Cross the rubicon of Clapham, regarded by some people as a part of North London that got accidentally cut off by the Thames, and you’re in the deep Sarf proper. Crystal Palace is as south as it gets really and yet only a few stops by mainline from London Bridge or Victoria, as any resident will tell you. It was this closeness and airy height above sea level that led to the great Exhibition Rooms of 1851 being moved here from Hyde Park. The Crystal Palace was a major attraction until the whole lot burnt to the ground in 1936, cheered on by my father who was allowed to stay up late in his winceyette pyjamas. Read more
Is the mega mall Westfield the future face of eating
As the doors of Westfield were finally flung open for the very first time an avalanche of people crashed towards us. The Japanese photographer next to me faced them down like a big game hunter up against a herd of wildebeest, his Nikon whizzing furiously and then he was gone, swept away like a stick in a swollen river. He may still be there for all I know, washed up in a quiet backwater lying prone in the doorway of a mobile phone store.
Not just in it for the bread
‘Ten years ago it was just me and an umbrella” Sebastian Vince is saying as he lowers a slice of hot Pizza al Taglio into his mouth, one of many classic pizzas cut from a square slab and prepared and cooked fresh on his Breadstall bakery in Clapham’s Northcote Road market.
Made in Sicily Promotion
Refettorio, The Crowne Plaza London The City’s Italian Restaurant Celebrates Giorgio Locatelli’s New Book ‘Made in Sicily’ with a Sicilian Promotion
Love Affair in the Kitchen; French Wines with Style DEFUNCT
Give Alan Kingsbury a bottle of French regional wine and he starts to feel hungry… Give him two and the cooking really begins.
Breakfast time
16/12/2011 07:15