Mirror Room

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Rosewood London Hotel Review, Holborn, London | Travel

Rosewood's London outpost is an elegant retreat offering luxurious and stylish interiors with playful touches, a serene spa, solid dining options and a very popular cocktail bar, Scarfes.

Extra-mile touches in some rooms include complimentary soft drinks and snacks in minibars.

The London Foodie: London Restaurant Reviews - The Mirror Room

Words Photography by Felicity Spector and Luiz Hara Where: Rosewood Hotel, 252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN Cost: Small plates priced from £9 to £16, main courses from £13 to £21, while some dishes to share ranged from £19 to £75 for a rib of beef.

Prior to dinner, we had a couple of cocktails in the Scarfes Bar, a cosier and more intimate room with beautifully judged lighting, a blazing fire, antique books, and very comfortable come courtesy of the caricaturist Gerald Scarfe.

From the book lined comfort of the Scarfes Bar, we were led into a stunning corridor, shimmering in a sort of bronze light, then through to the vast expanse of the Mirror Room.

What we drank: There was a good range of cocktails created by the in-house barmen in the Scarfes Bar - served with special daily changing ice-cube shape (which I’ve never heard of before) in those expensively heavy and gorgeous Ralph Lauren glasses.

With the Dover sole main came a glass of 2009 Lucien Le Moin white Burgundy at £18, fresh and citrusy with hints of butter and spice, chosen to match the beer batter on the fish.

Mirror Room, Berners Tavern, London

And, because many restaurants that open for Saturday lunch tend to stay open all afternoon and then into the evening, service can often be at its most relaxed and attentive.

These include the Mirror Room at the lavishly renovated Rosewood Hotel, close to the exquisite Sir John Soane Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and Berners Tavern in the Berners Street Hotel, a brisk walk from the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square and temptingly close to Oxford Street.

Another feature the two restaurants share is an excellent range of wines by the glass (so that the Saturday siesta does not last too long) compiled by enthusiastic sommeliers: Patrick Frawley at the Mirror Room and Biarritz-born Jonathan Fillion at Berners Tavern.

A potato and parsley soup served with Dorset snails and a toasted sandwich filled with black pudding was particularly successful, as was the pappardelle with a Scottish game ragu.

“We never expected to be so busy on Saturday lunch but we had 145 booked today,” said Matthew Mawtus, Berners’ general manager, with great Room Rosewood London, 252 High Holborn, London WC1, 020 7781 8888; Tavern 10 Berners Street, London W1, 020 7908 7979; columns at www.ft.com/lander

The Rosewood Hotel, London: Afternoon Tea Review - olive magazine

Rosewood, London’s high-end heritage hotel, introduced its art afternoon tea in February 2017 to reflect the importance of art to the hotel.

The champagne afternoon tea begins with smooth original white R de Ruinart and R de Ruinart rosé (dark in colour due to its high pinot noir grape content).

A little square tart with smooth, rich white chocolate filling was encased in crumbly pastry and topped with citrusy yuzu curd and cassis jelly blobs; reminiscent of Damien Hirst’s pharmaceutical-style art.

We found the cherry notes in the chocolatey caramel take on an Alexander Calder sculpture a little overpowering but loved the play on Yayoi Kusama’s bright yellow, spotted pumpkins- a crisp dark chocolate sable biscuit base held a zingy passion fruit crème and crunchy chocolate feuillantine mix.

Mark Perkins’ art afternoon tea combines traditional British flavours with bold representations of iconic figures in the art world.

Luxury Hotel in London | Rosewood London | Rosewood Hotels

Guests arrive at Rosewood London through an archway that opens into a grand Edwardian courtyard, in a little oasis of tranquility unique among luxury hotels in London.

It is the perfect start to a memorable stay in a timeless heritage hotel, set just steps from Covent Garden.

Rosewood London, High Holborn - review | London Evening Standard

The first London outpost of the American-based, Hong Kong-owned, “ultra-luxury” group Rosewood Hotels and Resorts has been created in a magnificent 1914 Belle Epoque building on High Holborn, originally the HQ of Pearl Assurance and more recently the Chancery Court Hotel.

It has the feel of a Harvard clubhouse, in a good way, and serves a mean Vesper martini, as well as curries and casseroles, (further along the frontage is the separate entrance to the Grand Manor House Wing, which claims, at 6,318 sq ft, to be the largest suite in London and the only one in the world to have its own postcode.

Reception runs along one side of the courtyard, between the bar at the front and the Mirror Room restaurant, and acts as a central nexus for 11 function rooms including a 360-seat ballroom and an event lab where the hotel’s director of romance (yes, really) can help you plan weddings, birthdays, etc.

Daytime butler Tom fixed us a soft drink on arrival and brought breakfast of crisp bacon and scrambled eggs with gruyère, cooked to our request that morning and accompanied by our own toaster to our room before our departure.

The Rosewood London, 252 High Holborn, WC1, has doubles from £370 room only, suites from £1,200, rosewoodhotels.com/London

Rosewood London Hotel Review, Holborn, London | Travel

Rosewood's London outpost is an elegant retreat offering luxurious and stylish interiors with playful touches, a serene spa, solid dining options and a very popular cocktail bar, Scarfes.

Extra-mile touches in some rooms include complimentary soft drinks and snacks in minibars.

Mirror Room | Restaurants in Holborn, London

A grand all-day dining room with what looks like a very high-spec finish, Mirror Room is located inside the Rosewood London – a five-star hotel on High Holborn.

Dishes on the all-day dining menu include steak-frites, smoked duck tagliatelle and pan-seared Cornish cod with baby vegetables, coriander, ginger and lemongrass alongside seared tuna salads, club sandwiches, smoked salmon tartine and a green risotto with watercress coulis, broccolini, peas, asparagus, fresh herbs and parmesan.

The drinks list includes a wide range of white, green and black teas, as well as Champagne cocktails and wines by the glass – including prestige bottles served from the Coravin.