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Perfect combinations
Whether it’s a French hotel that marries time-tested traditions with breezy American east-coast glamour or a UK townhouse that celebrates the best in design, what distinguishes a place to stay is often the ideas that it brings to the mix.
Maison Delano
Paris
Bar manager Kevin Eteo Mba is busy fine-tuning one of Maison Delano’s signature cocktails. Combining Anaë gin, verjuice, ruby port and Jerez manzanilla with flower mead from Mont-Saint-Michel, ginger syrup, a spray of Currach whiskey and spirulina, he works deftly before placing a tumbler on the black granite bar. “That’s the Delano mule,” he says. It’s a reinterpretation of the classic US east coast cocktail, in a nod to the original Delano hotel in Miami, which has been closed since 2020. Launched by Ian Schrager in 1995, the…
