We went to celebrate a family birthday recently at the lovely Le Café Anglais and it reminded us how perfect it is for a Sunday lunch. There were lots of parents and grandparents there with kids (we didn’t have any… Continue reading
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Restaurants & Bars
Food: Whitecross Street food market
Mon - Fri: 11am - 5pm, but the best days are Thursday & Friday
If you live or work near the Barbican then you’ll know about Whitecross Street food market, but for us, it was a bit of a revelation. Fancy a delicious and truly satisfying lunch for a fiver or less? Italian? Mexican?… Continue reading
Restaurants: The Monocle Café
Soft opening on 1 April 2013. Opening hours: Mon - Fri, 7am - 4pm; Sat: 8am - 4pm & Sun: 9am - 3pm
Just when you thought Marylebone couldn’t get any hipper, along comes The Monocle Café, the first UK opening from the international magazine’s founder Tyler Brûlé (it’s a hot street – Andre Balazs is opening a hotel in the nearby old… Continue reading
Restaurant: The Clove Club
opens Mar 4th
The incessant chatter and hype about this new restaurant, the latest venture from the boys behind Spitalfields favourite Upstairs at The Ten Bells and private dining club The Clove Club, seems well founded. It opened earlier this week in Shoreditch… Continue reading
Restaurants & Food: Cooking with Rowley – a series of one-off dinners with guest chefs at Le Café Anglais
Skye Gyngell: 20 March. Allegra McEvedy: 14 May. Thomasina Miers & Rick Stein: summer & autumn dates TBC
We love Rowley Leigh’s Bayswater restaurant, Le Café Anglais, just as we loved his previous abode, the hugely influential Kensington Place. We love Leigh’s cooking (it’s him you have to thank for creating that now ubiquitous dish: seared scallops with pea… Continue reading
Restaurants: two delicious new (and cheap) places to eat from Gail’s Bakery and Alan Yau
Open now
Opening this week are two new restaurants and as great fans of the owners’ previous projects, we’ve got high hopes for them. Gail’s Kitchen in Bloomsbury is the first restaurant from the team behind Gail’s Bakeries. With baking and specifically… Continue reading
Clubs: play ping pong at Bounce
If you love ping pong (and really, who doesn’t?), then Bounce will be your idea of heaven. The club, which opens this week, has 17 tables (one is the official 2012 Olympic table, another the World Championship table on loan),… Continue reading
Bars & restaurants: Ping and Evans & Peel in Earl’s Court
Gone are the Australian bars that used to cluster around Earl’s Court tube station, for much to our surprise when we visited the area this week, it’s all change, change, change. We started off with a visit to Ping, a… Continue reading
Paris
Have a few days in Paris but not sure where to go? Here are our top picks:
Shopping: Spree, 16, rue la Vieuville, 75018 (www.spree.fr)
Concept store shopping at its most charming. Behind witty windows, in a… Continue reading
Restaurants: Dabbous, how to eat at a restaurant that’s booked until 2013
31 year old chef Ollie Dabbous trained with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir before going on to work at Hibiscus, Noma and The Fat Duck and has been wowing the notoriously difficult-to-please London crowd at his recently opened restaurant. We… Continue reading
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