The Savoy: Checking into History

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  • Опубликовано: 31 дек 2024

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  • @jamiew1664
    @jamiew1664 Год назад +7

    I was a chef there in my early 20s for a couple of years, what an experience, the work was hard and the days were long... but, i loved it.

  • @SantaCruzSoulSurfer
    @SantaCruzSoulSurfer 3 года назад +13

    Greatest part of this feature,was them interviewing their legend bartender... what a national treasure he is! 😃

    • @michaelplunkett8059
      @michaelplunkett8059 5 месяцев назад

      He's right. The martini was a gin cocktail. Hence 007 requesting a custom vodka martini - shaken, not stirred.

  • @christinecamley
    @christinecamley 3 года назад +7

    This is a terrific video! Superbly informative. Thanks so much!!

  • @johannakamstra-schickendan7380
    @johannakamstra-schickendan7380 Год назад +3

    Had beautiful memories of the Savoy hotel stayed there a few times. You forgot to mention the most important fact; it has the only right lane drive in the whole United Kingdom what I thought was unique.

  • @davidforeman9442
    @davidforeman9442 5 лет назад +7

    Great informative videos and love the humour thank you.

  • @uwewagner-lu6pk
    @uwewagner-lu6pk 10 месяцев назад

    I worked at the Savoy from 1976 til 1979 most at the time at the Savoy Grill, it was a fantastic hotel at the time and the service delivery was out of this world. The Savoy Hotel London gave me the edge that opened many door world wide! Thanks Savoy Hotel ad Friends

  • @lilyrose1581
    @lilyrose1581 3 года назад +2

    I know a guy who makes retrofitted appliances a my God there is a reason why the stuff is awesome not only did it last long if you took care of it but the Styles we're honestly phenomenal not that I don't appreciate some of the more Sleek modern looks and he's able to combine that but there's something about the older fashion that has so much charm to it and because he's been able to work on these models using future technology he made them a lot more efficient because unfortunately some of these things had problems but it almost seems more rare in comparison to what we have to deal with a lot more simplistic depending on the appliance the same guy has a cousin who works on antique model cars and planes so in many ways it's a family business

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny 5 лет назад +15

    I don't understand the complaints about Mr. Wilde. In those days 2/6 was a hell of a tip for a bellboy, even at the Savoy.

  • @maunster3414
    @maunster3414 5 лет назад +15

    6:08 putting your thumb onto the surface of the plate is bad form and not seen as sanitary. (retired corporate waiter)

    • @LonnyW212
      @LonnyW212 5 лет назад +1

      Maunster! Good catch! Agree.

  • @jackcunningham4716
    @jackcunningham4716 5 лет назад +4

    "Sorry Mr Hudson is this not what you ordered?" I saw what you meant there!

  • @TheBrummie60
    @TheBrummie60 Год назад

    Visited the Savoy last month: sumptuous, a bubble isolated from the real world.
    One curious observation, though: Adjacent to the elegant entrance to the exquisite WCs is a grand portrait of our late Queen. Why there? Is it a subtle joke, linking one throne with another, perhaps?

  • @capt.obvious4487
    @capt.obvious4487 5 лет назад +4

    WOW "Sorry Mr. Hudson is it not what you ordered"

  • @stephanebelizaire3627
    @stephanebelizaire3627 2 года назад +2

    BRAVO !

  • @CoxJoxSox
    @CoxJoxSox 5 лет назад +6

    Long before the Savoy, there were other great hotels in Switzerland and France.

    • @philipcroft2236
      @philipcroft2236 5 лет назад +6

      Very true, but the Savoy was the first to have electric lights in all rooms and electric lifts.

    • @hastensavoir7782
      @hastensavoir7782 4 года назад

      @@philipcroft2236 what are Lifts?

    • @philipcroft2236
      @philipcroft2236 4 года назад +2

      @@hastensavoir7782 elevators

  • @felixniederhauser7799
    @felixniederhauser7799 5 лет назад +18

    The Savoy has been made by Cesar Ritz & Auguste Escofier.

    • @ScottPothan
      @ScottPothan 5 лет назад

      Felix Niederhauser both of whom were sacked from the Savoy for embezzlement

    • @felixniederhauser7799
      @felixniederhauser7799 5 лет назад +7

      @@ScottPothan :This is known,however, it does not change the fact that both of them made the Savoy.

  • @agnesbutterbun
    @agnesbutterbun 5 лет назад +6

    I do prefer the Ritz when I stay in London.

  • @jamesburns6687
    @jamesburns6687 5 лет назад +1

    why is suite 41 no longer open ?

  • @CoxJoxSox
    @CoxJoxSox 5 лет назад +3

    You'd think they would get top hats that didn't look like they were pulled out of an old trunk - what a bad first impression - that doorman's top hat was in horrible condition.

  • @Acidlib
    @Acidlib 8 месяцев назад

    “Film stars, celebrity chefs, fraudsters, murderers, sex criminals” were the last three really necessary? I feel like they’re kinda implied in the first two items on the list. Heck, they probably could’ve just left it at “celebrities” and we would’ve filled in the blanks.

  • @nonnabagdasaryan199
    @nonnabagdasaryan199 4 года назад +2

    Eet smakelijk..🙂😋🧁🫖☕️

  • @saleban1
    @saleban1 4 года назад +1

    At 6:00 they both did spit the food

  • @theendofallthingsisuponus1575
    @theendofallthingsisuponus1575 3 года назад +1

    Top notch !!!!

  • @rogerlephoque3704
    @rogerlephoque3704 3 года назад +1

    Hitler's favourite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, kept a catamite until the day she croaked in 2003. I believe his name was Horst.

  • @Naughtiest_Maximus
    @Naughtiest_Maximus 6 лет назад +7

    2:48 ....and the wine flowed like wine ...lol

  • @ABMW-tech
    @ABMW-tech 5 лет назад +4

    Savoy...a great hotel....

  • @danyelldior
    @danyelldior 7 лет назад +6

    *I LOVE IT*

  • @bmustang2777
    @bmustang2777 9 дней назад

    I worked at the Savoy for many years in the 1980s it had Style - Now only good for Football players

  • @diegoyuiop
    @diegoyuiop 5 лет назад +2

    I thought this video was about the house of Savoy...

  • @shannonmerrill7148
    @shannonmerrill7148 3 года назад +2

    What I wouldn't give to stay there once.only dreaming

  • @1973Washu
    @1973Washu 5 лет назад +6

    The Savoy is number two to Claridges for prestige. The Savoy was for the glitterati, Claridges is for royalty.

  • @ALi-mc4ve
    @ALi-mc4ve 7 лет назад +4

    I MEAN CAN I BUY A DRINK FOR YOU SIR??

  • @abhijitvmehta
    @abhijitvmehta 5 лет назад +2

    That's one very bad suit.

  • @jslasher1
    @jslasher1 5 лет назад +7

    My second favourite London hotel after The Ritz.

  • @elainestillwell7
    @elainestillwell7 7 лет назад +9

    We're going there

  • @glenndelossantos9671
    @glenndelossantos9671 5 лет назад +1

    nice

  • @larrywakeman4371
    @larrywakeman4371 3 года назад +2

    my late mother would say that in the most expensive hotels the chefs and cooks do NOT wear gloves on their hands and they are touching food-even decades before the COVID- isn't that unsanitary?

    • @danielg5127
      @danielg5127 2 года назад +1

      Not if they washed their hands.

    • @Maaad-maaan
      @Maaad-maaan 2 года назад

      Not to mention they taste test soups and sauces

    • @thecook8964
      @thecook8964 2 года назад

      Washing hands is necessary, but not enough (test w/ blk light). Gloves are great if you frequently change them (eg. don't open the refer door, etc. without changing). Tongs, tweezers, etc. are good.

    • @maiandong9918
      @maiandong9918 Год назад

      @@Maaad-maaan ? with a tasting spoon, used once

  • @kittyvine823
    @kittyvine823 Год назад +1

    Mass production does not Float My Boat. I'll stick with Home Cooking.

  • @maryngshwuling9916
    @maryngshwuling9916 2 года назад

    Impressive 🌈

  • @Soda3000Pop
    @Soda3000Pop Год назад

    Maybe Claridges where Morgan Freeman stays!

  • @rogerlephoque3704
    @rogerlephoque3704 3 года назад +4

    The Savoy has been ruined by the company that took it over about a decade ago, shut it for 18 months and re-opened a mere shadow of its former self...

  • @AGTngo
    @AGTngo 2 года назад +1

    “The wine flowed like wine”. Really? Where are the copy editors?

  • @bixchick007
    @bixchick007 5 лет назад +1

    Heretagey?

  • @romeo9017
    @romeo9017 6 лет назад +1

    Scruffy as always...l

  • @ronaldschultenover8137
    @ronaldschultenover8137 4 года назад +2

    They havr a German chef because Brits cannot cook must be genetic

    • @okbutthenagain.9402
      @okbutthenagain.9402 Год назад

      Then explain why Brits are some of the top world chef's. Or doesn't that fit into your bigoted generalisation of Brits.

  • @Soda3000Pop
    @Soda3000Pop Год назад

    Why did Mariah Carey leave this hotel after arriving? Is this a racist hotel? I am Black my husband and I, and we want to come to London next Christmas, and I want to be treated well.

    • @okbutthenagain.9402
      @okbutthenagain.9402 Год назад

      Best you stay in the US with that pathetic attention seeking attitude. Your colour had nothing to do with any of this. But you sure brought your dumb racist me me me BS into it!. Stay in the US as your attitude isn't welcome in the UK.

    • @Bianca-dw4qh
      @Bianca-dw4qh Год назад

      With you guys everything is about racism 😒

  • @STICKITINYOUREAR
    @STICKITINYOUREAR 5 лет назад +5

    This is supposed to be a look into the history of the Savoy and there is no mention of Cesar Ritz ? Along with chef Auguste Escofier, these two friends made the Savoy world renowned and yet this fool ( Dr Mathew Sweet ) does not mention Ritz ? He also doesn't mention that both men were fired from the Savoy for embezzlement? In typical British snobbery and bigotry, Dr Sweet complains that the Savoy's new owners, mainly the major shareholder being a Saudi prince, are the reason that the Savoy is too far removed from what it once was and is now a lesser hotel. This is a piss poor history lesson.

    • @bellsca1917
      @bellsca1917 5 лет назад +1

      He did mention Auguste Escofier and that he was fired for embezzlement but that it didn't come out unitl later that that was the reason, and you are right...how can he not metion Ritz.

    • @richard09able
      @richard09able 4 года назад +1

      I agree, I mentioned it for him.

    • @hastensavoir7782
      @hastensavoir7782 4 года назад +1

      Nor did he mention the Legendary Savoy Beds

    • @STICKITINYOUREAR
      @STICKITINYOUREAR 4 года назад +1

      @@hastensavoir7782 - What about the Savoy beds? I have never heard anything about them. Please do share.

    • @hastensavoir7782
      @hastensavoir7782 4 года назад +1

      @@STICKITINYOUREAR Oh do search about them. Savoy Beds initially made by James Edwards Limited. They’re now called Savoir Beds.

  • @nonnabagdasaryan199
    @nonnabagdasaryan199 Год назад

    Thank you so very mutch. Amezing beautyful & onbelivebl expensive.😊😋🧁🫖☕️