"When the Lancaster opened its doors the phrase “luxury boutique hotel” hadn’t yet been invented — but that’s more or less what it’s always been. Back in the Emile Wolf days it was the sort of place you’d catch the likes of Grace Kelly or Noël Coward haunting its halls. Today, a century on, it’s once again family-owned, and is once again among the purest exemplars of Parisian luxury hospitality, at a scale that’s more intimate and more residential in atmosphere than the city’s grand old palaces." - Tablet Hotels