Sunday Brunch in style at Hotel Café Royal

As many of you will know from my Instagram posts, one of my favourite spots in London is Hotel Cafe Royal in Piccadilly and I have featured the hotel and its dining options which are available for non-guests a few times now on the blog, including their incredible afternoon tea experience in the spectacular Oscar Wilde Room. So I was thrilled to learn that they had launched a new Sunday brunch menu at the end of last year.

With the wet and windy weekends we have been experiencing in the UK not to mention the doom and gloom following Brexit, what could be better than to seek refuge in an interior design dream with delicious food and drink and in the company of good friends. Designed by Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni with hues of brown, grey and bronze, Laurent Restaurant is on the first floor of Hotel Café Royal. The main dining room and bar overlooks the elegant sweep of Regent Street, with additional seating around the sensational Murano glass chandelier which takes centre stage in the hotel’s grand lobby.

Executive Chef Laurent Tourondel has brought New York to London with a fantastic brunch menu featuring dishes such as his incredible Truffle Popovers Benedict which are a twist on the classic Eggs Benedict using a truffle hollandaise sauce and lots of cheese. It is supremely rich in flavour, but worth visiting the restaurant just to try this dish as was absolutely exquisite.

Also on the menu, you will find classics such as avocado and salmon as well as country style pancakes. And of course there is the option to choose the bottomless brunch menu with includes one main dish with either unlimited Bloody Marys (£45), or VeuveClicquot (£65). To note the bottomless option is for two hours only, but that is plenty of time to enjoy the live jazz music and escape hectic city life for a few hours of much needed relaxation or catch up with friends.

The hotel describes itself as a ‘London luxury address like no other’, and this in my opinion is no overstatement. For over 150 years, Hotel Café Royal has been the ‘vibrant living room of London, the place to convene, converse and celebrate’ for famous visitors like Oscar Wilde, Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill and David Bowie (indeed several of the spaces in the hotel are now named after these illustrious folks). The new Sunday brunch menu has further enhanced the hotel’s offering, and am even more of an ardent fan of this very special spot in London. I am looking forward to my next visit already!

For more information about the Laurent brunch visit: https://laurentatcaferoyal.com/brunch/

Love

Sangeeta x

(Picture credits (except last image) c/o Hotel Cafe Royal)