Reign at The Rex

Open to hotel residents and non-residents alike, Reign at The Rex Hotel (formerly The Gotham) is among the jewels in the crown of ‘the King of King Street’ – the name given to this hulk of a building when the final stone was laid in the early 1900s.

Take a dimly, seductively-lit lift upto the sixth floor, and the dining room sits perched above the busy streets below. You can spy the goings on through the huge, half moon-shaped windows which frame the view of Spring Gardens.

Here you can be nourished and waited on at all times of the day; from breakfast to dinner, with gathering levels of complexity coming into play as the day goes on.

Afternoon tea – an ever-so-classic take on the British institution – finds a baby grand piano accompanying your perfectly geometric finger sandwiches and homemade scones with jam and clotted cream. For more exclusive events, the classily-appointed private dining room is available for whichever swish event you might be planning.

In the evenings, you can truly push the boat out, with a five-course tasting menu, featuring world cuisine-spanning flavours executed deftly, from single, spectacular bites to robust hunks of game given the star treatment.

It’s a room which adapts impressively to the occasion.