Food & Dining
The Return of the Grand Hotel Bar
After years of speakeasy pastiche, the world's best drinking is happening where it started: in the bars of the great hotels. A tour of the rooms leading the revival.
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Hotel Restaurants Worth Planning a Trip Around
The hotel dining room has shed its captive-audience reputation. These are the restaurants that justify routing an entire journey through their cities — and what changed.
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Sugar Architecture: The Quiet Supremacy of the Hotel Pastry Kitchen
From the Sachertorte to the modern Paris palace, pâtisserie has become the discipline where great hotels declare their standards. Inside the rise of the hotel pastry programme.
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Room at the Table: How the Hotel Restaurant Became the Destination
Once an amenity for tired arrivals, the hotel dining room now anchors entire trips. Inside the quiet revolution that made hotels the new capitals of fine dining.
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Lunch on the Water's Edge: Poolside Dining Done Properly
Between the lounger and the white tablecloth lies hospitality's trickiest service. What separates the great poolside and beach-club kitchens from the overpriced afterthoughts.
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The Trolley Returns: Inside the Room-Service Renaissance
Written off a decade ago as a loss-making relic, room service has been reborn as one of the sharpest expressions of hotel craft. How dinner behind your own closed door became desirable again.
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Trust the Counter: Omakase and the Hotel Sushi Renaissance
The most intimate format in world gastronomy has found a natural home inside the grand hotel. How the omakase counter migrated from Tokyo's basements to the world's finest houses.
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Eating the Landscape: The Golden Age of the Wine-Country Hotel Table
In the world's great wine regions, hotel restaurants have become the truest expression of terroir — kitchens fed by the estate outside the window and cellars no city house can rival.
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Dinner at Altitude: The Ascent of Hotel Rooftop Dining
The hotel roof has been promoted from service space to signature restaurant. What separates the great rooftop tables from the merely elevated — and where the form is heading.
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The Third Meal: Afternoon Tea's Unlikely Modern Revival
A Victorian ritual has become one of hospitality's most vital afternoon economies. How the great hotels rebuilt afternoon tea for a generation that was supposed to have no time for it.
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Inside the Pass: The Rise of the Hotel Chef's Table
The most coveted seat in the modern grand hotel is no longer in the dining room but inside the kitchen itself. How the chef's table became luxury dining's most intimate ritual.
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The First Meal of the Day Is Now the Measure of the House
Once a buffet to be endured, hotel breakfast has become the sternest test of a property's kitchen, sourcing and soul. Why the morning table now decides where discerning travellers stay.
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