Chain Only you has us used to hotels that have broken the mold for their philosophy, and for their decoration. There is no more to see hotels like the one in Barquillo, or the one in Atocha. Design hotels cared to the millimeter with a decoration that is as current as the day they were inaugurated.
Now, following in its wake, Only You has just opened its first hotel outside Madrid in Valencia. A five-star hotel that opens its doors in the former Astoria Plaza hotel, a classic in Valencian hospitality located a few meters from the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
And the decoration bears the signature of the interior designer Lázaro Rosa Violán. A safe bet with a signature can be seen in any corner of this hotel whose sophisticated interior design is inspired by the Mediterranean.
The design of the common spaces is contemporary, eclectic and carefree, thanks to the mixture of textures and noble materials, and with blue and green the plants as a common thread throughout the building, as we could see during the visit we made with Alejandro Navarro, director of Only You Valencia, and with Alejandro de la Rosa, PR & Communication Manager of the hotel chain.
Cocktail, florist, and tailoring
As soon as we enter the hotel, the first thing we come across is the reception-cocktail bar. A place where in addition to Check-In, you can have one of Iván Talens’ delicious signature cocktails, taste the esmorçaret (Valencian lunch), or informal proposals (but no less delicious) to have a snack from chef Jose María Climente with perfect dishes to share at any time of the day or his original proposal for the traditional vermouth time.
Next to this area, we find one of the hotel’s most original proposals: a flower shop from El Atelier de la Flor (the presence of flowers is a constant throughout the hotel). On the first floor of the hotel you can also find a tailoring of the Madrid firm Tom Black.
The rooms
The hotel’s 191 rooms are spread over a total of eight floors. For your design, Lázaro Rosa Violán has been inspired by the style of the city. And as a result, the rooms are fresh, elegant, and timeless so that guests can feel at home. Attention to details such as headboards, because they are simply awesome.
Among the rooms, the “Homie Suites‘, rooms with a stylish seating area, fully equipped kitchen and balcony with city views and plenty of natural light. Your ‘Panorama Suite’ is undoubtedly the most special room, with more than 80 square meters.
The gastronomic offer
In addition to the gastronomic offer in the lobby, the Only Yoy Valencia has other two powerful gastronomic proposals. On the one hand, the gastronomic rice restaurant El Mirador, directed by chef José María Climente. The rice bar, located on the top floor of the hotel, has a careful design and 360º views over the rooftops of the city of Valencia.
And in his letter the quality raw material and local product and km0 They are the protagonists, with rice dishes that range from the most traditional paella to seafood or lobster rice, the classic a banda, the duck rice with figs in llanda, the free-range chicken with pumpkin and mushrooms or the prawns and tender garlic .
In the lobby it also opens its doors’Wild‘. A restaurant that, after its success in cities such as Miami, Madrid or Barcelona, arrives in Valencia with a surprising space decorated in detail to offer the most casual side of Japanese cuisine through a fusion proposal in which you can enjoy a DJ every night.
In front of the stove is the Venezuelan chef Fermín Azkue, with experience in France, England, Spain and several Latin American countries, who develops a very personal cuisine that combines local and Japanese products, as well as Japanese techniques -with special attention to robata- with the worked backgrounds and slow cooking that characterize to Spanish and French cuisines.
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