The Twenty Two – a Parisian flourish behind a Portland-stone Mayfair façade

On the corner of North Audley Street and Grosvenor Square stands a Portland-stone Edwardian manor that spent decades as anonymous office space before becoming one of Mayfair's most talked-about addresses. The Twenty Two opened in 2022 as a hotel, all-day restaurant and private members' club, the long-held project of proprietor Navid Mirtorabi, who had passed the building for twenty years without ever quite seeing it. The MICHELIN Guide gives it Two MICHELIN Keys, praising a build that keeps Mayfair's opulence intact while adding a vibrant playfulness more often found east of Bond Street. Inside, a mirrored, monochrome lobby gives way to interiors by designer Natalia Miyar, steeped in 18th-century French reference points, with thirty-one bedrooms and suites, a French-leaning neighbourhood restaurant, Café 22, and a discreet club reserved for members and house guests.

01The house

The building began life in 1727, when the plot was developed as two terrace houses later numbered 22 and 23 Grosvenor Square, with a mews stable block behind serving what was then No. 19B. By the twentieth century the house had been carved into flats before a long spell as offices, and it was in that derelict office incarnation that Navid Mirtorabi first noticed it, despite walking past for two decades.

The Grade II-listed façade of columns, curlicues and sandblasted Portland stone was restored rather than reinvented; ReardonSmith Architects handled the conversion for a 42,500 sq ft property combining the manor, its North Audley Street frontage and the old mews building into a single 31-room address. The result, as the MICHELIN Guide notes, is a gorgeous Edwardian building that remains in fine form, its interiors notably Parisian in inspiration.

02Rooms and suites

The hotel's 31 bedrooms and suites are arranged across Manor Rooms and Studios and six named Manor Suites — among them the Artist Suite, the Terrace Suite, the Audley Suite, the Heritage Suite and the Ginkgo Suite — each designed, in the hotel's words, to reflect its Mayfair manor's history as a family home.

Insider tip

Book the Mews House for a private Lees Place entrance; check-in from 3pm, check-out by noon.

The standout is the Mews House, an 82m² duplex reached through its own entrance on Lees Place, with a kitchenette and living room downstairs and a bedroom and master bathroom upstairs — a private pied-à-terre with 24-hour butler service built in. Designer Natalia Miyar, working on her first hotel project, drew on Château de Malmaison and Christian Dior's Parisian apartment, pairing limestone floors with black cabochon detailing, custom four-poster beds and marble bathrooms throughout.

03Where to eat

The hotel's restaurant now operates as Café 22, a neighbourhood dining room on North Audley Street serving French-inspired European cooking alongside a cocktail list and a roaming martini trolley, open for lunch, weekend brunch and dinner into the evening. It is overseen by Global Culinary Director Alan Christie, who previously cooked at the Michelin-starred Arbutus and the Picture group of restaurants before leading the kitchen here from opening.

A dedicated Private Dining Room seats up to 24 for dinner or 40 standing, decorated with bespoke artwork of the club's founding members and built around menus by Christie, while the restaurant's recently reworked North Side offers a further private space for up to 36 seated guests.

04The bar and the club

Beyond the restaurant lies The Twenty Two's private members' club, reserved for Patrons and, for the length of their stay, hotel guests treated as Temporary Patrons. At its centre is The Living Room, an all-day lounge that shifts from daytime gathering space to evening bar as The Club's social rhythm takes over after dark.

Hotel guests also have access to The Living Room for casual food and cocktails through the day, with the club spaces available for private hire by request for larger events.

05Wellbeing

The manor's listed bones rule out a gym on site, so The Twenty Two has arranged complimentary access for hotel guests to BXR Marylebone, a 12-minute walk away, a 12,000 sq ft fitness club built around a full-size boxing ring. Guests wanting a more tailored session can also arrange private training at PT Mayfair, five minutes' walk from the manor.

06The neighbourhood

Grosvenor Square sits at the quiet heart of Mayfair, a green square once dominated by the former US Embassy and now ringed by townhouses, hotels and discreet private wealth. The Twenty Two trades on that contrast — a members' club aimed at a younger, creative crowd set down among ambassadors and hedge funds, a stone's throw from Bond Street's shopfronts and a short walk from the independent streets of Marylebone and the Wallace Collection.

07Making the most of a stay

Book the Mews House if privacy matters more than square footage inside the main manor — its separate Lees Place entrance means guests can come and go without crossing the lobby at all. The hotel's concierge team can arrange tickets and tables around London's seasonal calendar, from Wimbledon and the Chelsea Flower Show to Frieze week, so it is worth briefing them on arrival rather than after.

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