Located in Leicester Square, The Londoner is one of the world’s first “super boutique hotels” offering 350 rooms, six eateries, a members club, cinema, and wellness and event space with pool. Designed in collaboration with renowned architectural designers Yabu Pushelberg, the opening of The Londoner marks a pivotal moment in the return and scale of global hospitality. The one-of-a-kind property provides a high level of luxury in the heart of London. Take a look at The Londoner, opening September 2021.
From one of the UK’s largest family-owned hotel group Edwardian Hotels London, The Londoner will have 350 rooms across 16 stories, as well as six food and beverage outlets, a unique members club-style private area, a wealth of meeting and event space, private cinema and an entire floor dedicated to wellness, including an indoor pool.
The Londoner is designed to capture the character of London itself, with winks and nods at every turn to British humor – flourishes ironically expected to appeal to both Londoners as well as international guests. The Londoner’s boutique approach and commitment to hospitality offers an experience designed to make guests feel at home.
From the opulent 200sqm Tower Penthouse duplex suite to the expansive Trafalgar Suites – covering 119 square meters and offering impressive living areas, kitchenette and foyer – The Londoner’s guestrooms are focused on traditional British sensibility and a minimal neutral palette.
Both the guestrooms and public areas of the hotel are home to an expertly curated roster of art pieces.
The art collection throughout is a mixture of price points, mediums and genres and includes classic and contemporary pieces and those from emerging designers. A collaboration between Yabu Pushelberg, James Robertson Art Consultants and Edwardian Hotel London’s Krishma Singh Dear has resulted in this inclusive and varied collection that reflects the multifaceted and diverse character of London as a city.
The Londoner uniquely offers its guests round the clock access to its own private members club style space, The Residence. The 24-hour club, strictly for guests, is hidden from the happenings of the wider hotel and features an exclusive collection of discrete spaces for relaxing, working and indulging. For intimate dining, The Residence’s Y Bar and The Drawing Room offers an à la carte menu and a curated reserve wine list, complemented by signature house cocktails. Guests will also be able to experience The Whisky Room, where a secret passage reveals an intimate 14-cover parlor, for guests to explore the world of whisky including the rare, renowned and the yet-to-be-discovered. Guests can also enjoy complimentary items from the moving Residence Cart – offering fresh breakfast delicacies in the morning and followed by Mediterranean antipasti.
The Londoner features several F&B concepts open to the public that honor and re-shape the legacy of the West End, all created by Amir Jati, Creative Director of Food & Beverage Service Excellence at Edwardian Hotels London. With over ten years’ experience leading Nobu’s global private dining and events team, Amir oversees all of the creative direction and operations across The Londoner’s food and beverage outlets. Located on the ground floor, The Londoner’s signature restaurant, Whitcomb’s, offers an escape to the Mediterranean and a morning-to-night destination where diners can experience a petit déjeuner, prix fixe lunch, a pre-theatre and an all-day dining menu featuring small plates and mains evoking the essence of contemporary French cooking, with influences from surrounding Mediterranean cuisines.
Radiating from the lobby of The Londoner is The Stage, featuring an all-day program of food and beverage menus centered around the luxury, glamour, elegance and sophistication of its headliner, Champagne. The Stage’s offering brings about a fusion of classicism through coveted vintages, prestige cuvées and the finest ingredients with a cosmopolitan and modern attitude, fitting of The Londoner’s central London location and state of the art design.
Located on the corner of St Martin’s Street and Orange Street, is a neighborhood drinking spot Joshua’s Tavern, specializing in terroir-led gintonicas. Joshua’s Tavern will be a new hub for the creative communities around Leicester Square and a watering hole for like-minded professionals. The drinks menu at Joshua’s Tavern will feature over 50 regionally sourced gins, with each going through a five-stage matching process. Led by The Londoner’s Head Mixologist, Pierpaolo Schirru, each match includes a unique combination of garnish, house-infused bitters and tonic, to harmonize, elevate and compliment the botanicals, led by the nuance of the spirits’ terroir.
Located atop The Londoner with a breathtaking view of the city is its decadent rooftop izakaya lounge, 8 at The Londoner. Presenting a palette of world-class modern Japanese cuisine, innovative mixology, and dramatic design, 8 at The Londoner is timeless yet contemporary, and will showcase a blend of the finest ingredients and expert traditional techniques, creating a sophisticated experience above the capital’s most iconic neighborhood.
A convergence of wellness, physical fitness, and results-driven therapies, The Retreat will be The Londoner’s complete ecosystem for wellness. The Retreat merges best-in-class fitness, nutrition and nourishing therapies with other wellness practices, bringing a completely new style of holistic retreat and wellness destination to the West End. Conceived as a place where individuals can integrate health, wellbeing and the enjoyment of a luxury experience, The Retreat gives hotel guests and members a curated edit of tools so that they can look and feel their best: a private training gym, fitness classrooms for innovative weekly programming, 25m pool, barber, blow dry bar, nail bar and other modalities to offer a holistic approach to wellbeing.
Nestled within The Retreat is Refuel, a sanctuary offering a food and beverage program designed to refresh, recharge and rejuvenate. Available to-go post-workout, perched at the bar or in a secluded cabana, the offering at Refuel will include detoxifying smoothies, beauty juices, nourishing body wraps, and Ayurvedic morning ritual bowls, among other delicious and vibrant options.
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For larger scale events, The Londoner continues to lead amongst global hotels, offering a plethora of options to suit meetings and events of any size. The jewel in the crown of The Londoner’s events offer is the hotel’s Ballroom, a pillarless marvel in excess of 6,000 sq ft with capacity to host over 800 guests. Physically and technologically designed to adapt to any endless range of events from weddings to award dinners to conferences.
The hotel is also home to a more intimate but equally versatile space, the Green Room, which is as suited to a corporate mixer as it is to a late-night dance party. For more formal meeting spaces, The Londoner also is home to The Gallery – a network of seven private meeting rooms equipped with the latest technology, and each room named after London galleries with whom The Londoner has a personal relationship – including the National Gallery, Royal Academy and Somerset House.
Rates start from $471.
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