SLEEP AND EAT

Move over hipster pop-ups and standalone restaurants, New York’s hotels are upping their game. In Midtown sits the Clement Restaurant, in the grandly elegant Peninsula, New York. If spending the night, it’s easy to be bowled over by the rooftop pool and spa, views down Fifth Avenue and staff that remember how you took your tea the day before, as well as beds that are crisp with pillowy white bedding.

But don’t forget about the food. Dinner here is good – think beautifully seared sea bass and zingy roast apple salad with goat’s cheese. Breakfast is something else! Order the thick, fluffy wedges of French toast crusted in cornflakes, served with individual bottles of maple syrup, or medallions of beef tenderloin (steak for breakfast?), accompanied by hash browns that don’t hail from the freezer.

Just up the road on Park Avenue is Loews Regency Bar & Grill, where the service is less intuitive but the decor has more swagger – all polished wood, glinting mirrors and parades of flashy glassware. The hotel itself is ideally located for keen shoppers, and runners who want to explore nearby Central Park. Come dinner time, carve through pink strips of salmon and perfectly cooked rib-eye steak, get tangled up in mounds of watercress and be pleasantly harangued by bold, straightforward flavours.

Clement Restaurant, newyork.peninsula.com; mains from about £27; reserve ahead Loews Regency Bar & Grill, www.loewshotels.com/regency-hotel; mains from £30; reserve ahead