National Portrait Gallery Portrait Restaurant Leporello

A great view, good food, history old and new – and some intriguing facts: it’s London summed up. It’s The Portrait Perspective and it’s available as a leporello, a concertina pull out booklet that opens to reveal a metre-long panorama of the view from the Portrait Restaurant at the top of the National Portrait Gallery. Linking portraits in the gallery with buildings seen from the Portrait Restaurant, it’s ideal for poring over as you pour out a cup of coffee before exploring the gallery.

Holi menu at Dishoom

‘Hooray, hooray, it’s a Holi, holiday!’… For the uninitiated, Holi is one of India’s maddest, most colourful festivals- a chance for mad March hares to fling brightly coloured powders at one another, eat copiously and brilliantly, and in general, just have a rum old time. And ‘Bombay cafe’ Dishoom is celebrating in style.