Part of the African Pride Hotel group, the Melrose Arch Hotel has redefined urban chic in a city which I have come to fully embrace for its diversity and rising self-confidence, finally emerging strong from many years of its turbulent past.

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The couple owned the Hotel Melrose in Grand Junction and Bebb-Jones moved back to the UK with his son in 1998, after selling the hotel.

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And guests at the Pali-Hotel on Melrose Avenue can order up chicken cracklins and melted raclette from Kris Tominaga and Brian Dunsmoor's The Hart and the Hunter, rated by Los Angeles magazine as one of the best restaurants of 2012.

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