The Best New Hotel Restaurants in the World

04.06.2024 - 13:01 / cntraveler.com / Charles / Dominique Crenn / Martin Brudnizki / James Beard

While we often celebrate our favorite hotels around the world, we rarely spotlight the spaces within the hotel that make the property shine. Often, these are the areas—the bars, the restaurant, the rooftops and more—that become destinations unto themselves, pulling in a devoted set of locals to help turn a hotel into a place that residents use, too. So, as an extension of our recently released 2024 Hot List of the best new hotels in the world, we are highlighting the best new hotel restaurants, spas, and bars, as picked by our editors. Below, the hotel restaurants that compete with the best places to eat, anywhere—and the dishes you can't miss.

Artistry, whimsy and a distinctly West Coast approach are all on the menu at beloved chef Dominique Crenn’s latest venture at the new La Fantaisie, a jewel-box boutique hotel in the heart of the 9th. The glowing yellow, Scandinavian interiors by Martin Brudnizki feel distinctly un-Parisian which, in a way, is extremely Parisian. The pescatarian menu takes advantage of the region’s best ingredients and techniques for a France-meets-California alchemy that just works.

The dish to order: A dry-aged whole sea bream, served with white asparagus and drizzled in orange beurre blanc.

Seafood takes center stage at Hotel Toranomon Hills' main restaurant, Le Pristine.

A pre-dinner cocktail at Le Pristine

There’s no shortage of chef-driven, acclaimed restaurants at high-end hotels around Tokyo, but this one stands out, thanks to Dutch chef and Michelin darling Sergio Herman. His prix-fixe menu at this minimal space with a beautiful big tiled bar inside Hotel Toranomon Hills, is an East-meets-West approach that makes brilliant use of Japanese ingredients, especially seafood. There are three-, four-, and five-course options available for dinner, or you can order á la carte for one of the better power lunches in Tokyo.

The dish to order: The signature Le Pristine lobster pasta, with handmade orecchiette, clams, squid, and fennel flower.

The Lowland restaurant at The Pinch hotel in Charleston puts an elevated spin on the Southern tavern.

How many ways can Charleston’s food scene continue to reinvent Southern cuisine, you might ask? Turns out—at least one more, as seen at Lowland Tavern, a nouveau Southern spot from James Beard Award-winner chef Jason Stanhope inside The Pinch, a charming boutique hotel right on King Street. There are still those decadent touches that somehow taste better in a place like this (deviled eggs, biscuits slathered in farmer cheese and pepper jelly), but there are some more elegant and international turns to the menu as well, like chicken skewers dusted in Japanese furikake, or a banoffee pie that would make King Charles himself proud.

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