Hotel Café Royal
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| Completed | 1865 |
| Owner | The Set Collection |
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The Hotel Café Royal is a five-star hotel at 68 Regent Street in Piccadilly, London. Before its conversion in 2008–2012, it was a restaurant and meeting place known as the Café Royal.[1]
History
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. He changed his name to Daniel Nicols and under his management—and later that of his wife—the Café Royal flourished and was considered at one point to have the greatest wine cellar in the world.
By the 1890s, the Café Royal had become the place to see and be seen at. Its patrons have included Oscar Wilde,[2] Aleister Crowley,[3] Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Noël Coward, Brigitte Bardot, J. Paul Getty, Mary Teissier, Max Beerbohm, George Bernard Shaw, Jacob Epstein, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Muhammad Ali and Diana, Princess of Wales. The café was the scene of a famous meeting on 24 March 1895, when Frank Harris advised Oscar Wilde to drop his charge of criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of Alfred Douglas. Wilde refused the advice, Queensberry was acquitted, and Wilde was subsequently tried, convicted and imprisoned.[4] From 1951, the Café Royal was the home of the National Sporting Club. It was bought by David Locke in 1972.
Prominent personalities continued to host important events through the early 21st century at the establishment. Kanye West played 20 new songs in 2014 when he DJ'ed at a private party with Frank Ocean at the Café Royal.[5] At a private after-party for the British Fashion Awards, hosted by Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell at Café Royal, guests in attendance included Harry Styles, Cara Delevingne and Rihanna.[6]
Restoration and conversion
The Crown Estate, which owns most of Regent Street on behalf of the monarch including number 68, sold a 125-year lease to the Israeli-based Alrov Group (which operates the luxury hotel brand 'The Set Collection'). The 90 million pound deal was part of a major Regent Street regeneration project.[7][8]
Café Royal closed in December 2008.[9] The fittings and furniture were later sold at auction.[10] The building is a grade II listed building, which protected its architecturally significant features and fixtures.
David Chipperfield Architects, with Donald Insall Associates, restored and transformed the building into a hotel with 159 rooms and historic suites, an array of dining rooms and bars, a private members club, meeting rooms, ballroom and a wellbeing spa and gym with 18-metre pool.[11] The Grill Room provides a traditional afternoon tea service.[12] The restoration and conversion work took a year longer than expected, in part due to a major flood due to a flood and the complexity of the restoration.[13] It was completed in October 2012, at a cost of £200 million.[14]
Gallery
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The Café Royal, London by William Orpen, 1912
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Conference at the Café Royal restaurant in 1947
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Café Royal
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hotel Café Royal London review". CN Traveller. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Guy Deghy and Keith Waterhouse (1955). "Café Royal – Ninety Years of Bohemia". Hutchinson & Co.
- ^ Howard, Michael (February 2010). "A Seeker's Journey", in The Cauldron #135.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Belford, Barbara (2000). Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius. New York: Random House. p. 251. ISBN 0-679-45734-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Report: Kanye West Plays 20 New Songs in London Club". BET.com. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cooper, Jennifer (2 December 2014). "Harry Styles Reunites & Flirts With Kendall Jenner in London". E! Online. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bridget, O’Connell (14 April 2008). "Israeli group buys Regent Street block". Estates Gazette.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thomas, Daniel (13 April 2008). "New chapter for Café Royal". Financial Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Browning, Jonathan (18 December 2008). "London's Cafe Royal Closes: Farewell to Scandal, Wilde, Murder". Bloomberg. Retrieved 4 December 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bates, Stephen (23 December 2008). "Cafe Royal party is over as 143 years of high society goes under the hammer". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Café Royal A Very Fashionable Launch". The Handbook. 11 December 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Afternoon Tea At Oscar Wilde's Favorite Bar". Forbes. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cafe Royal hotel set for October opening". Business Traveller. 27 June 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Heathcote, Edwin (23 November 2010). "The louche and the lovely - Restored as a luxury hotel, the Café Royal looks to regain its place at the centre of London's social scene". Financial Times.
External links
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