Travel is all about discovery — about getting out there and finding the most rewarding experiences in an exciting new corner of the world. At the following hotels, you get a head start. Just a small sample of our hotels in New York City, they are the total hospitality package: one of the world’s great hotels and one of the world’s great restaurants, together in one place.
There was a time when the Ace Hotels were strictly a Pacific Northwest phenomenon, and eyebrows were raised when they began work on a hotel in New York’s once-neglected NoMad neighborhood. But now the Ace Hotel New York feels like the flagship of this often-imitated hip hotel chain. Not only has it put this stretch of Broadway back on the map, it’s also got the kind of multi-purpose public space — co-working space by day, after-work drinking spot in the evening, and a full-fledged nightlife venue featuring DJs or live music as the hours tick by.
Read about the restaurant: Koloman
Much of New York’s SoHo is given over to century-old mid-rise formerly industrial structures, but the Dominick is something different — this mirror-like skyscraper towers over the neighborhood’s west side, offering views of the Hudson River and the city’s rooftops that are unusual for this corner of the city. That might be enough to make its reputation, but in fact the Dominick sets itself apart in other ways, as well. With interiors by the Rockwell Group and furniture by Fendi Casa, it’s a remarkably stylish hotel. And at 391 rooms and suites, it’s substantial enough to be able to support some impressive luxury-hotel services.
Read about the restaurant: Vestry
SoHo, formerly home to the artists’ lofts that were New York’s 20th-century Downtown signature, has, since around the turn of the millennium, gone steadily upscale — and steadily more international. Both trends find expression in 11 Howard, where contemporary Scandinavian design meets a more inclusive, less ostentatious version of luxury hospitality. It’s the first independent hotel project for architect Anda Andrei, after decades as the designer behind Ian Schrager’s path-breaking boutique-hotel projects. Produced in collaboration with Danish designers Space Copenhagen, 11 Howard avoids the sort of wall-to-wall bling that’s sometimes synonymous with New York hotels. And this one puts a bit of money where its egalitarian ideals are, as well — they call it “conscious hospitality,” which in concrete terms means passing on a share of revenue to charities like the Global Poverty Project.
Read about the restaurant: Le Coucou
Named for one of New York’s most iconic thoroughfares, the Fifth Avenue Hotel is more than just one hotel among many in the city’s thriving NoMad neighborhood. Architecturally, it spans more than a century, combining a 1907 Renaissance-style structure by the original Penn Station architects with a modern 24-story glass tower. And inside, the Gilded Age glamour of its public spaces serves as the inspiration for designer Martin Brudnizki’s fantastically colorful and ornate rooms and suites. From the humblest queen room all the way up to the signature suites — one named for Baudelaire — the accommodations are rich with detail and full of high-end comfort.
Read about the restaurant: Café Carmellini
Shoreditch, the East London district that was home to the original Hoxton Hotel, became the hippest neighborhood in town right around the same time Williamsburg became New York’s own capital of cool. So it’s only fitting that the first Hoxton in the United States should set up shop here. The Hoxton, Williamsburg occupies a modern building, but it’s a loving tribute to the neighborhood’s industrial heritage — another attribute Williamsburg shares with Shoreditch.
Read about the restaurant: Laser Wolf
The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue
If the towering structure is any guide — that’s meant rhetorically, by the way, of course it’s a guide — then you could safely expect The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue to be a pretty big deal. And naturally it is. This sixty-story skyscraper joins the Empire State Building on the Midtown skyline, and the architecture, by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, is suitably monumental.
Read about the restaurant: Ai Fiori
Hero image: Gary He / Koloman - Ace Hotel New York
