Novelty alcohol consumption: a walk-in Gin and Tonic in London. It's open for two more evenings. (via
I have an incentive to make it to Melt, over in Notting Hill, sometime in the next few months. They've come out with a Rosemary & Yuzu truffle.
With nights increasingly tolerable in their coolness, we've burned coals and logs in the fire pit a few times. There's no potato better than one which, wrapped in tin foil, has cooked its way to creamy fluff, with crispy, almost caramelized sweetness to its skin.
I have a budget solution for all governments which want to have their cake and eat it too: nationalize the patisseries.