In which London hotel was the Peach Melba invented in 1892?
"opening, a long-running feud between the hotel and Lord Wimbourne, a steel magnate who lived next door at Wimbourne House, lasted for years in a dispute over land. A number of locals were also concerned about the building and the impact it would have on their health. While the Ritz was still under construction, a series of events highlighted the need for another luxury hotel in London. A 3June 1905 ""Daily Mail"" news story reported it was both Derby Week and the height of the tourist season, making hotel accommodation almost impossible to find. The Savoy had to refuse reservations,"
"In 1893, he invented the ""pêche Melba"" in honour of the Australian singer Nellie Melba, and in 1897, Melba toast. Other Escoffier creations were ""bombe Néro"" (a flaming ice), ""fraises à la Sarah Bernhardt"" (strawberries with pineapple and Curaçao sorbet), ""baisers de Vierge"" (meringue with vanilla cream and crystallised white rose and violet petals) and ""suprêmes de volailles Jeannette"" (jellied chicken breasts with foie gras). Another signature dish is the Omelette Arnold Bennett. Under Ritz and Escoffier, evening dress was required in the restaurant, and Ritz was innovative in hiring popular musicians to play background music during dinner and in"
"Gregor von Görög, chef to the royal family, was an enthusiast of Escoffier's zealous organization. Aristocratic women, hitherto unaccustomed to dining in public, were now ""seen in full regalia in the Savoy dining and supper rooms"". Escoffier created many famous dishes at the Savoy. In 1893, he invented the ""pêche Melba"" in honour of the Australian singer Nellie Melba, and in 1897, Melba toast. Other Escoffier creations, famous in their time, were the ""bombe Néro"" (a flaming ice), ""fraises à la Sarah Bernhardt"" (strawberries with pineapple and Curaçao sorbet), ""baisers de Vierge"" (meringue with vanilla cream and crystallized white rose"
"in 1881 to provide water cures and hydrotherapy remedies (pain-relief and treating illness) to guests. It was one of many such hotels built in Britain during the second half of the 19th century. It was near to two railway stations: Peebles West railway station of the Caledonian Railway, later London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and Peebles East of the North British Railway, later London and North Eastern Railway. It began building in 1878. Work was completed early in 1881 at a cost of over £70,000. The architect was John Starforth (1828-1898), a pupil of David Bryce. The Hydro burnt down"
"Hotel Chelsea The Hotel Chelsea – also called the Chelsea Hotel, or simply the Chelsea – is a historic New York City hotel and landmark built between 1883 and 1885, known primarily for the notability of its residents over the years. The 250-unit hotel is located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan. The building has been a designated New York City landmark since 1966, and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977. It has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists and actors. Though the Chelsea no"
"The Berkeley The Berkeley is a five star deluxe hotel, located in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, London. It is managed by Maybourne Hotel Group, who also manage Claridge's and The Connaught in Mayfair, London. Located on the corner of Piccadilly and Berkeley Street, it was the base for the drivers of mail coaches travelling to the West Country, and hence named the Gloucester coffee house. As a result, it started to expand, and became a hotel for travellers both to and from London who were travelling on the mail coach services. With the coming of the railways, in 1897 the building"
"Melba toast Melba toast is a dry, crisp and thinly sliced toast, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pâté. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell. Its name is thought to date from 1897, when the singer was very ill and it became a staple of her diet. The toast was created for her by chef and fan Auguste Escoffier, who also created the Peach Melba dessert for her. The hotel proprietor César Ritz supposedly named it in a conversation with Escoffier. Melba"
"work at the hotel as a waitress. The Esplanade Hotel was the home of wealthy philanthropist and National Gallery of Victoria benefactor Alfred Felton from 1892 until his death in 1904. The hotel also hosted many famous visitors, including Mark Twain in the 1880s, and actress Sarah Bernhardt in 1920. Esplanade Hotel (Melbourne) Hotel Esplanade is a five level seaside pub located on St Kilda’s Esplanade. It features two restaurants, The Espy Kitchen and Mya Tiger, three live music stages including the iconic Gershwin Room, a whopping twelve bars, and is a significant landmark of St Kilda. It is commonly"
"guest room. The hydropathic therapies were not a success so Mark Foy changed the marketing of the hotel. From 1906 it was advertised as a luxury hotel for the rich and fashionable providing fine food and entertainment. It was patronised by many famous people. Dame Nellie Melba sang at the hotel a number of times as did English Opera singer Dame Clara Butt and Nellie Stewart. Australia's first Prime Minister Sir Edmund Barton actually died in the hotel in 1920. Other famous patrons were Sherlock Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Rajah of Pudukkutai with his Australian-born wife,"
"The Cavendish Hotel The Cavendish Hotel is a modern 4-star, 230-bedroom, luxury hotel in Central London, United Kingdom facing the restaurant front of Fortnum and Mason on Piccadilly, it is in St James's. Across Piccadilly is Mayfair. It is currently known as ""The Cavendish London"" and it is owned by Capitaland. Its main entrance is on Jermyn Street and similar side entrance is on Duke Street, St James's. Jermyn Street is an established retail and urban leisure street which has bespoke gentlemen's clothing stores, shoe/bootmakers and barber shops. The hotel gained notoriety during the 1902-1952 management of the self-made ""hotelier"","
"founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. Originally not much more than a dining club, it produced anthologies of poetry in 1892 and 1894. They met at the Cheshire Cheese and in the 'Domino Room' of the Café Royal. According to the Betty Crocker cookbook, both Dickens and Ben Jonson dined on Welsh rarebit at this pub, although Jonson died almost a century before the dish is first known to have been recorded. Soviet writer Boris Pilnyak visited the pub during his stay in London in 1923. He later wrote a story entitled ""Staryi syr,"" (""old cheese"""
"as a result, a tourist destination. In 1892, a group of local investors, in partnership with the Wagons-Lits company, opened Hotel Pera Palace in Beyoglu district, which was designed by the famous Levantine architect of Istanbul, Alexander Vallaury. Also in 1892, The Grand Hotel de Londres was opened by two local partners, L. Adamopoulos and N. Aperghis, in the place of the former residence of the Glavany family in Beyoğlu. Shortly afterwards, a series of hotels, including Bristol Hotel (1893) and ""Hotel M. Tokatlıyan"" (1897), were opened in the same district. While the new hotels were being opened in Beyoğlu"
"Rosa Lewis and her husband's story. The Cavendish Hotel The Cavendish Hotel is a modern 4-star, 230-bedroom, luxury hotel in Central London, United Kingdom facing the restaurant front of Fortnum and Mason on Piccadilly, it is in St James's. Across Piccadilly is Mayfair. It is currently known as ""The Cavendish London"" and it is owned by Capitaland. Its main entrance is on Jermyn Street and similar side entrance is on Duke Street, St James's. Jermyn Street is an established retail and urban leisure street which has bespoke gentlemen's clothing stores, shoe/bootmakers and barber shops. The hotel gained notoriety during the"
"Benedick"" in 1894. In an interview recorded in the ""Talk of the Town"" column of ""The New Yorker"" in 1942, the year before his death, Lemuel Benedict, a retired Wall Street stock broker, said that he had wandered into the Waldorf Hotel in 1894 and, hoping to find a cure for his morning hangover, ordered ""buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon, and a hooker of hollandaise"". Oscar Tschirky, the ""maître d'hôtel"", was so impressed with the dish that he put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus but substituted ham for the bacon and a toasted English muffin for the"
"was awarded a Michelin star. Belmond Hotel Cipriani The Belmond Hotel Cipriani is a deluxe hotel on the island of Giudecca in Venice, northern Italy. It is reached by hotel launch from St. Mark's Square, a five-minute journey across the lagoon. Long considered one of the leading luxury hotels of the world, its room rates begin at USD $1,400 per night. The hotel was opened in 1958 by Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Harry’s Bar in Venice and inventor of the Bellini cocktail. As well as Giuseppi Cipriani, the partners in the joint company were the three daughters of the 2nd"
"were traced. Four jars of the meat were purchased from Lazenby’s of London in June of 1922 and included ""chicken, ham, and turkey, all mixed with tongue; and wild duck"". The Lazenby production plant was scrutinized too but all was was found to be in good working order. The public enquiry was held in March 1922, with intense publicity. At one time, one tabloid named the hotel “The Hotel of Death”. The future air marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst described how, as a young guest at the hotel, he narrowly avoided being poisoned when he joined his brother and parents there"
"opened the first hotel in 1894, in reference to that word's meaning of contentment (see halcyon). The springs attained a worldwide reputation and water from them was bottled for export, reaching customers in London. When the local mining rush ended and steamboat traffic stopped, the hotel changed hands a number of times and became rundown. In 1924, British Army Brigadier-General Dr. Frederick Burnham, who was a surgeon, revamped the hotel as a sanatorium. In 1955, the hotel burnt to the ground, taking with it the life of Dr. Burnham. The site was abandoned due to lack of road access, although"
"The Sherlock Holmes The Sherlock Holmes is a Victorian era themed public house in Northumberland Street near Charing Cross railway station and Trafalgar Square which contains a large collection of memorabilia related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The original collection was put together for display in Baker Street in London during the Festival of Britain in 1951. ""The Sherlock Holmes"" was originally a small hotel, known briefly in the 1880s as the Northumberland Hotel, and later as the Northumberland Arms, under the latter name appearing in the 1892 Sherlock Holmes story ""The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"". The Turkish"
"in Manchester that had been the city's C&A department store - this became the Sachas Hotel. Later in the same year Bosworth Hall, a country house style hotel in Market Bosworth Leicestershire, was purchased. Bosworth Hall was being converted from a hospital/nursing home into a hotel and Britannia took over the development from the builders who went bankrupt. In 1988 the company purchased and began development of the International Hotel adjacent to Canary Wharf in the London's Docklands. The hotel opened on 9 June 1992. A year later, Britannia took over a 187-bedroom hotel in Stockport. After a period of"
"The Bedford, Balham The Bedford Hotel is a Grade II listed public house at 77 Bedford Hill, Balham, London SW12 9HD. It was built in about 1931 for the brewery Watney Combe & Reid, and designed by Alfred W. Blomfield, in a ""neo-Georgian manner, with Arts and Crafts and Art Deco influences"". It was Grade II listed in 2015 by Historic England. It was once well known as a comedy and music venue with The Clash, U2 and Ed Sheeran performing early gigs here, but is now better known as a ""family friendly"" restaurant/pub where prams & breastfeeding mothers have"
"one, in less than 5 months. The dining room was subsequently rebranded as Céleste, and was again awarded a Michelin star. The Lanesborough The Lanesborough is a 5-star hotel on Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge, central London, England. The hotel is operated by the Oetker Collection. It is in neoclassical style and is listed Grade II*, and is a former hospital. Opposite are Hyde Park and Apsley House, the London home of the Dukes of Wellington. The hotel is next to Hyde Park Corner tube station. St George's Hospital was opened in the original Lanesborough House in 1733. By the 1800s"
"opposite the hotel. The Queens, Crouch End The Queens is a grade II* listed public house and former hotel on the corner of Elder Avenue and Tottenham Lane in Crouch End, London. It was originally built as The Queen's Hotel by the architect and developer John Cathles Hill in 1898-1902, or 1899–1901, with art nouveau stained glass by Cakebread Robey. It was described in Pevsner as ""one of suburban London's outstanding grand pubs"". It was accompanied by the Queen's Opera House which was opened in 1897 but damaged by bombing during the Second World War and subsequently demolished. It stood"
"Belmond Hotel Cipriani The Belmond Hotel Cipriani is a deluxe hotel on the island of Giudecca in Venice, northern Italy. It is reached by hotel launch from St. Mark's Square, a five-minute journey across the lagoon. Long considered one of the leading luxury hotels of the world, its room rates begin at USD $1,400 per night. The hotel was opened in 1958 by Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Harry’s Bar in Venice and inventor of the Bellini cocktail. As well as Giuseppi Cipriani, the partners in the joint company were the three daughters of the 2nd Earl of Iveagh, who provided"
"Colonnade Hotel The Colonnade Hotel (previously known as ""The Esplanade hotel"") is a 4-star London hotel with 43 rooms, of which 3 are suites. The hotel is located opposite Warwick Avenue Underground station and Little Venice. The hotel started life as two private Victorian residences in 1865 before being turned into a boarding school in 1880. In 1886 it became the Warrington Lodge Medical and Surgery Home for Ladies. The mathematician Alan Turing was born there in 1912. In 1935 the hospital was converted into The Esplanade Hotel. Sigmund Freud stayed at the hotel during the summer of 1938 when"
"write stories for his magazine ""Lippincott's Monthly Magazine"". Arthur Conan Doyle wrote ""The Sign of Four"" which was published in the magazine in February 1890. Oscar Wilde wrote ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" which was published in July that same year. To celebrate the hotel's 146th anniversary in June 2011, the restaurant offered afternoon tea for the original 1865-price of seven pence. Many guests at the hotel, including the English cricketers Stuart Broad and Joe Root, have reported sighting mysterious phenomena during their stay. Langham Hotel, London The Langham, London, is one of the largest and best known traditional style"
"world renown, including the Waldorf salad, Eggs Benedict, Thousand Island dressing, and Veal Oscar. The Waldorf salad—a salad made with apples, walnuts, celery, grapes, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing—was first created in 1896 at the Waldorf by Oscar. The original recipe, however did not contain nuts, but they had been added by the time the recipe appeared in ""The Rector Cook Book"" in 1928. Tschirky was also noted for his ""Oscar's Sauce"", which became so popular that it was sold at the hotel. Another of the hotel's specialties was red velvet cake, which became one of its most popular"
"invented by the hotel's house bartender in 1912. According to the story, one Martini di Arma di Taggia mixed dry vermouth and gin together and the mixture gained the favor of John D. Rockefeller. (In reality, Rockefeller was a lifelong abstainer from alcohol and tobacco. The actual origin of the martini has been traced to a different drink called ""the Martinez"".) The world-famous opera singer Enrico Caruso was a longtime resident of the hotel until it was sold in 1920. He usually took all his meals at the hotel restaurant, always using the same set of cutlery. On Armistice Day,"
"leased it to Joseph Ellis. In 1855 Ellis purchased the hotel outright. As a fashionable hotel in a fashionable resort town, the Bedford attracted many celebrity guests and even royalty. Amongst the guests was Charles Dickens, who wrote ""Dombey and Son"" while staying at the hotel. In 1866 the West Pier was built, by Eugenius Birch; it meets the seafront opposite Regency Square, very close to the hotel. The International Gun and Polo Club, founded by George Mashall in 1874, was based in the Bedford Hotel, though the grounds were located in Preston Village, Brighton, probably at Preston Park. The"
"Peel Hotels Peel Hotels plc is a hotel company operating in the United Kingdom. It operates eight hotels and is listed on the AIM. The company was founded in 1998 by Robert Peel, when he bought the Bull Hotel in Peterborough. Since that date, the company has acquired other notable hotels, such as the famous Midland Railway Hotel in Bradford, and the King Malcolm Hotel in Dunfermline. Recently the company has demised a 25-year lease to Clermont Leisure, owners of the prestigious Clermont Club casino in London, to open a casino in the basement of the Midland Hotel, taking advantage"
"Melbourne Hotel The Melbourne Hotel is a heritage listed landmark hotel in Perth, Western Australia. The hotel is located on the corner of Hay Street and Milligan Street. In the 1890s, in the wake of the Western Australian gold rush, American-born mining investor and hotelier John De Baun (1852-1912) moved to Perth with the intent of investing in real estate. In 1896, he purchased the Eagle Tavern on the corner of Hay Street and Milligan Street from the Swan Brewery Company, and demolished it. De Braun engaged Fremantle-based architect Peter John Wilson (1869-1918) to design a new hotel to replace"
"DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London - Chelsea The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London - Chelsea is a hotel in Fulham, London. Previously known as Jurys Inn Chelsea, the hotel was rebranded in May 2014 as part of a franchise agreement between Jurys Inn Hotel Group and Hilton Worldwide for the rebranding of three Jurys Inn hotels. It was Doubletree's ninth hotel in the capital (London). The property will continue to be owned and run by Jurys Inn. Over a period of six months, the building has undergone a major refurbishment programme and now has 172 guest rooms and suites. The"
"Mount Helena Tavern The Mount Helena Tavern was opened in 1902 in Mount Helena, a hills suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It was originally called the ""Lion Mill Hotel"", then the ""Mount Helena Hotel"" before acquiring its current name. Locally it is referred to as The Mounties. In 1882 Mount Helena began as White's Mill. The timber mill was established to provide sleepers for the Eastern Railway that linked Guildford to Chidlow’s Well. White's Mill closed in 1888 and was replaced by Lion Mill. Due to logging and the junction of two railway lines, Ernest Forsyth built and licensed a"
"and named it Ridge Hill Farm. He built two man made lakes on his property, including Sabrina lake near present-day Locust Lane. Baker turned part of his property into an amusement park with exotic animals, subterranean tunnels, trick floors and mirrors. In 1888 he built a sizable hotel, near the intersection of present-day Whitman Road and Charles River Street, called the Hotel Wellesley which had a capacity of over 300 guests. The hotel burned to the ground on December 19, 1891. In 1891, George Walker, Boston owner of a lithograph company, and Gustavos Gordon, scientist, formed Walker-Gordon Laboratories to develop"