Detailed Review
This award-winning boutique hotel located in the heart of Sydney’s restaurant, bar and nightclub district, is an oasis of style, glamour and comfort. The Kirketon Hotel is now proud to offer the Kirketon Dining Room & Bar. Located on the ground floor of the hotel, the restaurant and bar offers a space that exudes sophistication with a style and warmth reminiscent of the great restaurants and bars of New York, London and Paris. With famed restaurateur James Ingram at the helm, the Kirketon Dining Room & Bar is set to become one of Sydney’s hottest nightspots, offering our guests world class service, excellent cuisine and an ambience reflecting the Kirketon Hotel’s reputation as one of the world’s best boutique hotels. Voted one of the coolest boutique hotels in the world by Conde Nast Traveller magazine, experience the genuine warmth and charm of our professional team whose prime objective is your total satisfaction. The Kirketon Hotel in Darlinghurst exudes class, excellence and most importantly value.
Press Quotes
"...dropped both the pretensions and the prices, and the cool of the original design is now matched by considerable warmth in the atmosphere." The Telegraph 07
"...the brightest light shines on the Kirketon Boutique Hotel and its hot cocktail lounge." New York Times 06
"Bold boutique hotel...quality combined with value for money...staff-to-guest ratio of approximately 1 to 4..." Conde Nast Traveller 05
Independent Reviews
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"Sydney's glitterati flock to the modish boutique hotel on Darlinghurst Road; it's well-loved for the chic bar and restaurant."
The Kirketon offers stylish rooms, big-hotel services (like round-the-clock room service) and an excellent, hip bar and restaurant. With consistently reasonable rates year-round.
The Kirketon
By Greg Clarke
The Kirketon became a darling of the uber cool and fashionistas when it opened in 1999. Its minimalist mien replicates a popular New York look while the restaurant, Salt, became one of Sydney’s finest. These days the hotel has new owners and Salt has closed. A French-influenced restaurant and a bar promising sophistication are to open in December 2005. Still popular for fashion shoots, the Kirketon is a unique, boutique hotel at decidedly unpretentious prices.
The rooms
Recycled timber floors lead way to standard, premium and executive rooms. In the 40 rooms the carpets, either brilliant blue or lobster red, are made from Irish goat hair. There are 100 per cent lamb wool blankets on the beds. There is plenty of metal about including a Knoll chair, and chrome on the desk. Standard rooms are small, and frosted glass windows can make many of the rooms feel a little claustrophobic. And there can be more attention to industrial/minimalist style than functionality – the kettles have to sit on the ground if you want to boil water. But the folk here are friendly and there is a bonus for those travelling in ménage à trois numbers - a rollaway bed can be added to the room at no extra cost for the third person. No charge for toddlers’ cots either. Aveda products are standard and the passionfruit soap is commissioned by the hotel.
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