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Intro Blah Blah LUXE Insider LUXE Loves LUXE Loathes Fab vs. Drab LUXE Itineraries P1 / LUXE LONDON Citi Prestige SM London IF THERE’S ONE CITY THAT IS NEVER OUT OF FASHION IT’S LONDON. You may not understand British humor (not even the British do) and you will almost certainly encounter inclement weather, but with her hyper-fash forward design scene, vintage and custom tailoring that’s the envy of the world, history, romance and intrigue in every footstep and treasure in spades, it’s little wonder that travelistas the planet over put London at the top of their pilgrimage wish list. Add a startling resurgence of fine, artisanally-sourced British cooking and a world class bar scene and nightlife, and you won’t just be visiting, you’ll be immigrating. The cult pocket city guides and mobile apps for the busy, sophisticated traveler www.luxecityguides.com CITI PRESENTS LUXE CITY GUIDES

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London

IF THERE’S ONE CITY THAT IS NEVER OUT OF FASHION IT’S LONDON.

You may not understand British

humor (not even the British do) and

you will almost certainly encounter

inclement weather, but with her

hyper-fash forward design scene,

vintage and custom tailoring that’s the

envy of the world, history, romance

and intrigue in every footstep and

treasure in spades, it’s little wonder

that travelistas the planet over put

London at the top of their pilgrimage

wish list. Add a startling resurgence

of fine, artisanally-sourced British

cooking and a world class bar scene

and nightlife, and you won’t just be

visiting, you’ll be immigrating.

The cult pocket city guides and mobile

apps for the busy, sophisticated traveler

www.luxecityguides.comCITI PRESENTS LUXE CITY GUIDES

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• Heathrow to Central: 50

mins / £50 by cab; 15 mins /

£18.00 by Heathrow Express to

Paddington Station; 30 mins / £5

by Underground.

• The Tube: Depending on which line

you take, travelling on London’s vast

underground network can be either

easy and convenient or a necessary

evil, either way, buy a multiple

journey Oyster Card, grab a free

map at the ticket kiosk, and avoid

rush hour if you possibly can.

• Metered black cabs can cost as

much as air tickets, and drivers do

expect a tip as well (min 50p), but

the upside is all drivers have the

world famous ‘knowledge’, know

all the streets and tend to be

chatty, cheery types.

Blah blah• Mini-cabs (non-metered) need

to be booked ahead and you can

agree the fee upfront, but be wary

of illegal cabs soliciting you on

the street, they often don’t have

insurance and you could end up

on a wild goose chase.

• Best deal in town? Most major

museums/galleries in London are

free. How fabulous is that!

• If you’re on a budget, make

lunch the main meal of the

day, most of the city’s wish list

restaurants feature an excellent

set lunch prix fixe.

• Bear in mind that clued-in

Londoners hit bars, restaurants and

clubs on weekdays as the weekends

in town can get, shall we say, a tad

bridge and tunnel.

• Tipping 10-15% is customary, but

do be aware that some restaurants

add it to the bill as a discretionary

charge, so do check your bill first.

• The international code for Britain

is +44, and all landlines begin with

020, the numbers you encounter

prefixed with 07 are mobiles.

• In all emergencies call 999

(this does not include when

you break a nail, or need a

restaurant reservation).

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For over a decade Roland Mouret has

created some of the world’s most coveted

womenswear collections. The designer

has defined the era of the iconic dress,

which, has become known by a single

name – Galaxy, Titanium, Moon ¬– and

has earned Mouret a reputation as

magician, master of structure and

silhouette, and as a man with an intuitive

understanding of the female form.

www.rolandmouret.com

LUXE INSIDER

Roland Mouret

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1) WHAT DO YOU MOST LOVE ABOUT LONDON?

London has such an eclectic mix

of people and styles. It’s such a

vibrant city and a constant

source of inspiration!

2) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NEIGHBORHOOD TO VISIT FOR A DAY OF SHOPPING?

My favorite neighborhood is the

Southbank. I particularly like to

shop at Borough Market early in the

morning and spend the rest of the day

cooking up a storm.

www.boroughmarket.org.uk

3) WHERE DO YOU GO TO GET CLOTHES TAILORED/BESPOKE?

Anderson & Sheppard on Saville Row

always do a fantastic job.

www.anderson-sheppard.co.uk

4) WHAT ARE 3 OF YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANTS IN LONDON?

Helene Darroze at The Connaught,

The Wolseley on Piccadilly, and Scotts

on Mount St.

www.the-connaught.co.uk

www.thewolseley.com

www.scotts-restaurant.com

5) WHERE DO YOU GO TO UNWIND AND RELAX IN LONDON?

I like to go to St. James Park and

watch the birds. I love the birds

and the ducks!

www.royalparks.org.uk

/parks/st-jamess-park

6) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE STORE FOR VINTAGE AND/OR ANTIQUE PIECES?

Jerome Dodds’ store in Notting Hill

Les Couilles Du Chien. Jerome is a

great friend of mine, he helped source

numerous pieces for my showroom

at 8 Carlos Place and his space in

Notting Hill is a treasure trove, I never

leave empty handed.

www.lescouillesduchien.com

7) WHERE WOULD YOU GO FOR A COCKTAIL AND WHAT WOULD YOU ORDER?

You can never go wrong with a

Mojito at Momo.

www.momoresto.com

8) WHERE DO YOU TAKE VISITORS WHEN THEY COME TO VISIT YOU IN LONDON?

The Victoria and Albert Museum is

always on my list of places to visit.

They have just opened their

Ballgowns exhibition in which I am

honored to be showcasing the

dress Maggie Gyllenhaal wore to

the 2010 Golden Globes.

www.vam.ac.uk

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Roland Mouret

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THE CONNAUGHT Hotel

More like a friendly luxury club than a

hotel, with creamy, classic, supremely

comfy and wired-up rooms, personal

butlers, fine dine Hélène Darroze,

svelte socialite Connaught Bar, quieter

hideaway Coburg Bar, and thoroughly

swish Aman Spa. Its location at the

very center of the happening Mount

Street scene places it perfectly for

gentle ambles in nearby Green Park

as well as all important shopping in

Mayfair and Jermyn Street. Divine

DORSET SQUARE Hotel

After an extensive and expensive

revamp, the Kit Kemp-designed Dorset

Square Hotel has finally reopened

in retail central Marylebone. Inside

its beautiful Regency townhouse

exterior are 38 individually designed

bedrooms, each appointed with

bespoke furniture and bold color

palettes, many with picturesque

garden views. Downstairs, The Potting

Shed restaurant and bar serves Brit

classics, while the high-ceilinged

Drawing Room is perfect for a spot

of afternoon tea.

THE LEDBURY Dining Chef Brett Graham’s deft antipodean

hand has fashioned a constantly

evolving modern European menu

that has become one of the city’s

most important and desired dining

destinations. The wonderful surprise

with this 2-star Michelin eatelier is the

perfect fine dining blend of urbane

and sophisticated, but deliciously

relaxed and welcoming. It really is a

treat, and you really will need to

book far ahead.

16 Carlos Place, W1 / T: Bond

Street /+ 44 020 7499 7070

www.maybourne.com39-40 Dorset Square, NW1 / T: Baker

Street / +44 020 7723 7874

www.firmdalehotels.com

127 Ledbury Roadd, W11 / T:

Westbourne Park / + 44 020

7792 9090 / Closed Mon lunch

www.theledbury.com

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TEA AT CLARIDGE’S Dining

Quite apart from being one of

London’s most iconic hotels, with

a legendarily beautiful deco foyer,

Claridge’s has becomes the glam-

daddy of champagne, pastry and

piano with its perfectly balanced

afternoon tea service and palm court

atmosphere. If the mood takes you,

afterwards you can always drift into

the divine little Fumoir bar for an early

evening refresher, it’s but five steps

off the lobby.

EXPERIMENTALCOCKTAIL CLUB

Bar

So you think you know about

cocktails? Direct from trouncing all-

comers in Paris, the ECC melts silkily

onto the London scene with glass

after glass of classic reinvention,

which takes this rare spirits ultra-

speakeasy way beyond most of its

competitors. Set over two floors of a

Georgian townhouse with a £5 cover

charge payable after 11pm, it’s as well

to reserve a table ahead if you can.

COBURG BAR Bar

Sometimes you just want a nice quiet drink,

but in London that can be hard to find. Step

into the deeply lovely Coburg nestled in the

bosom of the venerable Connaught Hotel.

The spacious, contemporary India Mahdavi

interior features warm, dark paneling and

Julian Opie art, while the bar concentrates

on extremely well made classic mixed drinks,

expertly served without fanfare, faff or

cocktail umbrellas. Sheer bliss.55 Brook Street, W1 /

T: Bond Street / + 44 020 7107 8872 /

served daily 3-5.30pm

www.claridges.co.uk

13A Gerrard Street, W1 / T: Leicester

Square / + 44 020 7434 3559 /

email to ensure entry at

[email protected]

www.chinatownecc.comKeizersgracht 359 / 9 Streets /

+31 20 639 0067

www.van-ravenstein.nl

DINNER BY HESTON BLUMENTHAL Dining

The wizard Mr. B strikes platinum with

his forage through historic and heritage

British recipes, tweaking them as only

a true genius can and serving them up

redux via a startlingly effective and

knowledgeable staff who clearly love

what they do. The spacious dining room

looks out over Hyde Park, but it’s more

likely your eye will be firmly on your

plate. The Meat Fruit and Tipsy Pudding

with roast pineapple are already the

stuff of legend.

THE WOLSELEY Dining

How do we love the Wolseley, let us

count the ways… for breakfast or

elevenses, lunch or brunch, afternoon

tea, pre-theatre, dinner and supper,

this carbon and cream marble ultra-

glam verve and vibe café-salon of mod

Euro classics heaves from breakfast to

nightcap. And what’s more, if you like

the table settings, from condiments to

tableware, napery and cake-stands, you

can buy them all online. Hurrah!

DABBOUS Dining

Don’t let the industrial mesh, metal piping

and strictly functional corporate canteen

fitout put you off, this is an oasis of pristine,

full-blooded modern European flavor,

as you’d expect of Ollie Dabbous whose

previous work at Scandinavian bistro

Texture has seen it appear in all editions of

LUXE London since it launched. No wonder

then we’re fans of his new baby, although

getting a reservation here now is an Augean

challenge. If you are lucky enough to have

booked far in advance and been granted

a table, you’ll find produce-centric small

and large plates with a detectable

Scandinavian simplicity and acute attention

to clarity of taste.

9 Whitfield Street, London W1 / T:

Goodge Street / closed Sun-Mon /

+44 020 7323 1544

www.dabbous.co.uk

160 Piccadilly, W1 / T: Green Park /

+44 020 7499 6996

www.thewolseley.comMandarin Oriental Hyde Park /

Knightsbridge, SW1 /

T: Knightsbridge / + 44 020 7201 3833

www.dinnerbyheston.com

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LUXE LovesSIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM Activities

Piled to the rafters with art, sculpture,

wonders and curiosities, the eminent

Victorian architect Sir John Soane

filled his house with museum quality

artifacts and then very sweetly left

them to the nation. Once a month the

museum opens in the evening and is

candlelit, and while the queue to get

in beggars belief, it’s an absolutely

unique treat.

FORTNUM & MASON Shopping

This perennial one-stop shopping

landmark is traditionally associated

with chic groceries and hampers,

especially at Christmas, but what

many people miss are the four floors

of wonderful gifts, sweet little Beauty

à la Carte spa, and rather good

wine bar. The Fountain Bar’s famed

Welsh Rarebit is a naughty treat,

and afternoon tea at the St. James’s

Restaurant the perfect start or finish

to your retail therapy in nearby,

iconic Jermyn Street.

BERRY BROS & RUDD Shopping

This perennial one-stop shopping

landmark is traditionally associated with

chic groceries and hampers, especially

at Christmas, but what many people

miss are the four floors of wonderful

gifts, sweet little Beauty à la Carte spa,

and rather good wine bar. The Fountain

Bar’s famed Welsh Rarebit is a naughty

treat, and afternoon tea at the St.

James’s Restaurant the perfect start or

finish to your retail therapy in nearby,

iconic Jermyn Street.

DENIS SEVERS’ HOUSE

Activities

Denis may have passed on to the great

tableaux vivant in the sky, but his

spirit lives on in this extraordinary and

delightfully atmospheric recreation of a

C.18th Huguenot silk weaver’s home life

in once again fashionable Spitalfields.

The Monday and Wednesday candlelit

evening tours are a delight.

THE MONUMENT Activities

Super simple, and one of our all time

favorite things to do is a jaunty climb

up all 311 steps of Mr. Wren’s Doric

column. Commemorating the Great Fire

in 1666 and featuring exhilarating bird’s

eye views across London, you also get

a fabulous thigh workout for free!

Note: agrophobics and claustrophobics

may well prefer to keep their feet

on the ground.

13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2 /

T: Holborn / Tue-Sat 10am-5pm /

1st Tue of each month 6-9pm the

museum is candlelit

www.soane.org

181 Piccadilly, W1 / T: Green Park /

+44 020 7734 8040

www.fortnumandmason.com

3 St James’s Street, SW1 /

T: Green Park / + 44 020 7396 9600 /

closed Sunday

www.bbr.com

18 Folgate Street, E1 / T: Liverpool Street

/ + 44 020 7247 4013 /

every Sun noon-3.15pm / book ahead for

Mon & Wed evening candlelight tours /

See website for full details

www.dennissevershouse.co.uk

Monument Street, EC3 / T: Monument /

+44 020 7626 2717 / daily 9.30-5pm

www.themonument.info

URBAN RETREAT

Spa

London has a wealth of really top

notch spas, but when it comes to a

one-stop shop, no one does it better

than Urban Retreat, Here you’ll find a

veritable phalanx of experts dedicated

to manicure and pedicure, waxing,

facials, non-surgical, wigs, brows,

make-up and blow out. Not to mention

Roja Dove’s extraordinary paean to

perfume, the Haute Parfumerie.

Harrods / 87 Brompton Roadd, SW1 /

T: Knightsbridge / + 44 020 7893 8333

www.urbanretreat.co.uk

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LUXE LoathesCROWDS

Avoid the tourist infested Leicester

Square, Oxford Street and Regent

Street like you would dinner with

Lizzie Borden.

COST

There are no two ways about it,

London can be an expensive city, and

if you’re on a tight budget, you’ll find

it challenging.

RETAIL

London’s shopping streets are

becoming swamped with torpid and

ubiquitous international brands, in

a city with so many wonderful and

quirky independent retailers it would

be insane to miss them.

WEATHER BORES

Ok, so this isn’t just London, but

Britain in general. Yes, it rains (get an

umbrella), it’s often cold in summer

(take a woolly) and get over it!

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MUSEUMS

With such a wealth of fabulous (and

often free) museums in the city it can

be difficult to know where to start, and

even when you get there the sheer scale

of somewhere like the British Museum

can be really daunting, so expedite

your cultural visits by hiring your own

private tour guide, as the experience of a

personally tailored tour far outweighs the

expense and you’ll remember your visit

for years to come.

www.contexttravel.com

FREE CONCERTS

Londoners are spoilt rotten with an

absolute wealth of concert and music

venues, but paying full price for tickets

can be an eye-watering affair, so make

like the savvy Londoners do and you can

fit a concert into your lunch hour and

often for free! Hasten along to St. Martin

In The Fields for recitals Mon, Tue & Fri at

1pm, or St. James’s Piccadilly for recitals

Mon, Wed & Fri at 1.10pm.

www.smitf.org

www.st-james-piccadilly.org

PICNICS

There’s nothing quite as quintessentially

British as a summer picnic (complete with

rain), but faffing about trawling delis and

trying to find paper plates and chilled

bottles of wine can be a serious drain on

precious time, so head straight to the

specialists Picnic 2 U for alfresco hamper

heaven! Just order 48 hours ahead and

they deliver right to your door.

www.picnic2u.co.uk

INSIDER TOURS

When your stay in London is limited

each day is precious, and with so many

interesting neighborhoods to explore

and things to discover, it’s easy to be

distracted from your main interests.

Urban Gentry are a super-hip and

friendly outfit that curate and

customize tours on all manner of

subjects from fashion and shopping to

markets, design and architecture, so

you see everything you want to see!

www.urbangentry.com

ART COLLECTING

The world class London art scene is

famed not only for its breadth and

eclecticism but also because there is so

darn much it’s difficult to know where

to start, so if you’re a budding first-time

buyer, don’t waste time trawling endless

websites and galleries, go straight to

the gal who knows, art consultant

Flora Fairbairn.

www.florafairbairn.com

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Ahh London, nightingales in Berkeley

Square, a stolen kiss on Chelsea Bridge…

but first how about sharing a birds-eye

view over the city? Book ahead to avoid

the queues, and take a gentle turn on

the London Eye – you can even book a

special Cupids Capsule complete with

champagne and truffles. Back with your

feet on the ground take an amble over

Waterloo Bridge or catch a cab down

the Strand (home to the divine Savoy

Hotel) and on up to pretty St Martins

in the Fields church to catch their free

lunchtime concert. Now, presuming you’ve

booked in advance, six quick skips will

have you seated at lovely old J Sheekey’s

Oyster Bar. After that zinc and fizz fix

you’ll be set up for a little retail, and

what could say ‘I love you’ better than

cashmere? (Okay, diamonds are good

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Romance

too). If something very special is called

for, grab a cab to Elizabeth Street to find

the divine Hawick who not only specialize

in beautiful contemporary cashmere for

men and women, but choose from their

49 color and they will also custom knit

just for you. Oh, what greater joy can

there be? Well, good that you asked. Back

into your trusty cab and if you’ve timed it

just right, there will be the city’s loveliest

afternoon tea (and champagne, of course)

waiting for you at the divinely deco

Claridge’s Hotel. All this gadding about

can take its toll, so to be sure of being

in the pink for ce soir, off with you now

to the sublime Espa Life at the Corinthia

Hotel. This vast, deeply delicious slink-

a-dink top to toe-r is spread over four

fabulous floors of marble and leather,

or if time is short, plump (ahem) for the

handy Rush Hour Beauty menu that

offers natty, time saving combinations

of all the signature therapies in 60-90

minutes. Smart! Feeling pretty? All you

have to decide now is, are you feeling

flush or flushing? For a gourmet à deux

you’ll have booked the blissful Ledbury,

but for heart-melting Gallic charm with

all the gingham, dried roses and candles

you could ever wish for, head to London

lovers’ all time favorite, little La Poule

au Pot in Pimlico. It’s but a short step or

two to find the river for a post supper

moonlight amble along the Embankment,

or if something a little spicier is called

for, head to Soho and find saucy,

burlesque boîte The Box – even Prince

Harry and Princess Beatrice have visited!

Let the show begin!

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Style

There is no end of stylish areas in London,

but for hip without the grunge you can’t

beat Notting Hill’s Ledbury Road. First

off, zap in a cab to Westbourne Park Road

and straight into breakfast and brunch-

ster joy Granger & Co for Bill’s signature,

fabulous sweet corn fritters with roast

tomato, spinach & bacon, oh stop it!

Replete and caffeinated, step around the

corner onto Ledbury Road and have your

credit card ready. The joys of Ledbury

Road are manifold, not least Melt for

chocolates, Orlebar Brown for guy shorts,

fabulous men’s and womenswear at

Matches, and divine Ottolenghi for ultra

colorful salads and cakes that look like

art and taste like heaven. Now, there’s

precious little point being on a stylish

itinerary and not looking your absolute

best, and you’re in luck. One of London’s

finest spas is but two shakes of a lamb’s

tail away. Beauty Works West offers one

of the best mani/pedis in town plus all the

Ling and Rodial products you could wish

for, amazing oxygen facials and great

anti-aging. Darling, it’s wiped ten years

off you! No time to waste. Hop a cab and

ask for Bruton Place, for SHOWstudio

which features unique and one-off props,

items and artifacts from fashion shoots,

plus jewelry and great original prints.

On you go now to The Royal Arcade on

Old Bond Street to find sultry Ormonde

Jayne for exotic and sensual, beautifully

packaged fragrance. Stepping through

the Royal Arcade will bring you out on

Albemarle Street, home to the discreet

and lovely Browns Hotel, which in turn

is home to London’s stylista’s favorite

afternoon tea tryster. After you’ve

exercised your little finger on fine bone

china, exit and on parallel Dover Street,

you’ll come to the grand slam of fission

hot styling Dover Street Market – five

floors of fashion. Finally, Wolf&Badger

is an innovative concept hosting up and

coming designer wear, individual interior

pieces and custom made clothing. OMG,

look at the time! Its wine o’clock, or

rather it’s cocktail hour, tarry not, into a

cab with you and off to Gerrard Street

and the wondrous emporium of liquid

loveliness ECC (see LUXE Loves). When

the dinner gong goes, your cab awaits to

gritty Bethnal Green and the molecular

mouth magic of Nuno Mendes at Viajante,

followed by squishy sofa nightcaps at

pretty Zetter Street Townhouse. Night

night, one very tired but stylish kitten.

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Uh oh, dropped your morning coffee

over your suit and you’ve a meeting

in an hour? Gentlemen, you could do

worse than hop in a cab to Vigo Street

in Piccadilly to pick up an RTW at Suit

Supply, where the in-store tailors can turn

around most alterations on the spot. True,

it’s not exactly Anderson and Sheppard,

but needs must! With meetings in the

city, the choice of lunch spot is crucial

to avoid long cab journeys in traffic,

and Refettorio fits the bill perfectly.

Giorgio Locatelli’s Italian stallion attracts

foodies and serious biz-bods alike for

its easygoing atmosphere and perfectly

provenanced menu. For men in need of a

serious sartorial kick start The Refinery

in Brook St is the gentlemen’s club of

good grooming, even going as far as to

offer the all or nothing special ‘galaxy’

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Businesswax for those intimate areas… For busy

businesswomen, your all time best shot

is the amazing Urban Retreat at Harrods

(see LUXE Loves), where you’ll find a top

to toe of every conceivable treatment

and service from a battalion of the city’s

best therapists, all under one time-saving

roof. After work drinks with colleagues or

clients is all very well at any of the myriad

square mile pubs, but for something a

little (or a lot) different take the time to

try The Jerusalem Tavern in Clerkenwell,

this very special little inn is the only

one in the city to serve the wonderful,

nectar-like ales from Suffolk’s St Peter’s

Brewery. For something a lot more swish

The Connaught Hotel’s Coburg Bar (see

LUXE Loves) ticks all the boxes of style,

panache, peace and seriously good

cocktails, and would make the perfect

starting spot before heading down to

the Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge

where you’ve taken the time to book well

ahead for a table at Dinner by Heston

Blumenthal (see LUXE Loves). When it

comes to business dining you need just

the right amount of show with just the

right amount of taste and surprise, and

Dinner serves them both, big time. If

cigars, whiskey and ribald anecdotes are

called for afterwards, shoot up the road

to the Lanesborough Hotel’s Garden Bar.

This most luxurious of smoking rooms

contains the city’s largest walk-in humidor

and a cognac list that features labels

dating back to 1770. Careful, you’ve got

work in the morning!

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• London Eye

Southbank

www.londoneye.com

• St Martins in the Fields

Trafalgar Sq, WC2 / +44 020 7766

1100 / recitals Mon, Tue & Fri at 1pm /

www.smitf.org

• J Sheekey’s Oyster Bar

28 St Martin’s Court, WC2 /

+44 020 7240 2565

www.j-sheekey.co.uk

• Hawick

51 Elizabeth Street, SW1 /

+44 020 7259 9995 /

www.hawickcashmere.com

• Claridge’s (see LUXE Loves)

• Corinthia Hotel

Whitehall Place, SW1 /

+44 020 7321 3050 /

www.espaonline.com

• Ledbury (see LUXE Loves)

• La Poule au Pot

231 Ebury Street, SW1 /

+44 020 7730 7763 /

www.pouleaupot.co.uk

• The Box

11 Walker’s Court, W1 /

+44 020 7434 4374

www.theboxsoho.com

• Granger & Co

175 Westbourne Grove, W11 /

no reservations

www.grangerandco.com

• Wolf&Badger

32 Dover Street, W1 /

+44 020 3627 3191

www.wolfandbadger.com

• Beauty Works West

11 Lambton Place, Westbourne Grove,

W11 / +44 020 7221 2248

www.beautyworkswest.com

• SHOWstudio

1 Bruton Place, W1 /

+44 020 7399 4299

www.showstudio.com

• Ormonde Jayne

12 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street,

W1 / +44 020 7499 1100

www.ormondejayne.com

• Browns

33 Albemarle Street, W1 /

+44 020 7493 6020

www.brownshotel.com

ROMANTIC ITINERARY STYLISH ITINERARY

• Dover Street Market

17 Dover Street, W1 /

+44 020 7518 0680

www.doverstreetmarket.com

• ECC (see LUXE Loves)

• Viajante / Town Hall Hotel, Patriot

Square, Bethnal Green, E2 /

+44 020 7871 0461 /

www.viajante.co.uk

• Zetter Street Townhouse

49 St John’s Square, EC1 /

+44 020 7324 4545

www.thezettertownhouse.com

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• Suit Supply

9 Vigo Street, W1 / +44 020 7851 2961

www.suitsupply.com

• Refettorio

19 New Bridge Street, EC4 /

+44 020 7438 8052

www.refettorio.com

• The Refinery

60 Brook Street, W1 /

+44 020 7409 2001

www.the-refinery.com

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• Urban Retreat (see LUXE Loves)

• The Jerusalem Tavern

55 Britton Street, Clerkenwell, EC1 /

+44 020 7490 4281

www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk

• Coburg Bar

The Connaught Hotel

(see LUXE Loves)

• Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

(see LUXE Loves)

• Garden Bar

The Lanesborough / Hyde Park Corner,

SW1 / + 44 020 7529 5599 /

www.lanesborough.com

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