Why you should experience The Lowndes London in London, England.
The Lowndes London is a discreet hotel where Belgravia's residential composure, nineteenth-century garden-square planning, tailored elegance and deeply private character converge at the northern edge of Lowndes Square.
Set at 21 Lowndes Street near the meeting point of Belgravia and Knightsbridge, the hotel occupies a 1965 building inserted into a district whose physical character was established more than a century earlier through Thomas Cubitt's development of the Lowndes Estate. Lowndes Square emerged between the 1830s and 1840s, with Cubitt constructing its east and north sides while his brother Lewis participated in development to the south, creating the stuccoed residential environment that continues to define the hotel's immediate setting. The square itself took its name from the Lowndes family, whose estate incorporated land once divided by the Westbourne before the river was covered in 1842, and mature plane trees now reinforce the unusually sheltered character of its long central garden. The result is a hotel where Cubitt's nineteenth-century Belgravia and the intimate scale of a 1960s hotel building meet within one of London's most carefully composed residential quarters.
What you should know about The Lowndes London.
The Lowndes London is best known for operating since 1966 from a building completed in 1965, entering Jumeirah's London portfolio in 2001 and undergoing an £8.5 million reconstruction in 2006 that elevated the property from four-star status into Jumeirah's five-star collection. The ten-month project added an entirely new sixth floor containing four one-bedroom suites and five junior suites, bringing the reopened hotel to 87 rooms including 14 suites while creating balconies overlooking Belgravia for two of the Executive Suites. British practice Hunt Hamilton Zuch directed the new interiors around cream marble and an autumnal palette, while the lobby acquired Art Deco influences, oak elements and rust-toned limestone flooring as part of the November 2006 reopening. General Manager Jane Renton oversaw the repositioning, and the reconstructed hotel debuted with the 62-seat Mimosa Bar & Restaurant under Head Chef Martin Gäbler, whose Mediterranean menu and Grand Mimosa Champagne cocktail formed part of the renewed hospitality identity.
Head Chef Joshua Conte has opened another culinary chapter inside The Lowndes London through AVI Bistrot - Américain, the French-American restaurant introduced at 21 Lowndes Street in 2026 after a career that began with The Rifles and continued through The Boathouse in Henley, Heston Blumenthal's The Crown at Bray, Adam Handling, Chiltern Firehouse and The Dorchester. Conte builds the menu around classical French technique, Tuscan and Mediterranean influences and American comfort cooking, with house-made pasta, seafood, grilled meats and selected dishes finished with AVI's own Oscietra caviar establishing the restaurant's transatlantic vocabulary. The Tsar cocktail carries that caviar motif into the bar through Belvedere Vodka, Oscietra caviar, pickled onions and olive, while the restaurant's redesigned interior draws from the visual language of Parisian bistros through banquettes, rattan seating, mirrors and a cream-and-red palette. Together, Joshua Conte, AVI Bistrot - Américain, Oscietra caviar and the restaurant's French-America character continue a culinary lineage that began with Martin Gäbler's Mimosa in 2006 while giving The Lowndes London a distinctly contemporary expression nearly two decades later.
How to fold The Lowndes London into your trip.
The Lowndes London works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing military architecture, contemporary collecting and centuries of botanical experimentation through Belgravia and Chelsea.
Begin at Wellington Arch, commissioned as part of George IV's grand reconfiguration of the western approaches to Buckingham Palace and designed by Decimus Burton in the 1820s, before its relocation during the 1880s and later crowning by Adrian Jones's immense bronze quadriga in 1912. Continue to Saatchi Gallery, whose institutional history began in 1985 around exhibitions drawn from Charles Saatchi's collection and developed a reputation for introducing emerging artists before moving into the Duke of York's Headquarters on King's Road and becoming a registered charity in 2019. Conclude at Chelsea Physic Garden, where the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries leased four acres beside the Thames from Charles Cheyne on October 9, 1673, established an international seed-exchange program by 1682 and received Sir Hans Sloane's enduring £5-per-year covenant in 1722 before Philip Miller directed the garden for half a century. The progression moves from Burton's ceremonial London through the collecting culture associated with Saatchi into more than 350 years of medicinal botany, revealing the military, artistic and scientific histories extending outward from The Lowndes London.
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