Location Within easy walk of the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, the hotel is in the bustling financial district of Jinchengfangdong. Design Hirsch Bedner’s restaurant interiors at Cepe include textured walls, red leather armchairs and white tablecloths topped with frosted blue and clear glasses. Food styles Cepe chef Eugenio Iraci, who is from Perugia, specializes in Northern Italian dishes like roasted portobello mushroom with eggplant, prawns and ricotta, smoked risotto with porcini and a selection of gelati. Room to book Favourite rooms have access to the 18th-floor club lounge and the 18-metre pool, where classic black-and-white movies are projected on the wall. Rooms 253. GM Mark Lettenbichler.
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