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If you’re anything like me, it won’t necessarily occur to you to go and eat in a hotel restaurant, but Mint Hotel Tower of London was a revelation! This small group of seven boutique hotels focuses on stylish, contemporary interiors but also makes a huge effort with its menus for residents and non-residents alike.

My favourite thing at Mint Hotel Tower of London was its Skylounge Bar and Terrace – a great place for a drink or something to eat, especially if the sun’s shining. With its stylish white chairs and decking it felt like being in the Mediterranean ... until you clocked the sweeping views of the City skyline.
You can eat in the Skylounge Bar: small plates include chorizo sausage and king prawn skewers (£8.50) and grilled asparagus with a rosemary and garlic studded baked Brie (£6.50), with main courses such as Char-grilled Ras El Hanout spiced Poussin, citrus salad (£16) and Salmon en papilotte, mussels, clams and a saffron essence (£14.50). 

We ate downstairs in the hotel restaurant, and enjoyed some of the best executed food I’ve had in London all year with the tasting menu, all matched with excellent wines by Bibendum.

The seasonal menu featured pea soup with York ham and fresh spring peas, duck ballotine, rhubarb chutney and gingerbread (the gingerbread was rather superfluous in my view), gin and sloe berry cured Loch Duart salmon, beetroot jelly, dill and English radish, Gigha halibut, crab and potato salad, peas and bacon, roast neck lamb fillet and braised shoulder shepherd’s pie, crème brulee with hot chocolate spring rolls and carpaccio of pineapple with nougatine parfait.

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