Opposite Harrods and Harvey Nichols in London is a top hotel. The Mandarin Oriental is a five star hotel.
If you are not staying there you still have at least three choices - the main attraction is the Dinner by Heston Blumenthal restaurant.
At the restaurant entrance is a self-contained bar where you can order drinks. One table is buy a window onto the hallway. The rest are secluded if you like to be away from the street and public gaze, good for a rainy day.
Behind the bar is a display of bright coloured bottles. (But if you want a window on the outside world this room is not for you.) Newspapers provided but such dim light it's hard to read small print on the handy guide to local theatres which I picked up in the hallway. With your drinks you get a small bowl of very tasty nuts, some coated.
The main restaurant is on the hotel's apparent ground floor (actually the hotel entrance is up a flight of steps, so at the back you are overlooking the street level below. The confusingly named restaurant is called Dinner. There you have a choice of interior seats or picture windows overlooking the park. Contrast to the bar, all light and bright with white walls.
Your third choice is the basement Boulud, very pleasant, ideal if you are not staying in the hotel and don't want to feel like you're a second class citizen gatecrashing the affluent hotel guests.
In addition there's the new tea room.
If you've arrived early you can go across to one of the department stores.
Light and bright, lunch at Dinner Restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental hotel, opposite Harrods. £38 for three course set meal, two choices for each course. But here's an optional extra.
If you are not staying there you still have at least three choices - the main attraction is the Dinner by Heston Blumenthal restaurant.
At the restaurant entrance is a self-contained bar where you can order drinks. One table is buy a window onto the hallway. The rest are secluded if you like to be away from the street and public gaze, good for a rainy day.
Behind the bar is a display of bright coloured bottles. (But if you want a window on the outside world this room is not for you.) Newspapers provided but such dim light it's hard to read small print on the handy guide to local theatres which I picked up in the hallway. With your drinks you get a small bowl of very tasty nuts, some coated.
The main restaurant is on the hotel's apparent ground floor (actually the hotel entrance is up a flight of steps, so at the back you are overlooking the street level below. The confusingly named restaurant is called Dinner. There you have a choice of interior seats or picture windows overlooking the park. Contrast to the bar, all light and bright with white walls.
Your third choice is the basement Boulud, very pleasant, ideal if you are not staying in the hotel and don't want to feel like you're a second class citizen gatecrashing the affluent hotel guests.
In addition there's the new tea room.
If you've arrived early you can go across to one of the department stores.
Light and bright, lunch at Dinner Restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental hotel, opposite Harrods. £38 for three course set meal, two choices for each course. But here's an optional extra.
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