Back when The Ritz opened in London in the early 1900’s, the architects designed a cocktail bar that ran from inside the Piccadilly entrance along the length of the front of the building to Arlington Street. The original Rivoli Bar was a fashionable haunt and a celebrated meeting place!

Rivoli Bar
But in 1972 it was transformed into a parade of shops. It re-opened in November 2001, The Rivoli was lavishly recreated by designer Tessa Kennedy in the more decorative and luxurious style of the late 1920’s rather than its early Art Deco original and is, once again, a fashionable and popular meeting place in London for an after dinner drink.

Upon entering the bar from the hotel’s Long Gallery, attention is immediately caught by the five gilded ceiling domes, each with their own delicate Lalique style chandelier. Windows overlooking Piccadilly stretch the length of the room and are dressed in voile, with each curtain pleat embroidered with Art Deco emblems in velvet and silk.

To the left of the entrance is the onyx marble bar which glows from lighting set both above and below. Glasses, bottles of spirits and liqueurs, silver cocktail shakers and Champagne buckets sparkle with brilliant reflections from the rear wall set in glass.

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