Fun, London, London restaurants

London’s Best Greasy Spoon: Regency Café

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We used to live just around the corner from Regency Café for many years and while we’re trying to eat healthy, this Greasy Spoon managed to make us fall in love with it on first glance. Heck, I’m saying love, but it was more like an obsession! Located just a five-minute walk from Pimlico tube station (Victoria line) or St. James’s Park (Circle and District), and under 15 minutes’ walk from Westminster tube station (Jubilee line), this café still celebrates the 1940s style that was fashionable when it was opened in 1946. The outside tiling is art deco (even though not the grand style you might be accustomed to from architectural milestones like the Chrysler Building, more the robust type that you know from the former headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, adjusted for a small corner café).    It attracts a lovely mix of builders from […]

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Orchid Festival, Kew Gardens

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We’ve just come back from the Orchid Festival in Kew Gardens, which has started this weekend and will last until 5 March, so go get your tickets, don’t miss out on this great exhibition of fabulous flowers! Not that Kew Gardens wouldn’t already be awesome enough without any festivals or special events, but this Festival really tops everything we’ve seen so far at Kew Gardens, the variety of flowers on show and the dazzling beauty of many of these flowers is just mind-boggling. Kew Gardens have done a great job at curating this exhibition. We were thoroughly blown away by it, but it seems to work just as well for families and children, old folks, and even experts in the field, overhearing some of the conversations of bystanders. It’s also nice that you can venture into side rooms where ferns, carnivorous plants (the humorous label is “not so vegetarian vegetables”; […]

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Ceviche in Soho, a True Gem

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After a day of eating, a few appointments and errands, we met up with a friend at the Peruvian awesomeness that is Ceviche Soho (17 Frith Street). Our friend, who is from Mexico, informed us that ceviche (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈβitʃe], a raw fish snack that has been cured in a mix of so-called leche de tigre, tiger’s milk, usually containing lime juice, chilli peppers, coriander, sliced onion, pepper, salt, fish juice, and varying other delicious ingredients) is common along the Pacific coast of Latin America all the way up north to Mexico, and he was at first slightly patriotic about the Mexican variety at the expense of the Peruvian one, but after a few bites of the Peruvian sea bass dish in front of us had to admit that it was incredibly tasty. We had ourselves tried ceviche at a few other Peruvian restaurants in London and fallen in love […]

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Ever tried the Jamaican Variety of a Cornish Pastie? You should.

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After brunch (see earlier post) we had a few appointments to attend and errands to run, then we stopped by the Jamaica Patty Company (JPC) in Covent Garden on our way to Ceviche, the Peruvian restaurant and bar in Soho, and I tried one of their patties. Theresa Roberts, the Jamaican founder (she founded the shop in 2013) was behind the counter and served me my curried goat patty. Patties have been introduced to Jamaica by Cornish sailors who stuck with their love for Cornish pasties (‘patty’ derives from ‘pastie’). The patties get their distinctive yellow colour from the turmeric used in its preparation. While traditional patties are made with beef, chicken, and vegetables, Theresa started adding some other traditional Jamaican flavours, such as my curried goat, or jerk chicken. I thoroughly enjoyed my curried goat patty mid-afternoon snack and might come back to try a few of the other […]

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Art and Culture, London, Plays

Ed Harris in Buried Child – Don’t Miss This One

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We’ve just come back from seeing 66-year old Hollywood veteran Ed Harris star in his West End debut in Buried Child at the Trafalgar Studios, and what a pleasure it was! Ed Harris’ intensity and aplomb on stage are riveting. It would have been worth the visit just for his acting alone, but as it happens all the other talented actors involved were giving their best too. Well, and can’t really go wrong with a Pulitzer-prize winning play like this that is about the breakdown of the American Dream and its values in rural 1970s America, when most family-run farms descended into poverty and despair due to economic slowdown and the consolidation of the market with a few hundred big players ruling the game. To add to it, it’s so cool that Ed is starring with his wife, Amy Madigan, as he did on various occasions before, both on stage […]

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