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First look: Mandarin Oriental Mayfair opens in London
The second London hotel for Mandarin Oriental has been several years in the making.
The long-awaited Mandarin Oriental Mayfair hotel has finally opened its doors in London.
The hotel on London’s Hanover Square features 50 guestrooms and suites, 77 private residences, two bars, the debut UK restaurant from Korean-American chef Akira Back, and a spa.
It is only the second London site for the luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel group and a sister site to the five-AA-star Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, which launched in 2000.
Designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, which is behind the proposed £500m extension to the British Library, the hotel is the first new build in Mayfair for over a decade.
Interiors have been created by British-based Studio Indigo and draw on the Mandarin Oriental brand’s Asian heritage.
Each guest room has been imagined as a jewellery box and decorated with greens, maroons and turquoises with bespoke lighting and furniture and metallic finishes.
The hotel’s sculptural lobby and spa reception is decorated using a rare green Ming marble to reflect the surrounding green spaces of Hanover Square, Berkeley Square and Green Park.
Back’s eponymous restaurant, which seats 148 covers and features three private dining rooms, will serve some of the chef’s signature dishes, including the ‘AB Tuna Pizza’.
The 14-seat Dosa will serve Korean dishes to guests sat around a counter, while the ABar Lounge will offer drinks and small bites against a backdrop of live music. An Abar Rooftop will open later in 2024.
The subterranean spa offers a 25-metre swimming pool, sauna, gym, personal training, nutritional consultations, and physiotherapy, alongside a wide range of treatments.
Susanne Hatje, former general manager of the Mandarin Oriental New York, is overseeing the Mayfair launch as general manager.
An in-depth look at the launch of the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair will be published on The Caterer this week
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