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Rough Luxe, London

Contributor/ Imran Hussain Best Known For There is not much you would know this hotel for, and perhaps that’s the charm. Rough Luxe standing for rough luxury, provides just 6 guestrooms in King’s Cross, on a quiet off street. Designed in 2008 by Rabih Hague. But this hotel is a lot more than a cool […]

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

On a chance visit to Burger Lobster in Clerkenwell we spotted next door an intriguing and familiar sign. One wouldn’t be blamed for thinking this may have been a slightly more impaired vision, one more closely associated with the small hours of a Saturday night. But, alas, it was a Tuesday night and we hadn’t

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Fire, Firehouse

So two chaps called Nuno and Andre have been cooking up a storm in London in the last month. This is no fairy tale, but it sure seems like one, where legendary hotelier Andre Balazs, responsible for The Standard, Chateau Marmont and The Mercer, along with accomplished maestro Chef Nuno Mendez of Viajantes fame got

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