27-823: Kowloon Shangri-La is a five-star hotel of the Hong Kong–based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts group. It is located on Mody Road in Tsim Sha Tsui East overlooking Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong Island skyline. It is the sister hotel to the Island Shangri-La in Admiralty district, Hong Kong . The history of the hotel is tied to the history of the Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts chain, which began with
54-452: A Hong Kong Hotel and was led by chef David Monson. The hotel's French bistro Margaux closed down the same year, replaced by Italian restaurant Angelini. Chef Alessandro Angelini leads the hotel's Italian restaurant, which was honoured as "One of Hong Kong's 50 Finest Restaurants" in Dining with Stars 2008, organised by Hong Kong Tatler and supported by Hong Kong Tourism Board. The restaurant
81-555: A School visit and Easter egg-painting workshop for students from Ebenezer School & Home for The Visually Impaired , a Tree-Planting Challenge organised by Friends of the Earth , a Mid-Autumn Festival Lunch Party for elderly in collaboration with The Rotary Club of Channel Islands, and food donation and serving to refugees and asylum seekers at Chung King Mansion in association with Foodlink. Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts ( Chinese : 香格里拉酒店 )
108-483: A lobby created from Italian Statuario marble and two murals of the Shangri-La Valley by UK artist Malcolm Golding, was developed by Y Shibata & Associates of Japan, Don Aston Designers Asia Ltd., and Bilkey Llinas Design Ltd. Attention to detail includes the changing of carpets in the elevators at midnight every night, to mark the days of the week. Malcolm Golding returned in 2003, 23 years after painting
135-522: A looming recession, the magazine was once again ailing; Jane Procter was brought in to re-invent the title for the 1990s. The circulation rose to over 90,000, a figure which was exceeded five years later by Geordie Greig . The magazine created various supplements including the Travel and Restaurant Guides, the often-referred to and closely watched Most Invited and Little Black Book lists, as well as various parties. Kate Reardon became editor in 2011. She
162-613: A lounge and a bar, Lobby Lounge and a Tapas Bar. Both outlets were designed by Bilkey Llinas Design Ltd., and the Tapes Bar was honoured with the "Wine by The Glass Restaurant Award", organised by Restaurant & Bar Hong Kong, in 2011. Previously, the hotel hosted the Californian restaurant Napa, described as a "Hong Kong institution" when it closed in June 2005 after 12 years. It was the first fusion restaurant of its kind to appear in
189-446: A number of county magazines in the style of Tatler , each of which mixed the same syndicated content with county-specific local content. Wayte, "a moustachioed playboy of a conman" was convicted of fraud in 1980 for inflating Tatler ' s circulation figures from 15,000 to 49,000. The magazine was sold and relaunched as a monthly magazine in 1977, called Tatler & Bystander until 1982. Tina Brown (editor 1979–83), created
216-473: A vibrant and youthful Tatler and is credited with putting the edge, the irony and the wit back into what was then an almost moribund social title. She referred to it as an upper-class comic and by increasing its influence and circulation made it an interesting enough operation for the then owner, Gary Bogard, to sell to publishers Condé Nast . Brown subsequently transferred to New York, to another Condé Nast title, Vanity Fair . After several later editors and
243-652: Is a multinational hospitality company , founded in 1971 by tycoon Robert Kuok and bearing the name of a Far Eastern mythical land of contentment depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon . It is a subsidiary of Kerry Properties , the company has over 100 luxury hotels and resorts with over 40,000 rooms in Africa , Asia , Europe , the Middle East , North America and Oceania . Shangri-La has 4 brands across different market segments: Shangri-La, Traders Hotels, Kerry Hotels, and Hotel Jen. The company's head office
270-556: Is in Kerry Centre [ zh ] (嘉里中心), Quarry Bay , Hong Kong. The current chairman is Kuok Hui-kwong. The first hotel of the luxury Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Group was the Shangri-La Hotel Singapore , opened on 23 April 1971. The name derives from the mythical place Shangri-La , described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton . The Shangri-La Hotel Singapore
297-656: Is led by Chef Takao Kojima and can host 138 guests. Nadaman first opened in Osaka in 1830, and the Kowloon Shangri-La restaurant which opened at the same time as the hotel, in 1981, was its first overseas outlet. Kojima spent 20 years at Nadaman in Japan before moving to Hong Kong, where here changes the mini- kaiseki menu every month. The restaurant's interior was designed by CL3 Architects Ltd. and Kanko Kikaku Sekkeisha Consultants & Designers Ltd., Tokyo. In 2005 it
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#1732797769346324-717: The Michelin Guide 's 2020 Hong Kong and Macau edition. Designed by LRF Designers Ltd., it holds 160. The restaurant was entirely refurbished and reopened in September 2012. Chef Jonathan Gallet created bread, pastries and desserts at the 24-seater delicatessen located at the hotel's mezzanine. Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong has worked with a number of local charitable organisations such as Christian Action , offering financial assistance to guest donation programs, as well as arranging numerous charity visits to those in need, and sponsoring venues for charity events. Projects include
351-498: The Shangri-La Dialogue . As of March 2022, Shangri-La owns, operates, or manages 100 hotels in 77 destinations: [REDACTED] Media related to Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts at Wikimedia Commons Tatler Tatler (stylized in all caps ) is a British magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. It focuses on fashion and lifestyle, as well as coverage of high society and politics. Targeted towards
378-645: The Tourism Board selected the winners. Kowloon Shangri-La frequently receives recognition as one of the top luxury hotels in Asia, featuring in media such Condé Nast Traveler. It has won the following awards: Kowloon Shangri-La is located in the tourist-heavy Tsim Sha Tsui East , within walking distance of the luxury boutiques on Canton Road , the Temple Street Night Market and Chungking Mansions . The interior design, which includes
405-610: The British and global upper class and upper-middle class ( Tatler Asia etc.), as well as those interested in society events, its readership is the wealthiest of all Condé Nast's publications (surpassing even Vogue etc.). Tatler is published in Asia by Tatler Asia , in Ireland by Business Post and previously in Russia by Condé Nast. Tatler was introduced on 3 July 1901, by Clement Shorter, publisher of The Sphere . It
432-487: The Executive, Harbour View, Premier Harbour View, Specialty and Presidential Suite. The rooms average 450 square feet, some of the largest available on the crowded peninsula of Kowloon and many of the rooms directly overlook Hong Kong Island waterfront. Rooms on floors 19 through 21 are dedicated to the "Horizon Club" The hotel holds five specialty restaurants serving a variety of cuisines under Executive Chef, as well as
459-465: The Kowloon Shangri-La from Westin. To celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2011, the hotel held an exhibition of photographs submitted by the public, from guests who had visited from around the world during the three decades since its opening. A judging panel of photographer Water Poon, president of the Institute of Professional Photographers Carsten Schael, and Anthony Lau Chun-hon, executive director of
486-508: The beginning of February 2018, and he took up the post on 12 February. In 2014, the BBC broadcast a three-part fly-on-the-wall documentary television series, titled Posh People: Inside Tatler , featuring the editorial team going about their various jobs. In 2021, Tatler commissioned Nigerian painter Oluwole Omofemi to paint the last painting of Queen Elizabeth II before her death. One of Tatler ' s most talked-about annual features
513-462: The magazine absorbed The Bystander , creating a publication called The Tatler and Bystander . In 1961, Illustrated Newspapers, which published Tatler , The Sphere , and The Illustrated London News , was bought by Roy Thomson . In 1965, Tatler was retitled London Life . In 1968, it was bought by Guy Wayte's Illustrated County Magazine group and the Tatler name restored. Wayte's group had
540-647: The new Hong Kong property was signed on 1 August 1978 and the Shangri-La Hotel opened on 17 June 1981, managed by Westin Hotels , the new name of Western International as of 5 January 1981. In 1983, the Kuok Group created Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd. The hotel was soon after renamed the Kowloon Shangri-La . In April 1991, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts assumed management of
567-736: The opening of the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, in 1971. The Kuok Group, which built the Singapore hotel, put it under the management of Western International Hotels . Kuok entered the hotel management world in 1979 when Kuok Hotels was formed to manage the Rasa Sayang Resort and Spa in Penang , the Golden Sands Resort in Penang, and The Fijian , Yanuca Island, on Fiji. A management contract with Western International for
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#1732797769346594-426: The original murals, to restore them. He became a tourist attraction as he used bamboo scaffolding to repaint his vision of Shangri-La as a "lush tropical valley hemmed by startling mountains, with colourful birds and huge flowering plants surrounding a stylised Chinese palace." The rooms of the hotel were developed by LRF Designers Limited and number 679, of which 638 are guest rooms, and 41 are Suites. Suites include
621-418: Was designed by Zanghellini & Holt Architect and has 69 seats. Led by Chef Lou Kuok Kam, Cafe Kool is the hotel's largest, with 322 seats. Serving Global cuisine , it was designed by Bilkey Llinas Design Ltd. It has a hardwood ceiling and marble surfaces. The restaurant offers a buffet. Serving Kyoto-style Japanese cuisine in kaiseki style and also including a teppanyaki grill and sushi bar, Nadaman
648-479: Was managed by Westin Hotels & Resorts , until Shangri-La International Hotel Management Limited was founded in 1979, and management of the Singapore Shangri-La was taken back over from Westin in 1984. However, it would not be until 1991 that Shangri-La assumed control of the rest of the hotels. This hotel has also become the host to a prominent inter-governmental security conference known as
675-450: Was named after the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. Originally sold occasionally as The Tatler and for some time a weekly publication, it had a subtitle varying on "an illustrated journal of society and the drama". It contained news and pictures of high society balls, charity events, race meetings, shooting parties, fashion and gossip, with cartoons by "The Tout" and H. M. Bateman . In 1940,
702-513: Was named one of the "top ten great hotel restaurants in the world" by Hotels Magazine. In 2010, the kaiseki cuisine Japanese fine dining restaurant, Nadaman, was listed along with its sister outlet at the Island Shangri-La , as the 'Best Japanese restaurant' on the Hong Kong Best Eats 2010 list compiled by CNN Travel in 2010. Shang Palace, led by Chef Cheung Long Yin is a one- Michelin -starred Cantonese restaurant , received in
729-411: Was previously a fashion assistant on American Vogue and then, aged 21, became the youngest-ever fashion director of Tatler . Under Reardon's directorship Tatler retained its position as having the wealthiest audience of Condé Nast's magazines, exceeding an average of $ 175,000 in 2013. Reardon left the title at the end of 2017. The appointment of Richard Dennen as the new editor was announced at
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