#16 in Top 20 London for Business · ★★★★★
The Ned
Bank, members'-club access for hosting clients, eight restaurants under one roof.
Bank, members'-club access for hosting clients, eight restaurants under one roof.
"Bank, members'-club access for hosting clients, eight restaurants under one roof."
The Ned opened in 2017 in the restored Midland Bank building on Poultry, the 1924 Edwin Lutyens-designed banking hall that served as Midland Bank's head office. The hotel is the Soho House group's largest London property and the only major London hotel that pairs a 250-room hotel with a private members' club (Ned's Club) on the upper floors. Eight restaurants and bars sit under one roof: Cecconi's, Café Sou, Millie's Lounge, Malibu Kitchen, Lutyens Grill, the Nickel Bar, the Vault, and the Rooftop. For the Soho House-membership cluster of senior creative and finance executives it functions as a weekday base, an unofficial City club in all but name. Its primary asset for visiting business travellers is that hotel guests get access to Ned's Club, so the rooftop pool, the spa, and the lounges open up. The Ned is the right pick for a London business trip with City clients, where the members'-club setting does the hosting for you, and for the multi-day stay where eight restaurants give you client-meeting variety without leaving the building. One honest caveat: this is a buzzy, see-and-be-heard banking hall, not a quiet retreat, so a traveller who wants a calm, low-key base will find it loud.
Heritage Suite (a Lutyens-original room) for the splurge, or a Premier Room for the standard business tier.
Use the Ned's Club rooftop pool, included with the room, for morning recovery before City meetings. The Vault, the original bank-vault cocktail bar in the basement, is the after-meeting space; book the corner safe-deposit-box table.
The Ned sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in London for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.5/10 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 City of London, Bank and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
Have firm dates? Our editor's advice is to book roughly twelve weeks in advance. The Heritage and banking-hall-view rooms are claimed first, and availability in busy City weeks runs out months ahead. The larger suites and the categories with the best access to Ned's Club tend to sell out before anything else.
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