Restaurant openings in London have been commonplace. How blasé can you get, I wonder. But it's true, they're popping up all over the place, it's hard to keep up. A new luxury hotel - now that's rather different - we don't see so many of those. It's really all about style. Yesterday's comforts are superfluous trappings, but today's comforts are sharply focussed, leaner, fitter and no bloody chintz to be seen. Well that's a relief! Looking at some pre-opening photos of rooms, I noticed with satisfaction that the pillows looked very sumptuous, and there's even a French Horn mouthpiece for you to bark orders through to room service. Sorry, sorry, my sub-editor has just pointed out that it's not a mouthpiece at all but a very high-tech sharply focussed little reading light. Silly me. Anyway, I've since been along and had a sneaky look for myself and I wish I could afford to stay there. It all looks absolutely super. Some facts: There are 105 bedrooms including 12 suites, two with private gymnasia (see what I said about leaner and fitter). There are two restaurants called Axis and Indigo, a high energy espresso bar, a screening room (where undesirables can be filtered out?), conference rooms, a florist (flowers in the hotel wil be changed and refreshed daily) and a health club with an 18m pool. The bars are already extremely popular and it's not just people celebrating or commiserating after sueing each other for large sums of money in the Law Courts just down the road.