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Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Bluewater
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| Bluewater Shopping Centre, Greenhithe |
A rose-nosed reindeer walks into a bar and the elf says: Why the long face? Rudolf duly replies: Ive got pines and needles. Yes, yes… its a shocker - but its presumably the inspiration behind this L...
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Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Battersea Park
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| Chelsea Car Park, Carriage Drive North, Battersea Park |
A rose-nosed reindeer walks into a bar and the elf says: Why the long face? Rudolf duly replies: Ive got pines and needles. Yes, yes… its a shocker - but its presumably the inspiration behind this L...
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Great Christmas Pudding Race
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| Covent Garden Piazza, Covent Garden |
You're familiar with the egg and spoon race. Well how about the Christmas Pudding Race? Covent Garden Piazza swells with spectators as about 150 contestants don fancy dress and race around a course st...
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Christmas Trees: The Christmas Forest, Dulwich
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| Streatham and Marlborough Cricket Club, Lordship Lane, Dulwich |
Offering an urban forest on seven farm-style sites around London, the Christmas Forest ensures that people can enjoy their tree-browsing experience and do so with their conscience appeased. For every...
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The Christmas Shop
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| Hays Galleria, 55A Tooley Street |
This is an Aladdins cave bursting at the seams with enough twinkling bits n bobs and Christmas clutter that Father Christmas North Pole home could have a complete makeover (without dipping into his pr...
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Spirit of Christmas Fair
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| Olympia, Hammersmith Road |
Get all your Christmas shopping done under one roof at Olympia - and get it out of the way more than a month before Santa gets here. Backed by House & Garden magazine, the Spirit of Christmas Fair is...
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Christmas Trees: Green's Trees
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| 26-30 Buckhold Road, Wandsworth |
Based in Wandsworth, Greens Trees specialises in premier Nordman Firs, a type of tree which is renowned for its needle-retention - which means you wont be spending the whole of the festive season vacu...
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Country Living Magazine Christmas Fair
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| Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street |
In preparation for Christmas, the Country Living Magazine Christmas Fair brings a taste of rural England to the Business Design Centre, with all the cosy traditionalism that goes with it. With over 40...
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Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Ealing
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| Christ the Saviour Church, Ealing Broadway |
A rose-nosed reindeer walks into a bar and the elf says: Why the long face? Rudolf duly replies: Ive got pines and needles. Yes, yes… its a shocker - but its presumably the inspiration behind this L...
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Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree and Carols
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| Trafalgar Square, Central London |
For over half a century, since 1947, Trafalgar Square has been adorned with a majestic Christmas Tree - an annual gift from the people of Oslo, thanking us for support and friendship during World War...
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Christmas Trees: The Christmas Forest, Ealing
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| Ealing Common, Hanger Lane |
Offering an urban forest on seven farm-style sites around London, the Christmas Forest ensures that people can enjoy their tree-browsing experience and do so with their conscience appeased. For every...
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Christmas Trees: The Christmas Forest, Putney
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| Putney Leisure Centre, Upper Richmond Road, A205 |
Offering an urban forest on seven farm-style sites around London, the Christmas Forest ensures that people can enjoy their tree-browsing experience and do so with their conscience appeased. For every...
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Christmas Trees: Pines and Needles, Maida Vale
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| 123 Shirland Road, Maida Vale |
A rose-nosed reindeer walks into a bar and the elf says: Why the long face? Rudolf duly replies: Ive got pines and needles. Yes, yes… its a shocker - but its presumably the inspiration behind this L...
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Christmas Trees: The Christmas Forest, Richmond
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| Pools on the Park, Old Deer Park |
Offering an urban forest on seven farm-style sites around London, the Christmas Forest ensures that people can enjoy their tree-browsing experience and do so with their conscience appeased. For every...
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Christmas Trees: The Christmas Forest, Islington
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| The Alwyne Pub, St Pauls Road |
Offering an urban forest on seven farm-style sites around London, the Christmas Forest ensures that people can enjoy their tree-browsing experience and do so with their conscience appeased. For every...
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Christmas Trees: The Christmas Forest, Kensal Green
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| St Johns Church, Kilburn Lane, Kensal Green |
Offering an urban forest on seven farm-style sites around London, the Christmas Forest ensures that people can enjoy their tree-browsing experience and do so with their conscience appeased. For every...
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Christmas Trees: The Christmas Forest, Stoke Newington
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| St Pauls Church, Stoke Newington Road, West Hackney |
Offering an urban forest on seven farm-style sites around London, the Christmas Forest ensures that people can enjoy their tree-browsing experience and do so with their conscience appeased. For every...
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Brasserie St Quentin
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| 243 Brompton Road |
An old favourite with the Chelsea crowd, ‘the Brasserie' as it is known is a reliable spot for a delicious lunch or dinner with a good wine list and excellent service. The menu emphasises traditional...
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Sea Life at Chessington World of Adventures & Zoo
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| Leatherhead Road, Chessington, Surrey |
Watch sharks swimming overhead and tickle the tummy of a sting ray at the aquatic Sea Life centre at Chessington World of Adventures & Zoo. Opened 15th March 2008, the Sea Life Centre houses over 20 m...
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Blakes Hotel London
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| 33 Roland Gardens, London |
Anouska Hempel has a signature minimalist interior design style and everything about Blakes in South Kensington has been designed to her exacting taste. From the black paint exterior to the generous s...
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The Kitchen at Parsons Green
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| 275 New Kings Road |
The Kitchen at Parsons Green is a new kind of food store, opened in July 2008 by Michelin-star chef Thierry Laborde and Natalie Richmond. Whats different about The Kitchen? Its Michelin starred cookin...
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Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's
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| 53 Brook Street, Mayfair |
Take Londons most temperamental and talented chef, add the citys most elegant location and finish it off with some fantastic food and sublime service. Gordon Ramsays marriage with Claridges has proved...
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Babylon at the Roof Gardens
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| 99 Kensington High Street |
Richard Bransons rooftop restaurant-come-nightclub at Kensington Roof Gardens is a favourite with the glam girls of Kensington, who can be seen at all hours sipping cocktails in the Spanish garden, or...
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Sunday (UP) Market at the Old Truman Brewery
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| 91 Brick Lane |
For all you fashion and flavour-istas out there, heres another stop-off on your list. This market is a treasure trove of jewellery, vintage clothes, handbags, accessories, lamps, art and photography,...
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Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley
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| The Berkeley, Wilton Place, Knightsbridge |
Expensive but brilliant. Superchef Marcus Wareing engages in daily feats of culinary magic in the opulent splendour of the Berkeley Hotel. Changing its name from Petrus and moving out from under the G...
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1880 at the Bentley
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| 27-33 Harrington Gardens |
The grandiose interior of this spacious basement dining room has been described as Versace on acid, but dont let the glitter daunt you. Known for its grazing menus of up to 10 trim courses and quintes...
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Wild at Heart at Liberty
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| Regent Street |
Wild at Heart put the fresh back into fresh flowers. Each bloom is of a very high quality and is always meticulously selected. Their fresh approach to flowers (be them gifts, arrangements or installa...
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Galvin at Windows
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| 22 Park Lane, Hilton |
There are two genuinely terrifying things about the Hiltons 28th-floor restaurant: the first is the sheer distance from the ground; the second is the scale of the bill. Chris Galvin is most famous for...
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Homage at the Waldorf Hilton
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| 22 The Aldwych |
Homage is located in one of the stately ballrooms of the Waldorf Hilton right next to Covent Garden. As you might expect, it is a prestige restaurant which has set itself very high standards in the pr...
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The Spa at Mandarin Oriental
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| Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, 66 Knightsbridge |
The vitality plunge pool, amethyst crystal steam room and zen colour therapy relaxation area are all part of the experience at The Spa at the Mandarin Oriental. No plain old relaxation area here - the...
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The Dining Room at The Goring
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| 15 Beeston Place, Grosvenor Gardens |
Cheek by jowl with Buckingham Palace and owned by the same family for three generations, The Goring is part of the British establishment. Appropriately, given its royal neighbour, Viscount Linley is r...
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Agua at Sanderson
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| Sanderson, 50 Berners Street |
Walking into the clean white space that is the Agua Spa at the Sanderson is instantly calming, relaxing and heavenly. There are 14 private treatment rooms, a steam room and a gym with state-of-the-art...
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Lotus Rooms at Bam-Bou
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| 1 Percy Street |
Small, sumptuous bar hidden away above a restaurant in an original Georgian townhouse. On the ground floor this sprawling Soho Georgian townhouse hosts an elegant French-Vietnamese restaurant. Tucked...
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The Fish Shop at Kensington Place
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| 201 Kensington Church Street |
The tidy little fishmongers attached to the landmark Kensington Place restaurant does a roaring trade. Since much of its stock at The Fish Shop at Kensington Place is used by the restaurant, theyre ab...
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Konstam at the Prince Albert
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| 2 Acton Street |
Locally sourced, seasonal food is the environmentally friendly focus at this well known restaurant on the corner of Kings Cross Road and Acton Street. Its fame was helped, in part, by BBC series the U...
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Meals at Heal's
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| 196 Tottenham Court Road |
Oliver Peyton clearly picked up his ideas about naming businesses from somebody in the hairdressing trade. Meals at Heals now joins his In the Park as one of the worst-named restaurants in the capital...
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