The Shepherd Mayfair hotel has opened in London’s Shepherd Market, adding 82 rooms and suites to the West End for business travellers who want a smaller, residential-style base within easy reach of Green Park and Bond Street.
The property is a joint venture between Bain Capital and Orka Investments and covers 33,600 square feet across six floors at 2 Stanhope Row, London. Two of its venues, the restaurant Fayre and the all-day cafe and bar The Lounge, are trading from opening. A third, the late-night cocktail bar Teddy’s, is due to follow in November 2026.
For companies with clients, investors or offices in W1, the appeal is location. The hotel is moments from Mayfair’s galleries, boutiques and restaurants, in a district that houses many of the capital’s investment firms. The price is another matter. Opening rates are likely to sit above the London cap in many a corporate travel policy, and with more than half of workers having little or no say over where they stay on business trips, this is a booking most travellers will need to make a case for.
How much is a room at The Shepherd Mayfair?
Rooms are available from £500 per night. The Shepherd Mayfair’s rooms and suites are split between 70 rooms and 12 suites, each planned around the proportions of the original mansion layouts. Categories run from Standard and Superior Rooms up to the larger Shepherd Suites and Mayfair Suites, and many have window seats looking over Shepherd Market and Mayfair.
Travellers who need to work in the room will find furniture designed to do double duty. Desks convert into dressing tables, console tables become chessboards and storage is built in to keep the space uncluttered. Bathrooms are marble, with Floris London amenities developed with La Bottega, and selected rooms add a bathtub and a separate seating area.
Dining at the Shepherd Mayfair hotel
Fayre, on the ground floor, is a 62-cover neighbourhood restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Fayre restaurant and bar menus mix British favourites with European classics, among them roast halibut, beef fillet pithivier and beer-battered haddock with prawn mousse.
For business travel purposes, The Lounge at street level is likely to be the more useful space. The 46-cover cafe and bar runs from breakfast and morning coffee through relaxed lunches to evening drinks, has an outdoor terrace and a street-facing hatch for takeaway refreshments, and welcomes local residents as well as guests. The announcement makes no mention of dedicated meeting rooms, so anyone needing private space should check with the hotel before booking.
Teddy’s will be a 72-cover bar on the lower ground floor, reached from Market Mews or through the hotel, and will open Tuesday to Saturday from evening until late. It is named after Edward Shepherd, the architect and developer who created the neighbourhood and from whom the hotel also takes its name.
A boutique hotel in Mayfair with wellness on call
Wellness is delivered through partnerships. Guests can book 20-minute EMS personal training sessions with E-Pulsive in their suite, in a nearby Royal Park or at the company’s Belgravia studio, and the concierge can arrange conventional personal training tailored to individual requirements. Italian clinical skincare brand Miamo supplies products for in-room minibars, with full-size items available from the front desk. It is a format that suits guests short on time, and one other properties in the capital are pursuing, as the Westin London City’s hotel wellbeing experts show.
The building stands on the site of Mayfair’s oldest house, known as The Cottage, which dates to 1618 and was once home to a shepherd tending his flock. The surrounding fields later hosted the annual May Fair. That history runs through the interiors alongside a collection of British art, including wall coverings in Fayre by British artist Adam Ellis.
The launch adds to a busy autumn for new London accommodation, following lyf Chelsea London’s opening at Stamford Bridge. For travel bookers, the Shepherd Mayfair hotel is best seen as an option for client-facing trips and senior travellers: small, central and priced accordingly.
