We’ve been known to enjoy the luxury facilities at the Sanderson a few times. Admittedly, one too many times that’s been at fashion week parties we can hardly remember the morning after but we can vouch that the whole place is as nice as the bar.

More recently we’ve been using the hotel as a place to look after ourselves though, visiting in the name of Nourish. A food and lifestyle package that combines two of everyone’s favourite things, food and relaxing. It’s Christmas all over again, but without distant relatives and terrible jumpers.

Including an overnight stay for two, the Nourish Package consists of the stuff of health kick dreams. Start with carrot, beet, kale and ginger juice before your 80-minute hot stone massage in the hotel’s renowned agua spa, followed by a NUXE booster facial to ward off winter weather wear.

The brainchild of Sanderson’s own Executive Chef, Matthew Marshall and nutritionist, Karen Cummings-Palmer, you can follow up your spa trip with a three course meal. It goes without saying, everything is organic, local and seasonal. Treat your body like the temple it is!

Karen Cummings-Palmer, said: “It’s great to be working with Matthew to tailor the meals for this incredible package. We wanted to re-define comfort food and create warming dishes that give your body everything you need to feel physically and mentally refreshed throughout the coldest, darkest months.”

Hidden away just off Oxford Street, you could venture into the city, but with everything you could possibly need for a luxurious break right under the Sanderson’s roof, why would you ever want to?

From the Nourish Menu.

The package starts from £639 and will be available from 6^th January – 31^st March 2016. Karen Cummings-Palmer’s Nourish menu will be available at The Restaurant at Sanderson, agua spa and via room service until 31^st March 2016.

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Although The Sanderson has all the luxurious trappings of many boutique hotels, its commitment to creating a uniquely fantastical environment for its guests makes it truly special. With talent like Philippe Starck – the prolific and legendary French designer – and  renowned interior architect Tim Andreas behind the look of the hotel, its evocatively off-beat aesthetic should come as no surprise. From the moment you enter the building (just off Oxford Street) you’re submerged into a lovingly created dreamworld of Daliesque sofas, vibrant stained-glass and one-of-a-kind furnishings.

The Purple Bar is an Alice In Wonderland-inspired fantasia, saturated with vivid purples and plush velvet, that is as comfortable as it looks: I was content to people-watch there while trying the extensive cocktail menu which included a signature drink unsurprisingly called ‘Rabbit Hole’ – it turns out that cherry vodka, port and egg whites go together much better than expected, though I wouldn’t try making it at home.

The Alice-theme continues in the brilliantly realised Mad Hatter’s Afternoon tea, which not only boasts bespoke crockery and napkins wrapped in riddles, but also jelly in elaborate Victorian moulds – a million miles away from the disappointing party food of our childhood – and delicious cakes. So far, so whimsical. But fans of classically-refined eating won’t be disappointed by The Sanderson’s restaurant either: my Dover sole was delicious and the mango and coconut posset was as refreshing as I had hoped.

So what of the rooms? Well, fortunately the surrealist motifs and attention to detail don’t end in the dining areas, as the rooms are lushly eclectic and cleverly merge the baroque with the starkly contemporary. Then there’s the glorious aqua spa, an endless expanse of white silk curtains with an impressive range of treatments to match that will make you forget you’re in the claustrophobic center of London. Once you’re properly relaxed, kick the night off with a drink at the thirteen meter long Italian onyx bar or head out to the Courtyard – surely the hotel’s crowning glory. It’s a Japanese-inflected garden area complete with bonsai and meandering stream – yet another design feat – and, again, it’s all about seductive serenity: definitely the hotel’s calling card.

WORDS: Benji Walters

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