Detailed Review
A superb and original design by Thomas O'Brien, along with a popular lounge and restaurant, instantly anchored this stunning hotel into the downtown scene. The generous use of dark woods and full-wall leather headboards gives the retro-classic rooms a welcoming warmth; a decadent touch are the FatWitch brownies at turndown. Marble-swathed bathrooms have oversize showers, mosaic tile floors, and Philosophy bath products. Chic Thai restaurant Kittichai on the ground floor has patio dining and a gold-suffused bar.
Press Quotes
"Intimate, elegant guest rooms and suites in the heart of Soho." Fine Living 08
Independent Reviews
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"A sleek and sexy boutique hotel, that’s favoured by socialites for its hip Kittichai restaurant and tranquil, Oriental interior."
Great views, both of the city and it's trendier denizens. Leather, velvet and open fires give the hotel a clubby feel. The Asian-fusion restaurant is excellent.
60 Thompson
By Josie van der Schaaf
60 Thompson is one of our NY favourites. The hotel is beautifully designed in a calm, Asian-fusion style. It attracts a glamorous clientele to stay and an uber-hip NY socialite crowd to the bar and restaurant. Despite this rather intimidating reputation, it still manages to feel very inviting. It’s also nicely located on a pretty street (by NY standards, anyway), surrounded by chic boutiques and restaurants.
The hotel restaurant, Kittichai, is downstairs, giving the rest of the hotel a more private feel. Kittichai is stylish and welcoming, with candles floating in a pool, swathes of Thai silk, a few streetside tables and a hint of Feng Shui in the air. (Lucky coins are taped under many of the tables). There’s a downstairs bar, too, though the real action happens in Thom, upstairs, where people gather in little private seating areas. And only hotel guests and the hippest of the hip get to go upstairs to A60 (above 60, geddit), the rooftop terrace, open in summer months only.
All in all, a good New York experience: fun, fashionable and welcoming, with lots of personality.
The rooms
Rooms aren’t huge but they are larger than average for New York. They echo the calm style of the hotel, quite plain, with lots of luscious dark woods and full-wall suede headboards. There are retro-classic touches in the woodblock bedside lamps and the furniture in the suites; suites also come with desks big enough to actually work at. The duplex penthouse loft is gorgeous, with its own private garden terrace. Details are excellent throughout: good linens, Dean & Deluca goodies to eat, brownies at turndown. Bathrooms have marble mosaics, spacious shower stalls and products by Fresh.
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