HotelChatter

First up, when they say “adjacent” they actually mean “on top of” – it’s part of the building that sits over Liverpool Street station, This means that it’s massively handy for transport – loads of buses to take you in all directions, and the Central Line which will get you to Oxford Circus in, yep, about seven minutes flat.

Being at the station also means there are lots of places to eat, and even more to drink. Unfortunately, they’re mainly of the fast food variety and the pubs (of which there are many) are of the rolled up sleeves, post work boozer variety, rather than somewhere you’d go for a whole night out. Although they do have funny names, like Dirty Dick's.

But although the actual block isn’t that inspired, just around the block is where the Andaz really comes into its own. Just across the road and round the corner from the hotel is The Bath House, a new underground bar carved out of a seriously gorgeous old Turkish bathhouse in a churchyard opposite the station. A minute’s walk east of Liverpool Street is the highly trendy T Bar, which relocated here from Shoreditch a couple of months ago.

Go slightly further afield, and the trendy, partying world is your oyster. One block off Bishopsgate (the main street which runs along the side of the hotel) is Spitalfields – a gorgeous, glassed-over old market, where over the 350 years it’s been going, the butchers and greengrocers have given way to trendy shops and craft stalls for the day trippers, and bars and restaurants at night time.

One block further on from Spitalfields you’ve got Brick Lane, as famous for its curries as its trendies who stalk the bars. And the even more infamous Shoreditch High Street is five minutes walk up Bishopsgate from the hotel. Anywhere around there is ace for nightlife – whether it’s a scuzzy dive or somewhere as gloriously over the top as the hilariously chi-chi Lounge Lover bar.

Of course, you could just stay in the hotel – it’s big enough. Within its walls is a pub, oyster bar, brasserie bit (which does great fixed price dinners) and posh restaurant 1901. There’s even a Masonic Temple in the basement which opens up for special events.

This week, for example, on Thursday to Saturday they’re setting up a temporary restaurant in there courtesy of Bistrotheque, a hip restaurant and cabaret in Bethnal Green. The Supersonic Masonique Supper Club Menu costs £67.50 per head but gets you six courses plus wine and cocktails. If you want to pop along, call +44 208 983 7900.