"André Leon Talley once warned the general public that there is “a famine of beauty” and it turns out that Claridge’s was stockpiling all of it to create The Painter’s Room. It’s an intimate Mayfair bar so gorgeous that its very existence is borderline offensive to anyone who, tragically, doesn’t have a pink shell bar and artsy stained glass windows in their own home. The setting calls for one of the cocktails involving fancy fizz to celebrate life events we can only aspire to—say, winning a BAFTA or getting engaged to a Wertheimer." - heidi lauth beasley