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Edinburgh: Is The Staff At The First Missoni Hotel Wearing T-Shirts?

JetSetCD — 2009-08-12T15:47:07-05:00

Although the first Missoni Hotel has been open now in Edinburgh, Scotland for over two months, not many pictures or reviews have come out of it. We want to see every striped nook and polka-dotted cranny of that place, and especially what the staff is wearing.

Luckily Flickr yields a few tantalizing pictures, like this one of the dizzyingly patterned crockery in the Missoni Cucina. Still, this is a fashion hotel and its bartenders and room attendants and waiters have got to be wearing the chicest hotel duds this side of the Versace Resorts, right?

Edinburgh: Missoni Hotel Gets Even More Scottish With New Restaurant

JetSetCD — 2009-07-28T12:41:11-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/MissoniResta.jpg" class="top"> It's been almost two months since the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Missoni+Edinburgh/local/1514">Missoni Hotel Edinburgh</a> debuted to the public as the first Missoni Hotel in the world, and it looks like we've still got another two months to go before it grand-opens with another restaurant. Although there is already the Missoni Bar and Missoni Cucina, it's been announced that Roy Brett, chef-director of the Dakota Hotel Group, will get his own restaurant on the street-level of the hotel. It's to be called Ondine after a mythical sea nymph, and will focus on seafood. Brett himself describes the restaurant's concept: "Set against the backdrop of Edinburghs historic old town, Ondine will bring together my passion for fish, shellfish and local produce, which

Manchester: Is Missoni Adding Manchester To Their List of Upcoming Hotels?

JetSetCD — 2009-06-15T14:56:09-05:00

We're now two weeks into the opening of the first of the Missoni Hotels in Edinburgh, Scotland, and already more news of future destinations have swamped us with surprise.

There's big plans in the works for this new fashion line of hotels; the Missoni Kuwait Hotel comes in early fall, followed by more hotels in South Africa and Oman, of all places. The latter will be a beachfront resort even!

Oman, Not Italy, Will Get a New Missoni Hotel

juliana — 2009-06-12T11:20:03-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/missonistatis.jpg" class="top"> It looks like the opening of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Missoni+Edinburgh/local/1514">Missoni Hotel Edinburgh</a> was a success because the fashion hotel collection has announced yet another new locations for its hotels: Oman. Earlier this week, Missoni said it would open in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/6/9/8643/37527/hotels/Hotel_Missoni_Goes_For_South_Africa_Next">South Africa</a> next and now that news been quickly followed up with a 250-room beachfront resort in Oman, The Hotel Missoni Jebel Sifah.<blockquote>Hotel Missoni Jebel Sifah will be part of a luxury resort community located between the blue waters of the Arabian Gulf and Oman's breath-taking mountains, approximately 18 miles from the capital, Muscat. Hotel Missoni Jebel Sifah's 250 guestrooms will be complimented by 50 apartments and villas, as well as a private beach, two restaurants, an 11,000-square-foot

Edinburgh: Hotel Missoni Opens Today, But Why In Edinburgh?

JetSetCD — 2009-06-08T13:17:08-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/MissoniCucina.jpg" class="top"> Finally, we get another picture (the restaurant) from the interior of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Missoni+Edinburgh/local/1514">Hotel Missoni</a> which opened today in Edinburgh, Scotland. You'd think that during their recent visit to the property, the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jun/07/fashion-houses-hotels-missoni-edinburgh">Guardian UK</a> would have taken a few more shots, but instead they focused their energies on asking Missoni matriarch Rosita her reasons for choosing Edinburgh for the first hotel of her brand. Her response, after citing comfort over pretentiousness, is even-handed: <blockquote>I admit that in the rain, Scotland can seem cold and dark and terrible, but in the sun you see its true beauty. I first came here 30 years ago for the festival, and went walking, out through the highlands, and I remember