
16.08.2011 / Food & Leisure
A rockstar’s hideaway
How many hotels can boast having repeatedly hosted Keanu Reeves, Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers? Well, the Phoenix Hotel, in San Francisco, certainly can.
The unusual thing is, this is not some luxury downtown refuge, but a low-key former motel from the Fifties in the city’s infamously gritty Tenderloin district. A veritable rock ’n roll experience with a retro aftertaste.
Yet, since a well-established reputation and a famous clientele is not always enough to keep the legend alive, the Phoenix has recently added a touch of glamour to it all, by asking the guys at Mr. Important Design to create their new restaurant and bar.
Needless to say, Chambers Eat and Drink has soon become one of the city’s most celebrated hip hotspots.
Everything feels very Seventies – especially around the Palm Springs style pool – even the food, tasty and unpretentious. But the true gem is the library lining the walls, whose shelves are literally brimming with vinyl records.




