Restaurant Associates and Arora Hotels scoop award for Sofitel Heathrow

Sofitel London Heathrow is a 605-bedroom hotel which adjoins Heathrow's Terminal 5 with a direct link bridge. Restaurant Associates has held the hotel's 15-year food and beverage contract with Arora Hotels, owner of Sofitel London Heathrow, since its opening in July 2008. Since this time, Restaurant Associates has operated all of the hotel's on-site eating and drinking destinations: the French restaurant, Brasserie Roux, in consultation with Albert Roux; the Vivre restaurant which hosts five live cooking theatre kitchens; the Tea 5 tea salon and the Icelandic blue Sphere Bar and Library Bar. The 110-strong Restaurant Associates team based at Sofitel London Heathrow also provides all meeting and events catering and room service. Guy Morris, managing director, Arora Hotels, said: "Arora Hotels and Restaurant Associates' relationship began four and a half years ago and is going from strength to strength. Receiving the Best New Business Hotel award is an honour and recognises our partnership approach." Chris Cooper, business director, Restaurant Associates Hotels, added: "Business hotels require a high level of service and remarkable food quality and we feel that, working with Arora Hotels, we have been achieved a paragon at Sofitel London Heathrow. Our dining and drinking areas are sleek and stylish, in keeping with the hotel, and the hotel's corporate guests have responded very well to the individual personalities of each of the areas." Restaurant Associates' hotel business has been established for five years and has an eight-strong portfolio of predominantly London and South-East based corporate hotels.