Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa - Cafe restaurant

417 King's Rd, London Opening at 07:00 Open today until 23:00 Opening at 08:30 Open today until 17:30 Opening at 07:00 tomorrow Sorry, we're closed This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services.

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Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch London, review: Hot, hip and achingly ...

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Thanks to a sensitive £40 million refurbishment, evidence of its previous life abound, from the Metropolitan Police crests on the tiled lobby floor to the former holding cells that are now snug drinking dens in the bar (two of which allegedly held the notorious London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray in the 1960s).

The decor in the new wing is safer, with a more muted palette, but there's the consolation of city skyline views on the higher floors and two plush 60-square-metre sky terrace suites with private bars and mini-cinema lounges.

Breakfast is served in the former court waiting room, a sparsely decorated space with grey walls, dark wood and light brown bench seats.

By today's mixology standards, the drinks menu on the rooftop bar is unadventurous but the panoramic city skyline views still make it a plum spot.

Shoreditch's revival is well-documented and the suburb is now home to a dizzying array of bars, restaurants and boutiques.

Habanera review – Shepherd's Bush Mexican has style and ...

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Habanera only has a truncated menu available at lunch, so it’s worth going for dinner instead to get the widest choice of taco fillings.

Habanera’s kitchen clearly has a knack for the more offbeat fillings.

The least successful of this taco trio, but still better than many of the others from previous meals, was the prawn filling.

The kitchen attempted to counterbalance its relative richness with salted caramel ice cream, but this only worked due to its cool creaminess and not its muted salty-sweetness.

Nevertheless, even in their current state, the Mexican food here makes a refreshing change from the otherwise Levantine-majority restaurants of the local area and it’s generally better than the only other local alternative that I’m aware of – the Westfield-branch of the increasingly so-so Wahaca.

Assaggi, 39 Chepstow Place, London W2 | The Independent

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I'm fortunate in that my companion is the writer Michael Rose, who lived in Florence for 25 years, during which time, besides becoming an authority on Puccini and Berlioz, he conducted an in-depth study of Italian wines and cuisine.

His scallops are "as good as I've tasted" even if, for £13.90, Assaggi might risk serving four rather than three.

If the main menu lacks an English equivalent, Assaggi makes up for it on the wine list, whose translator seems to have suffered something of a rush of blood.

Scores: 1-3 stay home and cook, 4 needs help, 5 does the job, 6 flashes of promise, 7 good, 8 special, can't wait to go back 9-10 as good as it gets Assaggi 39 Chepstow Place, London W2, tel: 020 7792 5501 Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat.

About £130 for lunch for two with one bottle of wine, service not included One of the best all-Italian wine lists in the world is the stand-out attraction of the Turi family's stalwart, near Putney Bridge The Poli family's decade-old venture offers some of the most authentic Tuscan cooking outside of Tuscany Maurizio Morelli's food is as creative as it is mouthwatering

Dalí/Duchamp, exhibition review: How's this for a double act ...

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Duchamp is known as an intellectual and Dalí as a populist.

Salvador Dalí’s sexuality was repressed in life, despite his art being all about peering into everyone’s deepest desires via the insights of psychoanalysis.

For the last 15 years of his life (he died in 1969), after many affairs, he was married to Teeny, the daughter-in-law of Matisse, whose arms Duchamp used as a model for Étant Donnés.

Dalí goes for skill wherever he can, oodles of it, in the most sleazy and cheesy way, wowing everyone that isn’t particularly interested in art and doesn’t want to know about it, with his tiny brushes and streamlined forms.

And Dalí helped Duchamp with the printing methods used for the forested landscape in the background of Étant Donnés.

Restaurant review: The Terrace at The Montagu Arms, Hampshire ...

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They should have elevated Arthur Daley from second-hand cars to second chamber: "Psst: I've got a bargain set of very valuable amendments in my lock-up…" At least some peers remain above repute, like Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, though how a hereditary remains in our legislature is a mystery Jack Straw might answer, one day.

We almost come to blows over the last mouthful, which would have been quite the most exciting happening in Beaulieu since that time in the Fifties Lord M suffered an oil leak in the high street.

Diana enjoys grilled escalope of line-caught sea bass with Jerusalem artichoke purée, sauté potatoes, braised roscoff onions and smoked bacon sauce.

The star – and the kind of dish that won The Terrace its Michelin star – is assiette of apples with butterscotch sauce and apple crisp.

As we weave home through New Forest mist and ponies, Diana says wild horses wouldn't keep us away for long.

Mona Lisa | Restaurants in Chelsea, London

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But the bonhomie is infectious, and if you order the right thing, such as the meltingly tender calves’ liver alla salvia (with butter and sage), served with old-school potatoes and veg, you won’t care about the homely decor.

The menu ranges across breakfasts, sandwiches, burgers, omelettes, jacket potatoes and pastas to three-course blow-outs (at lunch, the latter is just £8.95).

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