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What's Sprouting On The Roof At Westin NY Grand Central?
If your first thought is 'Mojito!' when you see this picture, then you're on the right track.
Since last summer, the Westin New York Grand Central has quietly been working on a modest but respectable rooftop veggie garden way up on the hotel's 41st floor. Located smack in the middle of midtown (the Chrysler Building is so close you can touch it), it seems like an unlikely place to be growing…well, anything. But urban farming is trendy these days, and a hotel's gotta go what a hotel's gotta do, right?
383 feet above Manhattan, ten dirt-filled tubs with arugula, mesclun lettuce, rosemary, heirloom tomatoes, and "mojito mint" are being overseen by the hotel's Executive Chef, Brian Wieler (pictured), who tends to his green leafy sprout-lings like a proud dad. And not one to cut corners, Chef Wieler has also ensured the garden is 100% organic, with only organic plants, soil and fertilizer being used. And now, as spring gets going, he is starting to harvest some of the mini-crops.
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The Courtyard Is Now Open At The Greenwich Hotel (And The Spa's Calling Our Name Too)
Well, the Tribeca Film Festival has come and gone, but that doesn't mean the fun's over in Tribeca for the rest of the year. Hardly! We've got our eye on the Greenwich Hotel—and now that summer is on the way, we're ready to pay a visit to the hotel's guests-only Courtyard.
Situated next to the Drawing Room, the Courtyard (pictured) expands on the Greenwich's whole retired-archaeologist-living-in-the-English-countryside vibe, with quaint stone benches, hanging lanterns, and ivy creeping up the brick walls. A Front Desk agent we spoke to called the space "quite stunning."
Of course, guests are the only ones who can actually access the Courtyard. But wait! Didn't we just hear about a new space inside the hotel that's become available to non-guests? Why, yes, as a matter of fact...
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SLS South Beach's Secret Weapon: The Front Terrace
Much of the hype around the SLS South Beach has been over the food truck or the Kravitz Design Inc-ified bungalow by the pool. But there's one other aspect of the new hotel that sbe founder Sam Nazarian is pretty excited about--the front terrace.
Here's what Nazarian told us about the space that is still shaping up along Collins Avenue:
Hotels by definition need to be additions to the community—a place where people congregate, have meetings, people celebrate special occasions, a place where business is done. Like at SLS Beverly Hills, or at The Redbury in Hollywood, that’s what we’ve been planning for SLS Miami Beach – it’s a place where people can come.
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Did You Know You Can Picnic at The Berkeley's Secret Rooftop Garden?
The Berkeley is drawing people to its gym, and not for its treadmills. The Knightsbridge hotel transformed its gym and spa's terrace into a lush British countryside, complete with birch trees and lavender, in the middle of the city.
And instead of burning calories on the elliptical, you can order from a picnic menu, which includes blanket-friendly fare like iced tea and strawberries and cream, while you pop a squat on the secret rooftop garden.
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Blood & Bitters is Pretty Sweet at the PuLi Hotel’s New Garden Terrace in Shanghai
Recently, we spent a few days in Shanghai at the behest of the PuLi Hotel in the western Jing’An business and park district. As the muggy heat in the city became unbearable we thought we’d just enjoy a quick refreshing cocktail at the hotel’s Long Bar, but instead, we decided to check out their newly opened Garden Terrace.
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The Palmer House Hilton Does Something Different With Its Rooftop Space
While hotels have opened their rooftops for alcohol-fueled summer fun, the Palmer House Hilton is choosing to offer chili peppers, heirloom tomatoes and basil instead of beer and cocktails on its 25th floor. The Chicago hotel recently unveiled its new 2,000-square-foot garden rooftop.
The hotel decided to plant some veggies and herbs to be used in its restaurants, Lockwood and Potter's Lounge, for a garden-to-table culinary experience. Plus, Lockwood will feature a daily "Chef's Garden" menu item for breakfast that will feature ingredients grown on the rooftop.
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Embassy Suites Chicago Has a New Living Wall
The Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Lakefront wanted to wear its eco-consciousness like a flashy Lady Gaga getup, so it decided to put up a 720-square-foot indoor living green wall—the largest in Chicago—right in its lobby.
Okay, it may not be as much of a spectacle or as carnivorous as Gaga's meat dress, but the giant standalone wall is made of 3,840 plants, including the hardy neon, rabbit foot fern, aboricola and rex begonia.
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The Montage Laguna Beach Starts a Garden for Its Restaurant and Spa
People most likely come to the Montage Laguna Beach for its sweet on-the-water locale. But they may start heading there for Studio restaurant's new garden-to-table dishes or herb-filled spa treatments, made of veggies and spices that the Orange County hotel grows on its own.
Outside of the eatery sits the new 1,000-square-foot Studio Garden. Its five raised garden beds are full of lettuce, tomatoes, beans, strawberries, blackberries, lavender, sage, chamomile, rosemary, Fuji apple trees and fingerling potatoes among other goodies.
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The Mint Hotel Tower Of London Gets Minty Fresh with Their Living Wall
It's only been open for three months but the Mint Hotel Tower of London is keeping things fresh with the addition of one of those cool, eco living walls. And not just any living wall the "the tallest live green wall on a building in Europe".
The wall was unveiled last month and contains 40 species of plants which make up the whooping 184,000 plants that cover 1,025 square meters of the hotels exterior. We wonder what the Athenaeum Hotel will have to say about it as up until now they were the only London hotel to have a living wall. And let's face it the Mint's living wall dwarfs their one which has only 12,000 plants.
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The Empire (Line) State Of Mind Of The Hotel Del Coronado
Admiring the herb garden from the trashcan. Posh!
Posh, we often think, is a state of mind, not just a clear cut economic thing, and our recent visit to the Hotel Del Coronado made us think that, while the trendy hotels of the Gaslamp District may be giving her a run for her money, the grand dame could still teach them a thing or two about detail.
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The Parker Palm Springs Wants Your Truthful Feedback, As Long As It's Good
The Parker Palm Springs, it would seem, is as Marmitey as the W London: you either love it or you hate it. Except, in the case of the Parker, it’s not the guests making those snap judgments: it’s demanded by the hotel.
A few days after we had our largely wonderful, but marred by things like paper-thin walls and snobby staff, stay at the Parker, we had a particularly perky tell-us-how-your-stay-was email. It read:
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Ski Clothes Optional At The Dukes London's Outdoor Bar This Winter
It might be freezing in London right now but the DUKES LONDON (yep, all caps now) won’t let the cold stop its guests having a good time. The hotel has decided to keep its new Cognac and Cigar Garden open for the Winter. That’s right cognac cocktails and cigars outside, just make sure you bring your snowsuits!
The garden opens at 8pm and closes at midnight and don't fret about actually bringing ski clothes with you. The hotel assures us the outdoor bar is heated. But to be on the safe side, bring your thickest mittens just in case.
