#15 in Top 20 London for Business · ★★★★★
The London EDITION
Fitzrovia, lobby-as-workspace, Berners Tavern for tech-and-creative meetings.
Fitzrovia, lobby-as-workspace, Berners Tavern for tech-and-creative meetings.
"Fitzrovia, lobby-as-workspace, Berners Tavern for tech-and-creative meetings."
The London EDITION opened in 2013 in the restored Berners Hotel building on Berners Street in Fitzrovia, Ian Schrager's London flagship in the Marriott-EDITION partnership. One hundred and seventy-three rooms, the Penthouse Suite (the upper-floor corner unit with a private terrace) is the multi-bedroom flagship. The lobby, the Punch Room and Lobby Bar, is among the most cinematic hotel public spaces in central London, run as a social and meeting room rather than a quiet tea lounge. Berners Tavern (the in-house restaurant under chef Jason Atherton) is the business-dinner room and the meeting venue of choice for tech-and-creative-industries clients in the Fitzrovia-and-Soho cluster. The Punch Room is the after-meeting cocktail space. The London EDITION is the right pick for the London business trip in the tech-and-media-and-advertising cluster, Fitzrovia is the base for advertising agencies (BBH, Mother), the publishing-houses (Penguin Random House, Bonnier), and the broadcast-cluster (the BBC's Westminster annexe). The hotel is also a fifteen-minute walk to Soho's tech-and-startup cluster.
Penthouse Suite (upper-floor terrace flagship) or a Loft Suite (entry-level Schrager-design suite).
Berners Tavern 7.30pm is the business dinner; the corner banquette under the high ceiling is the editor's table. The Punch Room at 6.30pm is the after-meeting space, the corner two-top is reservation-only. Use the lobby Wi-Fi to catch up between meetings.
The London EDITION sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in London for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.6/10 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 Fitzrovia and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
Once your dates are fixed, aim to reserve the room about three months out. Suites with the prime view angle sell through first; for peak months, availability is measured in months rather than weeks. Suites with a private plunge pool or terrace, the very rooms behind this rank, usually vanish first.
Off peak pricing, suite upgrades, and subscriber only offers, flagged only when the value is real.