Nicole Trilivas

Missing the city? Chic hotels for a London mini break

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Fluffy, cloud-like beds. Pristine, white robes. Rooms service. Hotels are open again for leisure stays, and we couldn’t be happier. For those in dire need of a night away, London has a whole slew of new picks. From a boutique bolthole tucked off Portobello Road in Notting Hill with only a handful of rooms to a quirky new Mayfair hotspot comprised of 15 adjoining townhouses, these are the best new London hotels for some rest and relaxation on your first big night out of the house.

Nobu Hotel London Portman Square, Marylebone

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Nobu is no stranger to London. The hot hospitality brand by celeb chef Nobuyuki ‘Nobu’ Matsuhisa and partners, Hollywood A-lister Robert de Niro and film producer Meir Teper, already has an eponymous hotel in Shoreditch and a restaurant on Old Park Lane, but there’s still an appetite for more. Enter Nobu Hotel London Portman Square. A study in Japanese-inspired minimalism and gastronomy, this new hotel is centred around its sleek dining venues, which includes a 470-square-metre Nobu Restaurant (a relocation of the former Berkeley Street venue) with sushi bar and terrace, and the street-level outdoor Roku Japanese Gin Garden, created in partnership with Japan’s famous House of Suntory.

The Mayfair Townhouse

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While The Mayfair Townhouse is considered one of London’s most impressive recent luxury openings, the new five-star property by Iconic Luxury Hotels, the team behind the English icons Cliveden House and Chewton Glen, doesn’t take itself too seriously. This becomes immediately apparent as soon as you look closely at the stylish décor: Mischievous foxes (the hotel’s mascot) feature prominently throughout the 15 interlinked Georgian townhouses that make up the hotel, as do accents of decadent dandyism (Oscar Wilde can be called another of the hotel’s mascots). It’s all very playful and spirited and a nice change from the stuffiness that can sometimes come with the Mayfair postcode.

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