Hattie Lloyd

United Kingdom

Writer at The Nudge

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Soutine | A Belle Epoque-Style Parisian Café in St. John's Wood

2 weeks ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

Soutine | Grand Café Dining by Regent’s ParkChaïm Soutine was a Russian-French painter, born the tenth of eleven children, who – when he got his big break in Paris and sold 60 paintings at once – jumped straight into a taxi to Nice, over 400 miles away. His eponymous restaurant, meanwhile, is the seventh restaurant from the reigning monarchs of Grand Café revival, The Wolseley Hospitality Group.
The Marquee Moon

3 weeks ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

We’re about to hit a new phase of the Marquee Moon. The classic Dalston pub The Marquis of Landsdowne was revamped, renamed, and reopened last August by the team behind The Cause (a legendary docklands club space), and it collected some glowing reviews in the process. Now that they’ve had time to get a feel for the place, they’ve given the menu a full update with a whole bunch of new dishes and fresh flavours.
The Grand Sumo Tournament

1 month ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

Your chance has finally arrived to get into sumo wrestling. From a safe distance, of course. Because this October, a fleet of Japan’s most elite wrestlers will be facing off at the Royal Albert Hall in a rare international tournament – in fact, this will only be the second time in the sport’s 1,500-year history that an official five-day basho will be held outside Japan. Heck, they only take place six times a year in Japan.
The Knave of Clubs

1 month ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

The Knave of Clubs is an old pub, old enough to have been named back when calling it the ‘Jack of Clubs’ would have sounded like modernist nonsense. But in all the various guises it’s taken up over the centuries – from pubs, to restaurants, to pop up spaces – it’s now once again wearing the crown it feels most comfortable in: a quintessential Victorian boozer. Only this time it also happens to the have some absolutely fantastic pub food, too.
Quirky, Cool & Unusual London Bars

1 month ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

Some of the coolest bars in London, don’t necessarily look like bars. There’s one inside a butchers, one in the former switch room of Battersea Power Station and one in a garden above a Victorian tunnel shaft. These are bars that start conversations. Their off-the-beaten-track locations will help to break the ice and their commitment to creating a very particularly kind of cool will have you coming back time and again.
Crunch Soho - The Nudge London

2 months ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

The word ‘cult’ gets flung around a lot these days, but Crunch has genuinely earned it. The sandwich slingers sell over 15,000 of their brioche butties every month – which either means they’re insanely popular, or they have about 750 regulars who find themselves drawn there every single lunchtime. So it feels about time the outfit upgraded from its humble stall in Spitalfields Market to a bona fide café, sandwiched (rather appropriately) between Old Compton St and Dean St in Soho.
London's Best Japanese Restaurants

2 months ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

There’s an excellent word in Japanese: kuchisabishii. It translates, literally, to ‘mouth lonely’: that feeling you get when you start eating out of boredom rather than hunger. And when the feeling strikes, London’s Japanese restaurants are primed and ready to deliver all manner of delicious treats directly to your lonesome gob. Craving sashimi? You have dozens of fantastic sushi restaurants ready to cater to your every whim. Celebrating?
Rooftop Saunas at Netil House

2 months ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

When the stress of the modern world feels all too much, a session in a rooftop sauna is guaranteed to cure anything that ails you. Except vertigo, probably. In the midst of London’s growing fondness for saunas, the half-dozen hand-crafted timber huts sitting on top of Netil House in London Fields have two distinct advantages:1) They’re private.
The Best Hotels In Shoreditch

2 months ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

It’s not often that you walk into a hotel, are escorted to your own personal elevator, and settle into a suite of rooms with a private, jacuzzi-toting roof terrace while a personal valet tops up your Champagne glass, simultaneously massaging your feet with the deft agility and dedication of a Shaolin-trained monk……which is a shame.
Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes

2 months ago | thenudge.com | Hattie Lloyd

The Red Shoes was originally a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. 100 years later, Powell and Pressburger adapted it for the silver screen. And almost 200 years later, The Red Shoes – a story about a pair of cursed dancing shoes – was finally made into a ballet. Coming to you from the laureled choreographer Matthew Bourne (best known for his nearly all-male Swan Lake), The Red Shoes won a slew of acclaim and awards (including two Oliviers) when it premiered in 2016.