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Electric Diner (and Donuts): The Retro Glam of Notting Hill

TranslationThe reclaimed retro Electric Diner is an appendix to Electric Cinema – one of London’s most *vintage* cinema – and Electric House – a swanky private club by Soho House Group. This, by itself, is a breakfast-till-supper, no-reservation diner with lush red leather booths, exposed brick walls and an open-plan kitchen. Cool. Hip. Happening. Whatever …

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MEATmarket: London’s Institution Burgers Arrive at Tourist-land

TranslationMEAT in a touristy market.. MEATmarket – the newborn sibling of London’s famed #Meateasy and MEATliquor – is where one can enjoy a very clatteringly touristy view from the Deck of Jubilee Hall Market (AKA the other market in Covent Garden Piazza that Londoners don’t go to) 7 days a week. There are two entrances …

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The Admiral Codrington: Burger Danger in Kensington

TranslationMade in Kensington The modest-looking Admiral Codrington – nicknamed Ad Cod – is a gastrohub among London’s most revered burger lovers. The quiet front (the quietness was, surely, due to the low-key Easter period) led way to an opaquely cream-and-green dining room with flower-patterned banquettes. Not a fun-looking place and all seemed a little too …

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MEATliquor: The Burger Wagon Stations off Marylebone

TranslationPermanently parked! I love their sense of humour: London’s much lauded Meatwagon (subsequently reincarnated as #MEATEASY) found no better permanent location than at a car park, just behind Debenham’s, off Oxford Street. The collaborative brains behind MEATliquor Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins somehow kept the exterior of their famed burger shrine suspiciously banal.  Inside it …

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MY 2012…

TranslationHappy New Year to You All ^_^ My 2012 started with a cancelled holiday, a lukewarm winter, a depressingly lukewarm washer-dryer, a cat that shuns me and no bloody decent restaurant opened during those festive days. No resolutions. Not too much to look forward to in 2012, apart from the grand opening of Pitt Cue …