City of London hotel’s soft opening

The 5-star Montcalm Hotel, just by the Barbican concert hall in heart of the City of London, opens for business today (Monday 23 May).  In what is termed a “soft” launch 100 rooms are available.  The “Grand Opening” when the balance of the 235 rooms will be complete is likely to be in September.

In the meantime all the luxurious amenities expected of a top quality hotel are available, including a butler service for the suites and studios, the executive Club Lounge, meeting and banqueting rooms and The Chiswell Street Dining Rooms.

Formerly the site of Whitbread & Co, Britain’s first purpose-built mass production brewery, the original building dates back from as early at 1750 when Samuel Whitbread moved his brewing operations to Chiswell Street on the ‘eastern rim of Georgian London’.  The last beer brewed there was in 1976, when the site was then turned into Whitbread plc’s head office and a conference and banqueting centre, The Brewery. www.themontcalmlondoncity.co.uk

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