#3 in Top 20 London for Business · ★★★★★
Claridge's
Mayfair, fashion-week and deal-week share the lobby, the British power-breakfast headquarters.
Mayfair, fashion-week and deal-week share the lobby, the British power-breakfast headquarters.
"Mayfair, fashion-week and deal-week share the lobby, the British power-breakfast headquarters."
Claridge's has occupied the corner of Brook Street and Davies Street in the centre of Mayfair since 1898. The hotel is owned by the Maybourne Hotel Group (the Reuben brothers) and is the most-decorated London hotel of the post-war period, the British royal family has used Claridge's as the unofficial state-residence for foreign monarchs and presidents since the Second World War. Two hundred and three rooms and suites, the Royal Suite at 4,000 square feet is the largest hotel suite in London. The Foyer & Reading Room (the lobby afternoon-tea space) is the most-recognisable hotel room in London and the business-breakfast venue for a generation of Mayfair lawyers and private bankers. Claridge's Restaurant, which opened in 2023 in the space that previously housed Daniel Humm's Davies and Brook, serves modern British cuisine and is the hotel's principal business-dinner room. The Claridge's Bar and the Fumoir (the smaller cocktail room) are the after-meeting spaces. Claridge's is the right pick for the London business trip with the highest-stakes Mayfair client, the senior law-firm partner, the Royal-family-office representative, the M&A close, where the address is the deal.
The Royal Suite (4,000 sqft flagship) or a Linley Suite (David Linley-designed, the design-led upper tier).
Book the Foyer for a 7.30am breakfast meeting; the table near the staircase is the editor's table. Claridge's Restaurant at 7pm is the business dinner; book six weeks ahead. The Fumoir is the discreet after-meeting room; the corner banquette is reservation-only and books out a week ahead.
Claridge's sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in London for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on business-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same London neighbourhood, see Mayfair, Brook Street and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. Suites with the prime view angle sell through first; for peak months, availability is measured in months rather than weeks. Top-category rooms with private pools or terraces, the reason this hotel ranks here, are routinely the first gone.
A ranked shortlist, a special offer worth booking, and the overpriced stay to skip. Straight from the editors.