Overnights for book lovers, Bond nerds, royal obsessives, and more. In The Big Hotel Report, we’re checking in on the world of luxe retreats now.
We’re calling it: London is one of the world’s most exciting luxury-hotel cities right now. Recent arrivals include outposts from hospitality stalwarts such as The Peninsula and Mandarin Oriental, long-anticipated new build The Emory, and the historically rich Raffles London at The OWO, with more to come – 50-plus hotels have opened or will debut in 2024.
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Out and about in France’s second-largest city. More than 2,600 years ago, Phocaean sailor Protis traversed the Mediterranean in search of land on which to build a new city. As legend has it, his arrival at Lacydon cove coincided with a party where a local Celto-Ligurian girl, Gyptis, was choosing her husband. She picked the handsome foreign explorer, and their nuptials laid the foundation for Massalia.
How Kentaro Suzuki supplies the city’s fine dining restaurants with fresh ingredients. The crates are full of fresh produce: everything from sprouts, leeks, and daikon to tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and okra. Kentaro Suzuki packs each one himself every week, sourcing the goods from regional farmers in Nantan, a rural agricultural community about an hour’s drive northwest of Kyoto.
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