A Door, A Gain
Performances are in a new venue, the Nicholas Nickleby, an ace pub serving their own range of Czech-style lagers (and boy do you need a lager right now!). 1.15pm on Sat 13th and Sun 14th June. Tickets as usual from the Playaz.
Restaurant 3, Wright’s, Pall Mall
Cheap eats in Pall Mall, a winner.
Restaurant 2, Queen’s Head & Artichoke, Regent’s Park
Powell and pints, a winning combination.
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Resto 24, Masala Essence, St Pancras
Standard at Messence.
Resto 16, Brat, Shoreditch
Eating parklife at BRAT.
Brasil! Brasil!
With nearly all of the artwork from collections not just outside of the UK but from across the Atlantic it's well worth catching this show, especially if you want to dream of tropical climes during this chilly London February.
Resto 3, Fortnum & Mason Wine Bar, Piccadilly
After a hard day hitting the books in the London Library (Edmund White’s excellent The Flâneur in prep for a March Paris trip) it was time for a bit of pre-exhibition grub. We didn’t want to go too far and Al Duca is in the middle of a refurb so we opted for F&M’s Wine…
Resto 2, Corbaçi, Green Lanes
For £15 a head I don't think you could get better value anywhere else on Green Lanes (except, perhaps Umut 2000). Recommended.
Resto 45 Bubala, Soho
We took coffee down the road at Flat White, which since I was last there in the 2010s appears to discovered that Billy Idol is C-O-O-L. Sorry kids, I was there and he was C-R-A-P. Thankfully their coffee remains superb.
Resto 41 Ciao Bella, Bloomsbury
It's a cliché but CB really is the epitome of the trad trattoria in central London, a breed that is not disappearing as much as you might think. But being in Bloomsbury it was about 20 quid more that it might have been, say, on Green Lanes. Even so, I didn't begrudge it the extra; Lamb's Conduit Street can be maddening in its Monocality but CB is keeping it real. Even if the customers aren't.
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