JC Stays: The Brook Green hotel, London - The Jewish Chronicle

Brook Green may not be the first corner of London most people check when they’re booking a hotel, but there’s a good reason this area has been popular with visitors to the capital since the 19^th century.

And while the coaching inn on the western end of the green is still welcoming guests today, it’s had a rather more modern facelift from its origins in 1886, after a refurbishment earlier this year.

Today, the retro touches are more Mad Men than Victorian, with dial phones, vintage map prints and mid-century mustards and teals in the rooms. The beds are thoroughly modern, thankfully, as is the free WiFi, Sky TV, laptop sized safe and rainhead shower, even if we had some trouble linking the room’s speakers to a smartphone.

The feature rooms are easily the most spectacular way to check in to one of the 17 rooms, but each has its own understated boutique touches – window seats in our double, framed stamp prints in others.