Bars & Pubs

  • Library

     
  • Surprisingly, those books are real. But the whole place is otherwise a fabulous illusion: despite its olde worlde appearance, the Lanesborough was a hospital until the '80s, and only opened as a hotel less than 20 years ago. Whereas the bars at other nearby hotels - the Berkeley, say, or the Mandarin Oriental - are dressed to the eights and nines and draw a younger, more boisterous crowd, the Library remains gentle and mellow long into the night, partly thanks to a tinkling pianist and perpetually low lighting. Attentive staff and above-par cocktails help things run along very smoothly.

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  • Lanesborough Hotel, 1 Lanesborough Place, Hyde Park Corner, Belgravia, SW1X 7TA
  • Area: Belgravia
  • Tel: 7259 5599
  • www.lanesborough.com
  • Category: Bars & Pubs
  • Travel: Hyde Park Corner tube
  • Times: Open: 11am-1am Mon-Sat; noon-10.30pm Sun, Food served: noon-midnight Mon-Sat; noon-10.30pm Sun
  • Credit cards: AmEx, DC, MC, V. Hotel
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