the Algonquin Hotel
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe Algonquin Hotelthe Algonquin Hotela hotel in New York where many famous and wealthy people have stayed. Between the 1920s and the 1940s, Dorothy Parker and many other famous writers regularly met at the hotel’s restaurant and discussed their ideas, and their group is sometimes called ‘the Algonquin Round Table’. → Algonquin Hotel