Kitchen Rat has learnt about exciting changes planned at London's 19th century luxury Berners hotel.
Owned by JJW Luxury Collection, which took over the Eton Collection in August of this year, it's too early to reveal the full details other than to say the scope of the work going on there is dramatic.
The expression "what's in a name?" springs to mind, also.
However, while the full extent of the hotel's makeover will have to remain a secret for now one thing is for sure if a recent lunch with Eton Collection's managing director Peter Tyrie, who is overseeing the project, is anything to go by:
The transformation won't involve incorporating an Italian restaurant.
Why?
Well, Tyrie has one hell of a pedigree that includes transforming Edinburgh's Balmoral into the great hotel it is today, founding a certain Gleneagles Hotels group in 1981 and being at the helm of Mandarin Oriental when it was floated.
However, we all have to start somewhere and Tyrie's formative years were spent at London's grande dame, the Savoy hotel in the swinging sixites.
"London had an influx of Italian workers at the time and the Savoy was no different. It meant everyday it was pasta of some sort for dinner in the staff canteen and it was pretty grim. Still, at the time it was all I could afford," reminisced Tyrie funnily enough not in an Italian restaurant for our meeting.
Although garlic bread was hardly ever likely to be on the menu att he hotel's new eaterie it appears the likes of Giorgio Locatelli and Aldo Zilli need not apply.