Delano London opens as Ennismore's first UK hotel
Paris Society's Lana Lusa restaurant debuts in the UK as Ennismore brings the Miami hotel brand to Kensington Gardens.
Delano London opens in early 2027 as Ennismore's first UK outpost for the Miami-born hotel brand, with Paris Society's Lana Lusa restaurant taking its first UK site inside the building.
The 67-room hotel sits in west London, overlooking Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, a five-storey building designed by Archer Humphryes Architects. More than half the rooms are suites, including 14 with park views. The area's dining scene has been filling in fast, with Casa Macellaio opening nearby in South Kensington earlier this month.
Delano traces back to Delano Miami Beach, which opened in 1995 and helped define a strand of hospitality built on white interiors and cabana pools. Accor took a stake in parent company SBE Entertainment Group in 2020, and Cain International bought a minority stake in the brand in 2023 to push its growth. Ennismore, the hotel group Sharan Pasricha founded in 2011, has run the joint venture with Accor since 2021.
A Miami feeling, repotted in Kensington Gardens, arrives three decades and one pandemic later.
A first UK site for Lana Lusa
Lana Lusa, a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant from Paris Society, opens its first UK site inside Delano London after two outposts in Dubai. The hotel also carries Rose Bar, the signature bar transplanted from Delano Miami Beach, alongside a Rose Bar Lounge and the Zodiac Room.
A wellness space called The Source by Delano adds treatment rooms built around movement, longevity and contrast therapy, and an outpost of the Delano Members Club sits alongside artwork curated by London consultancy Cramer & Bell. London's taste for lofty dining rooms keeps growing too, after Florence Knight opened Lunette on the city's skyline this year.
Delano's slow build in Europe
The opening was originally pencilled in for late 2026 and has slipped to early 2027. “Delano has always been about creating a feeling,” said Ben Pundole, chief brand officer for Delano Hotels, of the brand's push beyond its original Miami Beach and Las Vegas addresses.
Thirty years after the first Delano, London becomes one of only a handful of cities carrying the name. For Ennismore, already juggling a dozen hotel brands, it is another bet that a feeling built in Florida travels.
