Why you should experience Nobu Hotel London Portman Square in London, England.
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square is a cosmopolitan luxury hotel where Marylebone's Georgian refinement, international restaurant culture, contemporary design and creative social energy converge around Nobu Matsuhisa's distinctive approach to hospitality.
Set along Portman Square near Upper Berkeley Street and just steps from Home House, the hotel occupies the former site of Montagu House, the great Georgian residence created between 1775 and 1791 for writer and salon hostess Elizabeth Montagu, whose intellectual circle helped establish the Bluestockings as a force in eighteenth-century cultural life. Architect James Stuart designed Montagu House, while neighboring Home House was created for Elizabeth, Countess of Home by Robert Adam between 1773 and 1776 and later housed Samuel Courtauld's collection and the Courtauld Institute of Art. The modern hotel emerged from the former Portman InterContinental and Radisson Blu Portman Square, with David Collins Studio and Make Architects reshaping the property around Japanese minimalism and the international character of Nobu Hospitality. The result is a hotel where Elizabeth Montagu, James Stuart, Robert Adam and Nobu Matsuhisa connect Marylebone's historic culture of salons and patronage with a contemporary institution built around design and gastronomy.
What you should know about Nobu Hotel London Portman Square.
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square is best known for opening on December 3, 2020 as the thirteenth Nobu hotel worldwide and the third collaboration between L+R Hotels and Nobu Hospitality, the hospitality company founded by chef Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro and Meir Teper. The 249-room property replaced the former Radisson Blu Portman Square, previously the Portman InterContinental, with David Collins Studio directing the restaurant, bar, lobby, lounge, terrace, boardrooms and ballroom while Make Architects designed the guestrooms and suites around Japanese minimalism. David Collins Studio commissioned French glass artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert to create the sculptural installation forming a centerpiece of Nobu Bar, while the broader public-space concept continued the studio's relationship with Nobu following its earlier work on Nobu Berkeley Street. The Portman Square restaurant became the successor to Nobu Berkeley Street after that restaurant closed in March 2020 following a 15-year run, transferring one of the brand's principal London dining addresses into the new hotel. Nobu Hotel London Portman Square consequently concentrated Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro, Meir Teper, David Collins Studio, Make Architects and Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert within a single London project conceived around the restaurant culture that had driven Nobu's international expansion.
Executive chef Michael Paul extends that authorship across seven culinary operations, leading a brigade of 90 chefs while overseeing Nobu Restaurant, Nobu Bar and Terrace, The Lounge, banqueting and the hotel's wider catering program, work that earned him Hotel Chef of the Year for properties serving more than 250 covers at the 2023 Hotel Cateys. Head chef Joao Alegria develops Nobu Restaurant's Japanese-Peruvian style alongside Corporate Chef Hervé Courtot, including collaborative Four Hands Omakase dinners that place the restaurant within the wider culinary network established by Nobu Matsuhisa. Matsuhisa's own trajectory began with seven years of sushi training in Tokyo before work in Lima, Argentina and Anchorage led to Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills in 1987 and, following his relationship with Robert De Niro, the first Nobu in New York in 1994. Black Cod Miso, Yellowtail Sashimi with jalapeño and Rock Shrimp Tempura remain signatures of that culinary language at Portman Square, allowing Michael Paul, Joao Alegria, Hervé Courtot and Nobu Matsuhisa to connect the London hotel directly with a restaurant lineage developed across Tokyo, Lima, Los Angeles and New York.
How to fold Nobu Hotel London Portman Square into your trip.
Nobu Hotel London Portman Square works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing aristocratic collecting, Georgian architecture and classical music through Marylebone.
Begin at The Wallace Collection, where works assembled by the first four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace passed to Britain through Lady Wallace's 1897 bequest and now fill 25 galleries at Hertford House with eighteenth-century French painting, furniture, porcelain, Old Masters and one of the world's major arms and armour collections. Continue to Home House, where Robert Adam created an exceptional Georgian townhouse for Elizabeth, Countess of Home between 1773 and 1776 before Samuel Courtauld placed his collection there and the Courtauld Institute of Art occupied the building from 1932, with art historian Anthony Blunt serving as director between 1947 and 1974. Conclude at Wigmore Hall, constructed in 1901 by the Bechstein piano company to designs by Thomas Collcutt, with Gerald Moira painting the cupola above a concert room created specifically to showcase Bechstein instruments before the First World War brought the Wigmore Hall name in 1917. The progression moves from the Hertford-Wallace collecting dynasty through Robert Adam and Samuel Courtauld into Collcutt and Bechstein's musical institution, revealing the dense culture of patronage, design and artistic authorship surrounding Nobu Hotel London Portman Square.
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