The arrival of July tourists for Wimbledon, Pride and the Proms can only mean one thing: hotel dining is back with a bang for summer. Next month will see hotel restaurant openings from chefs Yannick Alléno from France, Shinji Kanesaka from Japan and our very-own Tom Sellers, each trailing a comet’s tail of Michelin stars to dazzle diners with their culinary brilliance.
Still, there will always be those restaurant-goers for whom crossing a hotel lobby is a line in the sand, unless, of course one is actually on holiday and surrounded by sand. Look, then, to Richard Corrigan’s new restaurant on top of the splendidly re-imagined National Portrait Gallery, or the return to the West End of Tomos Parry, whose new Soho restaurant Mountain will evoke the holiday vibe of the hills and coastlines of Wales and Spain.
