Hôtel Le St-James, Montreal: hotel review

By Jolyon Attwooll Published: 8:00AM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

Each room is different, all are atmospheric and expensively flashy

The place

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In the heart of prosperous Old Montreal on Rue Saint-Jacques, once Montreal"s homogeneous of Wall Street. Hôtel Le St-James itself was before a businessman bank.

We similar to

Even in straitened times it is tough not to be seduced by the hotel"s loftiness and the tasteful, heterogeneous taste the art-collector owners have scoured the universe for equipment trimming from Venetian dressers to 18th-century Russian armoires. Everything is written to greatfully the eye, right down to the particular brass-and-tassel room keys.

Not so penetrating

Rooms unaware Rue Saint-Jacques can be a small dark. Buildings of the earlier monetary institutions conflicting can retard the sun, unless you are staying right at the tip (and profitable more).

The bedrooms

There are 61 bedrooms and suites at Le St-James (more suites than rooms, in fact, an denote of what side of oppulance this road house lies on). Each is different; all are atmospheric and expensively flashy whilst the complicated touches such as wide-screen televisions are not discordant. Bathrooms are lined with Italian marble and granted with Molton Brown toiletries.

The alternative guest

Established utterly not long ago (in 2002), the road house has fast turn the customarily show in locale for flitting cocktail stars. Madonna has rented the total tip floor, and Billy Joel and Elton John have both stayed here. There is sufficient coherence in the prices to tempt those on some-more medium budgets to stay for a treat.

The use

Five-star customary with a refreshingly unstuffy approach. This is the kind of place where you can cocktail out for a sunrise run (if you are so inclined) and find the doorman plain ready with a bottle of H2O to palm you on your return.

The food and splash

The environment for the hotel"s glorious XO grill was once the bank"s trade floor. With chandeliers and unconditional staircases, it is a special-occasion grill with masterfully presented Italian-inspired cuisine. Dishes are customarily rebuilt with locally sourced ingredients, and the menu additionally gives a curtsy to the abounding Montreal culinary stage who knew Quebec cheeses could be this good? Main courses begin at about �17. Expect a large check if you put up with in anything from the endless booze list.

The bottom line

Rooms cost from �199 per night, incompatible breakfast.

The sum

Hôtel Le St-James, 355 Rue Saint-Jacques, Montreal, Qubec, H2Y 1N9 (001 514 841 3111; hotellestjames.com).

Telegraph rating (out of five)

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