Expect only the finest from this exclusive Boutique Hotel with fully-equipped, individually designed bedrooms, an exclusive cigar lounge and private functions in the Gallery Café with gourmet cuisine tailored to your needs.
Walking into Urban Chic, a new boutique hotel and café, on the corner of Long and Pepper Street, Cape Town, is a sensory delight. One’s first impression is of warm, honey-colored travertine floors, and a sweeping Bottocino marble staircase that is offset by a stainless steel, wood and glass balustrade. These contrasting elements provide an exciting mix of warm and cool, natural and man-made, classic and modern that is the hall mark of this fine establishment.
This impression is further heightened as one continues up the staircase to the Gallery Café, where and explosion of riotous colour in the form of exhibited artwork is counterbalance by the crisp, clean lines of the café’s minimalist design.
The Gallery Café is a trendy, stand-alone restaurant that provides a showcase for the artworks of emerging South African artists, and it is a place where hotel guests and casual patrons alike, can sample a wonderful array of different cuisines. The Gallery Café chef, who has traveled and worked all over the world, has been handpicked for his innovative approach to food preparation and presentation, and he brings the flavors of Thailand, India, Indonesia, Italy and France to his cooking in an exciting fusion of textures, smells and tastes.
Apart from an unusual a la carte menu that features dishes like fish cooked in banana leaves, platters are a specialty of the house. This is an interesting new concept where by patron’s can sample different flavors on the same platter.
The cigar lounge, which serves “killer cocktails” throughout the day and night, offers a superb venue for an informal business meeting, or and intimate get-together with old friends. It is also an ideal place to relax after a hectic day spent sightseeing.
Mindful of the realities of city life, there is underground parking and 24-hour security, with two doormen outside the hotel to accompany guests to their cars. The hotel also offers VIP protection service for clients. These points add up to a unique, five-star experience, with the hotel rated in the four-star range.
Urban Chic Hotel has 20 bedrooms and luxurious en-suite bathrooms that offers everything that an overseas tourist or corporate client could want, in the form of comfort and state-of-the-art amenities. The well-appointed rooms all have air-conditioning, and wireless communication ensure instant internet access for laptop users. The bedroom décor, which features African mahogany furniture, is elegant and understated. King-size beds, with goose down pillows and comforters, invite a good nights sleep, while for the insomniac; there is an excellent variety of satellite television channels to choose from. Original artworks grace the walls of each bedroom, and the large corner windows offer breathtaking views of Table Mountain, Lions Head and Signal Hill.
Urban Chic also provides a visual feast of Long Street, with its vibrant eclectic influences. African murals painted onto building walls, an elegant cupola clock tower, quaint old building with broekielace, sidewalk café’s, bead shops and second-hand book shores by the dozen, all contribute towards the inimitable and much-loved character of Long Street. Urban Chic which has its slogan “How chic is Long”, is a city hotel and it makes no apology for its position in the hubbub of the City Bowl. Its target marker is the sophisticated, advertising agency, executive or overseas visitor who wants to experience all that the Mother City has to offer, whether this is exciting night life, a fascinating mix of cultures, or a unique shopping opportunity.
High season: R 1369.00. Low season: R1047.00.
Prices are quoted per room per night and includes breakfast. CityBowl*
