#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 operated as the head office of HSBC for sixty years. The hotel is the Soho House group's largest London property and is the only major London hotel that combines a 250-room hotel product with a private members' club (Ned's Club) on the upper floors. Eight restaurants and bars under one roof — Cecconi's, Café Sou, Millie's Lounge, Malibu Kitchen, Lutyens Grill, the Nickel Bar, the Vault, and the Rooftop. The hotel is the working-day base for the Soho House-membership cluster of senior creative and finance executives, and the property has effectively become the unofficial extension of the City of London private clubs (the Athenaeum, the City Club, the Bank of England Club). The hotel's primary asset for visiting business travellers is the day-membership of Ned's Club for hotel guests — the rooftop pool, the spa, and the working spaces all become accessible. The Ned is the right pick for the London business trip with City clients where the private-club positioning is the working asset, and for the multi-day stay where the eight restaurants offer client-meeting variety without leaving the building.
Heritage Suite (Lutyens-original room) or Premier Room for the working tier.
Use the Ned's Club rooftop pool — included in the hotel-stay membership, the working asset 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.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.