The Gore Hotel is your author’s most treasured London lodging -- if only for the memory of chatting up a louche Alison Goldfrapp slung provocatively over a baroque armchair. More importantly, this Victorian rockstar fave (it also makes a Gallagher brothers related appearance in the brilliant Britpop film Live Forever) has always boasted one of the hippest watering holes in the capital. And newly opened this May is the clubby Bar 190’s eccentrically fabulous Cinderella’s Carriage.
