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Egypt: How to Play a Gig in a Revolution (Noisy)
Noisey and Colonel Blimp are very excited to present ‘Egypt: How to Play a Gig in a Revolution’. Disillusioned with the gig circuit at home, London band I.R.O.K travelled to Cairo, Egypt, to witness the aftermath of the revolution and … Continue reading
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London Daily Photo: And She’s Gone
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Super Yacht Me
So, I left my one bedroom flat in East London (Zone 2) early on a ho-hum Tuesday morning to hop the bus en route to the exclusive five star May Fair Hotel just off the Piccadilly to attend Superyachts.com’s Top 100, an event for mega yacht execs and brand reps to rub elbows and gab about the future of their industry. Featuring a full day of press workshops with “the visionary builders and designers behind the largest super yachts in the world”, Top 100 had been set up for journos to crash “intimate sessions with the heads of the super yacht industry, gain an in-depth insight into the largest luxury yachts set to launch in 2014 and discuss the most vital topics surrounding the world’s most incredible yachts”. Continue reading
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Posted in Design, Hotels, London, Travel
Tagged boating, boats, CRN, CRN mega yachts, CRN yachts, custom built yachts, design, Ferretti Group, italian design, London, London blog, luxury, May Fair Hotel, mayfair, mega yachts, megayachts, super yachts, superyacht.com, top 100, Travel, wealth, yachts, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Untitled
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Tagged chinese food, LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, menu, Photography, photography blog, soho, street photography, W1, Wq, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Luck
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, lucky cat, Photography, photography blog, soho, street photography, W1, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Daawat Indian Restaurant at the Strand Palace Hotel
Presenting tried and true South Asian comfort food on the Strand and just down the street from Covent Garden, Daawat Indian restaurant at the four star (and recently renovated) Strand Palace Hotel is a smart choice when you’re on the go and seeking a satisfying meal. Continue reading
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Posted in Drink, Food, Hotels, London, Restaurants
Tagged covent garden, curry, daawat, Drink, Food, hotel, hotels, indian cuisine, indian food, indian restaurant, London, London blog, pre-theatre menu, restaurant, restaurant review, restaurants, review, strand palace hotel, the strand, WC2, WC2R 0JJ, west end, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Alma de Cuba – Cuban Coffee Delivered to Your Door
Once the undisputed king of caffé , the status and availability of Cuban coffee has steadily waned over the past half century – just as demand for coffee has continued to expand. Enter: Alma de Cuba, on a mission to “restore Cuban coffee – once the world’s favourite – back to its rightful position”. Revolutionary or just revolting? Here’s my take on this Caribbean cuppa joe. Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, coffee blog, coffee delivery, coffee review, cuban, cuban coffee, Drink, Food, review
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London Daily Photo: Untitled
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Interview with A Lady in London Blogger, Julie Falconer (CheapOair)
Julie Falconer is a London-based travel writer and consultant. She writes a blog called A Lady in London, on which she covers destinations across the globe with an emphasis on culture and food. She also runs a Europe travel website called VisitingEU. … Continue reading
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Posted in Blogs, CheapOair, interview, London, Travel
Tagged a lady in london, blog, cheapoair, interview, julie falconer, London, London blog, Travel, travel blog, travel blogger, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Win a Seven Dials Shopping Spree Worth £100 + Dinner for Two at Flesh & Buns
Wanna shop like a chic Brit and chow down like a Japanese rock star in one of London’s most stylish and centrally situated locations? And all for FREE?!? Check it out – I’ve got a £100 Seven Dials gift card plus dinner for two at Flesh & Buns to share with one lucky reader. Keep reading for your chance to win. Continue reading
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Posted in Chocolate, Coffee, Competition, Drink, Fashion, Food, Freebies, London, Pubs, Restaurants, Shopping, Valentine's Day
Tagged £100 shopping spree, BARS, boutiques, central london, champagne, chocolate, competition, contest, covent garden, Drink, earlham street, Flesh & Buns, Food, free, freebies, gift card, gift voucher, independent retails, London, London blog, neal's yard, restaurants, retweet to win, seven dials, Shopping, shopping spree, soho, Valentine's Day, voucher, WC2, WC2H 9LX, win a seven dials shopping spree, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Economy
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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illy Regent Street
I don’t know about you and your line of work but as for me and mine, I run around all over town all day long. Often I find I’ve got time to kill between meetings and events. Sometimes it’s just 20 minutes, other times it might be a couple of hours. And just because I have time to kill doesn’t mean I have time to dawdle. I need to get in somewhere fast and park it during such spare moments – where I can tackle my inbox, draft my next blog post, maybe grab a bite to eat and (most importantly) have a cup of coffee. With the recently opened illy Regent Street, being able to do all this stuff in a seriously stylish and comfortable setting just became a real option for me. Continue reading
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Posted in Coffee, Design, Drink, Food, London, Restaurants
Tagged Bauhaus, cafe, coffee, coffee blog, design, Drink, espressamente illy, espressamente illy regent street, Food, illy, London blog, oxford circus, regent street, restaurant, W1, W1B 2HJ, Xanti Schawinsky, zomato, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Up
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Theatre Review: The Golden Dragon at the Drayton Arms, SW5
Fancy a theatrical and thought provoking Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese takeaway? The Golden Dragon is a “dark modern tale of immigration” set in the kitchen of an East Asian restaurant as well as in the homes and businesses of some of its regular patrons. Just in time for Chinese New Year … German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s one act exacting contemplation of globalisation is on for a (very) short run at South Kensington’s Drayton Arms pub theatre. Continue reading
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Posted in London, Pubs, Theatre
Tagged David Tushingham, drayton arms, drayton theatre, Elena Liutkute), fringe theatre, german theatre, kensington, Linus Karp, live performance, London, London blog, old brompton road, pub, pub theatre, review, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Schimmelpfennig, south kensington, SW5, SW5 0LJ, the drayton arms, the golden dragon, theatre, theatre blog, theatre review, Tom Brocklehurst, west london, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Burroughs, Lynch and Warhol at Photographers’ Gallery (CheapOair)
A series of three exhibitions “examining how photography informed and inspired the practices of three key 20th century American cultural figures” has opened at The Photographers’ Gallery showing “a relatively unseen body of work for the first time in the UK” and offering … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, CheapOair, London, Photography, Travel
Tagged ANDY WARHOL, Andy Warhol: Photographs 1976 - 1987, Art, cheapoair, David Lynch, David Lynch: The Factory Photographs, London, London blog, london blogger, photographers' gallery, Photography, photography blog, POP ART, Ramillies Street, soho, street photography, Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs, the photographers' gallery, Travel, W1, W1F 7LW, Warhol, William S. Burroughs, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Free Italian Cooking Class for Two at Cookery School This Saturday
Do you love Italian cooking but find that your version of al dente leaves you and your dinner guests feeling all disappointed? Here’s a chance for you and a friend to participant in an All Day Italian cooking class worth £300 in total this Saturday at Cookery School near Oxford Circus. Keen? Keep reading and buon appetito! Continue reading
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Posted in Competition, Drink, Food, London
Tagged All Day Italian, All Day Italian cooking class, competition, contest, cookery class, cookery school, cooking, cooking class, Drink, fitzrovia, Food, free, freebies, italian cooking class, italian cuisine, italian food, LITTLE PORTLAND STREET, London blog, marylebone, oxford circus, THE COOKERY SCHOOL, W1, W1W 8BW, WIN, wine, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Chatsworth Road
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Tagged chatsworth road, clapton, E5, east london, hackney, homerton, LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Does Your Sweetheart Have a Sweet Tooth? Then Paris is the Perfect Place! (CheapOair)
Sure, it’s probably the most romantic city in the world, and thus the ideal destination for any amorous couple. But Paris isn’t just for sweethearts. Any Francophile can tell you that Paris is one of the sweetest places anyone’s ever … Continue reading
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Posted in CheapOair, Chocolate, Drink, Food, France, Paris, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel
Tagged Angelina, cheapoair, chocolate, Drink, Food, france, Gerard Mulot, hot chocolate, ice cream, macaron, Maison Berthillon, Multo, paris, patisserie, Pierre Hermé, pierre herme paris, Shopping, Travel, travel blog, travel blogger
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London Daily Photo: Ramillies Roof
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, Ramillies Street, soho, street photography, W1, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Black Cat Cabaret at a “Grand Scale and Secret Location”
Following sell out success at Cafe de Paris in 2013, Black Cat Cabaret has returned to the London stage for a string of sultry nights a la “the backstreets of vintage Montmartre.” I had a blast at the Black Cat’s 2014 premier this past Friday night. Held at a “grand scale and secret location – one of Central London’s hidden gems”, I was glad to see the show was as good as (or maybe just a little better than) when I caught it at Cafe de Paris last spring. Continue reading
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Posted in London, Music, Theatre
Tagged Black Cat Cabaret, burlesque, cabaret, frisky, frisky & mannish, live performance, London, London blog, marcel lucont, music, N1, review, theatre, Vicky Butterfly, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Sampling the “Thinwich” at Brick Lane’s Caboose
“Slow smoked grub” served from a “custom built railway cabin”? Sure, why not? I tagged along to a menu tasting at Brick Lane’s Caboose. Hosted by Warburtons – the UK’s leading independent baker – the event also provided an opportunity to have … Continue reading
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Posted in Food, Restaurants, Shopping
Tagged bread, brick lane, burgers, east london, Ely's Yard, Food, hamburgers, London, London blog, lunch, restaurant review, review, sandwiches, smoked meat, street food, thinwich, warburton's, warburtons sandwich thins, zomato, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Against the Stream
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Good Stuff
Good Stuff and lots of it! Here’s the low down on some fine things to see, sip or take a bite out of – all of which I’ve recently come across and thought were worth sharing with you. Enjoy. Delfina Foundation … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Chocolate, Drink, Food, Good Stuff, Hotels, London, Shopping, Travel
Tagged Abbas Akhavan, barrel-aged rum, botran, Botran Blanca, botran reserva, Botran Solrera 1893, bourbon, cadbury fairtrade, Candice Lin, Catherine Place, chocolate, delfina foundation, Drink, exhibition, fairtrade, Food, gerry's, good stuff, guatemalan rum, hedonism wines, hotel, hotels, ibis, ibis Euston St Pancras Hotel, ibis sweet bed, ibis ultimate sleeper, ibis-expedition.com, Jefferson's Bourbon, jefferson's presidential collection, Jefferson's Straight Rye Whiskey, London blog, masterofmalt.com, Organic Seed & Bean Chocolate, rum, RYE, rye whiskey, seed & bean, selfridges, straight rye, SW1, SW1 6DY, Tadasu Takamine, the politics of food, thedrinkshop.com, thewhiskeyexchange.com, travel blog, travel blogger, whiskey, Zineb Zedira, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Faces for Crowds
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Craft Beer Rising Returns to London (OneTravel)
The Craft Beer Rising festival will return to London the last weekend of February with the noble aim to “bring good, flavorsome, creative beers to the masses and to “help inform drinkers of the beers available and support the brewers … Continue reading
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Tagged Adnams, Anspach and Hobday, artisan beer, Bateman’s, Bath Ales, beer, beer blog, Beer Cat Barcelona, Beerd, Bellerose, Brains Craft, brewery, brick lane, Bristol Beer Factory, By The Horns, Celt Experience, CRAFT BEER, Craft Beer Festival, craft beer rising, Curious Brew, Dominion, Drink, Duvel, east london, Elgoods, Food, Fordham, Franciscan Well, Freedom, Harbour, Harry Bromptons, Harviestoun, Hiver, Kings, lager, Late Knights, Left Coast Distribution, London, London blog, London Velvet, meantime, old truman brewery, OneTravel, Oro di Milano, REAL ALE, Rebel Brewing Company, Redwell, sharp's, Shopping, St Austell, Stevens Point, Stewarts, The Brew House, Thistly Cross Cider, Thornbridge, Travel, travel blog, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Untitled
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Posted in Graffiti, London, London Daily Photo, Photography
Tagged Graffiti, LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, street art, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Win Hotel Chocolat’s From Sunrise to Sunset Giftbox Worth £50
Hotel Chocolat’s From Sunrise to Sunset giftbox has “everything you need to create the perfect day for the one you love, from a sensual shower at sunrise to a sparkling drink at sunset”. An ideal Valentine’s gift for the fine chocolate lover in your life, the Sunrise to Sunset giftbox runs at a very reasonable £50 – but I’ve got a freebie to share with one lucky reader. Keep reading to find out how you can score one of these all-day fantastic and romantic chocolate gift sets. Continue reading
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Posted in Chocolate, Competition, Drink, Food, Freebies, London, Shopping, Valentine's Day, Wine
Tagged chocolate, competition, contest, Drink, free, free chocolate, freebies, prosecco, retweet to win, sparkling wine, Valentine's Day, wine
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London Daily Photo: Breakfast Birds
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Tagged birds, LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, Photography, photography blog, regent's park, street photography, waterfowl, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Recipe: Cheesy Peasy Curry Toast
An opportunity to sample a few pots in Vini & Bal’s range of “rustic Indian curry sauces” provided a yummy answer to me wondering what to make for lunch this afternoon. Let’s see … I’ve got this jeera sauce … some wholegrain bread … some peas in the freezer … So I dug round the cupboards, went to the shop for some fresh coriander and paneer and came up with this cheap and cheesy little ditty: Cheesy Peasy Curry Toast. Continue reading
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Tagged cheddar, cheese on toast, Cheesy Peasy Curry Toast, curry, curry sauce, curry toast, Food, jeera, my recipes, paneer, recipe, Recipe: Cheesy Peasy Curry Toast, rustic indian curry sauce, superfood, tikichris recipes, TOAST, vegetarian, VEGETARIAN RECIPE, Vini & Bal's
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London Daily Photo: Blues
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, mayfair, Photography, photography blog, regent street, soho, street photography, W1, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Augustus Harris, Venetian Style Bàcaro in the Heart of London’s Theatreland
An uncomplicated menu of pronounced northern Italy flavour; an equally concise and decidedly Italian list of wine and drinks; a stylish wood and copper bar that’s as cosy as it is elegant – there’s a lot to love about Augustus … Continue reading
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Posted in Beer, Drink, Food, London, Restaurants
Tagged aperol spritz, Augustus Harris, bàcari, bàcaro, bar, bar snacks, beer, Birra Menabrea, Catherine Street, cicheti, cocktails, covent garden, crostini, italian bar, italian cuisine, italian food, italian restaurant, italian tapas, London, London blog, new restaurant review, restaurant, restaurant review, spuntini, tapas, theatreland, venentian, WC2, WC2B 5JT, west end, zomato, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Conduit Street
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Tagged conduit street, LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, mayfair, Photography, photography blog, street photography, W1, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Celebrate Chinese New Year at London’s Finest Chinese Restaurants (OneTravel)
Does celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Horse mean an excuse to eat like one? Here’s a list of six exceptional Chinese restaurants in London for doing up Chinese New Year in fine style. Read my complete post at the … Continue reading
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Posted in Drink, London, London Daily Photo, OneTravel, Travel
Tagged Bar Shu, bo london, chinatown, chinese cuisine, chinese food, chinese new year, chinese new year 2014, chinese restaurant, chinese restaurants, dim sum, dimsum, Drink, Food, hakkasan, Hunan, hutong, hutong at the shard, London, London blog, OneTravel, restaurants, travel blog, travel blogger, yauatcha, year of the horse, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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London Daily Photo: Shop Girl Impressions
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Tagged LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, mayfair, Photography, photography blog, regents street, soho, street photography, W1, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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50% Off Lunch This Friday at Quantus in Chiswick
Quantus restaurant in Chiswick was one of the best restaurants I visited in 2013 and was a rare venture westward when I really thought I might be missing out on something good and London-y by living in the East End. “Destination dining at its best” was how I summed up my experience there, and I definitely am keen to repeat that sojourn for another taste. If you’re all about fine food sans hype, you’d be wise to eat there too. Anytime to visit Quantus is a good time I reckon, especially this Friday (24 January) when the restaurant will present an opportunity to try its new lunch menus with 50% off the total bill. Continue reading
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Posted in Discounts and Special Offers, Food, London, Restaurants
Tagged 50% off, Chef Juan Zuliani, chiswick, devonshire road, discounts and special offers, fine dining, Food, half off, Juan Zuliani, latin food, London, London blog, london blogger, lunch, LUNCH MENU, modern european, new lunch menu, restaurant, restaurant review, review, set menu, W4, W4 2HD, west london, wine, wine blog, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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