Hotel Café Royal

London, United Kingdom. Located on Regent Street, where Mayfair, St James’s and Soho meet.

Hotel Café RoyalLondon, United Kingdom

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159 rooms and historic suites, up to the three-bedroom Dome Penthouse.
Alex Dilling’s French fine-dining restaurant, Albert Adrià’s Cakes & Bubbles, and afternoon tea in the Grill Room.
Akasha spa with an 18-metre pool and gym, a Grade II-listed ballroom and a private members’ club.
Located on Regent Street, where Mayfair, St James’s and Soho meet.

8 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

1863
Fleeing bankruptcy, French wine merchant Daniel Nicholas Thévenon arrives in Britain with his wife Célestine and five pounds; he becomes Daniel Nicols.
1865
Nicols founds the Café Royal, whose wine cellar is once considered the greatest in the world.
1890s
The café becomes the place to be seen, frequented by Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm and later Virginia Woolf and Winston Churchill.
24 March 1895
Frank Harris urges Oscar Wilde here to drop his libel action against the Marquess of Queensberry; Wilde refuses, with ruinous consequences.
1951
The Café Royal becomes the home of the National Sporting Club.
1972
The establishment is bought by David Locke.
December 2008
The Café Royal closes; the Crown Estate grants a 125-year lease to the Alrov Group, owner of The Set Collection, in a £90 million deal.
October 2012
After a £200 million restoration by David Chipperfield Architects with Donald Insall Associates, the building reopens as a 159-room hotel.