Hotel Openings

🍳 Award-winning Chef Regi Mathew, with 30 years of experience and two restaurants in India, opened his first U.S. restaurant, Chatti, in New York City on Feb. 12, south of Times Square. Inspired by Kerala's toddy shops, Mathew researched for over three years, visiting 70 toddy shops and 265 homes in Kerala. Chatti seats 80 guests, plus 70 in a mezzanine party room, and features a 10-seat private dining area. The menu offers seafood, vegetarian and non-vegetarian curries, fermented palm wine-inspired cocktails, and desserts like spicy bird’s eye chile ice cream.

🍴 Restaurateurs John Resnick and chef Eric Bost to open Lilo on April 17 in Carlsbad, Calif., a 22-seat restaurant featuring global coastal dishes, housed in a former boogie board factory. Lilo joins their other establishments: Campfire, Jeune et Jolie, Sister Spot, and Wildland. It offers a 12-course tasting menu starting at $265, created with chefs Dusan Todic and Madeline Biehl. The menu includes canapés and dry-aged dishes, curated by wine director Savannah Riedler and beverage director Andrew Cordero. Design by Bells + Whistles, Lilo is located at 2571 Roosevelt St., open Tuesday to Saturday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. PDT.

🎶 Under the Counter, a listening bar in Soho, launches Friday, 18th April with a soft launch featuring £5 cocktails on 18th & 19th April from 5-12pm. Executive Chef Kemal Demirasal and Bar Manager Joao Silva bring bold Turkish flavours and high-quality music, with a 30-cover bar and a menu of spice-themed cocktails and shareable small plates. The venue sports a Michell Gyrodec turntable, Klipsch speakers, and will host DJs like Tall Nico and myanalogjournal, operating Thursdays through Saturdays.

🍽 Hill Top Hospitality operates three restaurants in Salt Lake City-Park City, Utah, with a fourth recently opened and a fifth coming. Hearth and Hill, their first restaurant opened in Park City in 2018, and has been on Salt Lake City Weekly’s “Best Restaurant in Park City” list for two years. The eclectic menu features items ranging from $8-$42. A second Hearth and Hill launched in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood at The Residences at Sugar Alley. Hill’s Kitchen, a breakfast-and-brunch concept, also plans a Salt Lake City outpost in April with items from $9-$21. Urban Hill, a fine-dining restaurant in Salt Lake City, opened in late 2022, offering dishes from $15-$67. The new Hearth and Hill has 190 indoor and 60 outdoor seats, an open kitchen, and is led by GM Lucy Clark and Chef de Cuisine Josh Bernabe.

🏡 Armani Hotel Milano has joined Preferred Hotels & Resorts' Legend Collection, which comprises over 100 independent luxury hotels globally. Located on Manzoni Street 31 in Milan's fashion district, the hotel is a partnership between Giorgio Armani S.p.A. and Emaar Properties. Featuring 95 rooms and suites, the hotel offers amenities such as the Armani/Ristorante on the seventh floor, the Armani/SPA with six treatment rooms, a couple’s suite, steam and sauna rooms, a pool, and a fitness center with personal trainers. Roberta Possenti, VP of Europe for Preferred Hotels & Resorts, emphasized the hotel’s alignment with the collection's luxury and service standards.

🏖 Valor Hospitality Partners, in partnership with Links Collection, opens two new luxury UK hotels: Seaton House in Scotland near the Old Course at St Andrews and Dunluce Lodge in Northern Ireland overlooking Royal Portrush Golf Club's fourth fairway. Seaton House features 42 guest rooms, including six suites, and three junior suites with dining options by Chef Patron Roy Brett. Dunluce Lodge offers 35 luxury suites and world-class dining. Both properties aim to provide unique experiences reflective of their scenic golf landscapes and local culture.

🍸 Luxury hotels like Four Seasons and The Ritz-Carlton feature top cocktail bars. The Punch Room, first introduced at the London Edition in 2013, opened its Tampa, Florida location in October 2022. The Tampa Edition's Punch Room offers a new menu themed "Americas: Part 1," spanning from southern Mexico to Canada, with "Americas: Part 2" set to launch next year. Drinks incorporate traditional recipes and native ingredients, some taking days to prepare, with offerings like mole and cheese-washed tequila. Available by the glass for $22 or punch bowls for $100, the menu is presented in an illustratively detailed book. The Edition plans to expand to 30 properties by 2027, with recent openings in Tokyo, Singapore, and Riviera Maya.

🎂 Lough Erne Resort offers a Mother’s Day retreat on March 30th at 3pm, featuring a two-hour wax melt and candle workshop. The Scented Serenity Retreat package includes an overnight stay, a glass of prosecco, charcuterie board, and access to the resort's Thai Spa infinity pool. Guests can decorate a soy candle and name their unique scent. Tickets are £60.00, with day tickets available. The Resort is set in the Fermanagh Lakelands, surrounded by 600 acres of countryside.

🏕 Six Senses Comporta, under IHG Hotels & Resorts, will feature a 70-key hotel and 58 branded residences in the 400-hectare Pinheirinho estate near Lisbon. The area, once private, is designed to blend with nature, with architecture inspired by pine forests, sand dunes, and lakes. The resort will include 66 deluxe rooms, suites, three garden villas, a presidential villa, paths inspired by sacred geometry, and amenities focused on sustainability, wellness, and community. Culinary experiences will emphasize local, seasonal ingredients, and the spa will integrate into the landscape. Six Senses Comporta is set to open in 2028, joining IHG's Luxury & Lifestyle portfolio with nearly 100 open hotels in Europe and 24 properties in Portugal.

🍴 Reach Hospitality is set to open Evelyn, a Hollywood-inspired steakhouse, on Wednesday in Dallas' design district. The 9,500-square-foot venue, designed by ICrave, will feature The Piano Room and The Ruby Room, each with 75 to 100 seats, plus Room Seven lounge. Evelyn offers a beverage program with classic cocktails and martinis priced from $17-$22. The concept aims to provide a luxury space for dining, dancing, and a full night out. The steakhouse will be closed on Mondays.