GREAT EATS HAWAII: HARRODS DEPARTMENT STORE

Monday, January 2, 2012

HARRODS DEPARTMENT STORE - LONDON, ENGLAND

HARRODS

LONDON, ENGLAND

Harrods is the first department store where I wish we could have spent more time. Between the Champagne Bar and Food Hall I could have lived here for a long time. You have to see Harrods to really appreciate it. The store is not only beautiful but filled with everything you could ever imagine. The Food Hall where you can buy prepared meals or everything from meats to vegetables, cheese, bread, candy, seafood, steaks and everything in between. Simply amazing.

Harrods is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Brompton, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011, with plans announced to reopen in 2013.^[1]
The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m²) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m²) of selling space in over 330 departments. The UK's second-biggest shop, Oxford Street's Selfridges, is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m²) of selling space.^[2]

The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique—All Things for All People, Everywhere. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall, are world famous.

Throughout its history, the store has had a total of five owners. On 8 May 2010, Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the store to Qatar Holdings for £1.5 billion.