Soooo happy with the weather this week. We had a classic, perfect September day yesterday with a BBQ at a friend’s that gave me garden envy after way too many glasses of natural wine. If you haven’t tried the sparkling Shiraz called Majella, you must. Pick one up from High Ground in Islington and serve chilled!
Eat this week
Cassette. Levan’s Parisian bistro in a former stained-glass workshop on Maiden Lane. Fromage de tête, coq-au-vin jaune pie for two, and moules or steak frites all day on Sundays. 42 Maiden Lane.
Nettle. Will Devlin’s fire-led kitchen on The Conduit’s fifth floor. Kent farm produce over charcoal above Langley Street. Tue-Sat. 6 Langley Street.
The Tallyman. Faber team pub in Canary Wharf, opened on Monday the 21st. Cask downstairs, lobster subs by day, oysters from five. Dogs at the bar. Chancellor Passage.
Drink this week
SANE. Sake and wine bar on Camden Passage from Maxime Maiano. Small-production bottles, tasting flights, terrace when it’s warm. Have been eyeing this one for a while since it reopened. 2 Camden Passage. Sundays noon-7pm.
Georgie’s Bar. Tom Kerridge’s bar at the Corinthia: martinis, pork scratchings, shellfish brioche. No.10 Northumberland Avenue. Snacks noon-9pm on Sundays, drinks until 10.30pm.
Hausu Upstairs. Listening bar above Hausu at Peckham Rye Station. Sheer curtains, big speakers, Rose’s wine list. Tue-Sat. 11a Station Way.
See and do
James McNeill Whistler. Last day for Tate Britain’s Whistler retrospective on Millbank, Sunday the 27th, 10-6. Whistler’s Mother is over from the Musée d’Orsay, along with the Thames nocturnes. £24.
Classic Car Boot Sale. Vintage traders, polished classic cars and a Routemaster bus bar on Granary Square, King’s Cross, last day Sunday the 27th, 10-6 (last entry 5.30). Tickets £9, concessions £7, on Humanitix.
Canalside Sessions. Williams Cumberbache on congas with guests, on the pontoon stage at Grow on Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, Sunday the 27th, 1-5. Free, and spritzes are two for £15.
Free this week
Reviving Craft. Free LDF craft show in Somerset House’s Embankment Galleries, last day Sunday the 27th, 11-6. Ceramics, glass, textiles.
Brixton Windmill Harvest Festival. Milling demos, Morris, and bread in Windmill Gardens off Brixton Hill, Sunday the 27th, 1-5. Free.
The Burberry Trench. Free V&A display on the trench coat, from military kit to fashion, until January. Prince Consort Gallery.
Favourite food of the week
Curry Duck on rice from Nem Nem. The natural wine did help their cause, but it was excellent.
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This day in London
27 September 1960. Europe’s first travelator, a moving walkway, opens at Bank station on the Waterloo & City line.
Trivia
At Sloane Square, the River Westbourne runs above the platforms in a cast-iron pipe.
Sport
Chelsea Women v Arsenal Women at Stamford Bridge this afternoon, kick-off 4.30pm. It’s on Sky Sports if you can’t get a ticket.
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Whistler and the King’s Cross car boot both finish at six today, so do those first.
Maddy and Eric