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Navigating around such a big city can often be confusing. Whatever your budget, there is a mode of transport to suit your needs. Explore London in a traditional Black Cab or a taxi, see the sights whi...
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Parfums de Nicolai
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| 101a Fulham Road |
An unusual range of perfumes from Patricia de Nicolai, a descendant of Pierre Guerlain. As well as perfumes for the body there is a range of perfume diffusers in glass and china to make the house smel...
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Jurlique Day Spa
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| 300 Chiswick High Road |
This fantastic, no-nonsense spa is a great way to treat yourself to a day of pampering, without pushing the boat out too far. Comforting massage, meticulous manicures, precious pedicures, vital waxing...
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Cigala
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| 54 Lambs Conduit Street |
This expensive Spanish restaurant is in a lovely corner of town, and serves authentic and delicious fare, cooked to consistently high standards. However, many many visitors including ourselves have ex...
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Entrecote Cafe de Paris
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| 3a Baker Street |
THIS VENUE HAS NOW CLOSED. For many the challenge of choosing from a long and varied menu is part of the whole dining experience. Forging a path through the un-chartered territory of a list of specia...
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La Maison Du Chocolat
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| 45-46 Piccadilly |
Extremely upmarket Piccadilly branch of the world-renowned Parisian chocolatiers. For some reason the shop staff all insist on speaking French to you despite the fact that they are living and working...
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Cafe du Marche
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| 22 Charterhouse Square, Charterhouse Mews |
Le Cafe Du Marche is three restaurants under one roof - Le Cafe, Le Grenier and Le Rendezvous. Le Cafe is an elegent French restaurant on the ground floor, Le Grenier is a private upstairs dining spac...
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Chapters All Day Dining
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| 43-45 Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village |
Chapters All Day Dining in Blackheath is the sister restaurant to Bromleys Michelin-starred Chapter One, and a reincarnation of Chapter Two which used to occupy this spot. All Day Dining as the name s...
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Poissonnerie de l'Avenue
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| 82 Sloane Avenue |
Set up in 1964 by Italian born Peter Rosignoli at the age of 33 this fish restaurant is a long established Chelsea haunt. Peter drew on his experience as headwaiter in a number of restaurants, includi...
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Cafe du Liban
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| 71 Edgware Road |
Popular Turkish café with outdoor seating and shisha pipes. Forget cream teas and chintz, cucumber sandwiches and scones, and instead think thick, strong, black coffee dotted with cardamon pods, stic...
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Les Couilles du Chien
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| 65 Golborne Road |
Channel 4s George Clarke, architect and presenter of The Home Show, loves Les Couilles du Chien, describing it as the most fantastic antique and furniture shop. He admits, Probably half the furniture...
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Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique
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| Unit 207, Belgravia Workshop, 157-163 Marlborough Road |
Only the French could come up with an art form so bizarrely fascinating. Mime is as relaxing as Tai Chi, as healthy as yoga, and as enjoyable as acting. These 90-minute evening classes are a real gem....
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Galvin Bistrot de Luxe
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| 66 Baker Street |
Londons best value prix fixe! screams the Galvin Bistrot de Luxe website and, irritating though it is when somebody makes this kind of grand claim, there are few who can compete with the Galvin brothe...
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The Big Chill House
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| 257-259 Pentonville Road |
From the outside, The Big Chill House building looks spectacular, a floodlit white townhouse that puts the grimy environs of Kings Cross to shame. The interior is equally shiny, with three floors of N...
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Dotty Dot
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| 67a St Helens Gardens |
Everything in this cute sounding kids shop has been hand picked by its owner Fiona who set up Dotty Dot in 2006. If youre looking for something exclusive, they have designer toys and original books th...
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Bocca Di Lupo
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| 12 Archer Street |
There was much excitement among the critics when this Italian restaurant opened at the beginning of 2009. Giles Coren writing in the Times gave it his highest ever score and Fay Maschler described it...
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Caleya Iberica
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| 195 Great Portland Street |
In the upstairs space above his tapas bar and Spanish food shop, Iberica, on Great Portland Street Michelin-starred Spanish chef Nacho Manzano is out to impress with this well received restaurant. Cal...
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What Katie Did
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| 26 Portobello Green, 281 Portobello Road |
What Katie Did specialises in faux vintage lingerie, steel boned corsets and hosiery inspired by silver screen sirens of the glamorous 1950s. Frilly knickers, seamed fishnets, suspender belts and cors...
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July 2010
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After the mayhem of Lovebox, the madness of Madstock and the metal of High Voltage, comes the relative calm of Field Day. July's final festival in Victoria Park is an altogether more laid-back...
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January 2008
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A major American-style parade, with extravagant floats, marching bands from around the country and beyond, street performers and a host of family activities. Around half a million revellers are exp...
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Very Official English Events
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St George, patron saint of England, will parade through the streets of the Square Mile, as an age-old English tradition is revived for the first time since 1585 - when Elizabeth 1 was on the throne...
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Cirque du Soleil - Saltimbanco
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| Wembley Arena, Empire Way |
Since starting out on the streets of Quebec in the early 1980s, Cirque du Soleil has achieved success on a global scale and now the modern day circus returns to London's Wembley Arena with one of thei...
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Christmas Seasonal Eats in London
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If you've got somebody you want to celebrate with before you go off to your respective parents' houses, or if you just want to take your partner somewhere really special as a Christmas gift, then yo...
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The Big Chill Bar
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| Dray Walk, off Brick Lane |
The Big Chill Festival, held annually in August, is the spiritual home of the ageing raver, and the Big Chill Bar on Brick Lane attempts to recreate its laidback, chat-to-anyone attitude. Its a long l...
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Karaoke Box Dai Chan
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| 18 Frith Street |
Sohos first Karaoke bar offering private rooms for between 5 and 12 people. The privacy adds an interesting element. On the one hand theres no public humiliation but on the other it brings out the div...
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