Hotel Openings

🍷 Fables & Company, known for Plume in Covent Garden and Finch in Brixton, is opening its third venue, Quill, in Borough Yards this November. Founder Andrew Gray aims to make wine bars more approachable with a focus on storytelling. Quill occupies a 2000 square foot space, hosting 75 covers, and features an English garden and an eccentric wine cellar interior. Culinary Innovator Rob Wade, previously of Chez Bruce, Soho House Group, and La Truffiere in Paris, has crafted a menu highlighting British cuisine. The bar's design, by Sophie Bickness of Studio Bare, combines the historic with the contemporary. Activities such as 'Secret Notes', 'Tarot Readings', and traditional games nights will continue. Quill is part of a surge of new openings in Borough Market, joining established venues like Cahoots and Angry Crab Shack. Fables & Company formerly operated as Grays and Feather for 14 years before the new launch.

🏖 SLS Hotels & Residences debuts in Europe with SLS Barcelona this autumn, offering 471 rooms and suites, six dining concepts, three pools, a spa, and an 800 m² ballroom. Located at Port Fòrum, Barcelona, it's within walking distance to local beaches and Parc del Fòrum. Guests can enjoy a 50% discount through Dis-loyalty membership for stays from 16 December 2024 to 28 April 2025. The grand opening is set for early next year.

🏕 Eden, a luxury boutique hotel, opened in the High Atlas Mountains above Dades Valley, Morocco, earlier this year. The hotel features 18 luxurious rooms designed by local artisans, a garden oasis by French architect Guillaume Berthier, a fine dining experience with seasonal produce from their kitchen garden, a hammam spa offering traditional Moroccan treatments, and excursions into the High Atlas Mountains. The Sabiri brothers, with over 30 years of hospitality experience, manage the hotel, emphasizing Moroccan hospitality and culture.

🏨 IHG Hotels & Resorts surpassed 200 open hotels in Northern Europe as of 24 September 2024, introducing brands in Germany, Hungary, Sweden, and Poland. Germany anticipates the debut of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants and Garner in late 2024, and Candlewood Suites in early 2025. Hungary opened its first Kimpton and Vignette Collection hotels, and Sweden welcomed voco Stockholm. Poland plans to open Holiday Inn Express Lublin by end of 2024 and voco Katowice in 2025. In total, IHG has 197 operating properties and 169 in development across 13 Northern Europe countries.

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🍴 Limor and Amir Chen to open Delamina Townhouse, a 110-cover Eastern Mediterranean restaurant, on 28 October in Covent Garden’s Tavistock Street, London. The Chens, also founders of the Apostrophe bakery chain, launched Delamina in 2018. The new venue will feature a health-conscious menu with grilling, roasting, and Eastern Mediterranean spices, alongside classic and new dishes. Set in a Georgian townhouse, the restaurant offers a dining bar, fireplaces, private dining, and a terrace.

🌮 Javier Vera-Abbassi's brand opens a 14-seater dining area in London's department store on 23 September. Centered around 100-year-old family recipes, Conchita's offers burritos, tacos, salads to eat in or take away. Menu highlights include tinga tacos, cochinita pibil, portobello options, and burritos like jackfruit and beef birria. Salads feature ingredients like cactus and watermelon. Desserts include churros and tres leches cake. A forthcoming breakfast menu will add burritos and Mexican sweet bread.

🌮 Jason Dady, a chef with over 20 years in San Antonio's dining scene, is set to open Mexico Ceaty, an Eataly-like immersive dining, shopping, and entertainment venue, early 2025 in the Shops at Rivercenter, San Antonio River Walk. The project, in partnership with Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, will overhaul a 21,000-square-foot space. Mexico Ceaty will feature a variety of new bar and restaurant concepts, including Tres Arcos, Dos Cantinas, El Ultimo, and Dulce Aroma, along with food stands and a marketplace named Mercado. The venue aims to capture part of the Rivercenter's 12 million annual visitors.

🍴 Jason Atherton and Spencer Metzger's "Row on 5" set to open around 6 November on London's Savile Row, offering a 15-course meal at £195, with two extra courses as an option. Shanghai Me, a 1930s Shanghai-inspired restaurant, will replace Galvin at Windows on the London Hilton's 28th floor. AngloThai by John and Desiree Chantarasak, a 50-cover Thai-British cuisine venue, is coming to Marylebone’s Seymour Place. Brad Carter's "Undercroft" will feature British classics in the crypt of Mayfair's St George's Church. Boxpark unveils Boxhall locations in London and Bristol, with London's featuring 16 kitchens and Bristol's 7, both opening before year-end. Chris Denney's "Fantomas" in Chelsea promises a Modern European menu with Asian influence. Santiago Lastra’s "Fonda" will offer Mexican cuisine on Mayfair's Heddon Street. Jöro by Luke French and Stacey Sherwood-French relocates to Sheffield's Oughtibridge Paper Mill development in November. Mary-Ellen McTague's "Pip", part of Manchester's Treehouse hotel, focuses on low-waste cooking. Big Mamma Group's "La Bellezza" to open a 150-cover trattoria in Birmingham's former Vinoteca site before the year's end.

🍽 Simon Shand, former head chef at Michelin-starred Shoreditch restaurant Leroy, is leading Topa, a new 22-cover restaurant in London's Holloway Road, focusing on San Sebastian cuisine. Topa operates Thursday to Saturday in the Provisions kitchen, offering pintxos and Basque plates. Dishes include wild mushrooms with egg yolk, beans with tomatoes and garlic, and hake with orzo. Provisions Wine & Cheese, founded in 2015 by Hugo Esquerré, features over 100 cheeses and 120 wines, and collaborates with Shand for Topa, aiming to recreate the communal San Sebastian dining experience.