You may have thought it impossible, but Mayfair is about to get even posher thanks to a new project by swanky restaurant The Wolseley. That’s right, darling, the celeb dining spot is turning a former bank and office building (yawn) into its first ever London hotel (ooh la la).
The WestDill Mayfair Hotel will occupy the Grade II listed building on the corner of Piccadilly and Albemarle Street designed back in the 1920s by architect and lawyer Sir William Curtis Green, whose work also included The Dorchester and the building which houses the flagship Wolseley restaurant, located just across the road. A two minute walk from Green Park tube station, the building was formerly the NatWest bank and offices.
If anyone can turn a financial building into six-floors of glamorous suites and 50 guest rooms, it’s The Wolseley. Its Piccadilly original opened in 2003 in what was once a 1920s marble car showroom. Its second site, The Wolseley City, which launched two decades later, was once the Monument branch of House of Fraser.
The five-star hotel’s doors will swing wide before the close of the year, when it’ll also debut a restaurant and bar. Details on the food and drinks set to be on offer haven’t been announced yet, but we’ll be keeping an eye on any developments, particularly when it comes to what’s in store for the bank vault…
Bobby Hiranandani, co-chair of Royal Group of Companies, which owns The Wolseley as well as other restaurants including The Delaunay, Colbert and Zedel, said the new hotel will contribute to ‘the continued renaissance of Mayfair and the wider West End’. Fair enough, time to don a mink coat and we’ll meet you down there.
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