FORTNUM & MASON Shopping
This perennial one-stop shopping
landmark is traditionally associated
with chic groceries and hampers,
especially at Christmas, but what
many people miss are the four floors
of wonderful gifts, sweet little Beauty
à la Carte spa, and rather good
wine bar. The Fountain Bar’s famed
Welsh Rarebit is a naughty treat,
and afternoon tea at the St. James’s
Restaurant the perfect start or finish
to your retail therapy in nearby,
iconic Jermyn Street.
BERRY BROS & RUDD Shopping
This perennial one-stop shopping
landmark is traditionally associated with
chic groceries and hampers, especially
at Christmas, but what many people
miss are the four floors of wonderful
gifts, sweet little Beauty à la Carte spa,
and rather good wine bar. The Fountain
Bar’s famed Welsh Rarebit is a naughty
treat, and afternoon tea at the St.
James’s Restaurant the perfect start or
finish to your retail therapy in nearby,
iconic Jermyn Street.
DENIS SEVERS’ HOUSE
Activities
Denis may have passed on to the great
tableaux vivant in the sky, but his
spirit lives on in this extraordinary and
delightfully atmospheric recreation of a
C.18th Huguenot silk weaver’s home life
in once again fashionable Spitalfields.
The Monday and Wednesday candlelit
evening tours are a delight.
THE MONUMENT Activities
Super simple, and one of our all time
favorite things to do is a jaunty climb
up all 311 steps of Mr. Wren’s Doric
column. Commemorating the Great Fire
in 1666 and featuring exhilarating bird’s
eye views across London, you also get
a fabulous thigh workout for free!
Note: agrophobics and claustrophobics
may well prefer to keep their feet
on the ground.
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2 /
T: Holborn / Tue-Sat 10am-5pm /
1st Tue of each month 6-9pm the
museum is candlelit
www.soane.org
181 Piccadilly, W1 / T: Green Park /
+44 020 7734 8040
www.fortnumandmason.com
3 St James’s Street, SW1 /
T: Green Park / + 44 020 7396 9600 /
closed Sunday
www.bbr.com
18 Folgate Street, E1 / T: Liverpool Street
/ + 44 020 7247 4013 /
every Sun noon-3.15pm / book ahead for
Mon & Wed evening candlelight tours /
See website for full details
www.dennissevershouse.co.uk
Monument Street, EC3 / T: Monument /
+44 020 7626 2717 / daily 9.30-5pm
www.themonument.info
URBAN RETREAT
Spa
London has a wealth of really top
notch spas, but when it comes to a
one-stop shop, no one does it better
than Urban Retreat, Here you’ll find a
veritable phalanx of experts dedicated
to manicure and pedicure, waxing,
facials, non-surgical, wigs, brows,
make-up and blow out. Not to mention
Roja Dove’s extraordinary paean to
perfume, the Haute Parfumerie.
Harrods / 87 Brompton Roadd, SW1 /
T: Knightsbridge / + 44 020 7893 8333
www.urbanretreat.co.uk
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Avoid the tourist infested Leicester
Square, Oxford Street and Regent
Street like you would dinner with
Lizzie Borden.
COST
There are no two ways about it,
London can be an expensive city, and
if you’re on a tight budget, you’ll find
it challenging.
RETAIL
London’s shopping streets are
becoming swamped with torpid and
ubiquitous international brands, in
a city with so many wonderful and
quirky independent retailers it would
be insane to miss them.
WEATHER BORES
Ok, so this isn’t just London, but
Britain in general. Yes, it rains (get an
umbrella), it’s often cold in summer
(take a woolly) and get over it!
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MUSEUMS
With such a wealth of fabulous (and
often free) museums in the city it can
be difficult to know where to start, and
even when you get there the sheer scale
of somewhere like the British Museum
can be really daunting, so expedite
your cultural visits by hiring your own
private tour guide, as the experience of a
personally tailored tour far outweighs the
expense and you’ll remember your visit
for years to come.
www.contexttravel.com
FREE CONCERTS
Londoners are spoilt rotten with an
absolute wealth of concert and music
venues, but paying full price for tickets
can be an eye-watering affair, so make
like the savvy Londoners do and you can
fit a concert into your lunch hour and
often for free! Hasten along to St. Martin
In The Fields for recitals Mon, Tue & Fri at
1pm, or St. James’s Piccadilly for recitals
Mon, Wed & Fri at 1.10pm.
www.smitf.org
www.st-james-piccadilly.org
PICNICS
There’s nothing quite as quintessentially
British as a summer picnic (complete with
rain), but faffing about trawling delis and
trying to find paper plates and chilled
bottles of wine can be a serious drain on
precious time, so head straight to the
specialists Picnic 2 U for alfresco hamper
heaven! Just order 48 hours ahead and
they deliver right to your door.
www.picnic2u.co.uk
INSIDER TOURS
When your stay in London is limited
each day is precious, and with so many
interesting neighborhoods to explore
and things to discover, it’s easy to be
distracted from your main interests.
Urban Gentry are a super-hip and
friendly outfit that curate and
customize tours on all manner of
subjects from fashion and shopping to
markets, design and architecture, so
you see everything you want to see!
www.urbangentry.com
ART COLLECTING
The world class London art scene is
famed not only for its breadth and
eclecticism but also because there is so
darn much it’s difficult to know where
to start, so if you’re a budding first-time
buyer, don’t waste time trawling endless
websites and galleries, go straight to
the gal who knows, art consultant
Flora Fairbairn.
www.florafairbairn.com
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Ahh London, nightingales in Berkeley
Square, a stolen kiss on Chelsea Bridge…
but first how about sharing a birds-eye
view over the city? Book ahead to avoid
the queues, and take a gentle turn on
the London Eye – you can even book a
special Cupids Capsule complete with
champagne and truffles. Back with your
feet on the ground take an amble over
Waterloo Bridge or catch a cab down
the Strand (home to the divine Savoy
Hotel) and on up to pretty St Martins
in the Fields church to catch their free
lunchtime concert. Now, presuming you’ve
booked in advance, six quick skips will
have you seated at lovely old J Sheekey’s
Oyster Bar. After that zinc and fizz fix
you’ll be set up for a little retail, and
what could say ‘I love you’ better than
cashmere? (Okay, diamonds are good
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Romance
too). If something very special is called
for, grab a cab to Elizabeth Street to find
the divine Hawick who not only specialize
in beautiful contemporary cashmere for
men and women, but choose from their
49 color and they will also custom knit
just for you. Oh, what greater joy can
there be? Well, good that you asked. Back
into your trusty cab and if you’ve timed it
just right, there will be the city’s loveliest
afternoon tea (and champagne, of course)
waiting for you at the divinely deco
Claridge’s Hotel. All this gadding about
can take its toll, so to be sure of being
in the pink for ce soir, off with you now
to the sublime Espa Life at the Corinthia
Hotel. This vast, deeply delicious slink-
a-dink top to toe-r is spread over four
fabulous floors of marble and leather,
or if time is short, plump (ahem) for the
handy Rush Hour Beauty menu that
offers natty, time saving combinations
of all the signature therapies in 60-90
minutes. Smart! Feeling pretty? All you
have to decide now is, are you feeling
flush or flushing? For a gourmet à deux
you’ll have booked the blissful Ledbury,
but for heart-melting Gallic charm with
all the gingham, dried roses and candles
you could ever wish for, head to London
lovers’ all time favorite, little La Poule
au Pot in Pimlico. It’s but a short step or
two to find the river for a post supper
moonlight amble along the Embankment,
or if something a little spicier is called
for, head to Soho and find saucy,
burlesque boîte The Box – even Prince
Harry and Princess Beatrice have visited!
Let the show begin!
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Style
There is no end of stylish areas in London,
but for hip without the grunge you can’t
beat Notting Hill’s Ledbury Road. First
off, zap in a cab to Westbourne Park Road
and straight into breakfast and brunch-
ster joy Granger & Co for Bill’s signature,
fabulous sweet corn fritters with roast
tomato, spinach & bacon, oh stop it!
Replete and caffeinated, step around the
corner onto Ledbury Road and have your
credit card ready. The joys of Ledbury
Road are manifold, not least Melt for
chocolates, Orlebar Brown for guy shorts,
fabulous men’s and womenswear at
Matches, and divine Ottolenghi for ultra
colorful salads and cakes that look like
art and taste like heaven. Now, there’s
precious little point being on a stylish
itinerary and not looking your absolute
best, and you’re in luck. One of London’s
finest spas is but two shakes of a lamb’s
tail away. Beauty Works West offers one
of the best mani/pedis in town plus all the
Ling and Rodial products you could wish
for, amazing oxygen facials and great
anti-aging. Darling, it’s wiped ten years
off you! No time to waste. Hop a cab and
ask for Bruton Place, for SHOWstudio
which features unique and one-off props,
items and artifacts from fashion shoots,
plus jewelry and great original prints.
On you go now to The Royal Arcade on
Old Bond Street to find sultry Ormonde
Jayne for exotic and sensual, beautifully
packaged fragrance. Stepping through
the Royal Arcade will bring you out on
Albemarle Street, home to the discreet
and lovely Browns Hotel, which in turn
is home to London’s stylista’s favorite
afternoon tea tryster. After you’ve
exercised your little finger on fine bone
china, exit and on parallel Dover Street,
you’ll come to the grand slam of fission
hot styling Dover Street Market – five
floors of fashion. Finally, Wolf&Badger
is an innovative concept hosting up and
coming designer wear, individual interior
pieces and custom made clothing. OMG,
look at the time! Its wine o’clock, or
rather it’s cocktail hour, tarry not, into a
cab with you and off to Gerrard Street
and the wondrous emporium of liquid
loveliness ECC (see LUXE Loves). When
the dinner gong goes, your cab awaits to
gritty Bethnal Green and the molecular
mouth magic of Nuno Mendes at Viajante,
followed by squishy sofa nightcaps at
pretty Zetter Street Townhouse. Night
night, one very tired but stylish kitten.
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Uh oh, dropped your morning coffee
over your suit and you’ve a meeting
in an hour? Gentlemen, you could do
worse than hop in a cab to Vigo Street
in Piccadilly to pick up an RTW at Suit
Supply, where the in-store tailors can turn
around most alterations on the spot. True,
it’s not exactly Anderson and Sheppard,
but needs must! With meetings in the
city, the choice of lunch spot is crucial
to avoid long cab journeys in traffic,
and Refettorio fits the bill perfectly.
Giorgio Locatelli’s Italian stallion attracts
foodies and serious biz-bods alike for
its easygoing atmosphere and perfectly
provenanced menu. For men in need of a
serious sartorial kick start The Refinery
in Brook St is the gentlemen’s club of
good grooming, even going as far as to
offer the all or nothing special ‘galaxy’
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Businesswax for those intimate areas… For busy
businesswomen, your all time best shot
is the amazing Urban Retreat at Harrods
(see LUXE Loves), where you’ll find a top
to toe of every conceivable treatment
and service from a battalion of the city’s
best therapists, all under one time-saving
roof. After work drinks with colleagues or
clients is all very well at any of the myriad
square mile pubs, but for something a
little (or a lot) different take the time to
try The Jerusalem Tavern in Clerkenwell,
this very special little inn is the only
one in the city to serve the wonderful,
nectar-like ales from Suffolk’s St Peter’s
Brewery. For something a lot more swish
The Connaught Hotel’s Coburg Bar (see
LUXE Loves) ticks all the boxes of style,
panache, peace and seriously good
cocktails, and would make the perfect
starting spot before heading down to
the Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge
where you’ve taken the time to book well
ahead for a table at Dinner by Heston
Blumenthal (see LUXE Loves). When it
comes to business dining you need just
the right amount of show with just the
right amount of taste and surprise, and
Dinner serves them both, big time. If
cigars, whiskey and ribald anecdotes are
called for afterwards, shoot up the road
to the Lanesborough Hotel’s Garden Bar.
This most luxurious of smoking rooms
contains the city’s largest walk-in humidor
and a cognac list that features labels
dating back to 1770. Careful, you’ve got
work in the morning!
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The Essentials
• London Eye
Southbank
www.londoneye.com
• St Martins in the Fields
Trafalgar Sq, WC2 / +44 020 7766
1100 / recitals Mon, Tue & Fri at 1pm /
www.smitf.org
• J Sheekey’s Oyster Bar
28 St Martin’s Court, WC2 /
+44 020 7240 2565
www.j-sheekey.co.uk
• Hawick
51 Elizabeth Street, SW1 /
+44 020 7259 9995 /
www.hawickcashmere.com
• Claridge’s (see LUXE Loves)
• Corinthia Hotel
Whitehall Place, SW1 /
+44 020 7321 3050 /
www.espaonline.com
• Ledbury (see LUXE Loves)
• La Poule au Pot
231 Ebury Street, SW1 /
+44 020 7730 7763 /
www.pouleaupot.co.uk
• The Box
11 Walker’s Court, W1 /
+44 020 7434 4374
www.theboxsoho.com
• Granger & Co
175 Westbourne Grove, W11 /
no reservations
www.grangerandco.com
• Wolf&Badger
32 Dover Street, W1 /
+44 020 3627 3191
www.wolfandbadger.com
• Beauty Works West
11 Lambton Place, Westbourne Grove,
W11 / +44 020 7221 2248
www.beautyworkswest.com
• SHOWstudio
1 Bruton Place, W1 /
+44 020 7399 4299
www.showstudio.com
• Ormonde Jayne
12 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street,
W1 / +44 020 7499 1100
www.ormondejayne.com
• Browns
33 Albemarle Street, W1 /
+44 020 7493 6020
www.brownshotel.com
ROMANTIC ITINERARY STYLISH ITINERARY
• Dover Street Market
17 Dover Street, W1 /
+44 020 7518 0680
www.doverstreetmarket.com
• ECC (see LUXE Loves)
• Viajante / Town Hall Hotel, Patriot
Square, Bethnal Green, E2 /
+44 020 7871 0461 /
www.viajante.co.uk
• Zetter Street Townhouse
49 St John’s Square, EC1 /
+44 020 7324 4545
www.thezettertownhouse.com
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• Suit Supply
9 Vigo Street, W1 / +44 020 7851 2961
www.suitsupply.com
• Refettorio
19 New Bridge Street, EC4 /
+44 020 7438 8052
www.refettorio.com
• The Refinery
60 Brook Street, W1 /
+44 020 7409 2001
www.the-refinery.com
GOURMET ITINERARY
• Urban Retreat (see LUXE Loves)
• The Jerusalem Tavern
55 Britton Street, Clerkenwell, EC1 /
+44 020 7490 4281
www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk
• Coburg Bar
The Connaught Hotel
(see LUXE Loves)
• Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
(see LUXE Loves)
• Garden Bar
The Lanesborough / Hyde Park Corner,
SW1 / + 44 020 7529 5599 /
www.lanesborough.com
LUXE ITINERARY
The Essentials
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