January 10, 2010What a find! Decent pubs in the tourist hotspot between Covent Garden and Piccadilly Circus are rather scarce, and I always need to think hard when being asked where to go for spontaneous drinks. Exiting the National Portrait Gallery, though, I remembered The Harp instantly: a CAMRA member recommended this pub to me a few […]
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January 10, 2010Twice makes a tradition. And so we held our traditional New Year’s Cream Tea as usual last year in the Portrait Restaurant at the top of the National Portrait Gallery. A special place, this Portrait Restaurant, especially for its fine view of Trafalgar Square, including the back of Nelson, Whitehall, and the Palace of Westminster. […]
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January 10, 2010Cream Tea, be it Devonshire, Cornish or other, is a fantastic British tradition to enjoy: a nice tea, hopefully home-baked scones, delicious clotted cream, and some jam – the perfect recipe for a relaxed Sunday afternoon. I savoured my first cream tea at the age of sixteen and was instantly hooked on this sweet delight, […]
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January 8, 2010This was a totally random find. I was happily walking back from a visit to a genius and wanted to reward myself, and as Oxford Street is not the most rewarding place for people like me, I decided to explore the side streets. In Eastcastle Street, a small café was advertising Union Hand-Roasted coffee: enough […]
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January 8, 2010Now that I have sort of re-launched my blog, I thought it is time to enliven it with new features: welcome to my first non-regular themed article series. commoncoffee will report on the coffee culture in London and feature the good and bad of London’s coffee-making scene. Because I like my coffee, though I admit […]
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January 3, 2010Creepy. And uncomfortable. That’s how it is. Well, only after sunset though, otherwise it is far less remarkable to walk up the ramp and inside the giant container that Miroslaw Balka has installed in Tate Modern‘s Turbine Hall until 5th April 2010. Today was my second time in the container, and I almost did not […]
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