1930s

Jean-Baptiste and Marie Troisgros open the Hôtel des Platanes in Roanne

Yuki Teiichi opens a room 1.8m wide in Osaka — Kitcho

Albert Steigenberger takes the Europäischer Hof at Baden-Baden and founds the group

La Voile d'Or opens at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Harry Craddock compiles The Savoy Cocktail Book

The Pierre opens on Fifth Avenue at Central Park

The King George opens on Syntagma Square

Alden Freeman builds Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive, modelled on the Alcázar de Colón and built partly with brick brought from it

Mitsukoshi opens a Gyeongseong branch in occupied Seoul on 20 October; the building is now Shinsegae, and whether that makes it the first Korean department store is still argued

Gaston Hochar founds Château Musar at Ghazir

Pierre Desfontaines joins two macaron shells with ganache at Ladurée

Mitsukoshi Gyeongseong opens in Seoul; it later becomes Shinsegae

The George V charters flights to London, Madrid and Berlin on its own three-seat Farman

William Avery Rockefeller II builds Camp Wonundra on Saranac Lake; it opens as The Point in 1980

Giuseppe Cipriani opens Harry's Bar, Venice, on 13 May

Cellular-therapy research begins at Clinique La Prairie, Montreux

The King David opens in Jerusalem, built in local pink limestone

Hapag-Lloyd introduces the expedition cruise

The King David opens in Jerusalem, built to receive a British Mandate that would not last

Sea Cloud is launched as a private four-masted barque for Marjorie Merriweather Post; it is still sailing with guests

The Hôtel de Paris opens at the village entrance — the first luxury hotel in Saint-Tropez

François Dupré buys the George V after Hillman loses it to his lenders

The Waldorf Astoria opens on Park Avenue on 1 October — the largest and tallest hotel in the world

Arshak Sarkies dies on 9 June; a bankruptcy petition is filed against Raffles the next day

The Dorchester opens on Park Lane, one of the first hotels built of reinforced concrete

Burgh Island is extended; its restaurant still carries the Nettlefold name

The Grand Hotel d'Angkor opens at Siem Reap for travellers to the temples

The Majestic opens in Kuala Lumpur

The Ensesa family opens the Hostal de la Gavina at S'Agaró

Al Mahatta opens at Sharjah on the Imperial Airways route to India, with a rest house beside the airfield — the air passenger becomes a new kind of guest

Carpentras truffle brokers open Maison de la Truffe on the place de la Madeleine

Slavia is rebuilt in Art Deco with windows cut to the Vltava and the Castle

Prince Umberto of Savoy grants Luigi Albanese a restaurateur's licence after he treats the prince's sea-urchin wound — Da Luigi ai Faraglioni begins

Paul and Baptistine Roux turn Le Robinson into a three-room inn and rename it La Colombe d'Or

Roux hangs the sign: lodging here for man, horse or painter — artists begin paying in pictures

Michel Guérard is born in Vétheuil on 27 March

Yuki Teiichi invents the Shōkadō bento from a tea utensil

The Cassino da Urca opens in Rio; Carmen Miranda sings there before gambling is banned in 1946

Gracie Fields buys Il Fortino on Marina Piccola for £11,000 — the fort where she had once stayed as a guest

The National and the Metropol are taken into Intourist

Les Deux Magots founds its literary prize

Lapérouse takes three Michelin stars, held until 1968

Swiss Deluxe Hotels is founded — a national association of first-class houses

The Hôtel Saint-Georges opens on the Beirut waterfront, by Antoine Tabet with Auguste Perret — its pool club becomes where the political and social life of the Levant takes place

Mohan Singh Oberoi pawns his wife’s jewellery to buy Clarkes at Shimla, having started as a front-desk clerk at the Cecil in 1922

Fitzgerald opens Tender Is the Night with the Hôtel du Cap, as the Hôtel des Étrangers

Fernand Petiot formulates the Bloody Mary at the King Cole Bar, St. Regis New York

Palacio Duhau is built in Buenos Aires for the Duhau family

Tsukiji opens as Tokyo's central wholesale market after the Great Kantō earthquake destroyed Nihonbashi

The Guana Island club opens in the British Virgin Islands

Chesa Veglia opens as a restaurant on Helen Badrutt’s idea, seven years after Hans bought the farmhouse to stop its demolition

SS Normandie enters service with a dining room longer than the Hall of Mirrors, lit by Lalique — the high point of the liner as an interior

The Hotel Moskva opens on Manezhnaya on 20 December, its second tower unbuilt until 1977

Portofino stops building: no new house is raised on the harbour after this year

Hans Badrutt converts the Chesa Veglia farmhouse into a dance bar and restaurant — après-ski begins

Chesa Veglia opens on 28 December on Helen Badrutt's idea — après-ski is born

Da Luigi ai Faraglioni opens on the rocks at Capri — the earliest verified beach club in the register ⚑ Italian sources date the licence to 1932

Sant Ambroeus opens as a pasticceria beside La Scala

The Krallerhof opens at Leogang under the Altenberger family

The Imperial opens at New Delhi; Nehru, Gandhi, Jinnah and Mountbatten later talk there informally

La Résidence de la Pinède begins operating on the Baie des Canoubiers

The Ritz manager's American wife stages a sit-in and the Cambon bar admits women

Château Saint-Martin opens above Vence in a twelfth-century Templar commandery

The Moosbrugger family takes the Gasthof Post at Lech

The Principe di Piemonte opens at Viareggio

The Bando opens at Sogong-dong, eight storeys and then the tallest in Seoul; Lotte Hotel Seoul later stands on the site

Ernst and Silvia Scherz take over the Gstaad Palace; they buy all the shares in 1947

Leopold and Josefine Hawelka take over the Café Ludwig in Dorotheergasse in May