Things to do in London

[weeksy]

Keep meaning to try this place
https://smokestak.co.uk/

Smokehouses are ten a penny in that London now, although that one does look pretty good.

I still want to go to Duck and Waffle just for their signature eponymous dish.

https://duckandwaffle.com/menu/dinner/

I know - jay rayner rated it and it’s 2 mins from our house

£14 for beans on toast !

[Count Steer]

Smokehouses are ten a penny in that London now, although that one does look pretty good.

I still want to go to Duck and Waffle just for their signature eponymous dish.

https://duckandwaffle.com/menu/dinner/

I know - jay rayner rated it and it’s 2 mins from our house

£14 for beans on toast !

It's probably bean on toast. But the £ is for the waiter to explain the provenance of the bean and explain that the flour for the sourdough toast was ground between the muscular thighs of the tattooed, pony-tailed chef and the butter is from the milk of a happy cow called Daisy and was churned under a full moon by earth-maidens from Shoreditch.

[Mr Moofo]

Rules for Luncheon, The Ritz for High Tea and the wander up past Tower Bridge for dinner. You'll be stuffed! Oh yes, Black Taxi home to the hotel. Non of this public transport stuff.

V&A and Natural History/Science museums are lovely and worth a visit. used to live 15 minutes walk from them. See if there is a concert/show at the Royal Albert Hall, another good place for atmosphere.

Walk across the parks from Holland Park to Green Park, have that High Tea at the Ritz one day. Covent Garden for Rules (10 minutes from Tragfalgar Sq and National Portrait Gallery). Rules still provide ingredients for the Christmas meals for homeless people at Connection at St Martin's, they have been great supporters for many years.

Go to London Eye and Shard for views. You can do that for free from Shooters Hill on a clear day, but then you have to go to Eltham to do that, how brave are you? Lots of parks are worth walking through on a fine autumn day and you see statues etc... just pleasant to wander with the family.

Whatever you choose, hope you and the family have a good time and make good memories.

I have eaten at Rules a few time. If you like traditional English then it is an experience . My American boss thought it was the best place in London!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Rules is where Ralph Fiennes era M eats innit?

[Mr Moofo]

Rules is where Ralph Fiennes era M eats innit?

Ah! you have caught me out

[Hawkman]

In keeping with walks theme:

From Waterloo cross Westminster bridge past Big Ben, onwards to Green Park, Buckingham Palace and onto Hyde Park. Loads of options around Paddington/Holland Park at the end of the walk for something to eat. Avoid union canal like the plague around ladbroke grove etc - it's bandit country.

If you're around Hampstead I may be able to catch up for a coffee if I'm working on site. The Heath is nice place for a walk, but you have to bring your own bumming hat.

[Asian Boss]

I took my kids down for a couple of days last half term.

We couldn't get into the Natural History Museum or Science Museum as we hadn't pre booked. They really liked the Tate Modern and loved the London Eye. None of us liked the Tower of London (Tower of queues more like). In the turbine hall at the Tate Modern I put on a high viz vest, my younger boy did some popping and locking and I repeatedly blew a whistle while pointing at him; this caused some people to think we were some sort of performance.

I took them to Spitalfiends Market as we were nearby. I thought it was the one with men in woodwork teachers' coats shouting about fish but it was just a typical alpaca wool jumper and attrocious hand made jewellery market. I put my coat on backwards and shouted about fish a bit but it didn't really make up for it. It turns out I was thinking of Billingsgate Market.

We took a suite an the St Pancras Renaissance hotel, in the Barlow Wing, which was most agreeable. We didn't have afternoon tea as everywhere decent was booked up. If I was going again we'd try and get a place at Sketch.

If we'd had more time I would have taken them on the cable car which is in some way branded as Emirates Airline. We got around with Ubers and the underground, my younger son loved the underground.