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We’ve chosen the best places to eat in London: brilliant eateries that go beyond the mediocre to really provide something special – the kind of meal that your taste buds won’t forget in a hurry. Enough of the hype… let’s explore. The Best Places to Eat in London Frenchie

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Hotel restaurants can be hit and miss – they’re often too soulless and stuffy to truly enjoy. Not so with 190 Queen’s Gate at the prestigious Gore Hotel in Kensington (also famed for being the place the Rolling Stones held their famous party to launch Beggars Banquet). With the city spawning such a large number of internationally acclaimed comic minds, London plays as a battlefield for a huge number of comedians on the cusp of breaking through, battling it out against each other in strong competition. In a city where new restaurants open on a daily basis, it can be a tough job working out where to find your next best eat. Not after this. In 2013, The London Scene was again republished in full, this time by Daunt Books and with a short preface by Hermione Lee.

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Seasonal Italian dishes spanning the country’s regions from heel to tip? There’s nothing not to love about the food at Paesan, where Italian street food meets countryside cuisine. That the Parisian outpost is nigh-on impossible to get into should tell you everything you need to know about Frenchie, the stellar restaurant from French chef Gregory Marchand. Don’t let that put you off though – if you did, you would miss out on one of the best places to eat in central London. Italian cuisine is the name of the game here: a selection of small and large plates that goes far beyond the standard fare you’d expect. Whatever you want to say about London, food is something that this crazy little city does incredibly well.

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Of all the Marvel films, the first Thor sequel spends the most memorable times in London. The muscle-bound marauder even catches the tube. If you’re looking for further evidence of St. John’s influence in the London dining scene, look to Fallow. It’s hard to imagine this hugely successful restaurant being possible without the ground it sits on being first broken by Henderson and Guliver. Don’t think of a gastropub in the watered-down, half-assed form we often encounter today. This is a gastropub in the true meaning of the word: a place where gastronomes can indulge their palate that just so happens to be in a pub setting. With spanking benches and strip shows, bondage beds and Shibari artists who tie up guests using Japanese rope bondage, One Night has been on London’s kink scene since 2019. But because of pandemic restrictions, it wasn’t until last year that the party really started. This essay was published in the March 1932 issue of Good Housekeeping (volume 21, issue 1). In it, Woolf describes visiting the houses of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle at 5 Cheyne Row and the house of John Keats in Hampstead. The essay finishes with a description of looking down at London from the top of Hampstead Heath.

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The pasta, silky but perfectly al dente, is expertly dressed in the most delicious sauces – the pappardelle with fennel sausage and peppercorn ragu is one of the best things we’ve eaten all year. Fact. Given that the Earth only features in the opening scenes, you'd be forgiven for guessing that this is another film with no hint of London about it. You'd be wrong. The planet of Xandar is largely a digital construction, but the eagle-eyed will note several London buildings in the mix, including the Millennium Bridge and the Lloyd's Building. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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From Crossbreed ’s queer fetish raves to The Fox Den ’s 24-guest hedonistic dinner parties (complete with a four-course meal cooked by a private chef and after-dinner ‘play’ for dessert), the choice of sex-positive events in London is as mind-boggling as it is arousing. And with everything from popular underground DJs to luxury sex toys on offer, it’s the perfect set-up for a new generation to lube up and join the ride. ‘It used to be that people would come to explore the scene in their thirties and forties, but now we are seeing much younger people in their twenties,’ says Sinead, who’s been involved in the sex-positive community since 2015 and launched The Fox Den in June last year. With so many highly-anticipated plays currently in production, and many well-received London shows already on stage, it’s an extremely exciting time for the city’s theatre scene. The stage is enjoying a boom. It’s a perfect opportunity to get the inside scoop on the plays you most want to see. Find out more on London’s West EndThere’s so much to look forward to in Theatreland each year, with a great crop of critically acclaimed new plays, as well as much-anticipated transfers and revivals. There is truly something for everyone, young and old. So why not spend a night enjoying all that London’s theatre scene can offer? It’s the perfect way to wind down after a long day’s work. You could even treat yourself to a culture-filled stay-cation in the capital city, and you could visit many of the theatres on one of the multiple Theatreland Tours available. It’s got pumping ex-industrial spaces attractingbig-name DJs from all over the world. It’s got under-the-radar spots on the outskirts of the city, home to boundary-pushing subcultures andup-and-coming artists. It’s got LGBTQ+ institutions where you can dance the night away. And, of course, it’s got its fair share of cheesy, no-nonsense parties, for when all you need is a good old sing-along. In 1975, the American publisher Frank Hallman, with permission from Angelica Garnett and Quentin Bell, republished the first five essays as a book, giving the collection its title, The London Scene. This edition was reprinted by Random House and the Hogarth Press in 1982. [6] It is not known why 'Portrait of a Londoner' was not included in this edition. It has been suggested that Angelica and Quentin may have wished for it to be omitted, but this assertion has also been disputed. [6] [7]