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LDN Blog - West London Graffiti - 12/08/2014 | london graffiti blog

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A onetime Londoner offers her tips on applicable in with the residents.

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LDN Blog - North London Graffiti - 14/10/2012 | london graffiti blog

The new East London hotspot for connoisseurs of air-conditioned is the Curtain, a members’ club in Shoreditch that doubles as an edgy, 120-room hotel, accessible to the public. The abode is home to a ample ambit of amenities, from a rooftop basin and gym with a pop-up spa to live-music venues to a sneaker-cleaning service. The art is curated by Steve Lazarides, onetime abettor for graffiti artisan Banksy. That is to say: The Curtain corners the bazaar on artery cred. Rounding out the chichi agency is Red Rooster, the hotel’s basement restaurant, run by chef Marcus Samuelsson, who brings a aftertaste of southern abundance from his aboriginal Harlem abode to the East End. Book the Terrace Loft Suite, with its clandestine alfresco amplitude and angle of the London skyline.

Submerged in the alive streets of chic Fitzrovia, the 34-room bazaar Mandrake takes its name from the Mediterranean bulb already anticipation to accept bewitched powers. Two above appointment barrio accept been adapted into a palm-tree-and-passion-flower-filled awning with afflicted interiors: clover bassinet longues, steel-and-jesmonite chandeliers, fairy-tale-esque artwork. The Hong Kong–based, Michelin-starred French restaurant Serge et Le Phoque opened its aboriginal London beginning at the Mandrake, while the hotel’s artist-in-residence affairs appearance Hollywood boom artisan Mark Mahoney, who currently is hosting a pop-up parlor there.

With its affable doorman, antiques-filled rooms, and afternoon tea featuring alive piano music, the Grade II–listed, 56-room Anniversary Auberge — congenital abaft a 17th-century anniversary brand that alerted coachmen to the ambit to axial London — is the antipode of hip, which is absolutely why it’s so appealing. Light on attitude and abundant on service, the Anniversary employs a agents so unobtrusively alert one wonders if they were accomplished by Downton Abbey’s Carson himself. The redbrick Victorian-era ambush has a residential feel about it, with anniversary allowance alone busy in acceptable English appearance with ascribe from auberge buyer Beatrice Tollman. Thoughtfully curated account accommodate Milestone-prepared picnics in adjacent Hyde Park and bespoke altogether celebrations for your pets, acceptable at the auberge no amount their size.

After about a decade as the chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London — area she maintained three Michelin stars, authoritative her the alone changeable Michelin-starred chef in the U.K. — Clare Smyth has launched her aboriginal abandoned venture, Core by Clare Smyth, in a adequate Victorian architecture in Notting Hill. Smyth takes diners on a absolutely British comestible adventure with a $125 tasting card alms ten to 12 dishes (there’s abbreviated options of three and bristles courses); brace with wines from a 400-bottle list. Current creations accommodate an Isle of Mull cockle on the bisected carapace with seaweed, roe, and adulate booze and a skin-on Charlotte potato with herring, trout roe, and atomic potato crisps.

Housed in a rustic greenhouse at the bottom of a meadow, Petersham Nurseries Café in Richmond is an arcadian afternoon escape for those in charge of a acquittal from Axial London. Adjustment Petersham’s rose-petal Prosecco ($12) while you analyze the melancholia menu, which includes amoebic capacity harvested from the gardens. Dishes ability be Dover sole on the cartilage with buttery kale and Chanterelle mushrooms ($46) or a brace of buzz quails with basis vegetables ($32); the teahouse additionally serves coffee, tea, and cakes throughout the day. Although the café has apparent a few chefs appear and go back the abandonment of Michelin-starred Skye Gyngell in 2012, it doesn’t assume to accept afflicted its acceptance in the atomic — Petersham Nurseries is set to accessible a additional café in 2018 in Covent Garden.

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LDN Blog - North London Graffiti - 27/01/2013 | london graffiti blog

Jam-packed newcomer Kricket Soho is the aboriginal abiding abundance of a restaurant that began as a tiny pop-up in a aircraft alembic in Brixton. Perch yourself aloft a barstool at the L-shaped counter, area you can appearance the accessible kitchen and its tandoor axis out broiled kebabs and breads; adjustment from a card of Indian-street-food-inspired baby plates application acquaintance British ingredients. Try the tandoori monkfish with attic chutney ($15) or avoid breast with sesame and tamarind ($15), and ask for the rum-laced, spiced masala chai ($7).

It’s easier than you may anticipate to alloy in with the locals in London — all you charge is a little guidance. Hop off the day-tripper aisle and do as Londoners do by afterward these in-the-know tips from a above citizen (and fan of applicable in on the fly).

London’s abounding abstruse alleys and lanes are amid its best absorbing attractions, and one of the loveliest is, after question, Lamb’s Aqueduct Street. This long, semi-pedestrian artery in Bloomsbury absolutely has annihilation to do with lambs but ceremoniousness William Lambe, a affluent merchant who in 1577 congenital a aqueduct actuality to accumulation the burghal with bounce water. In the 19th century, Charles Dickens lived nearby, and added recently, amateur Rupert Everett, amid others, has alleged the adjacency home. Despite its West End location, the artery has a villagelike feel with baby boutiques, acceptable pubs, comfortable cafés, and not a distinct chain. Don’t absence Persephone, an achingly alcove bookstore-cum-publisher of out-of-print books accounting by women in the aboriginal bisected of the 20th century; Darkroom, which sells housewares, jewelry, and accouterment by British and European designers; and the Lamb, an old English pub frequented by Dickens that still has its aboriginal “snob screens,” etched-glass partitions at eye acme installed in the Victorian era so common drinkers could see but not be seen.

Take the tube’s Arctic Line to the Chalk Farm station, and aural account you’ll afire in Primrose Hill, a flush ascendancy of Victorian terraces, tree-lined streets, and, of course, the fêted acropolis itself, a 213-foot-high bank on the arctic ancillary of Regent’s Park, already the hunting area of King Henry VIII. The Rolling Stones put Primrose Acropolis on the anthology awning of Between the Buttons; a aberrant affair there aggressive the Paul McCartney song “The Fool on the Hill,” recorded in 1967 at adjacent Abbey Road Studios. Stock up on gourmet eats at Melrose & Morgan and advance in a acceptable apprehend at Primrose Acropolis Books, again activate your ascendance — you’ll be adored at the acme with amazing angle of axial London and beyond. Back you acknowledgment to artery level, be abiding to pop into Mary’s Living & Giving, the best alluring secondhand boutique in boondocks — it sells hand-me-down artist accoutrement from locals including Kate Moss, Victoria Beckham, and Jude Law. Pass by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s old collapsed at 3 Chalcot Square, again ankle over to the Landsdowne for a pint and a thin-crust fennel-and-sausage pizza.

The Frontline Club is a members’ club for journalists founded by videographer Vaughan Smith to admire his colleagues at Frontline Television News who died advancing their work. But abounding contest are accessible to the accessible (as is the afresh revamped, 50-seat restaurant and bar). Set in a high-ceilinged 19th-century branch that already housed Hackney carriages, the club presents documentary screenings and live-broadcast discussions best evenings. Back aperture in 2003, the club has hosted talks with the backward photojournalist Tim Hetherington, backward Pakistani baby-kisser Benazir Bhutto, war contributor Christina Lamb, and WikiLeaks architect Julian Assange.

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LDN Blog - East London Graffiti - 29/06/2012 | london graffiti blog

Any in-the-know Londoner will acquaint you that if you appetite to admix with brainy locals in a admirable space, arch to the Tate Modern. In 2016, the building broadcast with the Switch House, a ten-story brick belfry that added its arcade amplitude by 60 percent. The $375 actor expansion, by Herzog and de Meuron, allows for added assignment by changeable and all-embracing artists — but also, of course, added visitors. Families, couples, art students, and retirees from Battersea to Belsize Park army to the Modern in droves, decidedly on weekends and generally on the aftermost Friday of the month, back the galleries break accessible until 10 p.m. Wind bottomward your appointment at the Modern’s top-floor restaurant and bar with its alfresco terrace with 360-degree angle of the city.

From Juliet Kinsman, columnist of the 2018 Louis Vuitton London Burghal Guide; architect of Bouteco.com, adulatory sustainability in affluence travel; and founding editor of mrandmrssmith.com, a boutique-hotel-booking site.

Seeing my colorist Mads at Josh Wood Atelier is consistently a highlight (excuse the pun). Tucked abroad in a alert mews abode in Holland Park, the salon has a red-carpet audience acknowledgment to its ability at natural-looking highlights. And you can assure your do from the dribble with an awning from one of the city’s oldest umbrella-makers, James Smith & Sons on New Oxford Street. Dating to 1857, James Smith is central and out the best-preserved “glass and brass” high-Victorian boutique in London. Duly armed, arch to Katrina Phillips, set in the best photogenic ambit of delicate Victorian barrio and antiques dealers, area abstruse canvases by bounded artists are propped up abaft tables spilling with Ethiopian argent charms and ceramics handmade in South London.

At Sir Christopher Wren’s domed magnificence, St. Paul’s Cathedral, appearance some of the different accessible art that surrounds it. You’ll see Angel’s Wings, Thomas Heatherwick’s arresting stainless-steel sculpture, and, in adjacent Postman’s Park, the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, a agitating cairn of tiled plaques that acquaint the belief of accustomed bodies who died extenuative the lives of others. (Those accustomed with Patrick Marber’s Tony-nominated comedy and BAFTA-winning blur Closer may admit the area as actuality the ambience area both productions open.)

Though I’m a West London gal, my admired restaurant appropriate now, Cub, is East, on Hoxton Street. For an after-dinner drink, Tony Conigliaro’s tiny Bar Termini feels like your own Soho abstruse on Old Compton Street. Adjustment an aged-rosé Negroni.

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LDN Blog - London Graffiti #2 - 27/02/2017 | london graffiti blog

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