Rotunda at Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square celebrates 1920s heritage with The Bright Young Things
Londoners can step back in time to the 1920s this autumn, as a new bar and dining experience inspired by The Bright Young Things arrives in the Square Mile. Rotunda at Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square, housed within a 1922 Beaux-Arts-style building, has taken inspiration from this euphoric period of post-war history for its new concept, including cocktail and afternoon tea menus, available from 25th October.
The Bright Young Things, with much-loved artists Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman and Nancy Mitford among its ranks, were famed throughout the 1920s for being at the centre of many a raucous London party. Paying tribute, Head Bartender Michal Maziarz has created a cocktail list based on recipes and ingredients popular at this time. Serves include the Embalmer, (Sipsmith gin, Tokaji wine and absinthe infused with poppy seed oil), Petting Pantry (Plantation rum, dry sherry, spiced wine, spices and citrus oils) and Corn Shredder (Tanqueray TEN gin, agave, toasted corn and pink grapefruit). Their names are all a historical wink aimed at London’s bar-propping flappers and the slang they used at the time.
Rotunda’s new afternoon tea menu takes on 1920s iconography, with colourful pastries inspired by the lifestyle of The Bright Young Things. The menu includes Ruby grapefruit cheesecake and Chocolate and salted caramel pastries served alongside Lychee and Cognac scones and a selection of delicate sandwiches. Presented on an Art Deco-style stand, The Bright Young Things afternoon tea will be offered with a glass of Champagne or paired with signature cocktails, accompanied by live piano music from 3-5pm.
The programme of music and live entertainment is inspired by the influential Dixieland and American jazz of early 1920s Britain, up until the 1950s when British jazz started to make its own mark. Accompanied by some more modern influences, the music will bring The Bright Young Things to the Rotunda with live entertainment every Thursday evening from 6pm.
The Rotunda at Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square is honouring the location’s history with new bar and afternoon tea menus, inspired by the 1920s collective The Bright Young Things. Afternoon tea is served Wednesday to Sunday from 2-5pm with accompanying piano playing from 3-5pm, live entertainment plays every Thursday from 6-9pm while the bar is open from 12pm-12am daily.
For further information or bookings, please see www.fourseasons.com/tentrinity or call +44(0)20 3297 3799
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About Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square:
Opened in January 2017, London’s second Four Seasons Hotel – after Park Lane – is located within the former Port of London Authority HQ, a stunning, Grade-II-listed building opened in 1922. Boasting French restaurant La Dame de Pic London, from acclaimed three-Michelin-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic, as well as Chinese and Japanese restaurant Mei Ume, the Rotunda Bar and Lounge rounds off a package which confirms Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square as one of the best dining destinations in the City of London.
About The Bright Young Things:
The Bright Young Things was a name given by the tabloids to a group of lavishly bohemian aristocrats and socialites during the 1920s, many of them writers, journalists and artists who emerged after the war and were raised in the light of exhilaration and economic boom. Famous members included photographer Cecil Beaton, poet John Betjeman and author Nancy Mitford, among other vibrant characters of the time.
Greatly influenced by the music of The Jazz Age, London’s cocktail bars and 1920s fashion, The Bright Young Things would throw lavish parties, go on elaborate night time ‘treasure hunts’ through London, and spearheaded bring-a-bottle parties, often incredibly hedonistic affairs.