 Evelyn Waugh 's 1942 novel Work Suspended features a scene at the Ritz in which the narrator falls in love with a friend 's wife during a luncheon . Alan Bennett 's allegorical play , Forty Years On was later set in the basement of the Ritz during the war . In the universe of the book Good Omens , two primary characters , the angel <unk> and the demon Crowley , often frequent the Ritz . The hotel is mentioned in the song " A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " as well as in Queen 's " Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy " . Large portions of the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill were filmed in and around the hotel . 
