South Place Hotel London review: style and the City

The restaurants are as important as the rooms at this high-design bolthole

South Place Hotel terrace

For years now, London’s centre of gravity has been shifting eastwards, extending out from the venerable West End theatres and museums towards cooler, slicker territory. There’s no shortage of history on this side of town either - the original City of London is home to St Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London and the Bank of England - but the great stone buildings of the past are now dwarfed by the glass and steel towers of the past decade. And beyond it to the south and east are Southwark, Shoreditch and Spitalfields, with their invitingly independent cafes, restaurants, boutiques and markets.

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Holden Frith is The Week’s digital director. He also makes regular appearances on “The Week Unwrapped”, speaking about subjects as diverse as vaccine development and bionic bomb-sniffing locusts. He joined The Week in 2013, spending five years editing the magazine’s website. Before that, he was deputy digital editor at The Sunday Times. He has also been TheTimes.co.uk’s technology editor and the launch editor of Wired magazine’s UK website. Holden has worked in journalism for nearly two decades, having started his professional career while completing an English literature degree at Cambridge University. He followed that with a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. A keen photographer, he also writes travel features whenever he gets the chance.