Nightclub owner and restaurateur Mark Fuller has unveiled details of the £10m boutique hotel he will open in Soho next week.
Sanctum Soho - the newest member of the Design Hotels portfolio - is
a 30-bedroom luxury hotel which also houses a 45-seat cinema, roof-top
garden, open-air hydro spa and restaurant.
Set within two Victorian townhouses, the building's interior has been completely re-designed by Lesley Purcell of Can Do in a way to reflect Fuller's background in the music and entertainment industry.
The hotel's 60-cover restaurant (pictured above), named No.20, will also be open to the public for breakfast, weekend brunch, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.
Head chef Gavin Austin, former head chef of The Pink Geranium in Cambridgeshire and consultant for Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool, and Searcys St. Pancras Grand, will serve British food with an emphasis on seasonality and provenance.
Highlights of his menu include starters such as crab and sweet corn chowder with brown crab toast; and salt cod cake with baby gem, tomato and chilli jam. Mains will feature dishes such as lamb cutlets with tarragon sauce; lemon sole with spinach and nut butter and desserts will range from treacle tart and clotted cream; to orange and grapefruit jelly with Champagne sorbet.
Fuller said: “Sanctum Soho is the culmination of two years planning and an investment of just under £10 million. We are thrilled to be opening in such a vibrant part of London, and believe Sanctum Soho will be an enticing and unique offering, both in regards of the hotel and the restaurant, No.20. Having worked closely with Gavin, menus feature those guilty pleasures we all crave and some innovative treats that I know will have tongues wagging.”
Sanctum Soho Hotel will open on March 21. Design Hotels is a global hospitality company that provides services such as strategic marketing, branding and sales representation to more than 175 member hotels in 40 countries.