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The 5 best pubs for a good English brunch

Sunny Friday and the mind is running away from business towards the weekend… It’s time to take a break – have a look in Time Out to find some fresh ideas and discover a new part of London.

Time Out has just published the results of the Time Out Eating & Drinking Awards 2008. Similarly we thought we’d compile a list of 5 great pubs where you can have a good English Brunch:

  1. Princess Victoria (Shepherds Bush) – It’s a new pub, born to win its customers with the freshest and tastiest ingredients from the market close-by: freshly baked bread, cheese, wine, sausage and mash. Perfect!
  2. Founders Arms (South side of the river very close to Blackfriars bridge) – It offers the usual Young’s range of drinks and pretty decent food but its location is what makes this place popular: it has a large terrace with seats and tables by the river, there are no major roads nearby and there’s an amazing view.
  3. The Punch Bowl (Mayfair) -It’s “the Madonna and Guy Ritchie” pub that boasts flowers and hanging baskets outside, whilst inside there’s dark oak paneling, candles wedged in champagne bottles and artwork that ups the nostalgia ante. Food and wine are excellent and the location maintains that this is a classy place (even if Madonna’s name’s in there somewhere).
  4. Monkey Chews (Camden Town) – This little hidden bar is in the residential area of Camden. The antique furniture contributes to this atmospheric and unique establishment that serves high quality food. Whilst the menu lacks depth, everything is cooked to perfection in the open kitchen.
  5. The Trafalgar (Chelsea) – This trendy pub on the Kings Road may not appear to be anything special from the outside, but inside it’s huge and aimed at making their customers feel as comfortable as they can. The food’s great, not cheap of course but then you pay fro the location!

Have you eaten at any of these restaurants? What others haven’t we mentioned that you’d recommend?

5 bites from the latest news

Good afternoon! Here we are on this raining day with your daily quick update from London: five bites from the latest news specially selected for you and your needs.

  • MONEY : The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has decided to once again raise food prices. The shop prices rose by 3.2 per cent: the highest rate since it started the index two years ago and up from 2.5 per cent in June. Food prices were 9.5 per cent higher compared with July last year, against 7 per cent in June, says the Timesonline.co.uk. And we, the lucky customers that we are, have to pay the price increase of energy and transport costs for the supermarket!
  • OLYMPICS : What is the biggest problem in Beijing: the pollution or the protesters?! Athletes and visitors don’t seem to care about either. Any difficulty in conveying the latest results to the rest of the world has been lessened by a team of 4,000 IT professionals who will be working to communicate competition results to participants, spectators and the media alike within 0.3 seconds. 21,600 journalists are waiting to share their news with four billion TV viewers in their homes.
  • TRANSPORT : Passengers prefer cheap airlines over British Airways. The traditional summer travel boom never took off this year as British Airways aircrafts are flying with a quarter of their seats unfilled. The timesonlin.co.uk reports British Airways carried 94,000 fewer passengers than in July last year as higher fares and the worsening economic environment led to weaker demand. In the meantime Ryanair and Easyjet fill up their flights with offers and smart prices, selling millions of cheap tickets.
  • CULTURE : Whilst we are waiting for the famous Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, we can enjoy watching stand up comedy and unique performances in Camden Town, where the Camden Fringe Festival is on from 28th of July to 24th of August. During the 4 weeks we will have 316 performances (of 100 different shows) across 3 venues, a collection of experimental new theatre, comedy, musicals, poetry, improvisation and story-telling.