Concentrated in London (40), Hampshire (2), Ascot (1), Ayrshire (1), Berkshire (1), Edinburgh (1).
ENTRIES115
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Zaha Hadid
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Norman Foster
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CONTROL20 of these entries have a recorded holder
Who owns and operates them, from the Capital section.
Kingdom Holding / Katara · joint owner · owner
Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri · owner from 2020 · owner
Brunei Investment Agency / Dorchester Collection · via Dorchester Collection · owner
DIAFA · stake, Oct 2025 (via Azumi) · investor
Azumi Ltd · owner · operator
Arjun Waney · co-founder · founder
Mohari Hospitality · owner from 2025, via the reestablished Hakkasan Group · investor
Alan Yau · founder, 2001 · founder
Arjun Waney · backer, via the Waney group · founder
Mandarin Oriental · landlord; tenancy ends January 2027 · landlord
The Hut Group (THG) · owner from 2017 · owner
Susan Harmsworth · founder · founder
Soho House & Co · owner from 2005 · owner
DIAFA · majority, Apr 2026 · investor
Caprice Holdings · owner · operator
Carole Bamford / Daylesford · founder · founder
Lanserhof / Christian Harisch · 50% joint venture · owner
The Arts Club · 50% joint venture · partner
DIAFA · majority, Apr 2026 · investor
DIAFA · majority, Apr 2026 · investor
Caprice Holdings · owner · operator
Maybourne · owner · owner
DIAFA · majority, April 2026 — £1.4bn Caring sale · investor
Arjun Waney · backer · founder
Robin Birley · founder and owner · owner
Artfarm / Wirth family · owner from 2022 · owner
Mourad Mazouz · founder and owner · founder
CHRONOLOGY133 dated events
Cliveden is built for the Duke of Buckingham; it becomes a hotel in 1985
William Fortnum and Hugh Mason open a grocery in St James's Market
Fortnum & Mason claims the invention of the Scotch egg
Borough Market moves to its present site off Borough High Street ⚑ trade on the site is documented from the twelfth century
Thomas Rule opens Rules as an oyster bar — five owners in the 228 years since
Augustus Smith takes the lease of the Isles of Scilly and begins rebuilding Tresco
James Brown, valet to Lord Byron, opens Brown's in Mayfair
Scott's opens as an oyster warehouse in Coventry Street
The Arts Club founded on Dover Street by Dickens, Trollope and Lord Leighton
The Langham opens as the largest and most modern hotel in London
Glenapp Castle is built in Ayrshire; it opens as a hotel in 2000
The Midland Grand opens at St Pancras, by George Gilbert Scott
Fortnum's becomes the first shop in Britain to stock Heinz baked beans
The Savoy opens under Richard D'Oyly Carte — Britain's first luxury hotel: electric light throughout, electric lifts, private bathrooms
César Ritz arrives at the Savoy in August and brings Auguste Escoffier (LHL-P-005 Auguste Escoffier) with him
The American Bar opens at the Savoy — the oldest surviving cocktail bar in Britain
Ritz opens Le Grand-Hôtel in Rome on 11 January — the first hotel in the world with a private bathroom in every room
César Ritz opens Le Grand-Hôtel in Rome on 11 January — reportedly the first hotel with a private bathroom in every room
Ritz and Escoffier form the Ritz Hotel Development Company while still employed by the Savoy
Both are dismissed from the Savoy over missing wine and spirits
Ritz and Escoffier buy the Hôtel de Gramont and Hôtel Crozat on the Place Vendôme
The Berkeley opens at Piccadilly; it moves to Knightsbridge in 1972
Claridge's is rebuilt by the D'Oyly Carte company and reopens
The Ritz Paris opens on the Place Vendôme
Ritz and Escoffier take the Carlton, London
The Balmoral opens at Edinburgh Waverley as the North British Station Hotel
Harrods opens its food halls, tiled by W. J. Neatby
Escoffier publishes Le Guide Culinaire, codifying cuisine classique and the kitchen brigade
Ada Coleman becomes head bartender of the American Bar, holding the post until 1926
The Ritz London opens on 24 May by Mewès and Davis — a steel frame and a private bathroom in every room
César Ritz registers the Ritz name as a brand in Paris and London
Harry Gordon Selfridge opens on Oxford Street and puts cosmetics on the ground floor
Otto Goring opens the Goring; it remains the only London grand hotel still family-owned
Albert Keller forms the Ritz-Carlton Investing Company, franchising the name in the United States
The Coburg is renamed the Connaught during the First World War
The Cambon bar opens at the Ritz Paris; women are made to wait outside in the Dog House
Gleneagles opens in Perthshire, built by the Caledonian Railway
Burgh Island Hotel opens off the Devon coast, built by Archibald Nettlefold — art deco on a tidal island reached by sea tractor
Harry Craddock compiles The Savoy Cocktail Book
The Dorchester opens on Park Lane, one of the first hotels built of reinforced concrete
Burgh Island is extended; its restaurant still carries the Nettlefold name
The Ritz manager's American wife stages a sit-in and the Cambon bar admits women
Pan Am forms Intercontinental Hotels to serve its own routes across Latin America
Gravetye Manor opens as a hotel in William Robinson's Elizabethan house and garden
Mark Birley opens Annabel's at 44 Berkeley Square on 4 June
Sofitel opens its first hotel at Strasbourg
Chewton Glen opens in the New Forest
Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson open the first Novotel at Lille
Michael Chow opens Mr Chow in Knightsbridge on 14 February — Beijing food, Italian waiters, no chopsticks
Lord and Lady Macdonald open Kinloch Lodge on Skye
James Sherwood buys Hotel Cipriani — the origin of Belmond
Charles Ritz dies; his widow Monique takes the Ritz Paris
James Sherwood buys the Hotel Cipriani for £900,000 — the origin of Belmond
Anouska Hempel opens Blakes in South Kensington — the first designer hotel
Richard Branson buys Necker Island; Virgin Limited Edition grows from it
The Ritz family sells the Ritz Paris to Mohamed Al-Fayed and his brothers
Richard Branson buys Necker Island for £180,000 at twenty-eight
Cecconi's opens in Mayfair
British Pullman begins running restored Pullman carriages from London
James Sherwood returns the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express to service after five years of restoration
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express returns to service after James Sherwood's five-year restoration
Kit and Tim Kemp open their first Firmdale hotel in London
The Royal Scotsman begins running through the Highlands
Sue Harmsworth founds ESPA
The Groucho Club opens at 45 Dean Street on 5 May
Keith Haring paints Mr Chow as Green Prawn in a Bowl of Noodles
Orient-Express Hotels buys the Mount Nelson
Small Luxury Hotels of the World is formed in Britain to market independent houses collectively
Golden Eagle Luxury Trains begins operating the Trans-Siberian route
The Lanesborough opens in the former St George's Hospital on Hyde Park Corner
Susan Harmsworth founds ESPA
The Eastern & Oriental Express makes its inaugural Bangkok–Singapore journey
Robin Hutson opens the first Hotel du Vin at Winchester
Colin Peter Field becomes head bartender at the Ritz Paris
The Barclay brothers buy the Ritz London
Nick Jones opens Soho House above a Greek Street restaurant, for people in the creative industries
Rocco Forte founds RF Hotels after Granada takes the Forte Group
Olga Polizzi becomes director of design for Rocco Forte Hotels
Rocco Forte founds RF Hotels after the Granada takeover of Forte Group
Le Meurice joins what becomes the Dorchester Collection
Alan Yau opens Hakkasan at Hanway Place in April
Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney open Zuma in Knightsbridge
Sketch opens on Conduit Street in December
The Hiram Bingham begins running from Cusco to Machu Picchu
Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding buys the Savoy; Fairmont takes management
Soho House takes over Cecconi's
Carole Bamford opens the first Bamford Haybarn at Daylesford
Branson acquires Moskito Island beside Necker
Mark Birley sells the Birley clubs to Richard Caring in June; dies two months later
The Connaught Bar opens, designed by David Collins
Coworth Park opens in Ascot under the Dorchester Collection
The Savoy reopens on 10 October after a £220m rebuild — the costliest hotel renovation on record
Greg Marsh founds onefinestay in London to let private homes with hotel service
Thomas Kochs becomes general manager of Claridge's
Dinner by Heston opens at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
Novikov opens in Mayfair — the first outside Russia
Robin Birley opens 5 Hertford Street in June
Coya opens in London
Orient-Express Hotels renames itself Belmond
Iconic Luxury Hotels is formed around Cliveden, Chewton Glen and the Lygon Arms
Paddy McKillen's Maybourne passes to Qatari ownership after a long dispute
The Set is formed from the Café Royal, the Conservatorium and the Mark
Virgin opens its first hotel in Chicago
Sexy Fish opens on Berkeley Square, 19 October
Beaverbrook opens in Lord Beaverbrook's Surrey house
Spa Chanel au Ritz opens — the world's first and only
The Belmond Andean Explorer begins service — the first sleeper train in South America
The Ned opens in Lutyens's Midland Bank building, a Soho House and Sydell partnership
The American Bar is named World's Best Bar in the 50 Best, at 124 years old
THG buys ESPA for a reported £100m
Heckfield Place opens in a Georgian house in Hampshire after a decade of restoration
Sharan Pasricha's Ennismore takes The Hoxton and Gleneagles into one group
The Newt opens in Somerset, built around a working cider farm and garden
Kin House opens in Wiltshire, let whole
Aethos opens its first house in Italy
LVMH completes the acquisition of Belmond on 17 April
Sketch's Lecture Room takes three stars — Mazouz the first African restaurateur to hold three
The Ritz London closes for the first time since 1906, then sells to Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri in March
The Connaught Bar named World's Best Bar; again in 2021
IHG launches Vignette Collection for independent hotels
Tao Group acquires Hakkasan
Estelle Manor opens at Eynsham Hall in Oxfordshire
Biologique Recherche replaces Chanel at the Ritz Club
Artfarm buys the Groucho Club for £40m in August
Lanserhof at The Arts Club opens in Mayfair
Raffles London opens in the Old War Office on Whitehall
The Wolseley Hospitality Group announces its move into hotels
DIAFA takes a strategic stake in Azumi in October
Hakkasan's original Hanway Place closes permanently in February
Mohari separates Hakkasan Group out again in September
Novikov reopens the address as Brasserie Kuznetsky Most, with Kaifuso in the old club basement
DIAFA acquires the Caring group for £1.4bn in April — Ivy, Caprice, Birley
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal closes at the end of January, at sixteen years
Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.