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06 Chad’s Place – Kings Cross
I used to live in Kings Cross about 9 years ago and it’s fair to say that it was a shit hole. We were just won over by the fact that our tube station was on six tube lines…
Riding House Cafe – Oxford Circus
Riding House Cafe is gorgeous. It’s very civilised for central London and reminds me a lot of Pastis in New York without the nauseating British ex-pat vibe…
Foxcroft & Ginger – Soho
Foxcroft & Ginger is a pretty good cafe for Central London, which I try to avoid specially on weekends due to the mobs. I was there on Saturday though, I’d arranged to meet Mazzi and Lottie…
Camera Cafe – Bloomsbury
Tucked away at the back of a camera repair shop next to the British Museum is Camera Cafe a quiet and discreet little place with a few tables and Simon and Garfunkel playing in the background (the soundtrack says alot)…
Koenig Books – Covent Garden
Koenig books hosts a collection of joyfully pretentious art books with beautiful covers and artistically out of focus photographs…
Magma – Clerkenwell / Covent Garden
Magma is one of those lovely bookshops which sells all those fatuous yet inspiring graphics books and expensive documentary dvd’s about fashion designers…
Claire Rouen Books – Soho
Tucked away up a narrow flight of stairs above the Soho bookshop on Charing Cross road is a little designer bookshop specialising in fashion and art books, many of which are hard to find…