The old Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong may have been small but, much like the city itself, it punched well above its weight. While the hotel’s unprepossessing entrance was overshadowed by the elite Hong Kong Club building and the Rolls-Royce showroom next door, extraordinarily gracious doormen more than made up for it. The hotel’s Italian restaurant, Toscana, was widely regarded as the best in Asia before the hotel had to close, in January 2008, to make room for yet another office tower.
以前的香港麗思卡爾頓酒店(Ritz-Carlton)也許規模不大,但與香港這座城市一樣,絲毫不容小覷。雖說酒店不起眼的入口在精英雲集的香港會所大廈( (Hong Kong Club)以及緊挨著的勞斯萊斯陳列室(Rolls-Royce showroom)的陪襯下,顯得微不足道,但禮遇有加的門迎大大彌補了上述先天不足。由於得爲另一幢寫字樓讓出地方,酒店不得不於2008年1月結束營業,酒店內的托斯卡納(Toscana)義大利風味餐廳曾被公認爲屬亞洲最佳。