Waterside Dining in London
In hectic London, what can spell ‘interesting and fun’ would be venturing into the least patronized, least shopped and least dined. What we are driving at is “fewer crowds to jostle about.” Big Ben will not mind the detour. He will like it that we make use of his London time blithely. Some waterside dining and a visit to an indie bookshop can be as casual a weekend can it get.
Waterside Dining
We do not guarantee that a gaze of the Thames will be a life changing experience for you and your date, but waterside dining by a river or canal, a lake or a pond is breezy romantic than a candlelit rooftop dinner. So, how’s the food out there? Very British, of course such as a rabbit pie with onion and fig chutney at a restaurant with a waterside terrace, called “Gun”. Yes, the waterside terrace is where you want to be, just pray for fair weather.
One late afternoon, we were set for a good barbecue time and giddy for plenty of real ales and quality ciders. What we spotted instead is a convivial and quirky Bavarian beerhouse with excellent riverside location, rear of Petersham Road. Sausages, naturally, and free flowing chilled German beer calmed our frayed nerves.
Atlantis Bookshop at Museum Street, London
Indie Bookshops
We call our finds “relevant bookshops for responsible book-lovers.” If the occult world is any relevant to you, like the witches u us, tread upon one that has been around since 1922, the Atlantis Bookshop at Museum Street. Else, there is real world is waiting at Daunt Books, at Marylebone High Street, a specialist travel bookshop with naturally lit areas to complement its outstanding collection, organized by country.
In the relatively small London Review Bookshop, at Bury Place, we buried our heads to some 20,000 titles. The stock, encompassing fiction, poetry, biography and philosophy, are constantly updated. Meanwhile, we joined with that people at the South crazy perusing at ‘Bookseller Crow on the Hill’, a rather obscure bookshop stacked with alternative magazines. We lingered at the big kids and graphic novel sections.
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I always like dining on the Thames and taking in the atmosphere, I especially like the pizza from the pizza place at Gabriels Wharf. The Bavarian Ale House sounds good, will have to check it out!