Round up: Celebrating our wins

This year also saw the launch of the Michelin Key system by the Michelin Guide. While the Michelin Star Guide recognises the most outstanding restaurants, the Michelin Key does the same for the most outstanding hotels. For its inaugural list, we were honoured to find that Gleneagles was awarded the prestigious Three Michelin Keys. Six other Ennismore hotels, Maison Delano Paris, The Hoxton, Rome, Habitas Bacarlar, Habitas San Miguel de Allende, SO/ Bangkok, and Gleneagles Townhouse, were awarded one Michelin Key.

Organised by Sleeper Magazine, the AHEAD is the leading awards for Hospitality Experience and Design. Across the regions, Ennismore’s hotels, restaurants, and bars took home four awards, including Best Hotel Renovation for Mondrian Hong Kong, Best Suite for Mondrian Singapore, Best Restaurant for Carna by Dario Cecchini, Hong Kong, and Best Event Space for The Hoxton, Vienna (designed by our very own AIME Studios). In addition to the regional award, the AHEAD 100 showcases the best new hotels in the world. This year, we’re proud to find SO/ Maldives, Mondrian Hong Kong, Mondrian Singapore, 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis, SO/ Uptown Dubai, 25hours Hotel Copenhagen Paper Island, Hyde Bodrum, Mondrian Ibiza and The Hoxton, Vienna on that list.

The annual World’s 50 Best Bars provides an annual ranking of bars as voted for by 700 drinks experts from across the globe and celebrates the best of the international drinks industry. This year, Mimi Kakushi by Rikas comes in at No. 40 with the 50 Best team highlighting, “Dubai does high-concept venues better than most and the Japanese restaurant-bar Mimi Kakushi is no exception,” adding, “Mimi Kakushi is imbued with the rhythm of the West and the taste – in food, drinks and décor – of the East”.

And finally, the Rikas team truly outdid themselves at The Caterer Middle East Awards, taking home six wins, including, Hospitality Company of the Year for Rikas Group, Independent Restaurant Team of the Year in the Fine Dining category for Mimi Kakushi, Restaurateur of the Year in the Fine Dining & Fine Casual category for the group’s founder, and Pastry Chef of the Year, Sous Chef of the Year and Cashier of the Year for members of the team.

For these accolades and many others we have yet to list, we thank our Ennismore teams for their hard work and dedication. We are honoured to work with some of the industry’s best—we wouldn’t be Ennismore without you!