Fodor's Expert Review Hazlitt's

This disarmingly friendly place, full of personality, elegant antiques, old portraits, and claw-foot bathtubs, occupies three connected early-18th-century Soho town houses, one of which was the last home of prolific English critic and essayist William Hazlitt (1778–1830). Traditional English style and opulent Regency furnishings form a huge part of its appeal, but it's charmingly devoid of certain modern amenities—as the owners say, "In 1718, there were no elevators, and there still aren't." Rooms are named after famed Regency Soho denizens, and nearby are more outrageously fine restaurants than you could visit in a year.