This May, Hotel Café Royal, London’s first modern grand hotel, will launch a brand new restaurant with internationally renowned chef Laurent Tourondel. The new restaurant marks a return to London for the French-born chef, and the first time he has opened a venue in Europe. With restaurants across the globe, Tourondel is best known in America where he has restaurants in New York, Miami and Charlotte in North Carolina. Further afield, Tourondel owns restaurants in Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and the Caribbean.

Tourondel cut his teeth training in France before moving to London, where he spent time in the kitchen at Boodles. A truly international chef, he has spent years working in cities such as Moscow and New York, and travelling through South America, Asia and Africa to hone his craft. The new opening follows previous residencies at Hotel Café Royal by world-class chefs including Albert Adria, the Roca brothers, Paco Roncero and others. With The Set hotels simultaneously launching this new restaurant in London and opening the iconic Lutetia hotel in Paris, the group continues to restore iconic buildings and create environments authentic to their locations. Furthering the group’s culinary credentials, Taiko by Schilo at the Conservatorium continues to be one of Amsterdam’s most admired and popular restaurants and three Michelin starred chef Gérald Passédat has been chosen to helm Lutetia’s famed Brasserie, opening later in the year.