Grosvenor House’s relationship with the United States began before the hotel was built and remains as strong today. Arthur Octavius Edwards designed the hotel for the US market and even had a sales office on Fifth Avenue to sell bedrooms. Today, half of Grosvenor House’s guests each year are from the USA and the hotel restaurant, JW Steakhouse is an American steakhouse (with a world-famous cheesecake). In this episode. journalist, writer and broadcaster from Chicago, Karen Krizanovich, explains why Grosvenor House is so special to her and her fellow Americans.