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Inside the Thompson Beverly Hills Hotel
The other week we were a little dismayed to find that while we've been inside almost every hotel in Los Angeles, we were lacking a little on the Hotel Video Tours, compared to other cities like New York and Las Vegas.
Then we remembered we had this gem from last November of the Thompson Beverly Hills Hotel.
This is room 817, a king deluxe with a bathroom that looks nearly identical to the hotel's sister property in New York, 60 Thompson. In fact, if you shut the bathroom door you could pretend you were in NYC. Except you have a little bit more wiggle room.
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The Bowery Hotel Loves You Sydney Fife
We're guessing "I Love You Man" actor Jason Segel isn't going to be using the name of Sydney Fife to check into the Bowery Hotel anymore, thanks to this gossip item, but it was fun while it lasted. The NY Daily News reports:
Jason Segel knows how to keep a low profile when he's in our fair city: We hear the funnyman uses the name of his character in "I Love You, Man" when he stays at the Bowery Hotel. "He checks in under Sydney Fife," says a source, who reveals that Segel uses the pseudonym when he has a rendezvous with a prominent upper East Side socialite.
Any idea on the mystery UES socialite? Tip us off. (Please, we pray it's not Tinsley Mortimer.)
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Dinner and Sake at Donovan House is Our Pick for NYE in D.C.
Looking to say goodbye to the craptastic year that was 2009 and still in need of a hotel room somewhere? We've already told you where to book in Miami, New York and the important timezones but we'll be hitting up more cities today for New Year's Eve. Did we miss a city? Want a better deal? Let us know and we'll help you out.
D.C. may be all business most of the year, but boy, can Washington get down with OTT celebrations come New Year’s Eve. This year’s lavish parties include a James Bond License to Thrill NYE Thunderball 2010 gala at the Washington Plaza Hotel (stilt walkers! Sean Connery look-alikes!) and another round of Big Night D.C. at the Gaylord National Hotel.
Maybe it’s just us, but isn’t there something kind of distasteful about such unbridled indulgence in a place that’s meant to remind us that there’s a recession to climb out of and a health plan to work out? No?
Well, however you swing it, our pick for New Year’s Eve in D.C. is more sedate but doesn’t require skimping on the fun. And it involves sake! Zentan, the pan-Asian restaurant inside Donovan House is serving a $65 4-course prix-fixe on Thursday night, with three seatings: 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m. Reservations were still available for all three times when we checked this morning, and we definitely recommend opting for the sake pairing.
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BondSt Sushi at Thompson Beverly Hills Could Be on Way Out
For the bicoastal folks who loved having a West Coast outpost of BondSt Sushi, we have some bad news--BondSt might be out at Thompson Beverly Hills. Instead we think a new restaurant from Thompson Hotels' Do Not Disturb restaurant group will take its place.
Check out this recentpress release:
Thompson Beverly Hills announces they will now solely operate the on site restaurant, second floor lounge and Above Beverly Hills rooftop. Acclaimed Chef Brian Redzikowski will remain, along with his signature dishes and cocktails. New additions to the menu and cuisine style will be announced soon.
The folks at Thompson have told us simply that owners of BondSt Sushi have left the project and that Thompson would now be operating it with the same chef. There's no precise mention that BondSt is out but we gather that once owners leave a project, they take their name with them too.
For now the BondSt Restaurant still lists the Beverly Hills location but we don't expect that to last much longer.
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We Totally Forgot Smyth Hotel Was Opening a Restaurant
But can you blame us? The Smyth Hotel in Tribeca has been open for nearly a year and the hotel's restaurant Jour et Nuit is still not yet open. However, Thompson says it's in the works.
While we ordered food from the bar while kicking it during a Digital Nomad expedition, the full-fledged restaurant from French chef Frederick Lesort will open this Spring.
HD Mag says:
In spring 2010, New York's Smyth Hotel will introduce Jour et Nuit Restaurant and lounge, spearheaded by native Parisian restaurateur Frederick Lesort. The hotel’s owners, Thompson Hotels, hired AvroKO to re-create the vibrancy of the French Riviera for the bi-level restaurant, bar (housed in the Yabu Pushelberg-designed lobby), and underground Cellar Cocktail Lounge.
Meanwhile, in other Thompson Hotel news, their winter offer is giving $159 rooms at Donovan House and $199 rooms at Gild Hall. Also thrown in is a $40 per day food and beverage credits. Mention promo code WINTER to book. The offer is based on availability but doesn't expire until February 28, 2010.
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The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Gets Jazzed About Brunch
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has a long and checkered history that well pre-dates today’s celebrity tantrums and “Super Sweet 16” parties. As a way of hearkening back to that golden-hued heyday, the hotel has started offering a new ”Jazz Brunch” on Sundays from 11:00am-3:00pm.
Since the special brunch starts at $18 per person, it’s actually a pretty good deal, especially for a Thompson Hotel, and especially considering that overnight parking will run you around $30, and the standard rate for a stay at the hotel starts at $225 a night.
If you’re anything like us, you’re naturally dubious about any meal that is accompanied by live music. What is this, the shoe department of Nordstrom’s? But we checked up on it, and here’s the scoop.
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Thompson Hotel Toronto To Open (Like a Lion?) in March
While Thompson Hotels is busying itself with "Thompsonizing" The Hotel Sax in Chicago, they shan't forget about our neighbors to the North.
When we last checked in with Thompson Toronto, it was June and they were hinting at a 2010 opening. Judging from Thompson's past hotel opening delays we figured Summer 2010 would be a kind estimate. But Thompson co-owner Stephen Brandman has told us they are looking at March 2010 and they seem very confident in that date.
Now, the old adage says "March comes in like a lion but goes out like a lamb" yet we say that with the Thompson's penchant for soft-openings, TT will come in like a lamb and go out like a lion in June or so, when the rooftop bar and pool are ready to open.
Meanwhile, the Thompson Hotels website still says "Opening 2009."
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On December 1st, The Hotel Sax Chicago Will Be Thompsonized
Room 1433 at Hotel Sax Chicago.
We received a couple of tips lately that there was something brewing with Thompson Hotels and usually when more than one tip comes in, we know something's up. But today we have confirmation that indeed The Hotel Sax in Chicago, best known for its RockBand studio and where we recently shacked up the other week, is turning into a Thompson Hotel.
The conversion will officially happen on December 1st and while the hotel was recently renovated a few years ago, we fully expect the place to get "Thompsonized."
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Rachel Zoe Switches Her New York Hotel Loyalty
Alright, we'll admit it: we are totally addicted to the Bravo Show The Rachel Zoe Project, which follows top Hollywood stylist Rachel Zoe through runway shows in New York, award show fittings in LA, and everywhere in between. In the first season, Rachel famously occupied the penthouse at the 60 Thompson hotel in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.
When the Thompson LES opened, we knew that it was only a matter of time before Rachel Zoe was calling it "bananas" and making it her new headquarters—as she did in the second season during New York Fashion Week. Her husband Rodger her assistants Taylor and Brad all agreed that the view from the LES' penthouse was very impressive, as was the whole space.
So now you can imagine our surprise to discover that Rachel Zoe has decamped to The Standard.
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Rachel Zoe Thinks Thompson LES Is 'Kind of Awesome'
Rachel Zoe, stylist to celebs like Anne Hathaway and Cameron Diaz and star of Bravo's The Rachel Zoe Project, set up camp at the Thompson LES Hotel in New York for Fashion Week.
But the super-skinny stylista didn't have time to swim in the Andy Warhol-bottomed pool. Team Zoe was too busy averting fashion disasters like nip slips and ugly taffeta trains in the Thompson Loft, the penthouse suite on the 18th and 19th floors of the hotel. "This is kind of awesome," Zoe said as she looked around the duplex. She and her hubby, Rodger, admired the exposed concrete ceilings and columns.
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Digital Nomad Lobbies: Working It Out at Smyth Tribeca
There has been a lot of talk recently about the lifestyle of digital nomads -- folks who work from wherever they might roam. HotelChatter has been covering hotel wifi since the beginning, but as we cited in our 2009 annual hotel wifi report times they are a changin'.
The biggest change on the tech side is the growing popularity of the usb broadband card. As more and more people buy into these cards (and more and more GMs pray to the hotel gods they do) there are a growing number of digital nomads that no longer tap into a hotel WiFi network.
Instead, these nomads are in search of killer hotel lobbies to comfortably work in. That's right, digital nomads have no problem coming in, kicking back on hotel lobby couches and doing an hours worth of work. So once again hotels have a choice -- welcome these folks, pay no mind to them, or actively try to kick them out.
With this in mind, we figured it was time for us to start rating hotel lobbies on their digital nomad quotient. In our latest edition, the The Smyth Tribeca Hotel.
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PC of 'NYC Prep' Throws a Party at the Six Columbus Penthouse
We totally got suckered into the new Bravo TV reality show, NYC Prep. We have no good reason to explain this except that watching rich teenagers do and say stupid things is hilarious when you're 30 years old and you still drink out of a bottle--a wine bottle that is.
Anyways, every epsiode Bravo likes to have the kids do one of two things--something straight out of Gossip Girl plotline or spend a serious amount of money on stuff that average adults could only dream about. In last night's episode, we had both!
Camille, Kelli and a friend toured Harvard while the guyliner-wearing, 18 going on 30, PC threw a small party in the penthouse of the 6 Columbus, a Thompson Hotel on Columbus Circle.
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