What’s for Lunch? The Counter Cafe, Hackney Wick
Arty Hackney Wick cafe with a fantastic view of the Olympic Stadium, great coffee and homey food.
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Monday Miscellanea
Picture by sinister pictures, via the Londonist Flickr Pool. This Week In London’s History Monday – 8th November 1674: John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, dies of gout in his house at Finsbury. Tuesday – 9th November 1911: The Victoria Palace Theatre is opened opposite …
Monday Miscellanea
Last week on Londonist, in numbers, translated into an image… 2 years and a bit until the Spice Girls reform for the 2012 Olympics 3 from the top of the list of Bloomberg’s financial powerhouses for London 250 people voted in Sutton council’s appeal for …
Sous Vide (Bathtub) Salmon with Jonathan “Browners” Brown
Londonist’s own sandwich seeking flâneur, Jonathan “Browners” Brown, isn’t just sarnie obsessed. Indeed, have a look at his own blog, Around Britian with a Paunch, and you’ll soon realize he and his foodie co-conspirator, Cowie, have a very healthy appetite for all things edible as …
Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 10th November 1862: This first Lambeth Bridge is opened. It would soon fall into disrepair, and in 1932 it would be replaced with the structure we know today. Tuesday – 11th November 1688: A Benedictine convent in St. …
O-fish-al Business
The Lord Mayor of London got his white wellies on today to present a rather handsome looking salmon to a similarly clad Mayor of Tower Hamlets in a ceremony at Billingsgate. The fish is paid annually in peppercorn rent to the East London borough, as …
Monday Miscellanea
Due to earlier technical vexations of a non-Stratford-related variety, Monday Miscellanea is a bit later than usual today… This Week In London’s History Monday – 12th November 1974: A 9lb salmon is caught in the Thames – the first time that such a fish has …
