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Leslie TT. Wilkins
15, Brunswick Gardens
Cambridge, CB5 8DO
England
‘phone 44.223.327115
E-mail LTW10@PHOENIX.CAM.AC.UK
20 March, 1992
Eliot Lumbard,
300, Central Park West,
New York. N.Y. 10024
U.S.A.
My dear Eliot,
What a delightful surprise to hear from you. I hope that this is the
beginning of something very interesting! You do not say whether you plan
this as a one-year, shorter, longer or indefinite stay. It could make a big
difference to the a I might reasonably make.
I assume that you have a long stay in mind. Wishful thinking on my part,
perhaps? I must be careful not to mislead. I would be so pleased to have
you around; already I am thinking of the various ploys we might initiate
together. In my enthusiasm to share once again your thinking and friendship,
I might represent the situation here as too attractive. While that is true,
it is also true that I now regard it as a mistake that I returned to England.
But that is a mistake which cannot now be remedied. Am I saying that I
would welcome you to share my mistake? Perhaps.
May I first make an unbiassed and practical suggestion? We live in a four-
bedroomed town house in the middle of the city -- very close to Jesus (a
geographic identification not a spiritual one), three minutes’ walk from one
of the major modern shopping complexes. It is a little larger than we two
require, but then there are visiting grandchildren and such who appear for the
odd days. The ground floor of this house comprises a bedroom, utility room
and toilet with shower; in short, it is almost a self-contained ‘flat’. We
think it would be a good thing if you were to come and stay while you ‘cased’
the area. It does not present the luxury of an East Side apartment, but it is
probably adequate as a base for a while -- a sort of hunting lodge! But as
they say in the ads, please check availability.
The Institute of Criminology is on the other side of the City and takes about
25 minutes to walk through various college grounds -- pleasant if it is not
raining or cold. But, from your letter, I assume that you are somewhat
familiar with this place. The train service to London has been much improved
and one can reach Kings Cross in just under an hour. There are also good
inter-city bus services which use the ‘motor-ways' and are quite useful.
Also, as you probably know, the third London Airport (Stanstead) is now
completed and located a few miles south of Cambridge.
I hope that you will think it worth while to take a break and stay with us so
that we can discuss all the issues which you raise, and others which I am sure
will also arise.
Are you familiar with the physical facilities at the Institute? This country
spends little on research and still less on social research which is seen as
quite unnecessary and always presents the chance of political embarrassment.
The Library at the Institute is quite good and I am sure you could obtain
permission to use other specialist libraries in the colleges and also the
University Library. I maintain good relations with the Home Office Research
Unit and with the Institute, but I do more with the University of Manchester
where I hold a Simon Fellowship. I edit the Howard Journal, and am Vice-
president of the British Criminological Society, so I have some contacts, but
I have nothing like the ‘power base' I had in Washington. It is an odd
thing, but I miss that ‘power base’ (perhaps I should say ‘influence
potential’ rather than ‘power’ -- it sound better. I think you would also
miss the channels of influence you now have for your ideas.
This is where your plans influence your ‘image’ and become quite important.
Are you to be seen as a ‘short term visitor’ (one code of response triggered)
or a long term visitor, or even a ‘come-overer' (triggering different response
sets)
I understand what you mean when you say you would like to be ‘useful’. But,
unfortunately, as I have found, it is difficult to make this understood and
acceptable here. In particular, the ‘establishment’ is resistant to any ideas
which are not home grown. And home grown means that they derive from the
right environment such as Eton, Harrow, Winchester. Remember the traditional
British cry ‘I spy strangers! ' Even the newly rich who are certainly
powerful, are not fully accepted into the ‘upper class’.
On my return I made offers to lecture or conduct seminars, but either I do not
have the right credentials or there is a strong tendency to maintain a ‘closed
shop’. I have different problems of acceptability than those which might face
you. I am unpopular with some for having ‘gone down the brain drain’ and am
seen as having deserted the service of my country, and "Now he wants be
accepted back”. “We were not good enough for him in the 1960s so how is it
Finding a pleasant and useful niche where you could be effective is not going
to be easy. But, of course, you can deploy strategies to this end which are
not open to me, and I think you could succeed, if, that is, you could tolerate
many frustrations on the way. I am sure that you would find the Bar a useful
key to the necessary contacts. Do you know Louis Blom-Cooper? He is now
chairman of the Press Council.
I may be wrong, but I do not think that the Institute would form a base within
which you could be helpful. It might, nonetheless, provide a base from which
you could be helpful. It will take a fair time to say precisely what I mean
by that!
Now to simpler matters.
Costs. A cannot make any useful suggestions without knowing whether you plan
to say a few weeks, few years or indefinitely. A one-year stay makes it
worth while to rent a home using an academic exchange. Shorter terms might
suggest an attempt to obtain university visitor facilities (rather grim
though) . Indefinite or longer term planning would involve considering the
use of capital: $/£ exchange rate coming into our reckoning.
You specifically asked not to be supplied with a guidebook, and this is moving
in that direction. I would be delighted to go into detailed planning with
you, not as a guidebook, but as a friend on site,
I look forward to your next communication,
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“SELDOM, IF EVER, HAS ANYONE OF WILKINS’S
STATURE IN CRIMINOLOGY WRITTEN ANYTHING SO
CHALLENGING TO ITS ORTHODOXIES AND SO RICH IN
IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS FUTURE.”
KEN ‘aia PROFESSOR OF CRIMINOLOGY,
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER.
Ke”, y dnl 3/28/92
UNISHMENT,
CRIME &
MARKET FORCES
Leslie T. Wilkins
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PUNISHMENT, CRIME &
MARKET FORCES
Leslie T. Wilkins
This book suggests an explanation for the wide variations in the use of prison
in countries which are otherwise similar. The previously identified tendency
for those countries where rewards tend to be extreme also to show extremes
in incarceration rates, is further examined.
It is argued that economic policy and criminal justice policy have incommon
the fact that legislators tend to use micro models where only macro models
apply. As economists are aware, the concept of the grocery store (micro) is
inadequate to represent the national economy. In jurisprudence the idea of
the independence of each judge may be prejudicial to the structural concept
of the independence of the judiciary.
These findings are related to the fact that moral positions (personal values)
come in ‘packages’. Of special relevance is the tendency for persons who
advocate the ‘right to life’ to also favour the death penalty. An explanation of
the correlation between these two values is considered to be a powerful
indicator of some of the common features of both economic and criminal
justice policies. The link between language and modelling provides a clue to
some general problems. It is shown that there is a level of complexity below
which furthersimplification results in distortion. A principle of ‘commensurate
complexity’ is proposed.
Specifications of social issues which violate this principle result in dysfunc-
tional social policies. Inferences should not be drawn from models which are
inadequate or distort by excessive simplicity. In particular, the problem of
crime cannot be simplified to the problem of the criminal. Uncertainty must
be accommodated in both moral concepts and managerial methods.
The author deplores the current tendencies for crime policy to foster moral
posturing and dramatic representations, and calls for the development of
techniques of modern management and for confrontational methods to be
supplanted by techniques of de-escalation. Some specific recommendations
for policy trends are put forward.
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4 April, 1992
Eliot Lumbard,
300, Central Park West,
New York, N.Y. 10024
U.S.A.
Dear Eliot,
Your letter reveals that you are about to make some very important
decisions. It also makes it clear that you will not make the
mistake made by so many -- you will not merely retire and grow
roses, or whatever, but keep the mind (and probably the body also)
actively engaged.
Good decisions (as my research attempted to demonstrate) require
sound information! My wife, Barbara, and I would be very pleased
if we could assist in your ‘information gathering’ by providing a
sample of life in this city.
If you should wish to take a trip here and stay with us (as per
your last paragraph) please let us know your plans as soon as you
can. We will be taking two short breaks across the channel during
the sunmer, and we would like to avoid any clash of dates.
If you telephone from the U.S. you would call 44-223-327-115, but
if you call us in this country you dial 0223-327-115. The British
are somewhat awkward in fixing anything technical.
Whatever the outcome, Eliot, please keep in touch. I would be
delighted to know of any of your activities. Whether or not they
fit with your category of ‘useful’ they would certainly be
interesting.
Barbara and I look forward to hearing how your thinking develops
into planning.
sincerely yours,
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“All the News
That’s Fit to Print”
VOL.CXLI.. No. 48,934
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Full Spectrum of Judicial Critics
_ Assail Prison Sentencing Guides
5-Year Effort Is Called Hobgoblin of U.S. Courts
By DAVID MARGOLICK
A five-year effort to make the prison
sentences meted out in Federal courts
more uniform
guidelines has evoked a chorus of criti-
cism from normally reticent judges of
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The guidelines were the product of
an unusual bipartisan coalition: liber-
als convinced that harsh sentences fell
disproportionately on the poor and dis-
enfranchised, and conservatives seek-
ing longer, more certain jail terms.
But since they took effect in Novem-
ber 1987, another alignment has
formed, composed of judges appointed
by. liberal and conservative Presidents
alike. The judges, many of whom op-
posed the guidelines from the start, say
their direst warnings have come to
pass, and that a foolish and illusory
consistency has become the hobgoblin
of the Federal courts.
Few Judicial Defenders
Proponents of the new sentencing
system counter that it has achieved its
stated goal of making sentences less
capricious, more uniform and more
understandable.
But the guidelines, which require
that all sentences be based on an in-
creasingly complex formula involving
the seriousness of the crime and a
person’s criminal history, have few de-
fenders on the Federal bench. Some
judges liken them to Prohibition: a
utopian experiment gone haywire.
They complain that the new ap-
proach has taken the judging out of
judging and replaced it with an oppres-
sively mechanistic regime, one with
the abstruseness of the Internal Reve-
+, Mue Code and overtones of Franz Kaf-
‘ ~~' Ka,George Orwell and Rube Goldberg.
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through mandatory |
A survey taken by the Federal Bar
Council of New York, appearing re-
cently in the New York Law Journal,
ifound that a majority of the city’s
| Federal judges believe that only one in
{four of the sentences they now impose
are “fair and just.”’ Along with judges
throughout the country, they maintain
that the guidelines shortchange spe-.
cific offender characteristics like age,
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By discouraging plea bargains and
raising innumerable interpretive ques-
tions, these critics continue, the guide-
lines have clogged both the trial and
| facts and definitions have become the
| subject of prolonged, repeated legal
wrangling, with months or years of jail
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| time hanging in the balance as lawyers
and judges hold Talmudic discussions
“brandishing’’ a weapon, whether a
water pistol is a gun, and whether a
person’s role in a crime is ‘minor,’
| “minimal” or somewhere in between.
Weight to Prosecutors
Moreover, rather than eliminate dis-
cretion from the sentencing process,
they say, the guidelines have merely
, moved it from judges to prosecutors
privately deciding who to charge with
how serious a crime and at what stage
of the criminal act.
This increased prosecutorial discre-
tion, along with mandatory minimum’
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UNDERGROUND PRIESTS REJECTED
The Vatican has revoked the status
of about 300 Czechoslovak priests
who were secretly trained and or-
dained to keep the faith alive under
the decades of Communist rule. The
Vatican’s decision has been met with
disappointment and defiance. ]
FIGHTING WORSENS IN BOSNIA
The Yugoslav Army carved out new
territories in Bosnia and Herzegovi-
na as relief agencies worked franti-
cally to help thousands of refugees
fleeing the fighting. Battles were re-
ported in several cities. 16
HONG KONG AND CHINA INC.
The fence between Hong Kong and
China no longer seems to be much of
a barrier. With growing economic
integration of Hong Kong and
Guangdong Province, a powerful
partnership is emerging. 20
REINING IN YELTSIN
After heated debate, the Russian
Parliament passed a resolution that
could curtail some of the powers of
President Yeltsin. 10
NEW CABINET, OLD PROBLEM
As Prime Minister Major of Britain
chose a new Cabinet, his Govern-
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THE NEW-FASHIONED AFRICA
Dressed in an ethnic Nigerian: cos-
tume, Foreign Minister Botha°of
South Africa talked about President
de Klerk’s trip to Nigeria. The’ tfip
fostered a rediscovery on both sides
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unions from using money collected
from nonunion workers for political
activities that those workers oppose.
The move, enabled by a Supreme
Court ruling, is intended in part to
limit union support for Democratic
candidates this year. ]
Bush’s campaign chief said things
were going well. 32
A TURNED-OFF CONSTITUENCY
In a Bronx enclave of earnestly
maintained homes and mom-and-
pop shops where the clock seems to
have stopped on V-J Day, there is a
strong sense that no candidate on the
national political scene, Democrat or
Republican, is fully addressing the
people’s concerns. ]
he assassinated Lincoln illustrates
his fanatical state of mind, his sym-
pathies for the Southern secession-
ists and his association with the,his-
torical characters he portrayed din
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MEDICARE SERVICES DECLINING
Many doctors in communities where
medical care is especially expensive
are curtailing services for the eld-
erly because of sharp reductions:in
Medicare payments. fend
ANTI-DIET MOVEMENT SPRINGS UP, -
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ence, by findings that “yo-yo diet-
ing’” may be detrimental and_ by
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Even most Opp@nts of the guidelines
concede they wou Ot want a complete
return to the old, @@'chic era, when judges
could sentence 4S@*Y wished without pro-
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orgentences as well as the longer prison terms
3j mandated by the guidelines and the growing
o+rime rate has swollen the Federal prison
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brOpulation. _
won One of the most vocal critics of the guide-
ojifines. is, Judge Jose Cabranes of Federal
District Court in Connecticut, appointed by
joiPresident Jimmy Carter in 1979. Judge Ca-
e{branes has called the guidelines ‘‘a dismal
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the guidelines — that the human element Federal courts buti™ State courts, where the ~~ 216.0
should be wiped away from the sentencing
process and replaced by the clean, sharp
T @dges of a sentencing slide rule — is itself .
highly questionable.’’ He called change or
fabandonment of the system “‘a pressing na-
tional issue.’’
Albert W. Alschuler, a law professor at the
University of Chicago, agreed. ‘“‘Some things
are worse than sentencing disparity, and we
have found them,” he wrote recently.
Defenders reply that the guidelines are
working well. ‘“‘The problem of unwarranted
_,. disparity — that two similarly situated of-
*J>fenders could go into two different court-
4 oms, perhaps in the same courthouse, and
yrovome out with two vastly different sentences
— has been eliminated from the system,”
.gbaid Paul L. Maloney, senior counsel for
ee bulk of criminal G#es are heard. Several
tao States, including Mi#}csota and Washington,
eer ui : have adopted se fe ing guidelines, though
they are generally@re modest and flexible
than the Federal sy em.
One critic of the@# system, former Judge
Marvin E. Frankel Federal District Court
in Manhattan, assa#ed ‘‘the almost wholly
‘unchecked and swe€Ping powers we give to
judges.”’ J
Another, Senatomt:dward M. Kennedy,
Democrat of Massa@usetts, called Federal
sentencing “a syst@™ of roulette.” He and
Senator Strom Thimond, Republican of
south Carolina; wef@ co-sponsors of the Sen-
tencing Reform Age It was passed over-
whelmingly by bothfhouses of Congress and
signed by PresidentR cagan.
Judge Jose Cabranes
Federal District Court in Connecticut
“We should face the possibility that the
basic premise of the guidelines — that the
human element should be wiped away
from the sentencing process and replaced
by the clean, sharp edges of a sentencing
slide rule — is itself highly questionable.”
aii in the Justice Department’s criminal Under the guidelifies, all crime are ranked oO. | 0
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tzoeuit in Greenville, S.C., said the guidelines
isfwere “‘working much better than anticipat-
2 ed.’’ What really riled his colleagues, he said,
ifuwas not the idea of guidelines, but the sever-
ity of the sentences they must now deal out
=-~And. the loss of what had been untrammeled
discretion over sentencing decisions.
“Ninety-nine percent of the judges will
Ladders, each basé core rises or falls de-
pending on a welter6@f aggravating and miti-
gating circumstanees, including acknowl-
.edgement of guilt and the extent of coopera-
tion with the governinent. '
Tricky Busibess for Courts
Mastering the gui@elines can be a tricky
Total number of offenders in each group
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agree that eliminating unwarranted dispari- ‘business. Robbery, fer instance, has a base |. called such judgments “‘crazy”’ and “‘loony.’’, _ said. 2
ty is a worthy goal, but when it comes to jScore of 20. But if it 1s a bank or post office “To base punishment on the weight of the’ f
giving up some power, they object to it,’’ f eee robbed, the OS noe ee ia Ifa carrier medium makes about as much sense
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‘Guidelines Are Failing’
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Two years ago, a majority of the Federal
judges on a study committee named by Chief
Justice William H. Rehnquist called on Con-
gress to re-evaluate the sentencing guide-
lines; a minority, led by Judge Judith N.
Keep of San Diego, wanted them changed
immediately from compulsory rules to gen-
eral standards.
“The goal of the guidelines was honesty,
uniformity, and proportionality in sentenc-
ing,’’ she wrote. ‘‘The guidelines are failing
miserably in achieving any of these goals.”
But more often than not, the judges’ criti-
cism is coupled with resignation that with
perhaps a few modifications, the guidelines
are likely here to stay. :
“Everyone in Congress seems uninterest-
ed or terrified of saying something that an
opponent might characterize as ‘soft on
crime’ in a 30-second sound bite. Profiles in
courage have never been rarer,” said Profes-
sor Aischuler.
In the meantime, more people are spend-
ing more time in jail. At the time the guide-
lines took effect, the number of Federal pris-
oners stood at 48,300. By June 30, 1991, that
a
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984
abolished the United States Parole Com-
mission, created a United States Sentenc-
ing Commission and directed it to draft
what it called “guidelines” for the Fed-
eral courts.
Since the courts are bound to follow the
guidelines, the term is something of a
misnomer. Though the guidelines official-
ly took effect in November 1987, many
Federal judges initially deemed them un-
constitutional, and they began following
them.only' after the United States Su-
uary 1990. a
Under the law, the commission must be
made up of three Federal judges, chosen
dates selected by the Chief Justice, and
four non-judges, also Presidential ap-
pointees. No more than four members,
who must be confirmed by the Senate for
their’ six-year terms, may be from the
same party. ‘* ;
The commission — assisted by a 100-
person staff and a $9 million annual budg-
preme Court upheld their legality in Jan-
by the President from a list of six candi-.
Colleen King
Albert W. Alschuler
Law professor at the University of Chicago
Urged that the sentencing mechanism
“be relegated to a place near the Edsel in
a museum of 20th-century bad ideas.”
number, according to the Federal Bureau of
Justice Statistics, had increased to 69,504,
putting the system at 165 percent of capacity.
“T fear that no one will look at the horrific
results of the present system until, God for-
bid, the Federal prisons suffer an Attica,”
Chief Judge Emeritus Lawrence K. Karlton
of the Federal District Court in Sacramento,
Calif., wrote last year to the Federal Sentenc-
ing Reporter, one of the cottage industry of
treatises, journals, newsletters, seminars,
toll-free telephone numbers and computer
software. programs that have grown -up
around the ever-more elaborate guidelines.
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Panel of 7 Sets Sentencing Rules
et — monitors the operation of the guide-
lines and considers amendments to them,
which may be submitted by criminal
defense lawyers, judges, the Justice De-
partment, or others. Its chairman is
Judge William W. Wilkins Jr. of the Unit-
ed States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit, in Greenville, S.C. The other
members are A. David Mazzone, a Dis-
trict Court judge in Boston; Julie E. ,
Carnes, a former Federal prosecutor in
Atlania; Michael S. Gelacak, a defense
lawyer from Washington, and Prof. Ilene »
H. Nagel of the University of Indiana Law |
School. There are two vacancies.
Backgrounds and philosophies of the
members vary. Judge Wilkins, a conser-
vative, was named to the bench in 1986 by
‘President Ronald Reagan. Judge Maz-
zone, considered moderate to conserva-
tive on criminal justice issues, was
named by President Jimmy Carter in
1978. Mr. Gelacak is a former aide to
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of
Delaware and chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
dished, displayed or possessed,” by 5. hk pe De
If the crime instrument were merely a.
' dangerous weapon — that is, it does not emit
Judge William W. Wilkifis
man of the United St
Commission.
‘a projectile — the score rises by 4. Express
threats of death or bodily injury raise the
‘score an additional 2. For inflicting actual
‘serious bodily injury, one goes up 4 levels:
for ‘“‘permanent or life-threatening’ bodily
injury, the score grows by 6.
The count also increases in proportion to
the amount stolen, of, in the case of drug
prosecutions, by the amount of contraband
carried or sold — an approach a Federal
appeals court judge im Connecticut, Jon O.
Newman, has Called ‘iieremental immoral-
ity.’’ This has led to prolonged disputes over
‘such issues as whethéf marijuana cuttings
constitute separate plants and of precisely.
what a particular drug consists. Sentences
for the sale of the samé amount of LSD, for
instance, have varied Wildly depending upon
whether it is sold in pure form or in gelatin
capsules, blotter papefor sugar cubes.
Dissenting in one cage where the medium
‘was included in the weight of a drug, and
therefore in the lengt@f a sentence, Judge
Richard Posner of the Omited States Court of .
Hoséftos/The rk Times
ask
Jr., the chair-
es Sentencing
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States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
in Boston wrestled over whether the weight
of a suitcase, with or without metal frames,
should be considered part of the cocaine
seized in a drug raid, and, therefore, as a
factor in the resulting sentence.
Marc Miller of Emory Law School, co-
editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter,
called the case ‘‘a rather powerful example
of a world gone insane.”’
The net score appears on the vertical axis
of a sentencing grid, with the perpetrator’s
criminal history — the subject of an equally
elaborate calculation, with scores from 1 to 6
depending on the number of prior convictions
and jail time served — charted on the hori-
zontal axis.
Sentences Are Longer
Sentences are then determined by finding
the intersection of the two scores on a 258-box
grid, which resembles the mileage chart on a
roadmap. Each box contains a limited range -
of sentences the judge can impose. Those
sentences tend to be higher than before the
guidelines — in part because of Federal laws
requiring that drug offenders be sent to pris-
on; in part, some say, because of conserva-
tive domination of the commission.
Even those judges who support the guide-
lines do so with some caveats. ‘“‘I have some-
times felt compelled to impose a sentence
which seemed much too long, and this has
been a very painful event,’”’ Andrew J. Klein-
feld, a Federal District Court judge in Alaska
until his elevation last year to the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco,
wrote last year in Probation magazine. i
Still, Judge Kleinfeld said the system was'
filtering out inappropriate variations based:
on the philosophies of particular judges and
probation officers, docket pressures in cer-'
tain courts, and such “‘irrelevant criteria’’ as’
the race, sex, social standing and social skills
of the defendant.
And the commission’s statistics bear out
this claim. For instance, with respect to bank
committed by first-time offenders without a
weapon in which $10,000 or less was stolen,
pre-guideline sentences ranged from no jail
time at all to 120 months; under the guide-
lines, the range is no time to 60 months.
Eliminating the most unusual cases in that
category, the range of sentences has been
reduced to 21 to 42 months from 4 to 120
months, |
Paul Martin, the sentencing commission’s
deputy director, said the public was ‘‘tremen-
dously supportive’’ of the guidelines. ‘“‘The
victim as well as public as well as defendant
In another case, three judges on the United’
Rebels Work
In Straitjackets
So miffed aré“some judges by the new
system that they are failing to exercise the.
modicum of discretion the™guidelines give
them. Others have engaged in What might, in
another context, be called lawlessn@ss, deter-
mined to mete out their view of justice in
spite of the constraints.
-
Judge Vincent Broderick, head of the crim’
inal law committee of the Judicial. Confer—
ence of the United States, has proposed.a set:
, of amendments designed to allow greater use’.
of probation, ease punishment for younger.
offenders, and allow some personal charac-
teristics to be considered. He has also urged.
judges to depart more frequently from the>.
guidelines, even though the law discourages.
them from doing so.
Some already have. The Ninth Circuit”
Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a:
sentence substantially shorter than the one’
mandated by the guidelines for a defendant»
who suffered from what it called a “lack of”-
youthful guidance.”’
In a drug case, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of |
Federal District Court in Brooklyn sentenced »
a 19-year-old man to 33 months’ imprison-.-
ment — one-third of what the guidelines
required — because, he ruled, the defend-
ant’s “feminine cast” and ‘‘softness of fea-~.
tures” made him a likely target of sexual.-
assault while in prison.
As a genera] rule, however, appellate
courts have construed the guidelines strictly,
disallowing downward departures where the
defendant was pregnant or had children, or
had overcome a drug addiction or Staged a -
robbery while emotionally distraught over
the loss of his life’s savings.
Mr. Frankel, the former Federal judge
who spearheaded the campaign for sentenc- -
ing guidelines, conceded that his proposal
had endured a difficult infancy, and that >
pervasive fears of crime had made the prod- .
uct harsher and more rigid than he had
anticipated. Still, he remained optimistic.
‘‘The majority of judges that miss the good
old freewheeling days of doing whatever they
pleased are still rebelling,’ he said. “But °
sooner or later, the more thoughtful ones will
realize that the basic idea of a system of -
rules rather than arbitrary discretion is a
good one. Correcting what has been for centu- .
ries a condition of absolute chaos is not the »
work of short-winded people.”
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Special to The New York Times
ALTADENA, Calif., April 10 — On
Royce Street, as in much of this town,
modest, well-kept homes and carefully
tended gardens sit cheek-by-jowl with
crumbling stucco houses rising out of
weed-choked yards. Metal bars guard
the windows and doors of some resi-
dences, hinting at the drug-fueled vio-
lence that occasionally erupts on the
street.
Rodney G. King lived much of his life
on Royce Street, unknown to the world
at large. Then, on March 3, 1991, Mr.
King, who is black, was beaten and
kicked by white Los Angeles police
officers as an amateur cameraman
captured the scene on videotape. He
immediately became a celebrity of
sorts and left Royce Street, the location
of his new residence a closely guarded
secret.
About 35 miles west is the town of
Castaic, at the far northern edge of
greater Los Angeles’s’ suburban
sprawl. Over the last decade, Castaic
(pronounced kas-TAY-ik) was a place
where people moved to escape some of
the ills of the city. One of the newly
built, mid-sized tract houses that are
now common there was bought by Sgt.
Stacey C. Koon, one of four policemen
on trial for the beating of Mr. King.
Television Event
On the surface, there is little to con-
nect Sergeant Koon’s and Mr. King’s |
communities, except when it comes to
the trial, Nearly everyone interviewed |
in both towns had watched some por-
tion of the trial on television and there |
were far more similarities of opinion |
than differences.
The trial has been broadcast live by
KFTV, a local Fox network television |
station, and since it began on March 5
the broadcasts have made KTTV the
most-watched Los Angeles station |
most mornings, and among the top
three most afternoons. The Arbitron
ratings for the coverage peaked at|
293,000 households on March 19, the
opening day of testimony from Ser-
geant Koon, the first defendant to take
the stand.
“1 personally watch it any time I
have a chance, and I think the majority
of. people here are watching,’ said
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Viewers of a
televised trial |
seem to share the
same opinions.
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Pa
Apita M. Martin, a 44-year-old bank
teHer who lives on Royce Street in
Altadena. ‘I get off work at 2 and I
watch in the afternoon, and | tape the
good parts for my husband.”’
She argued that if Mr. King ‘‘was on
something, some kind of drug, it makes
no difference.”
‘They shouldn’t have beat him like
that,’’ she said. “No one should ever be
heaten like that.” |
t Living With Crime
. Mrs. Martin and her husband, Walter
J+. Martin, 49, have won several awards
from public officials for their efforts to
rid their neighborhood of crime. They
Usually view law enforcement as an|
aliy, said Mr. Martin, an environmen-|
tal technician at an aerospace compa-|
ny, but he accused the officers in the}
beating case of behaving like the ene-|
my. |
*.“That’s the kind of thing we’re try-|
ing to get away from with the drug}
dealing,’’ he said. ‘‘When I talk about
drug sales, drug shootings, I am not
talking about something | read in the
newspaper. I am living in this cesspool]
where there’s drug dealing and drive- |
by shootings.”’
Another Altadena resident, Sally
Stamms, said, ‘‘I look at it a little bit |
every day, until it makes me mad, and |
then I turn it off.
Ms. Stamms, a 51-year-old food serv-.
ice manager, said the defendants ‘‘are!
all lying.” She went on: ‘‘They know
what they did. They didn’t need to beat.
that boy. That could have been my boy.
A lot of people want to believe the cops:
more, but just because they wear those
uniforms don’t mean they’re right all |,
the time.” RS |
‘Are You Listening?’ |
Joann L, Styles, a cashier at Fisher- |
|
man’s Wharf market in Castaic, said, |
“I hear people every day say, ‘Are you |
Styles, 28, said she
ast when she could
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during the day,
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justice.’’
But Mrs. Stamms, who is also black,
insisted, ‘““‘That wouldn’t have went
down if he was a white guy.”’
What if They Are Acquitted?
Opinions differed markedly between
the two communities only when resi-
dents were asked to predict what would
happen if the officers were acquitted.
Like others in Castaic, Mr. Welsh con-
sidered the prospect with disappoint-
ment. “If they don’t get convicted,
we've got a very poor justice system in
this country,”’ he said.
But people in Altadena viewed the
prospect with fear. ‘‘There’s going to
be black people against white people in
communities everywhere,” said Mrs.
Martin, who is white. ‘‘It’s really going
to blow out of hand. A lot of these gang
people that are black and already show
no respect for law enforcement, who
knows what they would do? When law
In both Castaic and Altadena, opin- | enforcement fails, what can people do?
ions were mixed as to whether the
beating was racially motivated.
‘We have to take the color away
from Rodney King,’’ said Mr. Martin,
who is black. “‘Rodney King could have
been anyone. We’re dealing with a per-
son that was stopped by law enforce-
ment and this is the way they're treat-
ed. I think it’s a common practice with
|L.A.P.D., even if you’re white or I”.
panic.”’
atace tate!
Carry a gun. That’s it.”
In both towns, several people ex-
pressed frustration at the length of the
trial and efforts by the defense to shift
attention from the videotape to ques-
tions about Mr. King’s character. But
nearly all those interviewed believed
that the defendants would be convicted.
‘I don’t see how they could get off,’’
Ms. Styles said. ‘‘I mean, the tape is the
tape. They can’t argue with that.”’
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Bart Bartholomew for The New York Times
G. King, who was beaten by white Los Angeles i
police officers. Mrs. Martin said she watches the
trial, taping the good parts for her husband, Walter.
es
"They shouldn’t have beat him like that. No one
hould ever be beaten like that,” said Anita M.
fattin, a bank teller in Altadena, Calif., of Rodney
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Science as the dustbin of hope
Le
Understanding the Present
by Bryan Appleyard, Picador,
pp 283, £14-99
Simon Wolff
THE journal Nature called this book dan-
gerous. There is, I suppose, a slight risk that
it might fall off a high bookshelf and give
one a nasty bop on the head. Nature’s fear,
I presume, stemmed from a gut instinct
that an anti-science book, lauded by con-
servative MPs such as George Walden,
could result in less money for science. Is
that fear based in reality?
Bryan Appleyard’s basic thesis is that
Science has led to an erosion of human
values and human dignity. Stephen Hawk-
ing removed the need for God, Charles
Darwin reduced man to inferior naked ape,
Galilei Galileo stripped man of his rightful
place at the centre of the Universe, Albert
Einstein produced the bomb.
So science needs to be humbled; brought
down to size so that humanity can begin to
go to church again, avoid divorce, have
children in wedlock, stop taking drugs, help
old ladies across the road, have friendly
neighbourhood street parties and generally
do all those things so familiar to us from
the heyday of the Ealing comedies. I picture
cheerful Jack down the Leg of Lamb sup-
ping Guiness while “her indoors” hangs the
washing and swaps gossip with the old dear
next door. Appleyard, meanwhile, cruises
past in his top-of-the-range BMW smiling
contentedly. Paradise regained.
The question that struck me on reading
this book was “What’s in it for Bryan?” Why
is he trying to blame things on science that
are not science’s fault? Appleyard begins by
claiming to have a scientific background,
quoting an engineer father and some vague
dead physicist relations he never knew, tells
us about his angst-ridden arty days at col-
lege, before going on to proclaim: “It is, |
believe, humanly impossible actually to be
a liberal,” and condemn Bertrand Russel]
(“One of the most fabulously stupid men of
our age”) for supporting science as a tool
of liberal thought.
Appleyard is suspicious of liberalism. And
science is liberal, egalitarian and value-free;
bad news for people who do not like that
sort of thing. But then again, Bryan’s day
job is writing for the right-wing press. So is
Appleyard simply trying to find a scapegoat
for things that have gone wrong under our
recent political system?
Appleyard’s attack hardly follows a new
theme, and [| found it irritating that the
book fails to acknowledge its ancestry. Why
is there no mention of Paul Feyerabend who
asserted: “Science is much closer to myth
than a scientific philosophy is prepared to
admit. It is one of the many forms of
44
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Medical technology: science’s public face
thought that have been developed by man,
and not necessarily the best” (Against
Method, Verso 1978)? Or of Murray Book-
chin saying: “I am not questioning scientific
method and insight as such, but rather its
pre-emptive, often metaphysical claims
over the entire cosmos of knowledge
... Speculative thought—imagination, art,
and intuition—is no less a source of
knowledge than are inductive-deductive
reasoning, empirical verification and scien-
tific canons of proof” (The Ecology of Free-
dom, Cheshire Books, 1982).
So science may be a little arrogant in
always believing it is right, objective and
free of “leaps of faith”, but that in itself
cannot lead to a moral decline of the
society of which it is a part, or can it?
Science is no more and no less than
one way of systematising knowledge.
And modern science is a successful and
lasting way of compiling knowledge
because it is evolutionary, flexible and
internally consistent. Problems with the
practice and application of science arise,
however, for two main reasons.
C. Priest & M. Clarke/Science Photo Lib.
First, the assembly of knoy
classification systems, such as |:
trinsically useless, but have to «
for the pursuit of knowledge to
This leads naturally to the u
cheating, thieving and wholese
Scientists in pursuit of fame <
Secondly, but more importantly,
be subverted to meet narrow po
Science generates simple, bel:
understandable car-bumper slc
as: E=mce?, the Universe is expai
is the blueprint of life, smoking
cer and so on. Uttering politic
slogans that sound the same, |
true, is thus all too easy.
Science does not corrode hur
Industrial and political develop
claim to be based on science di
builder, for example, claims the
objective science for his case by
road is needed “for economic de
improved safety and environm
tection”. None of these reasons s:
scientific scrutiny but may be
justify political decisions helpfu
trial interests. Yet such decisi
democracy and destroy commur
Appleyard’s thesis is flawec
complaint is misdirected. Scienc
used as the scapegoat for th
makers whose policies based on
of scientific support have led to
down of communities and value
like art and religion is an import
society. But, then again, there
thing as society anymore, which
caused some of the problems al
Appleyard complains so loudly.
Simon Wolff /ectures in toxicology 2
University of London.
The meaning of life
Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth |
and its Meaning
by Mary Midgley, Routledge, pp 239, £25
rere
Andrew Clifford
GETS up. Brushes teeth. Breakfast. Work.
Lunch. Work. Watches a bit of telly, goes
out for a meal. Comes home. Goes to bed.
This is a life apparently untroubled by
philosophical explanations and specula-
tions. It might be that of a nonscientific
member of the public but also that of a
biology academic.
Both feel quietly confident they compre-
hend what there is to be comprehended
about the meaning of life but, in fact,
whether they could put it into words or not,
this meaning springs from a particular
account of science. For scientist
scientist live in a scientific age
Midgley argues, many key
human life are explicitly or
explained using philosophical
culled from science. The most
nine-to-five life justifies itself, :
by crediting certain science-pro\
the lack of God, the long-term
ness of existence or the inhuma
external world.
Clearly, then, and surprisingly,
correct in her contention that sc:
offer us a kind of unspoken and
pessimistic salvation. In Science
tion, she tries to show how thes:
versions of scepticism and agnos'
be challenged philosophically. He
tions might not have been made °
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June 16, 1992
Pamala L. Griset
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State of New York
Division of Criminal Justice Services
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Dear Pamala:
Thank you for your nice letter of June 9, 1932.
Leslie is spectacular--and was as feisty as ever. There might be
some interesting things I could do at Cambridge University,
courtesy of his introductions and kindneses. That is something
I am considering, including the Rule of Law projects in Eastern
Europe.
Inteed, may I thank you again for your book. I received it
just as I left for the airport, never read it, and Leslie has
the copy to mull over. He is upset about the development and
general directions of the sentencing "guidelines" concept,
Federal, and otherwise , and may write some sort of piece about
what seems to have gone wrong and what corrective directions
should be adopted. If he does, I will ask him to send you a
copy. Maybe you will hear directly from hin.
Warmest personal regards.
Address: Prof. Leslie T. Wilkins
15, Brunswick Gardnes
Cambridge CB5 8DQ
ENGLAND
Eliot H. Lumbarad
EHL:alc
ATTORNEY Al LAW
S00 CENTRAL PARK WEST — - NEW YORK. NY 10024 — - TEL: 212-222-2662/ 212-877-2717 PAX 242-932-0955
STATE OF NEW YORK
DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES
EXECUTIVE PARK TOWER
STUYVESANT PLAZA PAMALA L. GRISET
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12203-3764 DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
OFFICE OF FUNDING AND
PROGRAM ASSISTANCE
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AND
COMMISSTONER
DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES
June 9, 1992
Eliot H. Lumbard
Attorney at Law
300 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
Dear Eliot:
It was nice to see you at the graduation and to receive your
letter. I passed along your suggestion about auto theft
technology to my more scientifically inclined colleagues.
As you requested, I ordered a copy of my book for you and
charged it to your credit card. I hope you received it before
departing for London. Please let me know what you think of it.
This issue is not going away, and I’m constantly looking for
fresh viewpoints.
Did you by any chance discuss my book with Leslie Wilkens?
Should I send him a copy? Thanks for your advice.
Very truly yours,
Pamala L. Griset
Deputy Commissioner
June 16, 1997
Rosalie Robertson
Editor
State Universit
State Universit
y of New York Press
y Plaza
Albany, New York 12246
Dear Mg, Robertson:
Eliot H. Lumbard
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June 16, 1992
AIR MAIL
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie T. Wilkins
15 Brunswick Gardens
Cambridge CB5 8pDo
ENGLAND
Dear Barbara and Leslie:
I miss you too!
Admittedly, I am uncertain about missing heavy debates over
breakfast, but the others are OK. Since I live alone now,
regrettably, that means I have become accustomed to dead
Silence at breakfast. What a contrast!
Nonetheless, I thank you. You two are smashing people.
You have a wonderful relationship that I envy. May it con-
tinue. You are so wonderful to take me into your home and
show me Cambridge, many a pub, the countryside and answer
all my questions, in addition to seeing that I visit the
institute and that I had a chance to talk to Tony Bottoms.
Where things go, I know not, except as follows:
-- Thursday to Budapest until June 28 or SO;
~- My knee has not much recovered, has a terrible prognosis,
and so have arranged to have it cut-off with an operation
now scheduled for July 13.
For Leslie, please write the article. The world at large is
uninterested in misspelling of your name and there is so much
content packed into your brief letter that it does not
communicate adequately what you wish to Say. Really, doa
large job and forget Pamala's letter.
I miss Cambridge. I am sure I could have an interesting and
productive time there. As of now, however, I do not know
what the ultimate choice will be. Of course, I will let you
know.
There should be a present for you both on the way from the
United States and will probably arrive in a week or two. i .28
for you both and is but a small measure to express my deep
gratitude for your hospitality, kindness and for your wonder-
ful warm selves,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
KA
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie T. Wilkins
June 16, 1992
Page Two
May you long reorder the world at breakfast everyday.
Warmest personal regards.
Eliot H. Lumbard
Enclosures
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June 16, 1992
Pamala L. Griset
Deputy Commissioner
State of New York
Division of Criminal Justice Services
Executive Park Tower
Stuyvesant Plaza
Albany, New York 12203-3764
Dear Pamala:
Thank you for your nice letter of June 9, 1992.
Leslie is spectacular--and was as feisty as ever. There might be
some interesting things I could do at Cambridge University,
courtesy of his introductions and kindneses. That is something
I am considering, including the Rule of Law projects in Eastern
Europe.
Inteed, may I thank you again for your book. I received it
just as I left for the airport, never read it, and Leslie has
the copy to mull over. He is upset about the development and
general directions of the sentencing "guidelines" concept,
Federal, and otherwise , and may write some sort of piece about
what seems to have gone wrong and what corrective directions
should be adopted. If he does, I will ask him to send you a
copy. Maybe you will hear directly from him.
Warmest personal regards.
Address: Prof. Leslie T. Wilkins
15, Brunswick Gardnes
Cambridge CB5 8DQ
ENGLAND
Fliot H. Lumbard
EHL:alc
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SU CENTRAL PARK WEST © NEW YORK.NY 100240+ TEL 212-222-2602/ 212/877-2717 + FAN 212-932-0955
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My attention has been drawn to your recent coverage of sentencing guide-
lines and particularly to Ms. Pamala Griset’s letter. Reference is made
to her book, Determinate Sentencing, in which she refers to my monograph,
titled, Principles of Guidelines for Sentencing (published by the
National Institute of Justice).
I am surprised (if the original source were utilised) that my name was
not correctly spelt. If there were any other indication that the system
of guidelines described therein had received attention, the mere
misspelling would be irrelevant. That publication described a design
for sentencing guidelines as a managerial tool for use by the judiciary,
not as a legislated set of restrictions. Perhaps I may draw your
readers attention to the features then considered essential, because in
my view, the same principles hold today.
In summary I stated:
a. Guidelines should not be derived from ‘pure thought’ by those who know
‘what is right', but by consultation with those who “will use them.
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b. Guidelines must be designed as an ‘evolutionary system’, which employs
feed-back and incentive to change.
c. Unique cases and highly dramatic incidents are neither guides to
policy nor to presumptive dispositions. For this reason --
d. The method must distinguish “policy” from "case” elements in the
decision and acconmodate these by providing both (emphasis in original)
"Decision Rules” and “Procedures”. The latter are to apply when the
former is considered to be inappropriate, when, that is, a judge
considers that the indicated (presumptive) disposition would
inappropriate. ‘Procedures’ then ensure that there remain a significant
proportion of departures and reasons given for them, thus info ormation for
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both evolutionary processes and policy control is generate
e. The design and organization of a guideline system should be such that
it stimulates research and can incorporate research findings, but it
should not be tied closely to any current theory of crime and its
control.
Had these principles been followed, sentencing guidelines would have
proved highly adaptable and sentencing would have evolved along the
‘learning curve’ which was a basic feature of the design. The systems
which now use the name guidelines’ do not use the original principles.
Instead we have a demand for excessive simplification and the return to
‘gut feelings’ as a basis for criminal justice policy. Wi th that policy
i
I do not wish to be associated, so, perhaps I should be pleased that my
name was misspelt!
Leslie T. Wilkins
Cambridge, England.
To the Editor, New York Times
My attention has been drawn to vour recent coverage of sentencing guide-
lines and particularly to Ms. Paha le Griset’s letter. Reference is made
to her | OOK Determinate Sentencing, in which she refers to my monograph ,
titled, Principles of Guidelines for sentencing (published by the
National Institute of Justice).
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I am surprised (if the original source were utilised) that my name was
not correctly spelt. If there were any other indication that the system
of guidelines described therein had received attention, the mere
misspelling would be irrelevant. That publication described a design
for sentencing guidelines as a manager ial tool for use by the judiciary,
not as a legislated set of restrictions. vse I may draw your
readers attention to the features then considered essential, because in
my view, the same principles hold today.
In summary I stated:
a. Guidelines should not be derived from ‘pure thought’ by those who know
‘What is right’, but by consultation with those who will use them.
Vi
b. Guidelines must be designed as an ‘evolutionary system’, which emloy:
feed-back and incentive to change.
c. Unique cases and highly dramatic incidents are neither guides to
policy nor to presumptive dispositions. For this reason --
d. The method must distinguish “policy” from "case” elements in the
decision and accommodate these by providing both (emphasis in original)
"Decision Rules’ and “Procedures”. The latter are to apply when the
former is considered to be inappropriate, when, that is, a judge
considers that the indicated (presumptive) disposition would be
inappropriate. Procedures” then ensure that there remain a significant
proportion of departures and reasons given for them, thus information for
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both evolutionary processes and policy control is generated.
such that
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it stimulates research and can incorporate research findings, but it
should not be tied closely to any current theory of crime and its
control.
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proved highly adaptable and sentencing would have evolved along th
which now use the name guidelines’ do not use the original Princip
Instead we have a demand for excessive simplification and the retun
‘gut feelings’ as a basis for criminal justice policy. With that policy
I do not wish to be associated, so, perhaps I should be pleased th
name was misspelt!
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says
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fl pood luck in cryptanalysis.
After mormng classes, some stu
vo siphtseeing, play tennis or
wander around the towns built up
around the universities. Nan Asman. a
retired university academic counselor
spent five summers taking
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ciasses at Oxford and Cambndge, and
her husband, Robert, an NBC news
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producer, like to rent long flatboats
and spend time punting on Cam
bridge's River Cam
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spend their afternoons doing inde
pendent research in the universities’
libraries. ‘t] was entranced with Ox-
ford,’ confesses Wallace Merccreau,
61, a San Mateo, Calif. real estate
Investor and developer. So much so
that he prepared a slide show on the
history of the umversity (founded im
the 1100s) during his three-week stay
at Worcester, one of Oxford’s 36
colleges
Crary Jugum, 49, a lawyer from
Bob Asman punting on the Cam
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Sacramento, Calif., took a post
World War [J European
course that calied for three short pa-
pers. ‘here were no grades, but therc
Was an INteresting initiation process
Before he could use Oxford’s 500-
year-old Bodleian Library, Jugum
had to take an oath before dons in
academic robes. ‘I had to promise
not to start a fire in the stacks,”
he says.
Cost for these head trips? Iess than
what you pay to stay in a mediocre
hotel in most cities these days- just
$140 to $240 per day, depending on
the length of stay, the meals and the
side trips. (The figures include room
and board, but not airfarc. )
Don’t expect luxurious suites and
fine European cuisine, These are, af-
ter all, students’ quarters. Accommo-
dations arc spartan, often just a room
with a bed, a dresser and washbowl.
Hive to ten residents might share a
bathroom down the hall. “Our Amer-
ican undergraduates would consider
the living conditions primitive,” ad-
mits retired Harvard lawyer Douglas
Bownng, 72, of Martha’s Vineyard,
Mass., who studied Shakespeare with
a Smithsonian group at Worcester
College in 1991.
But there is plenty of architectural
detail—some rooms have old leather
chairs, fireplaces and carved stone
Gothic windows with garden views. A
judge from California was pleasantly
surprised to find a grand piano in
his room
One doesn’t go on these programs
for the food, either. The Amencan
visitors generally eat “in hail,’ just
like undergrads. Where you cat de
pends on which college you re staying
in. At colleges like Exeter at Oxtord
‘in hall’? means a magnificent old
dining room with a vaulted cciling, |
stained-glass windows and stonc slab |
floors. But it also means sitting on
long, backless benches and cating 1n-
stitutional food.
“Cold toast scems to be sume kind
of English uradition,” observes Wal-
lace Mercereau.
But food is incidental at dinner; it’s
where and with whom you sir that
counts. “‘High table’ is where the
action ts. That’s a table on a raised dais
where college leaders, visiting digni
taries, dons and tutors usually sit. At
some colleges, they wear academic
Forbes @ June 22, 1992
history
robes. Durnny the summer programs
a tew Americans are chosen each day
to join the anointed at high rable, and
for many it’s the highlight of the trip,
akin to sitting at the captain's table on
a Cruise ship.
For others, the high point is the
local pubs, where a different kind of
education can be gained. At Oxford
some Americans like to stay in college
and haunt the bar in the Junior Com-
mon Room. Orhers prefer in town
watering holes like the Mitre and the
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Fagle and Child (more popularly
known as the Bird and Babc), where
CS Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien used to
share a pint every Tuesday.
Recalls engineer Alec Moyer, 31,
who spent 24% weeks with his wife
and morher-in-law studying English
gardens and castles at Oxford’s Exe
ter College last summer: “I loved
the pubs—anywhere J found them.”
What did he learn? “The English
pint is 20 ounces,”’ Moyer replies,
“not 16."’ age
Oxbridge
bound
Hunks A LIST of insutu
uons that sponsor summer
study at Oxford and
Cambridge. Dates are for
1992 untess otherwise
noted.
Oxford
University af Calsfor-
nia at Berkeley. Two threc-
weck sessions, July 6 to
Aug. 15, at Worcester Col-
lege. Cost of one session:
$2,800, not including air-
fare. Call 510-642-8840.
Edinboro Untverstty
(Pa.)}. Oncaveek session,
Aug. 17 to 26, at Excter
College. Price: $1,800, in-
cluding airfare, Call Ted
Atkinson, 814-732-2885.
Smithsonian Institu-
tion. One nwo-weck ses-
sion, Sept. 12 to 26, at
Worcester College. Price:
$3,735, including airfare
from Newark. Call Amy
Warner, 202-357-4700.
Oxford/Florida State
University Summer Pro-
gram, Two three-week
sessions, Junc 5 to Aug. 15
at Chnst Church. Price
$2,675, not including air-
fare. Call 904-644-7551.
Oxford University
Continuing Education. Vor
information on other
programs, write GP,
Thomas, Continuing
Education, Oxford Univer-
sity, One Wellington
Square, Oxford OX1 2JA,
England. Or call 001-
044-0865-270360.
Cambridge
Cambridge Summer
Study Program. Tworweck
session, July 12 to 25, at
Emmanuel College. Price:
$2,450, not including
airfare. Call Joann Painter,
8)4-456-0757.
Humanities Institute.
‘l'wo-week session, July 12
to 30, at Trinity College.
Price: $1,900, not inelud-
ing airfare. Call Mane
Danch, 800-442-7204.
University of Texas at
Austin. Two-~week ses-
sions, resuming in 1993,
at Clare College. Price:
$2,795 (199]), not in-
cluding airfare. Call Ms.
Gene Sherman, 800-
882-8784.
Cambridge University
Continuing Education, For
information on other
Cambndge programs write
to Sarah Ormrod, |
Madingley Hall, Mading-
icy, Cambridge, CB3 8AQ,
England. Call 001 -044-
0954-210636.
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Oxford and Cam-
bridge, combined
University Vacations,
One-wecek sessions, July 12
to Sept. 26 at Brasenose
College, Oxford, and Cor-
pus Christi and St. Cath-
anne’s colleges, Cam-
bridge. Price: $1,675, |
pot including airfare. Call
800-792-0100.
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11]
BRITAIN
Local elections
No respite
T NEVER rains, but it pours. Soaked in
the general election, Labour has now
been drenched at the local polls. Our analy-
Sis of the May 7th local-government elec-
tions shows Labour’s support well down
even on that of April 9th, leaving the party
with its worst local-election result since
1982. The Tories had their best since 1977.
The environment secretary, Michael
Howard, promptly suggested that 1992
could mark a sea change in British politics.
This may be a little premature. But the local-
election results should dispel any notion
that Labour’s defeat on April 9th was a tem-
porary setback, inflicted by tax-averse voters
ready to return to the Labour fold when
asked who should run their local services.
Two regional worries for Labour jump
out of the numbers. In the West Midlands,
where it lost Dudley, Walsall and Wolver-
hampton, the elections confirmed a trend
against Labour that could threaten its con-
trol of Birmingham in 1994. The Tories in
the West Midlands have done better in local
than parliamentary elections.
The opposite has long applied in the
south: voters there prefer to put Labour can-
didates into the town hall than into West-
minster. The second worry for Labour,
though, is that this could be changing. Leave
aside Basildon, where Labour did particu-
larly badly. (The Tories won control there,
by winning all 15 of the seats up for election.)
Compared with last year, the Conservatives
achieved a consistently higher swing in the
south than in the midlands or the north.
Most worrying of all for Labour, though,
must be the absolute decline in its percent-
age of the total vote. Ignoring the difference
in sizes of wards, Labour’s vote in a typical
English ward in our sample was 6.8 percent-
age points lower than in 1988. But adding all
the votes in the sample together, Labour’s
share was down a full ten percentage points.
(Total turnout was predictably lower: this
year nearly 500,000 fewer votes were cast in
our sample of English districts than four
years ago, and 700,000 fewer than in last
year’s high turnout.)
Labour’s spokesmen were keen to blame
their defeat on the assumption that many
supporters stayed at home, disheartened by
the general election. The turnout certainly
fell most in Labour’s strongholds; but the
same was true of the general election. In-
deed, the difference in turnout between
Tory and Labour areas was virtually the
Same on May 7th as on April 9th. But La-
bour voters appear not to have stayed away
more than Tory voters in any one area—and
Labour did worst in the south, where the
turnout fell least. That sounds familiar.
Swing Change in Swing Change in
Sgr ee re % votes 1992 since % vote since 1988 since % vote since 1991
District Con Lab LibDem Greens Others '988 Con Lab LibDem 1991 Con Lab LibDem
Barrow 53.5 44.0 ~ ~ 2.5 +8.7 t t t -7.2 t t t
Blackburn 45.6 40.2 13.5 = 0.7 +7.8 +5.7 —2.1 -3.6 +95 +13.5 —2.9 -8.5
Bradford 47.3 38.1 11.5 2.8 0.3 +4.3 +3.7 4.3 +0.1 +8.2 +8.9 -5.3 4.2
Congleton 45.1 14.3 39.1 - 1.4 +6.3 +4.3 —2.6 O09 +4147 +114 -6.9 —2.5
Doncaster 31.7 53.8 10.8 1.1 2.7 +7.3 +6.6 -9.4 +2.0 +4.1 +4.0 4.6 -0.9
Grimsby 45.7 42.7 9.2 - 234°2411 7 4122 -6.2 -5.9 +45 +7.3 -5.0 -2.3
Halton 22.0 55.2 22.9 ~ ~ +7.6 +4.0 2.6 -1.3 +8.3 +4.8 -6.6 +19
Hartlepool 35.3 41.1 22.3 - 1.3 +8.4 45.3 -11.4 +6.2 +3.9 +6.2 +2.5 -8.7
Hull 24.0 54.7 20.7 0.6 ~ +6.4 +1.1 —7.3 +8.6 +48 +2.3 -6.2 +4.0
Kirklees 41.0 34.1 18.9 2.9 3.0 +9.2 +5.3 -9.5 +3.5 +9.1 +9.0 —3.6 —3.7
Leeds 40.7 38.5 16.1 2.3 2.5 +6.8 +5.6 -6.3 +0.1 +9.6 +9.5 -5.5 -3.9
Liverpool 13.0 33.0 38.1 0.9 15.0 +6.9 40.7. -13.2 +9.7 +4.1 +2.9 -2.5 0.8
Manchester 28.0 48.9 20.0 2.9 0.3 —0.4 -1.3 0.5 +2.6 +3.7 +38 —0.2 —0.6
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 30.1 43.6 22.8 2.8 0.8 +78 +48 -10.4 +4.0 +7.6 +6.5 4.1 -3.3
Preston 47.8 31.3 21.0 ~ - t t t t +6.6 +10.6 2.0 -7.6
Salford 32.9 53.0 11.1 3.0 - +6.4 +5.6 -8.6 +0.5 +7.1 +7.3 -3.9 -1.8
Sheffield 32.4 38.3 27.6 1.5 0.2 +165 +102 -19.4 +9.9 +11.9 +8.7 -104 +2.3
Stockport 39.8 22.1 33.8 1.0 3.3 +2.2 +0.7 —2.0 +5.0 +8.4 +6.7 -3.1 -2.9
Sunderland 33.9 59.4 $5 1.1 - +8.7 +3.0 -5.3 +2.3 +7.0 t t t
Wigan 21.5 55.8 20.1 0.2 2.4 +7.0 +2.5 -9.0 +7.3 +6.2 +6.5 -1.8 —2.6
Wirral 50.5 29.9 17.0 25 0.2 +9.5 +7.3 -9.9 +2.6 +3.7 +6.6 +0.0 -3.1
York 38.1 45.1 13.3 3.5 - -—0.0 -—0.0 —1.5 -0.6 +48 +6.4 —1.3 -3.8
North total 35.9 39.8 20.2 1.8 2.3 +7.0 +4.2 -7.5 +3.3 +6.9 +7.3 3.8 -2.7
Amber Valley 44.1 46.1 1.9 ~ 7.9 +2.9 t t t +8.0 t t
Bassetlaw 43.3 44.9 6.6 rs +4.6 +7.6 —-5.7 —1.0 +6.9 +10.1 —4.1 -6.0
Birmingham 49.6 35.6 13.0 1.1 0.7 +12.1 +104 -9.6 0.1 +7.1 +9.6 —2.6 4.5
Cambridge 34.5 35.6 27.5 1.8 0.6 +3.4 +0.8 -5.5 +4.6 +3.8 +3.8 -1.6 -0.8
Cannock Chase 36.8 49.1 13.1 1.1 +7.5 +10.5 42.8 -12.7 +2.3 +6.5 -1.5 -5.5
Coventry 43.2 46.0 10.5 - 0.3 +103 +9.6 -9.5 +1.1 +7.2 +9.0 4.8 -3.7
Derby+ 55.9 35.7 7.3 1.1 0.1 —1.4 0.9 +1.7 +0.1 +6.9 +8.3 —4.2 -3.9
Dudley 55.5 35.9 6.8 1.8 - 411.9 +118 -12.0 +1.8 +7.3 +9.3 -6.0 -4.7
Ipswich 48.8 46.5 47 - - +12.1 +10.4 -7.6 -1.7 +4.0 +5.9 -—1.6 4.3
Lincoln 42.4 51.6 Se y 0.6 +4.6 t t t +7.9 t t t
Norwich 27.6 46.8 23.7 1.9 ~ +5.1 +4.6 -5.5 +4.1 +5.6 +6.8 +0.9 -5.9
Nuneaton and Bedworth 39.3 47.3 13.2 - 0.2 +4.0 +2.4 —1.6 +2.3 +5.4 +5.3 —2.7 —2.6
Sandwell 51.1 37.2 11.4 - 0.3 422.7 +152 -16.9 +1.8 +8.1 +7.8 —3.6 4.3
Shrewsbury and Atcham 42.1 28.8 24.9 is 3.0 +5.5 +0.5 —4.7 +3.5 +9.1 +5.2 -5.3 +0.5
Stoke 45.7 38.8 15.5 - ~ +20.3 +146 -22.5 +7.9 415.7 +153 -10.9 —4.4
Worcester 43.1 40.9 16.0 - - +4.4 +3.9 7.9 +4.9 +2.7 +1.5 —-0.1 +1.2
Midlands total 46.7 39.5 12.2 0.8 0.8 +9.7 +7.2 -7.6 +14 +7.0 +8.1 -3.5 -3.6
Basildon 61.7 25.7 is 0.1 +182 +216 -11.9 9.8 411.2 +175 -5.2 -12.4
Bath 41.9 19.0 38.0 ~ 1.2 +5.5 0.8 8.5 +15.3 +10.7 +7.9 -5.3 +1.6
Bedford++ 38.7 29.9 31.4 - - +5.7 +4.3 3.1 —0.2 +2.5 +2.2 —1.2 -0.9
Brighton 53.2 32.6 9.5 48 - +6.8 +5.4 -9.0 0.1 411.2 413.3 7.8 —2.6
Bristol? 46.6 33.7 16.7 3.0 - +6.1 +4.2 6.4 +2.6 +8.3 +10.6 -1.4 -8.7
Broxbourne 62.7 19.7 17.7 - ~ +9.0 +3.6 -7.2 +3.6 +9.7 +9.6 -7.4 —2.2
Exeter+ 40.6 31.7 22.2 2.9 25 +0.0 -0.8 +1.3 —0.6 +4.4 +3.6 —1.7 -—2.0
Gillingham 47.3 20.2 32.5 ~ - +5.3 +2.6 4.5 +7.8 +10.5 +9.2 5.6 —3.6
Gloucester 46.3 33.4 20.2 - - +1.4 +2.7 —0.4 2.3 +11.7 +108 -7.9 2.9
Havant 51.4 16.4 26.8 0.6 4.9 +6.4 +1.1 4.4 +2.7 +92 +108 4.3 -—2.0
Maidstone++ 49.1 21.3 26.8 2.6 0.3 +6.2 +10.9 —2.6 -11.3 +13.0 +163 -5.4 -11.1
Milton Keynes 45.3 28.2 24.2 2.4 - +12.5 +8.7 —7.2 —2.3 +15.1 +15.9 -6.8 -2.9
Oxford 31.1 40.7 17.5 10.7 - -1.1 -5.9 -5.7 +2.6 +4.9 +5.3 0.4 2.5
Penwith 46.0 21.5 18.2 - 14.3 +9.7 t t t +2.8 t t t
Portsmouth 46.5 30.1 22:3 1.1 - +4.8 +0.6 4.9 +6.0 +8.3 +5.8 4.7 0.1
Reading 40.8 37.0 15.4 3.6 3.2 +3.7 +3.2 —1.7 +0.2 +5.5 +6.9 2.5 -2.9
Reigate and Banstead 47.6 12.9 27.6 1.4 10.5 +2.7 +1.1 4.3 +4.1 +10.2 +7.4 -6.3 +2.0
Runnymede 54.7 23.4 7.9 - 14.0 +6.4 +5.3 4.5 -0.8 +4.3 +8.6 -6.2 -2.5
Southampton 40.7 39.3 17.4 * 0.5 +3.2 +1.1 4.4 +3.8 +5.5 +5.8 2.9 —3.2
Southend 53.8 14.7 26.9 - 4.6 +5.5 +6.5 —2.4 -5.7 +8.8 +10.9 —3.6 -4.0
Thamesdown 41.7 40.3 14.2 3.7 - +5.8 +6.9 5.1 —2.1 +103 +118 -3.4 4.6
Thurrock 40.5 46.7 8.7 ~ 4.0 +5.2 t t t +5.9 t t t
Watford 44.4 32.7 22.2 0.6 ~ +5.9 +2.5 -6.1 +6.7 +9.4 +8.8 -6.7 -1.7
Weymouth and Portland 39.8 23.1 31.8 - 5.3 +3.0 t t t +7.6 42.5 -3.5 0.9
Worthing 51.0 5.9 41.3 1.8 - +6.4 -7.9 6.1 412.4 +8.5 +5.1 4.8 0.4
South total 46.8 28.5 20.8 1.9 1.9 +6.0 +4.0 —5.4 +1.6 +8.7 +9.4 -4.6 -3.2
England total 41.8 36.6 18.2 1.5 1.8 +7.4 +4.8 -6.8 +2.2 +7.5 +8.2 -4.0 -3.0
Newport 34.7 56.1 9.3 - - +7.1 +4.0 -12.0 +8.0 +7.9 t + t
Swansea 24.4 39.2 24.7 1.9 9.8 +2.5 +0.0 —3.7 —1.1 t t t t
Swing Change in Swing Change in
% votes 1992 since % votes since 1988 since % votes since 1990
Con Lab LibDem SNP '9°8 Con Lab LibDem SNP 1990 Con. Lab Lib Dem SNP
Aberdeen 23.9 346 255 146 412.3 +49 41 -54 443 4110 +42 -95 +78 -046
Dundee 29.0 36.5 us 34:2 +6.9 t Tt t Tt +11.4 tT t t t
Edinburgh 40.2 29.1 15.4 144 +58 +24 6.2 +26 +414 411.7 +84 -87 +25 +06
Glasgow 17.1 46.2 7.1 23.8 +55 +2.9 78 00 +41 +94 +82 79 O07 +40
Scottish cities total 27.9 a73..- 418 20.1 +7.1 +29 64 +09 +25 +108 +7.7 -86 +25 +1.1
SS — — ———— — _
The table shows the votes cast in the 63 districts in The Economist's sample of 70 provincial English districts in which elections were held this year, together
with the results in the four largest Scottish cities and two Welsh districts. The final eight columns compare the results this year with the results of the local
elections held in May 1988 and May 1991 (May 1990 regional elections in Scotland). Swing is the net change in the Conservative share of the vote cast for
Conservative and Labour combined; a plus sign indicates a swing to Conservative, a minus sign to Labour. The figure shown is the average two-party swing
based on results from all wards fought by Conservative and Labour in both 1992 and 1988/1990/1991 as appropriate (and where there was no significant
vote for Independent or other minor-party candidates). In addition the table shows the average change in the share of the total vote won by Conservative,
Labour and the Liberal Democrats between 1992 and 1988/1990/1991 in wards fought by all three parties on both occasions. In Scotland this information is
given also for the Scottish National Party and is based on those wards fought by all four parties. Plaid Cymru did not fight any wards in either Newport or
Swansea. For details of the principles behind the selection of the provincial English sample, which was expanded in 1989, see The Economist, May 15th 1976.
Both Oadby & Wigston and Torbay have switched to whole council elections every four years and did not hold elections this year; Exeter has replaced Torbay in
the sample as a consequence.
-—No candidates t Statistics can be quoted only for fewer than three wards + Elections were held in only two-thirds of the wards this year
++ Maidstone and Bedford are the areas of the former boroughs
THE ECONOMIST MAY 16TH 1992
BRITAIN
Prisons
Nailing the screws
If he is set on serious reforms, the new home secretary, Kenneth Clarke, will
need to tackle not just the prison officers but also the courts
N HIS report on Canterbury prison in
January 1992, the chief inspector of pris-
ons noted that in the previous year each
prison officer had taken, on average, five
weeks’ sick leave. The management of many
of Britain’s awful prisons will have to be a
target for Kenneth Clarke if he is going to
squeeze (as he must) the rising costs of the
system while fulfilling the government’s
commitment to improving standards. That
means tackling a body the Tories like to
avoid: the Prison Officers’ Association.
The Tories have been as wary of con-
fronting the POA as they have been of facing
up to the police. A party that sets such store
by law and order cannot afford to
antagonise its guardians. But the govern-
ment has much less respect for the prison
officers: unlike the police, they have re-
tained the right to strike. Industrial disputes
bubble constantly. Several times last year,
more than 50 small disputes were running
concurrently. (Things have calmed down a
bit this year.)
Prison officers know about managerial
reforms. “Fresh Start”, a five-year pro-
gramme designed to abolish ever-rising
Overtime costs, introduced in return for a
large bribe in 1987, is now in place. Things
would be worse without it, but costs have
continued to rise. In 1989-90 and 1990-91, a
time when the prison population was fall-
ing, costs rose by 12% and 13% in real terms.
Some prisons are now decent, well-run
places. But quite a few—such as Wands-
worth, Pentonville and Leeds—are not.
Probably because prisons are closed institu-
tions, a culture of bloody-mindedness can
take hold of a place and prove hard to eradi-
cate. Overmanning, for instance, remains
curiously persistent, although these days,
with no overtime payments, there is no in-
centive to argue for extra work.
People who know the system explain
that prison officers have come to believe the
arguments their union once dreamed up to
justify more hours. “Allegations” is the
commonest one: it is used as a pretext for
having two prison officers do jobs that one
could do. With only one officer, the argu-
ment goes, a prisoner might allege that he
was doing dodgy things; though why the
prisoner should not allege the same about
two officers is not clear.
The trouble about manning levels is that
there are no objective criteria by which to set
them: so much of the work is “just in case”.
Manning levels depend largely on the
union’s clout. Yet having lots of staff does
not necessarily make a jail less dangerous.
THE ECONOMIST MAY 16TH 1992
Steven Twinn, director of The Wolds, a new
and privately run prison in Humberside,
points out that one officer looking after 50
prisoners (the norm in his jail) will probably
chat to them; several officers on one job (the
norm in an ordinary jail) will probably stay
in an office and talk to each other.
If prison officers are belligerent, it is
ae :
Care to step inside, minister?
hardly surprising. The job, though pretty
well-paid (the starting salary in London is
£16,000—around $29,000), is hard, and liv-
ing conditions can be rough. Officers get
shifted around the country at the prison ser-
vice’s whim; often their families do not
move with them, and they end up living in
caravans.
The reason for this, and for all sorts of
troubles in the prison service, is the cen-
tralisation of power: 2,000 people in the
Home Office run the budgets and lives of
the 32,000 governors, prison officers and
auxiliaries working in prisons. A governor,
who may have 1,000 people working under
him, has no power to hire, fire or promote.
Giving governors responsibility for bud-
gets and people would be a big advance.
Then prisons could recruit locally, pay
could be set locally and governors who
found themselves with a surplus at the end
of the year would have no incentive to rush
off and spend it. Such a change could follow
from the decision, already made, to turn the
prison service into one of the semi-indepen-
dent agencies that the government is carv-
ing out of the civil service. But that will not
happen unless Mr Clarke pushes it, for both
the civil service and the POA will resist.
The idea of resistance from the POA has
always sent shivers down the government’s
spine, and a cave-in has quickly followed.
But there are now signs that the ministerial
spine is stiffening. Last year, after seven
months’ work-to-rule at Wakefield, the gov-
ernor threatened a lock-out and the officers
gave up. The question of removing the
POA’s right to strike is hovering in the air.
Those who argue for such a move point out
that they have much in common with the
non-striking police and army.
Even so, any likely improvements in the
management of the prison service will be
overwhelmed unless the current trend in
the prison population is reversed. Five years
ago, when Douglas Hurd was home secre-
tary, the Home Office understood that Brit-
ain, which jails a higher proportion of its
population than any other European coun-
try, needed to stop sending people to jail for
such crimes as first-time burglary. Some
changes in the rules and a lot of pointed
ministerial speeches directed at the courts
led to more bail, fewer custodial sentences
and a falling prison population for a couple
of years. But Mr Hurd was followed by Da-
vid Waddington and Kenneth Baker. The
climate changed, sentences started increas-
ing, and the prison population began to
rise—from 43,000 in early 1991 to 47,000
now.
It is not just liberal lobbyists who argue
that the prison population is too high. Both
the POA and the Prison Governors’ Associa-
tion argue that there are many people in jail
who should not be there. (Prison governors
are getting rather cosy with the liberals these
days; the governor of Brixton lives with the
head of the main let-them-out lobby group,
NACRO.) Budget-conscious civil servants
are also keen: it costs £300 to keep some-
body in jail for a week, compared with £50
for a probation order.
In October this year, new provisions of
the Criminal Justice Act come into force
that will cut parole and further increase the
prison population unless sentences start
shrinking. Mr Clarke cannot make the
courts pass shorter sentences; but as Mr
Hurd’s period in office showed, the home
secretary can influence them. The Treasury
will be most grateful if he does.
CORRECTION
In an article on March 21st about politics in the
north-west, we stated that in 1987 a Militant candi-
date stood in Manchester’s Davyhulme constituency.
In fact, the Labour candidate for this seat in 1987 was
John Nicholson, who has never been a member of,
nor associated with, the organisation known as Mili-
tant Tendency. Apologies.
79
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Where Sentencing Guidelines Go Wrong
To the Editor:
Re your front-page article of April
12 on the judicial critics of mandatory
Federal] prison-sentencing guide-
lines: To someone familiar with the
national movement for determinate
sentencing, the debacle of the Fed-
eral system comes as no surprise.
. Between the mid-1970’s and mid-
80’s, all 50 states and the District of
Columbia sought to repeal their dis-
cretionary sentencing systems and
replace them with guidelines or other
flat sentencing structures. Through-
out the country, pundits and policy
makers rolled out a tread-worn litany
of justifications for determinate sen-
tencing: less discretion, disparity and
discrimination; more proportionali-
ty, honesty and justice.
New York was no exception. But
unlike the Federal Government, New
York’s 20-year flirtation with this
sentencing “reform’’ ended abruptly
when the bill produced by the New
York State Committee on Sentencing
Guidelines was rejected by New
Yorkers of all ideological stripes.
Decision makers in New York, to
their credit, were able to see beyond
the grandiose claims of determinacy.
Once the rhetorical foliage was
peeled back, the ambiguities and the
false promises of sentencing guide-
lines were fully exposed.
Instead of controlling discretion,
sentencing guidelines merely shift
discretion from judges to prosecutors
and from parole boards to prison
guards. Instead of promoting truth in
sentencing, guidelines insure that
covert practices remain hidden.
Had New York jumped on the
guidelines bandwagon, we would like-
ly be paying a terrible price. When
California adopted determinate sen-
tencing in 1977, its prison population
was roughly equivalent to that of New
York; today Californians are footing
the bill for nearly twice as many
inmates as New Yorkers. While it
would be difficult to prove that deter-
minate sentencing alone is responsi-
ble for the exorbitant rise in Califor-
nia’s prison population, one conclu-
sion is inescapable: the rhetoric was
no match for the reality of sentencing
guidelines. blldledlenliilsily
Schenectady, N.Y., April 20, 1992
The writer, a deputy commissioner in
the New York State Division of Crimi-
nal Services, is the author of “‘Deter-
minate Sentencing: The Promise and
the Reality of Retributive Justice”
(Albany, 1991).
Flight of the Legislators
To the Editor:
Many of the 50 or so members of
Congress who have announced they
will not seek re-election have cited
paralysis in government for their de-
cision. I suggest there is another,
perhaps more compelling reason.
This is the last year members of
Congress can take unexpended cam-
paign funds and stick them in their
pockets on retirement. Thus their
protestations that life in Congress has
got too difficult ring hollow.
Surely, many of those who are not
coming back have substantial funds
in those campaign accounts, and with
the legal deadline, it’s their last
chance to improve their financial
well-being. PHILIP LEWIS
Scarsdale, N.Y., April 22, 1992
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BRITAIN
4 ~
It’s never enough
Spending on the NHS Planned
Years ending March
| == NHS inflation 20
<== Real growth in spending fbn
25 % change on year earlier 25
‘“ Left-hand scale
20 Current expenditure a
}—— Right-hand scale ’
e
Lg
ls
MT
1980 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
est
Sources: Department of Health; National Association of Health Authorities & Trusts
and calm voters. In the first ten weeks of
1992 alone, the government promised away
some £5llm ($905m)—a jump of almost
80% on the same period in 1991. The govern-
ment’s future expenditure plans fall a little
short of this level of generosity, but still
project a steep increase: health spending
will rise from £25.3 billion ($44.8 billion) in
1991-92 to £32.1 billion in 1994-95, far out-
running the rate of general inflation.
Yet even all this extra cash cannot pro-
vide the NHs with what it needs to meet the
soaring costs of new drugs, cleverer treat-
ments, an ageing population and higher
doctors’ salaries. Fortunately, the Tories
have also been rather good at getting better
value for money out of the service. They
have squeezed unit costs in the hospitals,
largely by encouraging people to convalesce
at home. Between 1978-79 and 1989-90, the
average cost of treating an in-house patient
with an acute illness declined (in real terms)
by 16%; the average cost of a birth fell by
22%; and the average cost of each resident
geriatric patient plummeted by 48%.
The NHs has also improved its manage-
ment of resources, both human and physi-
cal. The Department of Health has discov-
ered the virtues of bulk purchasing and
generic products. The drive to persuade
doctors to choose generic drugs is checking
the growth of the drugs bill. Thanks to com-
petitive tendering, the cost of cleaning and
domestic services has fallen from £419m in
1984-85 to £380m in 1989-90, a real reduc-
tion of 31%. The percentage of NHs workers
employed in ancillary jobs declined from
18.6% in 1984 to 12% in 1990. The depart-
ment has raised £1.3 billion since 1979 by
selling surplus property.
Much more remains to be done. Inde-
pendent studies reveal surprising amounts
of waste in everything from energy supplies
to food purchasing. The Audit Commission
calculates that more use of day surgery could
cut waiting lists by 300,000—a third of the
current total. And London’s 12 teaching hos-
pitals, clustered within a few miles of each
other, continue to be a huge drain on re-
sources. Because of their high capital costs
and generous staff-patient ratios, they
spend almost twice as much on an average
operation as non-London hospitals.
The current health reforms are intended
to solve problems like the London hospitals
and the under-use of day-surgery. The pur-
chaser-provider split allows purchasers to
shift resources from high-tech medicine to
preventive care and to place contracts with
hospitals that offer the best combination of
price and service. Devolving budgets to hos-
pital trusts and general practitioners is al-
ready producing better value for money.
The recent rumour that two London teach-
ing hospitals face closure suggests that the
internal market is at last taking effect.
But it is too soon for the Treasury to
claim victory. The introduction of the re-
forms has coincided with the biggest real in-
crease in spending on the NHs since the To-
ries came to power. Treasury ministers will
find it ever harder to resist appeals for more
cash, once the Department of Health can
demonstrate that the NHS has become a
model of consumer-friendly efficiency.
Cost-conscious ministers might be bet-
ter employed looking at the peculiar prac-
tices of the medical profession. Do consul-
tants need to spend so long in training?
Could nurses do some of the work now re-
served for doctors? Reorganising the medi-
cal profession might prove as cost-effective
over the next few years as improving its
management is starting to be.
Police
Bobby-bashing
HE teachers were a walk-over, the doc-
tors put up a bit of a fight, but a match
between Kenneth Clarke, the new home sec-
retary, and the police should be worth
watching. Such a confrontation, which the
Tories have tiptoed around for 13 years, may
now be in store. Just before the election the
previous home secretary, Kenneth Baker, set
up a committee to look at some tough rec-
ommendations from the Audit Commis-
sion that the Home Office had sat on for a
HANCELLORS of the exchequer do
not usually flaunt promises to in-
crease public spending. But in Washing-
ton this week Norman Lamont was anx-
ious to draw attention to his commitment
to put more money into the Global Envi-
ronment Facility (GEF), a special fund run
by the World Bank to pay for interna-
tional greenery. More predictably, Mr
Lamont pointed out that the money had
strings attached. A few blocks away his
colleague, Michael Howard, the new
environment secretary, was trying to use
those strings to pull the American admin-
istration into a treaty on global warming.
Extra money for the GEF is on offer in
exchange for firm commitments from
developing countries to reduce the
growth in their output of global-warming
gases. But developing countries are not
likely to commit themselves unless the
biggest global warmer, America, does too.
Cool gambling with hot money
American officials fear that a binding
commitment would lead to legal wran-
gles. Mr Howard hoped to find a form of
words general enough to reassure the
Americans but tough enough to satisfy
other countries. If his gamble fails, then
only a vague framework treaty on climate
change will be signed at the Earth Summit
in June. No binding com-
mitments from developing
countries means no extra
GEF cash from Britain.
To strengthen his hand,
Mr Howard on Tuesday per-
suaded a cabinet committee
to move Britain’s target-year
for stabilising carbon diox-
ide, the main global-warm-
ing gas, from 2005 to 2000.
The committee was chaired
by Lord Wakeham, who in
his previous role as energy
ee
Howard’s way
secretary had thwarted attempts to bring
Britain into line with the Econ this issue.
To make sure that the output of car-
bon dioxide does indeed get stabilised,
measures will be needed: the best official
guess is that output needs to be reduced
by some 10,000 tonnes a year. The Trea-
sury, coaxed into promising “new and
additional” money for the GEF, did not
want to stump up for energy saving too.
So British Gas will levy a small charge on
customers, and the money
will be used to make the
homes of the poor more en-
ergy-efficient.
As the Treasury struggles
with all this, might it be seiz-
ed with green thoughts of its
own? A good way to stabilise
Britain’s output of carbon di-
oxide might be to tax fossil fu-
els. And a carbon tax, while
meeting that need, might
help pay for everybody else’s
public overspending, too.
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The money’‘s there
Real spending per pupil, 1990-91 prices
Years ending March
‘Aig. PEE ey is ee ae a Be
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Secondary
schools
Years ending March
1980 82 84 86 88 90
1980 82 84 86 88 90
delivering more basic skills
will also save some money.
The child-centred teaching
methods favoured in all state
primary schools since the
1960s are expensive. Ditto the
assessment system created by
Mr Baker. No wonder John
Major earns plaudits from the
Treasury whenever he talks
about pencil-and-paper tests
and chalk-and-talk teaching.
Some of the _ biggest
changes could come in higher
Sources: Department of Education; Treasury
content. What about the pot-holed play-
grounds and dog-eared textbooks? Or the
evidence that schools are going cap-in-hand
to parents for extra funds? Or the rumours
that local authorities are planning to lay off
teachers? Or the chorus of complaints from
students about their living standards?
The main reason for the discrepancy be-
tween official figures and public percep-
tions is the legacy of the first half of the
1980s. Between 1979-80 and 1985-86, spend-
ing on education fell both as a proportion of
GpP (from 5.2% to 4.9%) and as a proportion
of total public spending (from 12.2% to
10.9%). Capital spending—new _ school
buildings and so on—fell sharply between
1981-82 and 1985-86. This period of austerity
reduced the quality and morale of the teach-
ing force and left a horrendous backlog of
repairs. The current spending boom began
only in 1986, when Kenneth Baker became
minister for education.
Three recent developments are also
shaking up the system. The government is
failing to meet the full cost of last year’s 7.8%
pay increase, offered by the new pay-review
body. Some teachers will probably have to
be sacked to provide others with higher sala-
ries. The capping of local-authority expen-
diture is obliging some places—Warwick-
shire is a dramatic example—to trim their
education budgets. And the market-driven
system of school financing, introduced by
the 1988 Education Act, means that schools
which fail to attract pupils lose money.
How much room is there for getting bet-
ter value for money out of the education sys-
tem? The most obvious waste is on un-
needed school places, now estimated to
total 12m. Under the old locally managed
school system, they would have been easily
dealt with: some schools closed, and pupils
moved. But pupil-driven financing allows
schools to struggle on even if they fail to fill
all their places.
Even so, the reforms are likely to pro-
mote more cost-saving measures than they
frustrate. County halls are already shedding
staff, as schools begin to run their own af-
fairs. This process will gather pace next year,
when most schools start running 85% of
their budgets. Teaching reforms aimed at
THE ECONOMIST MAY 2ND 1992
education. The government
hopes that most 16- to 18-year-
olds will go on to further education and that
a third of school-leavers might go on to uni-
versity by the mid-1990s. To make this possi-
ble without bankrupting the Treasury, the
government is concentrating on making
universities and further-education colleges
lower their unit costs. This is undoubtedly
the right way with further education. But
bolder thinking may be needed for univer-
sity education. By allowing universities to
charge fees and requiring students to pay a
graduate tax, the government could create a
prosperous as well as an expanding univer-
sity system.
Health
Fixing the dose
HEN talk turns to the national health
service (NHS), the Tories have had to
get used to being cudgelled as the party of
privatisation and privation. The facts are
different. Between 1979 and 1991 real expen-
diture on the NHs (adjusted for general in-
flation) increased by almost 40%. In the run-
up to the election the government showered
the NHS with gold in a bid to silence doctors
ONTRARY to popular myth, Brit-
ain does not spend more on de-
fence than its European allies. France
and Germany each spend more in cash
terms; as a proportion of Gpp, Greece
and Turkey lead the league; in spending
per head, both Norway and France score
higher. But, with the collapse of the So-
viet Union, Britain’s share of the peace
dividend is still big.
Under Whitehall’s “Options for
Change”, defence outlays are set to fall to
£24.2 billion ($42.8 billion) this year, a
decrease of 4.3% in real terms; further
falls of 2.9% in 1993-94 and 1.3% in 1994-
95 are planned. In terms of Gpp, defence
spending will fall from 4.1% last year to
3.5% in 1994-95. Still, few people are ap-
plauding. The left wants to cut more; the
right sees that the armed forces will soon
be too stretched for a repeat of either the
Falklands or the Gulf war, and is
alarmed; the establishment has been
shaken by the furore over the non-future
of several famous army regiments; and
businessmen are talking gloomily about
lost jobs in industry.
Britain’s nuclear deterrent used to be
directed solely at the Soviet Union, but
will remain virtually intact. Short of
ditching it altogether, the Trident-sub-
Defence under attack
marine programme can hardly be re-
duced. Cancelling its fourth submarine,
while still possible, would greatly in-
crease the risk that an unexpected me-
chanical glitch could put the entire force
out of service at the same time; and it
would yield a tiny saving, after cancella-
tion charges. The RAF, though, may lose
an airborne nuclear missile planned for
delivery later in the 1990s.
It will certainly lose three existing
squadrons of Tornado bombers. But its
biggest spending programme, the Euro-
pean Fighter Aircraft, is still on track, de-
spite the fact that it was ordered specifi-
cally to counter a Soviet threat.
Elsewhere in the conventional forces,
the navy is being cut from “about 50”
frigates and destroyers to “about 40”,
though the amphibious force is getting
some new ships. The army has taken the
biggest cuts. The British Army of the
Rhine is to shrink from 55,000 men to
around 23,000; total army manpower
will go from 156,00 to 114,000 by mid-de-
cade. Armoured and cavalry regiments
are going from 20 to 12, infantry battal-
ions from 55 to 38. No one is expecting
fresh cuts from the new defence secre-
tary, Malcolm Rifkind. But will he hold
the line on those already agreed?
couple of
years. The ap- r oeeeeeeees
pointment of Mr Clarke Average
could be the cue for a_ | @arnings
BRITAIN
punch-up.
About time too. During
the 1980s the amount of
money spent on the police
went up by 40% in real
terms. They reaped the |
benefits of their clever strat-
egy in the early 1980s. When |
many went on strike, the
police stayed on the beat. |
When the miners fought to
bring down the govern-
ment, the police defended
it. They were rewarded for
their round-the-clock reli-
ability, and somehow went
on being rewarded long af-
ter everybody else had stopped striking and
gone back fouws
Byrpeople are beginning to notice some
incgMsistencies. The police say they need
Sre money because crime is going up.
en it then keeps going up, they say it is
othing to do with them—blame unem-
ployment, declining family values, the
youth of today, that sort of thing. The argu-
ment that the police can do little to preve
rime seems to be supported by the rise
ie numbers both of police and of crimg$ in
regent years; it hardly strengthens th@fargu-
meh for more policemen.
Buxchief constables are boyfid to de-
mand moremen because of ta€ foolish way
money is allotateduto . Government
grants to the police are not, like those for
most local-authority services, cash-limited:
Teacher
scale 5
Sources: Home Office;
police forces get money on the basis of how
m O, every year, they
put in fat bids for more men. Most get
thrown into the dustbin. Some do not.
There is a complex set of Home Office
guidelines for increasing police manpower,
and nothing at all for decreasing it. When
crime rates or the population go up in an
area, the number of police will probably go
up; when they go down, the number of po-
lice stays the same—or may even rise, where
a bid has been beautifully drafted.
Compared with other public-sector
workers, policemen get cushy treatment. On
top of comfortable wages, they get a lot of
overtime pay, thanks to some working prac-
tices that old-time dockers would have en-
vied. For instance, a policeman has to be no-
tified of any changes in his regular shift
pattern a whole year in advance.
The way cash is allocated also discour-
ages police forces from using (cheaper) civil-
ians for some jobs. Civilians are already
used for some policing tasks—as traffic war-
dens, for example—and might be used for
more. At present, policemen do everything
from chasing murderers to standing in rows
at football matches. Does the brawnier side
of the job really justify an average cost per
THE ECONOMIST MAY 2ND 1992
after two years’ service
“London
allowance”—[ £7,077 |
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police consfa
Department of Education *Not including q
man of £25 an hour? Or
£20.50 a day for a dog?
Could not wardens be em-
ployed to do much of the
football job, while a small
team of well-trained police-
men stood
£4,837 Toey” could, but it is
— ag
st chief constables’ in-
srests to think of such ef-
ficiencies. Central govern-
ment pays more than the
marginal cost of an extra
policeman, but only
around half the marginal
cost of an extra civilian. The
financing mechanism thus
reinforces the police’s natu-
ral protectiveness towards
the peripheries of their job.
Thé Police Federation spends a lot of
time cajling for a Royal Commission on {Ke
police. Policemen, like most people, asg4me
that anybsdy who gets to know thgeff really
well will fe@kymore Dathefic towards
them. It might be an idea for the govern-
ment to call their bluff. A public inquiry
would be less likely to melt with sympathy
than to throw up its hands in horror at the
profligacy of the policing business.
Metropo
The civil service
Contracting
ITTING on a desk in Whitehall, await-
ing William Waldegrave’s attention, are
papers from every part of Whitehall that
could lead to more dramatic changes in the
machinery of government than were ever at-
tempted by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
As a white paper published last November
explained, the government is planning to
open up central-government work to out-
siders, with competitively tendered con-
tracts worth £20 billion ($35 billion). White-
hall departments have been required to
identify at least 30% of their business that
might be suitably subcontracted. That could
mean a lot of money saved, a lot of rows and
a great many redundancies.
Competitive tendering has been pretty
successful in local government and the na-
tional health service. According to a report
produced for the Department of the Envi-
ronment by Birmingham University’s Insti-
tute of Local Government, average total sav-
ings from competitive tendering in local
government are 7%, ranging from a 50% sav-
ing to an increased cost of 15%. Some people
in the business think the 7% is an underesti-
mate: Lynton Barker, a partner at the ac-
countancy firm Coopers & Lybrand, puts
average total savings nearer 25%.
Some Whitehall departments already
put a few jobs out to tender—like office
cleaning, messengers and car maintenance.
These tasks might cover £1 billion-worth of
work. To get to £20 billion, Whitehall will
have to start including things that most peo-
ple think of as central to the business of gov-
ernment—handing out benefits, say, or
dealing with tax returns.
There are practical difficulties. For con-
tracting-out to work, a job has to be fairly
easy to specify and performance simple to
monitor. That can be difficult in the jobs
“closer to the heart of government” that the
white paper is aimed at. These often involve
judgment, like assessing somebody’s suit-
ability for different sorts of training
schemes, or making investment grants to
downtrodden areas.
There are also problems of principle.
Members of the public may not want pri-
vate companies to get their hands on the in-
formation in benefit-claim forms. Conflicts
of interest may arise: MOT testing is already
contracted out to garages, and many motor-
ists have dark suspicions that garages re-
quire more work to be done than is neces-
sary. Rightly or wrongly, people tend to
believe that civil servants are honest: they
are more likely to trust a policeman than a
uniformed employee of Lok-U-Up Security.
As well as public flak, the government
will have to face the rows—and, if its plans
go through, the costs—associated with large-
scale redundancies. The Association of Di-
rect Service Organisations, which carry out
work for local councils, says competitive
tendering in its members’ field has cost
(“saved”, ministers would put it) 90,000
council jobs. It may be exaggerating, but
greater efficiency must mean redundan-
cies—and the impact of the plans for White-
hall would be much greater than the impact
of the changes in local government. Pro-
vided, that is, they were seriously put into
effect. Whether the mandarins can be relied
on for that is another matter. Lower-ranking
civil servants will fight to protect their jobs.
Higher-up ones have not just jobs to protect,
but empires.
BRITAIN
Scotch morals
HE Scots and the English are differ-
ent. Each people finds something
alien in the other. Mild unease about this
is deflected with jokes, mutual mockery,
spasms of political aggression. It is per-
haps tasteless to say that the expected
emergence of John Smith as Labour lead-
er is partly a racial experiment. But it is.
Mr Smith is mostly thought of as West-
minster man, a fine debater and a cau-
tious, pragmatic fellow who can be relied
upon to offer Labour a “steady as she
goes” captaincy. This has caused some
concern among those who believe SS Red
Rose is steadily going to the bottom, there
to rest, disturbed only by the occasional
visit of historians like Professor Ben
Pimlott, in mask and flippers. The mes-
sage of the other leadership candidate,
Bryan Gould (who is almost bound to
lose) can be summarised: Mr Smith will
mean “steady as she sinks”.
But Mr Smith is more Kirk minister
than Westminster. Under the sheen of a
relaxed parliamentarian is an old-fash-
ioned moralist (“and none the worse for
that”, he would say, bridling slightly). La-
menting the increase of single mothers on
state benefit in his constituency, he
means it. Like any good moralist, he
catches the eye and transmits a small
shiver of sincerity. He comes from a Kirk-
going, serious, Scottish Labour world
where you shine your shoes, and appear
in a freshly-ironed shirt when you meet
constituents, to show respect. He is con-
temptuous of southern trendiness.
His personal manifesto, revealed this
week, contained much that was predict-
able: “disquiet” about the electoral sys-
tem, with a readiness to see the Labour in-
quiry widened to other parties; a pledge
to get rid of the unions’ block votes for in-
ternal Labour issues; and, of course, a
strong pro-Europeanism—something
that may be buttressed by Neil Kinnock if
he gets the job his friends are trying to ne-
gotiate for him, as president of the Con-
federation of European Socialist Parties.
Mr Smith’s manifesto also contains
some eye-catching novelties, including
support for a full-blown Bill of Rights,
and an opposition “Royal Commission”
on welfare and taxation, bringing in non-
Labour people to offer the party advice.
The first question, though, is whether this
is not mostly a predictable assemblage of
reformist policies, reflecting the post-elec-
toral Labour consensus, rather than the
“real John Smith”.
Here again, the Scotch question must
be asked. Not The Scottish Question (the
BAGEHOT
one about a Scottish parliament). Mr
Smith was an assiduous attender at the
Scottish Constitutional Convention, the
opposition body which drew up the plans
for an assembly, and calls all that “unfin-
ished business”. More of that later. The
Scotch question is rather different.
“Scotch” is a word that irritates Scots
when applied to themselves. The Scots are
Scottish. Scotch means something else.
The word was explained by Oliver Brown,
a Scottish Nationalist pamphleteer and
humourist, as referring only to a “com-
Mr 58%
modity which can be sold—such as
whisky, woollens, tomatoes, and MPs.”
The Scotch question is whether Mr Smith
will be able to sell the English voter the
Scotch political culture.
This will be tricky. Scotch taxes did La-
bour a lot of harm this spring—indeed,
since they could not be sold, they should
be called Scottish. Scotch government
means the more consensual, even corpo-
rate political style of a small country,
whose politicians are mostly friendly and
whose bankers, lawyers, industrialists
and trade-union leaders tend to know
one another. Its epitome in recent years
has been the Scottish Convention. This
moved slowly, by consensus. No votes
were taken. There was little drama.
Mr Smith sat through its many meet-
ings silently but supportively. He liked its
consensual, quasi-corporate style. And it
achieved something: it brought Labour in
Scotland round to proportional represen-
tation for a parliament in Edinburgh. So
in dealing with other parties, if not reach-
ing electoral pacts, he might go further
than Mr Kinnock. He says he wants to
speak for the whole 58% of voters who did
not support the Tories. If so, he will have
to be a bit nicer to the battered Liberal
Democrats. Scotch thinking also informs
Mr Smith’s hidden, but deep, disdain for
the ancient monarchical flummery of the
House of Lords and the English legal sys-
tem—a real streak of radicalism (even if it
really derives from his feelings about ef-
fete Englishmen in wigs and girly clothes).
Scotch government, applied to Eng-
land, could also mean a Germanic enthu-
siasm for consensus-building structures
and conservative economics. But it would
undoubtedly mean higher taxes, however
disguised: Mr Smith is not about to re-
nege on some fiscal redistribution.
What about the party? Here Mr
Smith’s innate caution gives Mr Gould
his strongest card. There will be no pain-
less or uncontroversial way of doing to the
Labour movement the brutal things that
now need to be done. But, to Mr Smith,
this is a matter of common sense. One
prominent Smith backer says cautiously:
“J think that his intelligence will pull him
towards radical reforms, even if his in-
stincts are tugging him the other way.” Re-
form has become a necessity; and soon. A
whole raft of Labour’s younger, brighter
politicians are privately determined to
drop out of the game unless the party re-
forms itself thoroughly. As one said, “we
are not going to spend the rest of our lives
in some hopeless enterprise.”
Madam Betty
Television addicts of the House of Com-
mons have a new star. Betty Boothroyd, a
convivial and plain-speaking Labour
spinster has been elected as the new
speaker, the first woman to have the job.
Her election was secured after 74 Tory
MPs refused to support the former North-
ern Ireland secretary, Peter Brooke, and
backed her instead. It was the first con-
tested election since 1951 (these things are
normally managed with nods and winks)
and ended equally untraditionally: the
House ignored its ban on clapping and
applauded emotionally.
It is far too early to assess her perfor-
mance. But two things are worth men-
tioning. She has a motherly touch with the
MPs which they seem to like. And second,
she is presiding over a House that con-
tains more women MPps—1l6 more, 59 in
total. Even outnumbered ten to one, they
are making an impact. The place seems a
little gentler, a little more civilised.
Women cabinet ministers, Speaker Betty:
what next? One day there may even be a
woman prime minister.
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REVIEW &
Onward to Majorism
The British Labor Party has suf-
fered nothing but defeat since 1979,
but this last was the most devastating.
In the depths of the longest recession
in 60 years, after 13 years of one-party
rule, after unpopular measures such
as the poll tax, after a polished and
confident Labor campaign and a mud-
dled Tory effort, Labor lost big. Neil
Kinnock couldn’t reduce the Tory vote
by even a point. The Conservatives
won 43% of the vote, just as Mrs.
Thatcher had in her triumphant 1987
victory.
Mr. Kinnock worked tirelessly to
make his party electable, expelling
the Looney Left, reversing long-held
positions, putting together a shadow
cabinet that talked and dressed more
like CEOs than union leaders. It
proved a dead end.
This election will go down as an-
other significant chapter in the chroni-
Cle of socialist extinction. The lesson
is that reformed Keynesian-socialist
parties don’t do any better than pure
socialist parties. It doesn’t matter if a
party is going to redistribute wealth a
lot or a little. Voters don’t want it.
Elections are said to be referenda
on the incumbent government, but
this was the reverse. A large section
of the electorate was eager to punish
the Tories or at least to make a
change, and told pollsters they would
vote Labor. The television news cre-
ated a climate of opinion in which it
Was politically incorrect to publicly
favor tax cuts over increased public
spending. But in the privacy of the
voting booth, voters decided that their
dreams depended on a low-tax market
economy.
John Smith, Labor’s economics
spokesman, could have the distinction
of being the last major party official]
to put a redistributionist budget pro-
posal before the British people.
Though it was meant to appear pro-
business, his tax plan would have im-
posed a stiff tax hike on anyone earn-
ing over £21,000 a year, about $37,000.
Mr. Smith doesn’t understand that the
Class war is over. Soaking the rich no
longer appeals to the middle Class, in
part because they aspire to become
rich, and in part because they under-
Stand the perverse incentives instilled
by high tax rates.
In the final days of the Campaign,
John Major waved a Study showing
that business leaders were terrified of
the Labor budget. Far from Stirring
Class resentments, as in days of yore,
the business outcry seems to have
persuaded people across all income
groups.
Britain is changing. Former coal
miners are working in the services
sector. Council tenants are now home
owners. Those tight little working
Class villages are being transformed
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QUTLOOK
into tidy suburbs. Industrial workers
are now Self-employed small business-
men. The social fabric of the Labor
Party is being pulled from under the
party’s feet; the welfare state ethos
has diminished. This is a legacy of
Thatcherism, a cultural, demographic
and intellectual change that over-
whelmed recession-induced anger.
Labor Party officials are now talk-
ing about an alliance with the Liberal
Democrats or a constitutional change
that would yield proportional repre-
sentation. Changing electoral rules
won't help if under John Smith, or
whoever succeeds Neil Kinnock, they
ignore their fundamental problem—
the death of socialism, of egalitarian-
ism, of the class war. Our advice
would be to adopt free market poli-
cies, and to try to wage instructive
debates in other spheres.
As for John Major, he has a tre-
mendous opportunity, to create a Ma- :
jorism as distinct as Thatcherism. It |
would be based on a politics that is
confrontational but not combative, as- |
sertive but not angry. It would be the |
politics of a nation at ease with itself, |
which works calmly and forcefully to |
reduce those barriers to opportunity
erected by bureaucracy, tax struc-
tures, regulation, Shoddy education |
and class snobbery.
Now that they know that school
Choice will continue to be government
policy, perhaps 2,000 schools wil] opt
out from the hidebound education bu- |
reaucracy in the coming months. That &
will give teachers and parents more
control of their schools, and wil] mean
more money will reach the classroom.
Similar reforms will come into full ef-
fect in the health service.
Mr. Major’s Saturday cabinet re-
shuffle is on the whole good news. Mr.
Major showed good sense and per-
sonal loyalty in retaining Norman La-
mont as chancellor of the exchequer.
Mr. Lamont fought effectively against
inflation and endured scurrilous at-
tacks from the opposition and mem-
bers of his own party. The appoint-
ment of Thatcherite Michael Portillo
as Treasury chief secretary is a sign
that Mr. Major is committed to reduc-
ing the burden of government.
Finally, Mr. Major himself. He did
not run a glittering campaign. But in
the last days he reportedly threw out
the script and defied his advisers. On
Scotland, on proportional representa-
tion, on his own dreams for Britain,
his voice was clear and strong. On
election night, as it became evident
that he had pulled off a stunning up-
set, he addressed his screaming sup-
porters: ‘Overall, the result is satis-
factory.’’
Talk softly, Mr. Major, but carry a
big cricket bat.
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All the shirts will be despatched from London, having had the 17’ % UK Sales Tax (VAT)
deducted, and will be delivered all expenses paid to your address.
NEW YORK
New York Intercontinental Hotel (formerly Barclay Hotel),
Suite 642 (as usual)
111 East 48th Street, New York
Direct Line: 212 906 3128
Hotel Line: 212 755 5900
Monday 6th April to Saturday 11th April 8.30am to 6.00pm
Do drop in and see Bertie or, if you prefer, telephone for an appointment during the times
above or telephone Bertie now at our UK address. Our toll free number from the United
States is 1-800 877 0445.
As on previous trips Mr John Wildsmith of Wildsmith Shoes (Established 1847) and Mr. John
Deboise, a highly respected Savile Row Tailor, will be in attendance.
HILDITCH & KEY. LTD
DIRECTORS: A. G. FINCH M. J. BOOTH. M.A.. LL.M. R. J. TALBOT. F. WOMBY
COMPANY SECRETARY: G. C. HILDITCH
REGISTERED OFFICE: 88 JERMYN STREET. LONDON SW1Y 6JD
REGISTERED No. 924034 ENGLAND
TELEPHONE 031-225 6639
REGD. No. 36921 SCOTLAND
Stewart, CHRISTIE & CO LTD
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Eliot H Lumbard Esq
195 Broadway
New York
NY 10007
Dear Sir
Responding to your letter of 22nd October we have to re
port not yet ha
received any patterns of cashmere near to the check designs which you
originally selected for a jacket, just as soon as the new patterns com
to hand we will submit the Loutaat available.
There has been no incfease in our prices of any consequence since you)
last orders, a production increase of 5% and the price of cloth is fa
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R.G. Schaw Miller, W.S.
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W. M. Steel, W.S.
S. Y. Marshall, W.S.
Our Ref. PCM/YH Your Ref. 12th December 1986
Eliot H Lumbard Esq PERSONAL
Messrs Haight Gardner Poor & Havens
Solicitors
1 State Street Plaza
New York
NY10004
USA
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I do apologise for the long delay in acknowledging your letter of 18th
November. We greatly enjoyed our evening with you and, since you are now
more or less regularly commuting from New York to Edinburgh and appear to
suffer no effects of jet-lag, we look forward to the next occasion.
Thank you very much for sending me a copy of your paper at _ the Japan
Shipping Exchange in Tokyo. It is as well that it was what you call
"underwritten" as it allowed me, a non-corporate, non-commercial lawyer to
understand a large part of it but Transnational Re-organisations are beyond
my comprehension and experience. I suppose the Chinese have a longer
history of dealing with bankruptcy than almost any other country and I find
it interesting that there are so many similarities rather than differences
in the comparative systems of bankruptcy layeand procedure to which your
papers refers.
I return the paper herewith with my thanks for letting me see it.
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Eliott H Lumbard Esq
North British Hotel
EDINBURGH
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Thank you for your telegram with the splendid news that you are to be in
Edinburgh this weekend.
Thank you also for your very kind invitation which Kirsteen and I really do
appreciate. Like any sensible Scottish solicitor, I am refusing to accept
you instructions without qualification but there is good reason for doing so
as I will explain to you.
Unfortunately we are engaged on Friday and Sunday evenings but only too
delighted to enjoy your company once again on the Saturday evening and I
hope you will spend it with us in my Club, the New (1787!) Club in the
middle of Princes Street. We enjoy going there and I think you might find
it quite interesting.
It is within walking distance but we will call for you at the North British
Hotel at 7 pm.
Continuous sunshine and temperatures in the upper 80s have been ordered and
if there is anything further I can do for you over the weekend do please let
me know.
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hat have been drawn. Here, James Lock has set standards of design, material and
service which are as unsurpassed today as they were when the “Blenheim” was
created for the first Duke of Marlborough, the cocked hat was collected by Lord Nelson in
1805, the “Fore and Aft” was worn by Wellington at Waterloo and the “Coke”, more generally
known as the “Bowler”, was first made for William Coke in 1850.
From the pages of this catalogue it may be seen that the variety of styles and materials is
as comprehensive as at any time in the history of the firm. For the visitor to No. 6, the service
and attention to details are unchanged. The Ladies’ Department has attracted many regular
customers; throughout the year it offers carefully selected ladies hats for formal and sporting
occasions.
For those who, of necessity, must ‘shop by post’ Lock’s will endeavour to provide a prompt
delivery of those hats or caps held in stock. A number of hats are made-to-measure to order
only. Lock’s will advise on how long this will take. The service of making hats or caps from
customers’ own material continues, either direct or through their tailors.
Lock’s look forward to continuing to provide a service to all customers.
F over 300 years St James’s Street has been the address to which those in search of a
KEY TO ILLUSTRATIONS All hats are listed clockwise from the top on each sheet.
Photography by A. C. Cooper Ltd.
YORK Medium-weight hat, unlined, 24° brim, medium brown and navy. GILL Hand-finishe:
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WETHERBY Lig! | # | = ere male Spt oa este OPS os TURNBERRY Full-cut single piece Crow! tweed cap.
2 4 ight-weight, unlined hat, ; 2” brim, medium & dark bro’ black. gr fies GLEN T
ev & | gig tea Oa ene _ dium @& dark brown, Diack, green . = ‘LEN Tweed cap medium width cut
grey W navy. 5 ; = hui: ath cut.
Serer ee | 7 [ee FAIRWAY Narrower cut tweed cap.
, hand stitched edge, available in light ana medium brown Ww gre’ REDFORD 8-piece tweed cap
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SANDOWN Light-weight unlined hat, 176” brim, in black, n 2 411 ti Hy] labl : 1]
and dark Drown and green. VOYAGER | tra-lightweight, f Id: ALi Li Set STyle S (i ariaodle L711 ad vange OJ Lu Peds. All can Aliso
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BLACK TOP HAT Hand-made.
1 hat with silk bound trim. Black and grey.
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CONNAUGHT Fore and Aft stalking hat. camel & red.
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ARLBERG Ladies’ velour with stitched edge in navy and red.
OUTBACK Australian-made hat in fawn only.
INNSBRUCK Tyrolean-style hat in green only.
VIENNA Soft wide-brim velour hat in black. navy, brown, green and burgundy.
LOCK & CO, HATTERS, No. 6 St James's Street, London SW1A 1EF
RIO Genuine panama Ww
BOATER Traditional English weight.
MONACO Linen hat in cream or blue.
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‘Ibhv-stvle genuine panama.
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GOODWOOD Panama in pre-blocked style.
COLONIAL Classic shape folding panama.
Centre LIDO Italian-styled summer hat.
LOCK & CO, HATTERS, No. 6 St James’s Street, L
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Retail Price List
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Wetetii os £75.00
Aare en aie Bt £80.00
APM Ee £75.00
VOIR Si hc £65.00
Maden. 00 ai £80.00
Salat Zee ke £85.00
Acheton re a hee: £60.00
NCWIT oi inissecd ce £75.00
Gill Gap as £38.00
varnbeny Cap isa. £38.00
Glen Capi ee £30.00
rastway Ces ee £25.00
Rediond Capito £38.00
Bukdale Souk ct £39.00
NEmsmMere 5. cen £30.00
Conmaapint ni. lndseehonie: £30.00
AU ik cscasticipaeicspm ee tikecane: £45.00
OMNISCY. Sijsaa teh domndeinnae £50.00
ORCI il vicssxomiadiiciink aa an £60.00
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IN tailbone £24.00
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ESRC A sO rg eel £250.00
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AES a ee RA CORALS Fi £135.00
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peressape Top Hat .........:.00:: £165.00
U.K. Packaging and Postage: Caps £3.50: Hats £5.00
(Prices subject to change without notice)
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Historical background
Centre of civic government for nearly 900 years,
Guildhall has been the scene of far more than
elections and civic activity. It has witnessed the trials
of traitors, remonstrances to kings and parliaments,
clamours for reform, brilliant receptions to
Emperors, Presidents and Royal Personages, Lord
Mayors’ banquets and international gatherings and
the conferment of the Freedom on statesmen,
heroes and patriots.
Local government has developed in the City of
London from the ancient Court of Husting to the
modern Common Council, and the pattern of
municipal government at Guildhall has served as a
model upon which the civic administration of many
cities and towns has been based. London’s first
Mayor took office in 1189 and the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs are still elected and admitted to office each
year within its walls. The foundation of the present
Guildhall, as seen in the crypt, was begun about the
year 1411 and building work was completed by 1440.
Two major fires have devastated large areas of the
City, in 1666 and 1940, but the crypt, porch and
mediaeval walls of Guildhall emerged from the
flames on both occasions without irreparable
damage. The roof has twice collapsed, a mass of
burning timber on to the floor beneath. In 1940
walls, monuments, windows and galleries were
damaged and Gog and Magog destroyed, but the
Guildhall, protected from the weather by a
temporary roof, continued to be the centre of civic
activity. Since the destruction in 1940 of the council
chamber the Court of Common Council holds its
meetings in Guildhall, the original meeting place of
the early administrative assemblies of citizens.
Restoration of Guildhall was completed to the
designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1954, the west
end being re-modelled and the west crypt restored
in 1973.
The porch
Much of the interior of the Gothic porch, forming
the entrance to Guildhall, is mediaeval, though the
external facade has been remodelled and renovated
from time to time and is modern by comparison as
are also the large oak doors giving access to
Guildhall.
The roof
The present roof of oak panelling between stone
arches is the fifth to rest upon the mediaeval walls.
The introduction of stone arches has made it
possible to provide clerestory windows allowing
the full character and new design of the oak roof
and coloured shields of the ninety-nine Livery
Companies of the City of London to be seen clearly.
The walls
The survival of the mediaeval walls shows that the
present Guildhall occupies exactly the same site as
the building erected in 1411. The dimensions of
Guildhall between the walls are 152 feet by 49%
feet. The main cornice, below battlements at
clerestory level, is enriched by a frieze consisting of
the Arms of England, the City and the twelve Great
Livery Companies. The Arms are emblazoned and
the mottoes picked out in gilt Gothic letters and the
banners of these twelve Companies hang in front.
The windows
The glazing is light in character and colour and, with
the exception of the clerestory windows, which are
plain, is patterned with scrolls bearing the names of
Mayors and Lord Mayors with the dates of their year
of office, interspersed with the monograms and
supporters of the reigning sovereigns. The names of
the earliest mayors are shown on the west windows
and proceed clockwise around Guildhall, Lord
Mayors of the present day being seen at the west end
of the south wall. The fifteenth century window in
the south wall, next to the Royal Fusilier Memorial.
is reputed to be a survival of the original Guildhall.
The standard measurements of length are sited in
the bay.
The galleries and screens
The main gallery occupies the whole of the west
wall. The clock in the centre of the gallery parapet
was the gift of Alderman Sir Noel Bowater BT GBE MC
(Lord Mayor 1953-54). On the north wall are two
galleries, one facing the main entrance for the use of
the press, and the other to the right for the use of the
Lady Mayoress.
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On the south wall is an o
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selection of the Mansion House plate during
banquets. These serve as a background setting for
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the Lord Mayor and principal guests.
Gog and Magog
Known in Elizabethan times as Gogmagog and
Corineus, legend has it that they represent the
conflict between the ancient inhabitants of Britain
and the Trojan invaders, a conflict resulting in the
founding, 1000 years before the Christian era, of
Albion's capital city New Troy, upon which site
London is said to stand. The ancestors of the giants
eventually set up in Guildhall in 1708, were paraded
in the mid-summer pageants of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries.
The new giants, the gift of Alderman Sir George
Wilkinson srkcvo (Lord Mayor 1940-41), replace
their predecessors destroyed in 1940. The figures,
carved in limewood by David Evans Frss, stand nine
feet three inches in height, Gog to the north and
Magog to the south.
The monuments
The policy of the Common Council to erect
monuments to honour a few national figures of
outstanding achievement is comparatively modern.
The first monument erected in 1772 was to one of its
own Lord Mayors, William Beckford, who is
represented addressing a remonstrance to King
George III who had returned a curt and
unfavourable reply to an address from the City. The
figures on either side represent the City of London
in Mourning and Trade in Decline.
The first monument of a national character was
erected in 1782 to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. The
City was mindful of the benefits it had received in
the general prosperity brought to the nation by this
‘eminent statesman, powerful orator and supreme
disposer of events’.
The monument to William Pitt the Younger erected
in 1813 shows him in his robes as Chancellor of the
Exchequer and his abilities are characterised by
Apollo and Mercury. The inscription surveys the
difficulties he overcame and the merit of his
achievements.
Britain’s two foremost naval and military heroes
also take their place with these statesmen. That to
Admiral Viscount Nelson depicts the Battle of
Trafalgar with Neptune and Britannia grieving at his
death, while the City of London records his great
victories, The monument to the Duke of Wellington
depicts the last charge at Waterloo, the Duke
standing between Peace and War, holding his Field
Marshal's baton in one hand and the Peace of 1815 in
the other.
A bronze bas-relief memorial to the officers and
men of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London
regiment) who died in the South Africa War, 1899
1902, is to be seen on the south wall next to the
fifteenth century window. A similar memorial to
members, sons of members and officers of the
Corporation of London who fell in the 1914-18 Wa:
will be found in the porch.
A plaster cast of the seated bronze statue of Sir
Winston Churchill, by Oscar Nemon, was unveil:
in June 1955 and the completed bronze installed in
1959.
The crypt
Immediately beneath Guildhall is the fifteenth
century crypt, the most extensive mediaeval crypt i
London. The eastern half, which survived the Gre
Fire of 1066 and the bombing of 1940, was restore
in 1961. It is divided into twelve bays by six clustere:
pillars of blue Purbeck marble. Other stonework }
ragstone and Reigate stone with chalk infilling. At
the intersections of the vaulting are bosses with the
arms of HM Queen Elizabeth II, the City of London,
Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen sr, the See of London,
Henry IV and Edward the Confessor.
Six new windows for the east crypt were donated i:
1971 by the Clothworkers Company and four
Common Councilmen. The windows show the
Great Fire, Chaucer, Caxton, More, Wren and Pepys.
The crypt has always been divided into two parts,
and it is thought that the western part is under the
site of the earlier hall — certainly pre-15th century. selling maps, prints, postcards and playing cards as
This section of the crypt, together with the floor well as books. It is open from Monday-Friday 9.30-
above, completely collapsed in the Great Fire, and 16.45. For further information contact
the space was filled with brick-barrelled vaulting by The Manager
Wren as a ‘temporary measure’. It remained in this Guildhall Library Bookshop
state until, as part of the Guildhall reconstruction Aldermanbury
scheme, the west crypt was restored to its « riginal London EC2P 2E]
state in 1973. The west crypt now has one of the Tel 071-260 1858
finest vaulted ceilings in London, resting upon four
pairs of stone columns. Nineteen stained glass Guildhall Clock Museum
windows depict coats of arms of City Livery Just to the left of the entrance of Guildhall Library is
Companies. | the Museum of the Worshipful Company of
Clockmakers. Over 700 exhibits including watches,
Visitors wishing to see the crypt should make clocks and marine chronometers tell the story of
arrangements with the Beadle on duty in Guildhall. 500 years of timekeeping. Among the exhibits is the
large silver skull watch reputed to have belonged to
Guildhall Precinct development
The new west wing to Guildhall was completed in
Mary Queen of Scots, a hydrogen clock, and the
wrist watch worn by Sir Edmund Hillary during his
1974. It was designed by Sir Giles Scott Son < .
gned by Sir Giles Scott Son and successful ascent of Mt Everest in 1953. Open
Partner. The wing contains Guildhall Library, Mondav to Fridav 09.30-1700
administrative offices, committee rooms, the
aldermen’s courtroom and underground car park.
Guildhall Library
The original Guildhall Library was founded in the
1420s but was despoiled in the sixteenth century. In
1824 it was refounded as a reference library of
material to illustrate the history and development of ae eas — —
London. By the late nineteenth century this Opening times
collection was unrivalled, and the library has
extended its scope to that of a general reference May-September 7 days a week, 10.00-1700.
library as well. From 1873 to 1974 the library was including spring bank holiday and
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housed in the Gothic hall at the end of the corridor autumn bank holiday.
leading east from the entrance porch of Guildhall.
The new library in the west wing includes an October-April Monday-Saturday 10.00-1700.
exhibition room of famous books and manuscripts Closed Sundays.
as well as an enquiry service particularly expert in .
The Guildhall is closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day,
the fields of English (and especially London) yates
Good Friday, Easter Monday and New Year's Day;
history, topography, genealogy and heraldry. The eee :
: and also infrequently for Civic occasions. Please
library’s holdings on London manscripts, books, ; RRs
| = contact Keeper’s office to confirm availability and
maps and prints draw visitors from all over the : ; osc el
‘ for information on tours of the Guildhall. 071-606
world. Guildhall library is open to members of the |
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public without the formality of a reader’s ticket. |
Books are not available for home reading. Open : .
Mondav to Saturday 09.30-1700. Copies of an illustrated guide to Guildhall may be |
: obtained from the City of London Information
Guildhall Library Bookshop Centre, St Paul’s Churchyard, London EC4M 8BX, or
Alongside the Library is a well-stocked bookshop | from the Guildhall Library Bookshop.
specialising in publications about London and
Plan of the Great Hall
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A. Magog J. William Pitt the Younger Banners of the 12 6. Skinners
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C. Sir Winston Churchill Statue K. Lord Mayor Beckford ——— Duke of Wellington .
D. Admiral Viscount Nelson stentless : Masti 8. Haberdashers The West crypt OMINE, DiRuGE Nos! |
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E. Press and Television Gallery 2. Grocers Arms of the City
FE Duke of Wellington Monument M. Royal Fusiliers Memorial, 3. Drapers 10. lronmongers
1899-1902
G. Lady Mayoress’s Gallery 4; Fiehmongers 11. Vintners
H. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham N. 15th Century Window and
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WHERE CONTENTS
FEATURES
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THIS MONTH IN LONDON
Flora, fauna and Francis Albert
8
STERLING WORK
Following the silver trail
10
WHAT’S IN STORE
Undercover shopping in malls and arcades
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PARK LARKS
Go green in the city centre
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CAPITAL DINING
The gourmet, the gourmand and the greedy
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LONDON
This month sees sonatas
from Sinatra, open air
arias in Glyndebourne,
a reining prince in
Windsor and Chelsea in
bloom once more. Mean-
while, Magritte mono-
polises the Hayward
and the British Museum
and National Gallery
pull a master-stroke
with Dutch master
Rembrandt
BY MAUREEN MILLS
OPERA
Considered by many to be the most
coveted event in the London social
season, Glyndebourne is home to
England’s most prestigious opera
venue. John Christie, whose 700-year
old family home at Glyndebourne,
near Lewes, East Sussex (54 miles
from London), was converted into
the opera house, was a patron of the
arts with big ambitions. Now
Glyndebourne is a revered tradition.
An idyllic setting, it combines
picnics on the sprawling lawn,
evening dress and a brilliant schedule
of major operatic works. The season
opens on 2 May with Benjamin Brit-
ten’s Peter Grimes, conducted by
Francis Albert at the Royal Albert
Andrew Davis and directed by
Trevor Nunn (subsequently on 6, 9,
12, 16, 18, 22, 28 and 31 May), with
Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Janacek’s
Jenufa also being performed this
month. For more details on tickets
and the full programme, call the box
office on 0273 812321.
EVENTS
The Queen is Patron, Prince Philip
participates in the carriage driving
and Windsor Castle provides a mag-
nificent scenic backdrop. A very
Magritte is in town and it’s raining men at the Hayward Gallery
Royal event, the Royal Windsor
Horse Show, celebrates its 50th
anniversary this year, from 13-17
May. Playing host to all manner of
equine creatures from Shetlands to
Shires, the show is the official kick-
off to the British equestrian season.
There will be elegant dressage, obsta-
cle driving and show jumping. The
King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery,
perform their majestic Musical Drive
daily and on the last night there is a
grand fireworks display.
Other special events include
Pony Club mounted games and the
Shetland Pony Grand National. Many
of the riders appear for charity and
some of the sponsors — Harrods and
Simpson, for example — have trade
stands selling their top-quality goods.
Tickets range from £6; for more
information, ring the box office on
0753 865116.
SINATRA
Ol’ Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra is back
in town with six gala concerts at the
Royal Albert Hall (Kensington Gore,
SW7) from 26-31 May. Appearing
with Sinatra are special guests, per-
fect-pitch songbird Cleo Laine and
pianist/composer husband John
Dankworth. Tickets range from £15-
£55 and are difficult to obtain. Check
with your concierge or call the box
office on 071-589 8212.
GALLERIES
The works of one of the greatest sur-
realists, René Magritte, will be
shown at the Hayward Gallery
(South Bank Centre, SE1) from 21
May, bringing together more than
150 works, including 110 paintings
from 1920 onwards, collages,
gouaches, sculpture and painted bot-
tles. Magritte’s style has been repro-
duced and parodied more than almost
any other 20th century artist. He
depicted everyday objects and fig-
ures in a lifelike manner but added
very personal twists, with juxtaposi-
tions and metamorphoses which
often delighted and confused. His
bowler-hatted men and hooded
lovers, giant apples and floating
rocks have become familiar art
images. Entrance to the exhibition is
£5; for more information, ring the
gallery on 071-928 3002.
Two concurrent exhibitions of
works by the prodigious Dutch mas-
ter Rembrandt (1606-1669) grace
London’s most prestigious gallery
and museum this month. The British
Museum (Montague Place entrance,
WC1; tel: 071-636 1555; admission
free) hosts Drawings by Rembrandt
and his Circle, a collection of aston-
ishing variety which includes more
than 80 drawings. And until 24 May
at the new Sainsbury Wing of the
National Gallery (Trafalgar Square
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WC?2; tel: 071-839 3321: admission
£5), Rembrandt — The Master and
His Workshop: Paintings and
Etchings is a stunning exhibition
of many important pieces, including
Woman at an Open Door, a portrait
of Rembrandt’s mistress Hendrijcke
Stoffels, and the recently restored
The Sampling Officials of the
Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild,
on temporary loan from Amster-
dam’s Rijksmuseum.
D’ Oyly Carte — for better operetta
ART
| Contemporary interior and decora-
| tive accessories designed by 100 of
| Britain’s most talented craftsmen
will be shown at Creative Eye at
4 eee? hs
Join the rat race at the Pet Show
the Chelsea Old Town Hall (King’s
Road, SW3) until 4 May. Organised
by the Crafts Council, the selection
of jewellery, glass, ceramics, silver-
ware, toys, furniture and fabrics
highlights the quality of U.K. craft-
work. Open from 10.00-16.00,
admission is £5. Tel: 071-278 7700
for more details.
PET SHOW
Bringing together all breeds of pets,
from rats and cats to snakes and
dogs, The Pet Show takes place at
Earls Court Exhibition Centre (War-
wick Road, SW5) from 2-4 May. Its
aim is not only to educate, with
grooming, breeding, health and
nutrition displays and seminars, but
to fascinate both children and adults
with insights into the world of pets
with live demonstrations and a “Pet
Corner” to encourage visitor partici-
pation. Tickets are £6 (£4 for chil-
dren); call the box office for more
details on 071-373 8141.
OPERETTA
Widely acclaimed for their
grandiose Gilbert & Sullivan pro-
ductions, the D’Oyly Carte Opera
Company makes a welcome return
to Sadler’s Wells (Rosebery
Avenue, EC1) to celebrate the 150th
A bouquet at Bonham’s
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anniversary of the birth of Sir
Arthur Sullivan. Two very different
operettas will be presented this
month — The Mikado, perhaps the
most popular and zany of the
G. & S. repertoire, and The Yeo-
man of the Guard, the closest
approach the duo made to grand
opera. There are performances of
both on various dates until 16 May,
with tickets ranging from £5-£25;
check with the box office on
071-278 8916.
HOLIDAYS
There are two bank holidays in
Britain this month — May Day is on
Monday, 4 May and Monday, 25
May is the Spring Bank Holiday.
What it means to you is that all
banks and government buildings
will be closed and that tubes and
buses will revert to a Sunday
timetable. Most shops, services and
attractions, however, will be open as
usual. If in doubt, telephone.
EDITOR'S CHOICE
SPD PST E LA
Held in the grounds of the
Royal Hospital, Cheisea, the
annual Chelsea Flower Show
will be ablaze with colour from
19-22 May as horticulturists
gather to view the latest in the
gardening world. Royal Horti-
‘cultural Society members can
visit at any time and it’s open
to the public on the last two
days (tickets from £10). For
information tel: 071-828 1744.
Coinciding with the show
is an auction of Flower and
Garden Pictures at Bonham’s
(Montpelier Street, SW7; tel:
071-584 9161) on 20 May at
11.00. Or why not join Garden
Day Tours? Themes include
the London Garden Day, which
incorporates Kew Gardens
(28 May), or the famous Siss-
inghurst, in Kent (6 and 20
May). For details and book-
ings, tel: 071-431 2758.
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STERLING WORK
“All that glisters is
not gold” — sometimes
it’s silver
BY ANNE-NOELLE TAMPLIN
ondon has long been a major centre for
the world’s silver trade. Whether you are
a serious collector or investor, or
whether you’re simply looking for an
elegant gift for someone special, you’ll find a
wide choice of items and prices available in the
city. Rare chalices, handsome candelabra, dec-
orative decanter labels, smart salt-cellars —
when in London, buy them!
Overseas visitors to London will probably
be most interested in English silver, although a
wide choice of Continental and other silvers is
also available from dealers. English silver is
easily distinguished by its marks, known as
“hallmarks”. Because gold and silver were of
such commercial importance, it became neces-
sary by the end of the 13th century to establish
reliable standards. In England the first mark
guaranteeing such a standard was stamped on
silver in 1300, by the Goldsmiths’ Company
based at Goldsmiths’ Hall in London. In
Britain all silver wares, with few minor excep-
tions, carry such marks, which provide precise
information on the place of origin, quality and
date. On the Continent and North America,
marking has never been systematized in this
way and is therefore not always as reliable a
method of identification and dating.
“The most important factor when buying
silver, if you want to maintain its value, is to go
to a reliable dealer — most of the people in the
West End come into that category”, advises
Edward Bourdon-Smith, who joined his
father’s St. James’s gallery, J.H. Bourdon-
Smith (24 Mason’s Yard, Duke Street, St.
James’s, SW1; tel: 071-839 4714/5) eight years
ago. This highly successful family business
specializes, although not exclusively, in
English silver of the Georgian period. Anyone
in search of an elegant gift — a pair of cande-
labra or silver tableware — should come here.
Elisabeth Bellord, a director of A.D.C.
Heritage (2 Old Bond Street, W1; tel: 071-493
5088), opens the door to an exquisitely decorat-
ed gallery: ““We take the presentation of a piece
of silver as seriously as the item itself’. The
gallery holds a wide range of stock, dating
from the 16th century to the present day, but
concentrates on good English Georgian domes-
tic silver and flatware, including specialized
pieces for collectors and museums.
Close by, Brian Beet (3b Burlington Gar-
dens, W1; tel: 071-437 4975) shares his gallery
with a ceramics dealer and carries silver made
in unusual places, Chinese export, silver from
the Colonies for Europeans and some provin-
cial silver — almost anything that isn’t consid-
ered mainstream. His other enthusiasm is relat-
ed metals and he suggests an exciting new area
for collectors might be early electroplate.
Back into New Bond Street, Asprey’s (165-
169 New Bond Street, SW1; tel: 071-493 6767)
silver department includes a wealth of objects,
including smaller “collector objects” (prices up
to around £4,000) such as wine labels and
caddy spoons. The hallmark of all their stock is
its exceptionally high quality. Further along
A pair of square-
based candlesticks
(1762) by William
Cafe, a fruit basket
(1791) by William
Plummer and a pair
of decanter stands
(1799) by William
Allen Ill; all from
J.H. Bourdon-Smith
New Bond Street are the splendid premises of
Partridge Fine Arts (144-146 New Bond
Street, W1; tel: 071-629 0834), highly-regarded
for fine antiques, who have recently re-opened
their silver department, under the directorship
of Timothy Schroder, an eminent scholar with
both an auctioneering and academic back-
ground. “Some of our things may seem expen-
sive, but that’s because they’re of the very
highest quality. We do have many “museum
pieces”, but I also try to stock several modestly
priced objets”.
S.J. Phillips (139 New Bond Street, W1;
tel: 071-629 6261) is a fourth generation family
business, established since 1869. The fabulous
window display describes the gallery’s areas of
specialization to perfection: antique jewellery
and English and Continental silver from around
1550-1850. “Modern silver is also a steady
field — this is especially popular for wedding
presents and special occasions”, explains
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
Nicolas Norton, one of the gallery’s directors.
Two minutes’ walk from here you will find
Ted Donohoe’s kiosk (1-7 Davies Mews, W1;
tel: 071-629 5633), the first at one entrance to
the very picturesque Grays Antique Market.
Their speciality is in silver and jewellery of his-
torical interest, and they hold a rare stock of
17th and 18th century miniature dolls’ house
silver. Donohoe’s enthusiasm for his subject is
infectious and anyone daunted at the prospect
of entering the “big league” galleries, with their
more formal surroundings, will be entirely at
ease here.
Garrards (112 Regent Street. W1, tel: 071-
734 7020) is a complete contrast in size. Estab-
lished since 1735 and Crown Jewellers since
1843, its showrooms are positively regal. The
company has a long and distinguished history
of silversmithing which it continues today
through its own workshops. “We still carry out
numerous commissions, especially in the field
of sporting trophies; we also stock a large
selection of antique silver and smaller objets
priced from around £700 upwards” explains
Anne Weston, head of their silver department.
A tour of London’s best-known silver deal-
ers would be incomplete without some further
stops. In Knightsbridge, the opinions of Brand
Inglis (9 Halkin Arcade, SW1; tel: 071-235
6604) are much sought-after, while The Lon-
don Silver Vaults (53-65 Chancery Lane,
WC2; tel: 071-242 3844) consist of an exciting
underground kingdom of more than 150 strong
rooms (the Vaults were originally built as a safe
deposit in 1882). The range of silver and jew-
ellery is endless and many dealers carry out
valuations and repairs. Just above the Vaults,
E. & C.T. Koopman & Sons (53-64 Chancery
House, Chancery Lane, WC2; tel: 071-242
7624) stock one of the largest selections of sil-
ver in London (prices from £20-£1 million).
Finally, one gallery deserves a special men-
tion. Nicholas Harris (The Silver & Decora-
tive Arts Gallery, 564 King’s Road, SW6; tel:
071-371 9711) is a pioneer-specialist in silver
dating from 1850-1950, and he also provides
advice to major museums on their acquisitions.
You will hardly notice the doorbell ringing
when others enter. You will be too busy covet-
ing the silver — by Tiffany, Gorham, Elkington
or Gilbert Marks — and the variety of Arts and
Crafts furniture and exquisite enamels scattered
seductively about the place.
With such a wide range of galleries and
prices available to the silver-seeker in London,
it would seem that buying or collecting is rela-
tively easy. A last word of advice from Elisa-
beth Bellord. “See what you’re interested in
and buy the very best you can afford. When
you buy something, make sure that it is what it
should be, and you can’t go far wrong”.
More art and antiques details on page 34.
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A.D.C. Heritage
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WHAT'S IN STORE
Stay under cover and discover some of the most charming shopping
in London's historic and fascinating arcades
BY MAUREEN MILLS
hile huge American-style
shopping centres are pop-
ping up all over Britain, a
certain charm remains in
the elegant shopping
arcades of London.
Just four years old, Hay’s Galle-
ria is a spacious new arcade over-
looking the Thames, situated adja-
cent to Tower Bridge and the Lon-
don Dungeon. A stunning conver-
sion of one of London’s most
famous wharfs (Hay’s Wharf), its
interior is dominated by “The Navi-
gators”, a magnificent 60 foot high
kinetic sculpture which is a hypnotic
combination of moving parts, water
jets and fountains. Colourful market stalls sell everything
from jewellery to paintings and toys. Or indulge in
designer chocolates at S’il Vous Plait (tel: 071-357
6031), browse through the latest bestsellers at The River-
side Bookshop (te!: 071-378 1824), try on trendy outfits
and accessories at Next (tel: 071-378 0107) or opt for
designer-label European menswear at Huxley (tel: 071-
407 4271). Balls Brothers (tel: 071-407 4301) is a popu-
lar fish restaurant and wine bar set in the original cellars
of the wharf, while a quick burger or snack can be had at
Sweeney Todd’s (tel: 071-407 5267) or you can dine on
British fare at the Horniman at Hay’s (tel: 071-407
3611) with its traditional pub and carvery.
Central London has a mix of old and new in terms of
indoor shopping facilities — one of the newest, Whiteleys
(Queensway, W2; tel: 071-229 8844), was actually reborn
in 1989. Young Yorkshireman William Whiteley started
out with £10 in his pocket in 1845, came down to London
and worked his way up through the retail trade, eventual-
ly opening the eponymous shop whose slogan was:
“Everything from a pin to an elephant”. Although the
Bayswater area declined over subsequent decades, it now
enjoys renewal in the shape of a massive, luxury shop-
ping centre with the elegance of its former Edwardian
facade and atria retained. From fashion (sweaters at
Jumpers, baby clothes at Matt & Josh, or ladieswear at
Mondi) to gifts (designer gadgetry at The Leading Edge
or hand-made toys at The English Teddy Bear Co.) and
accessories (natural cosmetics at
The Body Shop, fun styles at The
Sock Shop or tea and coffee equip-
ment at Whittard of Chelsea), the
retail mix is impressive, and other
facilities include a multi-screen cine-
plex and several informal restaurants
such as Mamma Amalfi (Italian) and
Poons (Chinese).
The Plaza (120 Oxford Street,
W1; tel: 071-637 8811) is geared to
young, upbeat fashions — check out
Stirling Cooper, Principles, Jeffrey
Rogers, Boules, Oasis and Ware-
house, while Pied a Terre have both
stylish shoes and clothing. Popular
chain stores include The Gap for
all-purpose casualwear, the ubiquitous Tie Rack (good
deals on ladies’ scarves, too), Knickerbox (what goes
under the high fashion is important, too!) and the Reject
Shop for wacky gifts at bargain prices.
From London’s newer shopping arcades to its oldest,
the Royal Opera Arcade, built by Regency architect
John Nash in 1817. Leading from Pall Mall to Charles II
Street, it originally bordered the opera house which once
occupied the site of Her Majesty’s Theatre — now, appro-
priately enough, home of the long-running hit, The
Phantom of the Opera. The tailors, shirtmakers and hair-
dressers of the Arcade became so fashionable with the
élite of St. James’s that it was soon named Fops’ Walk.
These days the only clothes you’ll find are huntin’,
shootin’ and fishin’ gear at Farlow’s (tel: 071-839 2423),
the country sportsman’s outfitters. Established in 1840,
they are London’s oldest fishing tackle shop and have a
Royal Warrant to supply tackle and country clothing to the
Prince of Wales. Their selection of outdoor wear includes
traditional tweeds, wools and Barbour waxed jackets. And
Peter Dale (tel: 071-930 3695), one of Britain’s leading
dealers in antique arms and armour, carries a superb col-
lection, all restored by traditional techniques.
A couple of years younger, Burlington Arcade, span-
ning Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens, is the longest
Right: Beautiful Ballantyne knitwear from Berk in the
Burlington Arcade; Above: Belt up at Lord's
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from lingerie to toys at Hay’s Galleria,
scenically situated on the Thames
Below left: The best in huntin’ ,
shootin’ and fishin’ gear at Farlow’s at
the Royal Opera Arcade
Bottom: Bright, comfortable
casualwear from Stefanel, located in
the heart of Knightsbridge
and most famous shopping arcade in the
world. Listed as a “monument”, it has its own
policing force (the top-hatted beadles). Lon-
don’s last family-owned linen shop is at the
Burlington Gardens end — the Irish Linen
Company (tel: 071-493 8949) — with hand-
embroidered hankies, luxurious damask table
clothes and soft-as-silk sheets. Luxury is what
Burlington Arcade is all about — jewellery
from family business S. J. Rood (tel: 071-493
0739), which was founded in 1873, 19th cen-
tury bronze sculpture at Christie (tel: 071-629
3070), both 19th century Dutch and 20th cen-
tury modern British paintings from
MacConnal-Mason (tel: 071-409 7323),
exquisite British and Continental porcelain
and crystal at Chinacraft (tel: 071-491 7624)
and exclusive, high-fashion cashmere knitwear
for both men and women at N. Peal (tel: 071-
491 0912). Costume jewellery comes from the
experts at Ken Lane (tel: 071-493 9136) or
you can get the real thing from Johnson,
Walker & Tolhurst (tel: 071-629 2615).
Menswear by Chester Barrie, Aquascutum
and Burberry is sold by Berk (tel: 071-493
1430) in their shop at number 21; also look for
their embroidered slippers and cashmere
Sweaters by Ballantyne and McGeorge (at
number 46).
Knitwear, particularly cashmere, is
Burlington Arcade’s luxury trademark.
S. Fisher (tel: 071-493 6221) have two shops
— number 22/23 carries the largest stock of
John Smedley knitwear in the U.K., while the
traditional trades including shoemaking at
Wildsmith & Co. (tel: 071-437 4289), shirt-
makers Hilditch & Key (tel: 071-734 4707),
bootmakers Jones (tel: 071-439 1472), Donald-
son, Williams & G. Ward (tel: 071-493 3068)
for jacket buttons and cufflinks and cashmere
specialists N. Peal (tel: 071-437 0106) at the
entrance to the arcade at 192 Piccadilly.
Naturally, Knightsbridge, the shoppers’
Mecca, has its share of arcadia. The Halkin
Arcade, spanning Motcomb and West Halkin
Streets, is popular for art deco and art nou-
veau. Gallery 25 (tel: 071-235 5178) has art
deco furniture, bronzes and decorative objects
from 1880 to the 1930s while, just opposite,
Gallerie Moderne (tel: 071-245 6907) spe-
cialises in Lalique glass. More unusual objets
and furniture, both antique and custom-
designed, along with bronzes, leatherwork, gold
and silver are available at Kinnerton Studios
(tel: 071-235 0189), and 19th and 20th century
oils and watercolours are the specialities of
Pym’s Gallery (tel: 071-235 3050). Michael
Parkin Fine Art Ltd. (tel: 071-235 8144)
exhibits mostly paintings, drawings and prints
from 1860-1960, while the Christopher Hull
Gallery (tel: 071-235 0500) shows young con-
temporary British artists, and this month, until
15 May, exhibit George Donald’s recent paint-
ings, entitled Journey to China and Beyond.
Brompton Arcade, near Knightsbridge
tube station, houses a duo of fashionable, casu-
al clothing shops — Benetton (tel: 071-589
2121) and Stefanel (tel: 071-589 5315). Also
see Lee Bender’s (tel: 071-581 2864) for her
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golfing sweaters and shirts. The huge range of
menswear at Lord’s (tel: 071-493 5808)
includes clothing and accessories (up to 7,000
ties in stock at any one time) and elegant, high-
fashion knitwear for ladies upstairs.
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PARK LARKS
A royal ride, a lakeside
and a walk on the wild side
—all in the heart of London
BY SALLY SPENCER
urrounded by the sound of wild birdsong
while enjoying a woodland stroll, it’s hard
to believe you're in the thick of one of the
busiest capitals in the world. For one of the
beauties of London is its acres of lush.
green parklands. To crown it all, the parks
even have a royal connection: once private
hunting grounds of the sovereign and still
Crown property, today they are free for
everyone to enjoy.
You can enjoy 360 acres of it in Hyde Park, the
largest of central London’s Royal Parks. Bordered by
Knightsbridge to the south and Oxford Street to the north,
it’s a hive of activity both within and without its bound-
aries. It’s also a source of historical anecdotes stretching
back to 1196 with the first recorded execution. Marble
Arch marks the spot of the junction between two Roman
roads, Watling Street (now Edgware Road and Park Lane)
and Via Trinobantina (now known rather less poetically as
Oxford Street and Bayswater Road) where mediaeval mis-
creants were hung from Tyburn gallows.
The terrain was as wild as its inhabitants in those days,
despite being owned by the abbot of Westminster Abbey.
However, in the 16th century Henry VIII, who knew
prime real estate when he saw it, snaffled the land for his
private hunting purposes and a Royal Park was born.
Henry VIII wasn’t the most public-spirited of monarchs
and the park remained the sovereign’s exclusive property
until James I opened it to the public. During his son
Charles I’s reign, the park became extremely fashionable
and many of the features today owe their presence to the
17th century need to see and be seen. Landmarks include
the broad sand-track, Rotten Row, formerly Route de Roi.
or “the King’s Way’, which in the 19th century became
the place to be seen riding. You can follow the royal hoof-
prints today (try the Richard Briggs Stables, tel: 071-723
2813), but only at a canter — galloping is too racy! That
also goes for the Household Cavalry (stationed at
Knightsbridge Barracks) who exercise daily in the park
(from 06.00-08.00) and often drill on Rotten Row.
Another quirk which became established in the 19th
century is that testament to English eccentricity, Speaker’s
Corner (at the Marble Arch end), where soap-box orators
gather every Sunday to harangue and be harangued.
Speakers here may say anything, provided that they avoid
obscenity, sedition and payment.
If you’d rather listen to stirring music than stirring
words, hire a deckchair by the bandstand at the Hyde Park
Corner end, listen to a military band and soak up the
scenery. If it’s a real soaking you require, you can swim in
the Serpentine from the Lido on its south bank, or, for a
potential soaking, hire a sailing dinghy or rowing skiff
from the Boat House on the north bank.
What is more, if you have a whetted appetite along
with your wetted feet, the New Serpentine Restaurant,
near the Lido, offers excellent food and splendid views of
both watersports and waterfowl.
Many people think Hyde Park extends to Kensington,
but west of the Albert Memorial it becomes Kensington
Above: The ornamental Kensington Gardens; Right: A
view from the bridge — in St. James’s Park
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Gardens, once the grounds of Kensington Palace.
The beautiful avenue of trees along the Broad
Walk are a particular feature of the park, as is the
air of seclusion and tranquillity which prevails.
It’s a far cry from the hustle and bustle of its more
boisterous neighbour, Hyde Park, and you’re more
likely to see sedate nannies perambulating their
precious charges than lunchtime joggers.
This is the perfect place for children of all
ages, with two playgrounds, one by the Lancaster
Gate tube station entrance and another near the
Queensway tube station entrance. The latter is
where you'll find the Elfin Oak, an old tree stump
carved with the figures of fairies, elves and small
animals. That’s not all, on the west bank of Long
Water (a continuation of the Serpentine) and
marking the spot where he first landed his boat,
stands the famous bronze statue of Peter Pan. Fig-
ures of squirrels, rabbits and mice, worn down by
thousands of little fingers, climb around the
pedestal that supports J.M. Barrie’s creation, the
boy who never grew up. Other boys who haven’t
grown up can indulge their enthusiasm for model
sail-boats on the Round Pond.
Of course, you could spend most of the day in
and around Kensington Palace itself (tel: 071-937
9561; open Monday to Saturday 09.00-16.15 and
Sunday 11.00-16.15; admission £3.75). Queen
Victoria was born here in 1819 and the Palace is
the London residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales
— you can see the world’s most famous wedding dress in
the Court Dress Collection. In the immediate Palace
grounds, don’t miss the ornamental Sunken Garden and
the Orangery.
The oldest of the Royal Parks was also once the pri-
vate grounds to a royal residence, this time, St. James’s
Palace. Despite its royal connections, St. James’s Park
has a dark past, since it takes its name from a hospice
founded for lepers in the 13th century. Henry VIII, true to
form, “acquired” the land and fenced it in. The park,
which extends from Whitehall in the east to Buckingham
Palace in the west, was improved from time to time and
put to various uses. Elizabeth I held jousting and hunting
tournaments, while James I kept a menagerie, including
an “ellefant’” which, according to records, enjoyed a gal-
lon of wine a day — and why not? Captive birds became a
royal obsession, particularly with James I’s grandson,
Charles II, who had a series of birdcages along the south
side of the park — Birdcage Walk is now a road running
from Buckingham Gate to Horse Guards Road. Charles II
was often to be seen feeding the ducks in the lake or play-
ing the croquet-like game paille-maille in what is now
The Mall; it was he who opened the park to the public.
Charles II was much enamoured of the formal gardens
of Versailles and during his reign the landscape of St.
James’s Park was geometric and ornamental. What we see
today, however, is the work of John Nash, architect to
George IV. He transformed canals into sinuous lakes, rigid
avenues into winding paths and rapidly earned St. James’s
the accolade of London’s loveliest park. Nash’s lake is
one of the major attractions, with exotic geese and peli-
cans numbering among the residents of Duck Island’s bird
colony (best seen at feeding time at 16.00 — or at anytime
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hall from its bridge is unparalleled.
Just across The Mall we move from the oldest Royal
Park to the youngest, since Green Park blossomed a
mere three centuries ago in 1668. Purchased by Charles II
as an extension to St. James’s Park, it extends to Piccadil-
ly in the north, has almost no flower gardens and is distin-
guished by fine expanses of grass and trees. Constitution
Hill, marking its southern boundary, is so named because
Charles II liked to take his “constitutional” walks there.
George IV (when he was Prince Regent) and John
Nash also colluded over another of Henry VIII’s earlier
acquisitions, Marylebone Park, re-modelling it and re-
naming it Regent’s Park. The park is circular and con-
tains two circular roads, the Outer Circle, which follows
the park boundary and the much smaller Inner Circle con-
taining Queen Mary’s Gardens which boasts one of the
finest rose displays in Britain. It’s also the site of the Open
Air Theatre, famous for its summer season of Shake-
speare. To the east of the Inner Circle is a large, sprawling
lake dotted with islands, one of which is a celebrated
heronry; boats may be hired from the boat house at the
north end of the lake.
There’s considerably more wildlife in an area at the
northern perimeter of the park. The Zoological Society of
London, more popularly known as London Zoo (tel: 071-
722 3333; open daily 10.00-18.00; admission £5.60), has
been on this site since it was founded by Sir Stamford
Raffles and Sir Humphrey Davy in 1826. Much belea-
guered of late by financial constraints, the zoo is still one
of the world’s most respected zoos and has a fine record
for breeding and conservation. With more than 5,000 ani-
mals to see, it is worth a day out on its own.
More sightseeing details on page 21.
Around the world in tasty ways —
from tortellini and tortillas
to tempura and tandoori
JAPANESE YEN
It’s 20 years since Saga (43 South Molton
Street, W1) first opened its doors. At that time
the clientele was principally Japanese, but now
a whole host of other nationalities are desper-
ately seeking sushi — to say nothing of sashimi,
sukiyaki and shabu-shabu.
The reason for the cosmopolitan clientele is
Saga’s accessibility; while the dishes are whol-
ly traditional — no Californian sushi here! — the
menu, so often unfathomable, is as clear as
sake. Decor is authentic, though not as austere-
ly minimalist as some. And if you are still in
doubt, Saga’s kimono-clad waitresses are
extremely helpful and speak good English.
If you only have time for a quick lunch,
Saga’s sushi bar on the ground floor is the
answer. More leisurely meals should be taken
in the main restaurant at the lower level.
Sashimi (thinly sliced fillets of raw fish) and
sushi (“parcels” of raw fish and lightly vine-
gared rice) are so good here that not ordering
them should be a crime! Gohin moriawase
includes five types of sashimi — tuna, salmon,
mackerel, squid and yellow-tail — and is the
best way to find your way around the very dif-
ferent tastes and textures of the fish. Nigiri
sushi also gives a good assortment — dainty
packages of chutoro, turbot or seabass, salmon,
prawns, scallops, sea-urchin, salmon-roe,
herring-roe and egg and tuna roll are so artisti-
cally arranged, it’s almost a shame to eat them.
Seafood salad, a sharp, vinegary combina-
tion of prawns, crabmeat, octopus and seaweed,
is an excellent, palate-cleansing accompani-
ment and tempura (deep-fried prawns) will res-
cue you momentarily from all that raw fish.
Alternatively, if you really would prefer your
food to have spent some time in or over a
flame, you could order beef teriyaki (thinly
sliced marinated and grilled beef) or kaki furai
(deep-fried oysters), to name but two.
Traditionally, these dishes would be fol-
lowed by a rice or noodle dish, so try unagi
seiromeshi (sticky, seasoned boiled rice topped
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with barbecued eel) or zaru soba (cold noodles
dipped in hot broth). Carved fresh fruits mark
the end of the meal, or you could try green tea
or red bean ice-cream — better than they sound!
The a /a carte menu is supplemented with
weekly-changing recommendations and several
set meals ranging from the gourmet kaiseki
nanahin (the chef’s special dinner which
changes daily) at £50 per person, to the simple
katsu-don (a set lunch of deep-fried pork sim-
mered with eggs and vegetables and served on
rice) at £7.50 per person. An d /a carte meal
will set you back about £70, but if you've a yen
for Japanese, it’s worth every penny. Saga is
open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner;
reservations on 071-408 2236.
CAPITAL DINING
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA
If you’re eating tandoori in Toronto, biryani in
Beverly Hills, nan bread in New York or lamb
pasanda in London, the chances are you're eat-
ing at Bombay Palace, one of the most suc-
cessful international restaurant chains to leave
the Indian subcontinent. In London, make for
the spacious, elegant — some would say palatial
~— surroundings of 50 Connaught Street, W1
and the excellent Punjabi (North Indian) cui-
sine you'll find there.
Starters proper (shuruavat) include some
dishes rarely found in Indian restaurants,
although they are so good it’s hard to under-
stand why the competition hasn’t jumped on
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
the bandwagon. Fish Amritsari (Indian-style
“fish fingers”, marinated and deep-fried) is a
prime example — the fish is fresh and delicate
and the “punch” is in the tangy batter. Accom-
pany these with paneer pakora (fingers of cot-
tage cheese coated with light batter and fried),
or cheat a little and “borrow” some dishes from
the tandoori selection. Usually served as main
courses, they can double as appetizers — chick-
en tikka (cubes of chicken marinated in spicy
yoghurt and baked) and tandoori prawns (fresh
jumbo prawns marinated in herbs and roasted
in a clay oven) will set your tastebuds racing.
For main courses, try the hot and spicy
karahi chicken (diced chicken, spices, toma-
toes, ginger and green chillies cooked and
served in a small, wok-like karahi cooking
dish) and complement it with sweet, mild lamb
pasanda (marinated in herbs and coated with a
cream sauce) and a luscious king prawn
makhani (cooked with butter and tomatoes).
The menu boasts vegetable dishes in abun-
dance, some quite unusual — pindi chana (chick
peas in a piquant sauce) and baingan bharta
(eggplant hash roasted on glowing embers and
blended with natural herbs) for example.
Crown the meal with pulao rice, made with that
most royal of rices, basmati.
Traditional desserts include creamy kulfi
(Indian ice-cream) and gulab jamen (deep-fried
milk dumplings in rose-water flavoured syrup),
or you can opt for a more refreshing sorbet.
Whatever you choose you are in safe hands
since service is good-humoured and helpful and
the restaurant is presided over by the restaurant
chain’s charming U.K. director, Manmohan
Singh, to whom your comfort is of paramount
importance. An excellent buffet lunch is avail-
able daily at a mere £9.95 and a /a carte prices
are around £35 for two. Bombay Palace is open
daily for lunch and dinner; reservations on 071-
723 8855.
A PIZZA THE ACTION
The testament to the authenticity of the Chica-
go Pizza Pie Factory (17 Hanover Square, W1)
appears inside the front door. A large bulletin
board bears an invitation to anyone with a con-
nection with Chicago to pin up their business
card — and the results are astounding. The mix
of happy eaters includes pilots from United
Airlines, bankers from First America, journal-
ists from the Chicago Tribune and cadets from
the U.S. Army. And they probably all left smil-
ing since the service, ambience and general
appeal of this bustling, lower ground restaurant
are all top-notch, friendly and totally relaxed.
American-born Anglophile Bob Payton
“had a dream” (read about it on the back of the
menus). He loved the deep-dish pizzas back
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
home in the “windy city” and longed for them
in England, so he opened a restaurant to trans-
plant little bits of Chicago to central London.
Even the music, courtesy of top Chicago station
WJMK-FM, is authentic all-American, as is the
beer (Chicago Old Gold), memorabilia (includ-
ing pennants and posters of the Chicago Bears,
Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bulls sports teams)
and the cheeriness of the waitresses.
Here you can either build your own pizza
(pick from a dozen toppings, from anchovies
and broccoli to sausage and tuna), or opt for
one of the specialities. “Everything and the
Pan” features pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms,
onions, green pepper, tomato, cheese and herbs
(the regular size is ideal for two people), or get
all your green vegetables in one go and opt for
the healthy “Spinoccoli” (a combination of
spinach and broccoli, plus tomato and cheese).
There are also salads (Stilton and walnut is
a slightly more British combination) and
lasagne, and the garlicky stuffed mushrooms
oozing with butter, breadcrumbs, sherry and
cheese make a good starter.
Desserts return to the States with a flag-
waving traditional deep-dish apple pie (have it
with vanilla ice cream), creamy cheesecake and
home-made carrot cake (this one is filled with
fruits and nuts, too).
Reservations aren't really needed at the
Chicago Piza Pie Factory since the restaurant is
large and the turnover speedy, but call on 071-
629 2669 if you want to be guaranteed a seat.
They’re open daily straight through from mid-
day until 23.30 (22.30 on Sunday). A meal for
two, with some beer or wine, is about £25.
LITTLE ITALY
Pirandello won the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1934, so Pirandello (339 Euston Road,
NW1), the restaurant named after Sicily’s illus-
trious playwright, has a hard act to follow.
However, just one meal there is sure to earn it a
few curtain-calls.
The menu makes overtures with a delicious
range of antipasti — simple spaghetti alla
napoletana (with tomato sauce and fresh basil),
potent spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino (with
garlic, olive oil and chilli peppers) or sacchet-
tini di ricotta (baked pancakes rolled and filled
with ricotta cheese and spinach). Minestrone —
the king of vegetable soups — is thick and body-
building, while /una caprese (tomato and moz-
zarella cheese salad) is fresh and light.
Italians only eat pasta as a starter, never as a
main course, but here you can defy tradition
without fear of reprisal since the selection of
specialities (which changes monthly) always
includes home-made pasta dishes. Tortellini
aurore (parcels of pasta stuffed with spinach
HOT SPOTS
| With 8,000 restaurants in London already,
| who would think there was room for more?
But in the last year, the following new
| restaurants have impressed the cynics with
their successes. In all cases, it’s a combina-
tion of innovative menus, stylish decor and
attentive service, making them the latest
brave new restaurants.
41 Beak Street (41 Beak Street, W1; tel:
071-287 2057). Young and talked-about chef
Jill Searing supervises a light, Mediter-
ranean-influenced menu of grilled fish and
(it’s a private dining club in the evenings);
| Christopher’s (18 Wellington Street, WC2:
tel: 071-240 4222). Pictured above. Dramati-
chowder, lobster and steak dishes, while the
clientele mixes celebrities and the post-
theatre crowd;
The Dining Room (The Lanesborough,
1 Lanesborough Place, SW1; tel: 071-259
| St. George’s Hospital into a luxurious new
decor, top chef (Paul Gaylor), fancy British-
| inspired menu and handsome price-tags;
Pied a Terre (34 Charlotte Street, W1; tel:
071-636 1178). With celebrity chef support
from the likes of Raymond Blanc (Manoir
| aux Quat’ Saisons), this is a formula which
succeeds, although the menu can be esoteric
(millefeuille of frogs legs or rabbit with wild
mushrooms). Light, airy decor gives a Cali-
| fornian appeal and the service is impeccable;
The Square (32 King Street, SW1; tel: 071-
839 8787). Owner Nigel Platts-Martin is
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and ricotta cheese, with cream and tomato
sauce) is a rich, tasty number, or try spaghetti
alla pescatore (with seafood sauce). Other
main courses reflect the Italian fondness for
veal, grilled, in breadcrumbs or, as saltimboc-
ca alla romana, as an escalope with Parma
ham, sage and wine sauce. Chicken dishes are
also strong — tangy pollo al limone (with
lemon) and succulent pollo alla contadina
(with tomatoes and mushrooms), but the hearti-
est applause goes to pesce spada alla griglia.
The meatiest of fish, swordfish, is moist, tender
and grilled to perfection.
Fresh fruit salad, zabaglione (warm egg
yolk and Marsala wine beaten into a froth and
served with a sponge biscuit) or tiramisu (a
concoction of coffee, chocolate and custard)
complete the final act. Service is brisk and
kindly and the decor — plain white walls and
pink tablecloths — is simple and soothing.
Pirandello is open Monday to Friday for lunch
and dinner (last orders 23.30) and Saturday and
Sunday for dinner only. A meal for two is
around £35; reservations on 071-387 6531.
MEXICAN RAVE
It may not be Mexico, but it’s a fun time pre-
tending. Nachos (147-149 Notting Hill Gate,
W11) caters for families (children welcome
with half-price, half-size portions, Sunday
entertainment with clowns and Mexican style
pizzas), the location is handy (good for the pre-
cinema crowd going to the Gate down the road
and shoppers from Portobello Road), portions
are absolutely huge, the price is right (from £10
18
East meets west in
Soho at Myung Ga,
where the speciality
is plate-of-the-art
Korean cuisine
per person) and the food is pretty darn good.
If your knowledge of Mexican food extends
to the basics of nachos, tortillas and tacos,
you'll be on familiar ground. The best bet for a
starter for two is nachos deluxe, a plate of tor-
tilla chips smothered with melted cheese, gua-
camole, refried beans, salsa, jalapenos and
onions. Or try empanadas, fried patties stuffed
with shrimps, garlic and jalapenos, served with
guacamole and chopped tomatoes.
Follow with fajitas, grilled strips of either
tender chicken or steak served with little dip-
ping bowls of guacamole, sour cream, salsa
and onions (you fill a warm tortilla and wrap
up all the ingredients like a crépe), or tacos
(crisp and warm, they come with a choice of
fillings, such as meat, chicken, spicy sauces,
chopped salad, various cheeses and Mexican
beans), or burritos (combinations of cheese and
your choice of spicy beef, chicken or veggie
fillings, wrapped in a fortilla, then baked and
smothered with cheese and salsa, with a side
order of rice and refried beans).
Some of the desserts veer slightly north to
the U.S. — rich chocolate brownies, key lime
cheesecake, rice pudding (in Mexico it
becomes arroz con leche) and a Mexican ver-
sion of créme brulée called jericalla which is
cinnamon-flavoured custard with a caramelised
top. Or opt for more adventurous bunuelos,
fried anise-flavoured fritters served in a hot
syrup with cinnamon, Mexican kahlua pie or a
home-made teguila ice cream parfait.
Sunday brunch is popular, too, served from
noon until 17.30. Try egg motulenos: two fried
eggs with sortillas, refried beans, salsa, ham,
cheese and jalapenos or scrambled eggs Siene-
ga-style (with shredded beef and refried beans).
All dishes are accompanied by warm muffins
with jalapeno jam.
The decor and service is informal and fun,
the taped music loud and Spanish. Nachos is
open every day for lunch and dinner and a meal
for two, with a couple of Margaritas or Mexi-
can beers (Dos Equis or Sol), is only about £25.
Reservations aren’t really necessary, except
perhaps for Sunday lunch; tel: 071-221 5250.
SEOUL FOOD
In the heart and soul of frenetic Soho, there’s a
neat, compact restaurant quietly going about
the business of turning out Seoul food. Myung
Ga (1 Kingly Street, W1) is one of the few
Korean restaurants in London and it’s one of
the better ones.
Korean cuisine is a happy mix of Thai, Chi-
nese and Japanese influences and restaurants
often make concessions to western dining pref-
erences. As a result, Myung Ga serves dishes
as appetizers, main courses and desserts, rather
than simultaneously and you sit on upright
chairs (elegant Rennie Mackintosh-style),
rather than on floor cushions.
If you’re unfamiliar with the cuisine, your
best bet is a set meal. If you are happy to tread
uncharted territory, however, make sure you
number kimchi (the famous pickled cabbage
which accompanies every Korean meal) and
bulgogi (slices of soy-marinated beef barbe-
cued on a burner in the middle of the table —
it’s similar to the Japanese sukiyaki), among
your choices. Chap chee (delicate vermicelli
noodles with strips of beef and vegetables) is
comforting, while the spicy — almost inflamma-
tory — saewu bokum (prawns with chilli sauce
and vegetables) is a Chinese-style knock-out.
On the other hand, saewu twigim (deep-fried
prawns) is a version of Japanese tempura and,
despite being dipped in soy sauce, is a milder
seafood option.
Sesame seeds are big in Korea and they
make an appearance in the delicious dak dori-
tang (fried chicken in spicy sauce) and in kalbi
(beef spare ribs presented in an alarmingly long
strip — scissors provided! — to be barbecued at
your table). Sticky boiled rice and modum
namul (seasoned vegetables such as spinach
and radish) are good accompaniments and fresh
fruit is served at the end of the feast.
Service is as refined as the decor and
although the Japanese influence is strong, it’s
not reflected in the price — an enormous meal
for two will cost around £60 (set meals are £25
and £30 per person and set lunches start at
under £10). Myung Ga is open daily for lunch
and dinner; reservations on 071-287 9768.
More dining suggestions on page 41.
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WEST END THEATRE
News and reviews of
the latest additions to
the London theatre scene
a SALLY SPENCER
here are few guarantees in life and even
fewer in the theatre. However, for every
ten theatrical disasters, there is one sur-
prise box office hit and if tickets for
The Phantom of the Opera or Miss Saigon
continue to elude you, there are plenty of other
options — from farces and spoofs, to tragedies
and political thrillers. London has them all.
One of the biggest surprises is the success
of An Evening With Gary Lineker, a semi-
tribute to the number-one-son of English soc-
cer. Far from scoring an own goal, as predicted
by many sceptics, the comedy continues to
pack them in on the terraces of the Duchess
Theatre. You don’t have to be a football fan to
enjoy this farcical frippery, because everyone
on stage is ruled, willingly or otherwise, by the
sport. Despite being far from high-brow there
are some worthy, though not terribly profound,
parallels drawn between the game of life and
the game of football and while the humour
may not be World Cup standard, it’s an enter-
taining night out.
You can take an irreverent look at Shake-
speare at the Cambridge Theatre where
Return to the Forbidden Planet came to rest
more than two years ago. Based loosely on the
sci-fi film Forbidden Planet and Shakespeare’s
The Tempest, it is an extraordinary conglomer-
ation of exuberant rock and roll music and bril-
liant imaginative wit. Mad scientist Dr. Pros-
pero has been working on a secret formula.
Duped by his wife, Gloria, he is catapulted
light years into the future along with their
infant daughter Miranda. Years later they are
discovered on the Forbidden Planet by “chisel-
jawed” Captain Tempest and the rest, as they
say, 1s in the future. While it may not be for
purists, it is still one of the best and most
enduring shows in London.
Another cheeky treatment of literature is
evident in Moby Dick which has made a splash
in the media and at the Piccadilly Theatre.
Critics are in danger of making this latest
Cameron Mackintosh venture more of a tiddler
than the promised “whale of a tale” since the
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
production has been judged almost exclusively
against the merits of the Herman Melville clas-
sic. They are, however, harpooning a lampoon.
Set in a crumbling school for “gels”, the way-
ward pupils stage a musical version of Captain
Ahab’s hunt for the great white whale in the
school swimming pool. A word of advice: if
Moby Dick is your favourite novel, don’t go.
If, however, you don’t mind Melville’s monu-
ment to the leviathan being sent up, then take
the plunge, because this is as action-packed a
piece of buffoonery as you are ever likely to
see. The sub-title of this light-hearted hatchet
job should read “never a dull moment™ since
the large cast sing, dance and generally cavort,
seemingly ad infinitum and with great gusto.
So much for the West End’s more bizarre
productions. If, however, you are of a more
serious frame of mind, or if time is short and
Frances Barber and
Alfred Molina share
a quiet moment in
Tennessee Williams’
steamy play, The
Night of the Iguana,
at the National's
Lyttelton Theatre
you want to hedge your bets, there are, of
course, some splendid “mainstream” produc-
tions to be seen. Death and the Maiden at the
Duke of York’s Theatre, is a riveting thriller
inspired by events in South America. A
woman kidnaps the man she believes tortured
and raped her many years earlier, putting him
on trial in her own home. Her husband, on the
other hand, is a human rights lawyer and is
compelled by his conscience to defend the sus-
pect. This is political theatre at its best, bol-
stered by powerful performances from Geral-
dine James, Paul Freeman and Michael Byrne.
Death and the Maiden has opened on Broad-
way where, despite its cast of Gene Hackman,
Richard Dreyfuss and Glenn Close, it is said to
be a shadow of its London incarnation.
From an export to an import and Chicago’s
Steppenwolf Theatre Company which presents
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A Slip of the Tongue at the Shaftesbury The-
atre and features another star of stage and
screen, John Malkovich. Set in Czechoslo-
vakia, the play tells the story of a dissident
writer who is continually challenged by a gov-
ernment that wishes he didn’t exist. The smoke
has barely cleared since Malkovich’s last
appearance on a West End stage two years ago
in Burn This and tickets for A Slip of the
Tongue are pretty damned hot.
Britain’s own (erstwhile) enfant terrible,
Albert Finney, is at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Reflected Glory follows the relationship of
brothers Alfred — a successful restaurateur —
and Michael — a playwright. Michael attempts a
reconciliation with brother Alfred, after ten
years of acrimony. However, since each brother
remembers a different version of past transgres-
sions, a “happily ever after” ending is a remote
possibility. And when Michael writes a new
play which deals specifically with the sibling
relationship, the chasm between them widens.
Tennessee Williams was into fraught rela-
tionships in a big way and The Night of the
Iguana continues to hold audiences in a vice-
like grip at the National Theatre. Set on the
rickety verandah of a Mexican hotel, Williams
presents us with a veritable rogues’s gallery. At
the centre there is the crumbling, de-frocked
minister turned tourist guide, T. Lawrence
Shannon. Then there is the crisp spinster Han-
nah and her aged poet grandfather and Maxine,
the sensual hotel owner. They are all lost souls
in an isolation that is anything but splendid.
This is a luscious production with an extrava-
gant set and equally extravagant performances
— Alfred Molina is a weighty, full-blooded
Shannon, but Eileen Atkins’ astringent Hannah
has a magnetic quality. It’s a corker.
That other bastion of complex culture, the
Barbican Centre has an excellent production of
Henry IV part I this month, featuring a rip-
roaring performance from Robert Stephens as
Falstaff. However, if you want to see the Royal
Shakespeare Company on home territory in
Stratford-upon-Avon, the ticket agency
Edwards & Edwards runs an official RSC Shut-
tle which will whisk you from London to
“Bardsville”, arriving at about 16.30, leaving
you time for sightseeing before curtain-up. The
coach then scoops you up after the perfor-
mance, dropping you off in London around
01.00. The round-trip, which costs £19.50, can
be booked in person through Edwards &
Edwards at 156 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2, or
by telephoning 071-379 1564 — book your
theatre tickets at the same time. In repertory in
May at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre are met-
tlesome productions of The Taming of the
Shrew and As You Like It.
For details of these and other productions,
see the listings on page 36.
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LONDON
SIGHTSEEING
INDEX TO ABBREVIATIONS
BR: Nearest British Rail station
iT Telephone number
| U:
|Map1A: Note that the references: Map 1A, 5B etc.
_ apply to the locations on the map on pages 26-27
Nearest Underground (“tube”) station
Admission: Prices quoted are for adult admissions and
are usually less for children, students and pensioners
Holidays: 4 & 25 May are Public Holidays, so do
double check opening times on these days
EissenTIAL SIGHTS
BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Once a stately home belong-
ing to the Duke of Buckingham, it was rebuilt
between 1820 and 1840 and Queen Victoria became
the first monarch to live in the palace. The only parts
of the building open to the public are The Royal
Mews, displaying state carriages and coaches and the
magnificent horses (open Wed & Thur 12.00-16.00;
admission £2) and The Queen’s Gallery, where an
exhibition of Royal artefacts from Carlton House enti-
tled Past Glories of George IV is showing throughout
May (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 14.00-17.00, admis-
sion £2; combined admission £3.50). Buckingham
Palace Road, SW1. T: 071-930 4832. Map 4D. U: St.
James's Park.
CHANGING THE GUARD. This dazzling display of
military pageantry by the Foot Guards of the House-
hold Division is still the best free show in London.
Unless it rains heavily, it takes place daily at 11.30 at
Buckingham Palace; it’s best to get there by about
10.30 to beat the crowds. T: 071-799 2331. There’s
also the mounted guard changing ceremony by the
Household Cavalry in Whitehall daily at 11.00 (Sun
10.00). Horse Guards, Whitehall, SW1. Map 4E.
U: Charing Cross.
HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Officially the Palace of
Westminster, but better known as the home of the
House of Commons and the House of Lords where
Britain’s future is debated. The beloved Gothic build-
ing and its famous clock tower (which houses the bell,
“Big Ben”) look ancient, but were built between 1837
and 1860 by Sir Charles Barry (with ornamentation
by Augustus Pugin) after the original palace caught
fire. For general information about Parliament,
T: 071-219 4272. Parliament Square, SW1. Map 4E.
U: Westminster.
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL. Designed by Sir Christopher
Wren after the Great Fire of London destroyed the
origina: Cathedral in 1666. Visitors may climb the
627 steps into the famous dome and explore the
Whispering, Stone and Golden Galleries and may
also tour the treasury and the crypt. Crypt and
ambulatory: Mon-Sat 09.30-14.30 (galleries Mon-Sat
09.30-16.15). No sightseeing on Sun. Admission £2.50
to galleries, or you can take a guided Supertour for
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London landmarks,
museums, galleries
and river cruises
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The museum tells London's fascinating story through the ages from
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Attractions at the museum include:
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* Roman statues from the Temple of Mithras
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MUSEUM OF LONDON. Dramatises 2,000 years of
London's history with audio-visual effects (including
the Great Fire of London) and rooms that recreate
significant moments in the city’s history from Roman
times to the present day. Tues-Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun
14.00-18.00. Admission £3. London Wall, EC2. T: 071-
600 3699. Map 2G. U: Barbican/St. Paul’s.
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE. Sets, props,
movie memorabilia and everything from old news-
reels to the latest cinema technology. Lots of audience
participation. Fascinating and great fun. Daily 10.00-
18.00. Admission £5.50 (family ticket for 2 adults and
up to 4 children £16). South Bank Centre, SE1.
T: 071-401 2636. Map 4F. U: Waterloo.
NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM. Discover the compelling
story of the British soldier in peace and war through
five centuries, from Tudor times to the present day.
Videos and reconstructions bring the army's history
to life and relics include medals, paintings, weapons
and military costume. Daily 10.00-17.30. Admission
free. Royal Hospital Road, SW3. T: 071-730 0717.
Map 6C/D. U: Sloane Square.
NATIONAL GALLERY. One of the world’s best galleries
with more than 2,000 works of art including paint-
London Wal! an S ay). Tha. S- o ings by Botticelli, Canaletto, Rembrandt and Titian.
museum of ondo all, Open Sunday 2 6pm lue-Sat 10-6 and the Aldiey Mteeuth “id Sirk Chamhor ondth, New Sainsbury Wing features the Early Renaissance
E London EC2Y S5HN Admission £3 Adults. £1.50 concessions : 8
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5 on Wed 18.00-19.45. The best bet is a detailed tour Admission free. Trafalgar Square
3391. Map 3E. U: Charing Cross.
guided by an Abbey verger (adults £6). Ask at the
TR | : : | | I | NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. An epic panorama
enquiry office or T: 071-222 7110. Information on ~
071-222 5152. Broad Sanctuary, SW1. Map 4E. of all the citizens and royalty who made British his-
tory, as depicted by painters such as Reynolds and
Step into a time car at the Tower Hill Pageant and be transported from Roman
London through to the Blitz, seeing, hearing and smelling the past.
U: Westminster. ;
Whistler. Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun
Then go to the amazing new museum showing over 1,000 recent discoveries from
14.00-18.00. Admission free. St. Martin’s Place. WC2.
The Thames.
TOWER HILL
T: 071-306 0055. Map 3E. U: Charing Cross.
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£5. Cathedral open daily 07.15-18.00, admission
£2.50 (free before 09.00 and after 16.30). St. Paul’s
Churchyard, EC4. T: 071-248 2705. Map 3G.
U: St. Paul's.
| TOWER BRIDGE. A famous London symbol since its
opening in 1894. Visitors can ascend to the glass-
covered walkways high above the Thames and
inspect the vintage hydraulic machinery which raises
and lowers to let ships through. Daily 10.00-16.45,
last admission 16.00. Admission £2.50. T: 071-407
0922. Map 3H. U: Tower Hill.
TOWER OF LONDON. A perfectly preserved medieval
castle and one of the world’s top tourist attractions. It
has been a fortress, Royal court, prison and place of
execution since it was built 900 years ago. Other
major attractions are the Crown Jewels, Beefeaters.
the Bloody Tower and the Royal Armouries collection.
Mon-Sat 09.30-18.00, Sun 10.00-18.00. Admission
£6.40. Tower Hill, EC3. T: 071-709 0765. Map 3H.
U: Tower Hill.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Most English Kings and
Queens have been crowned, married and buried here
since 1066. Open to visitors Mon-Fri 09.20-16.00, Sat
09.20-14.00 and 15.45-17.00. Reserved for worship on
Sun. Admission free except for the Royal Chapels (£3)
See the new Thames Flood Barrier by boat from Westminster Pier,
passing en route all the major historical points of interest,
including St. Pauls Cathedral, Tower of London, Tower Bridge,
Greenwich Palace and Observatory. Guaranteed guide
commentary and refreshment facilities.
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Departures Westminster Pier
10.00am, 11.15am, 12.45pm, 1.45pm, 3.15pm.
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Museums & GALLERIES
BANK OF ENGLAND MUSEUM. Fascinating insight
into the history of banking and money from 1694 to
NATURAL HISTORY/GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. A vast
collection of specimens from the plant and animal eer
kingdoms to fascinate the young and old. Watch out ee wre MoS a te "oman ea
the present day. Special exhibition: Tenner, tracing for the spectacular new permanent exhibition.
the history of the £10 note, throughout May. Mon-Fri Dinosaurs. Mon-Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun 11.00-18.00. aeBAL
10.00-17.00. Admission free. Bartholomew Lane, Admission £4 covers both museums (free Mon-Fri [
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Adults £4.50, Concessions £2.50, Family Ticket £12.00 in association with BRITISH MUSEUM. One of the greatest museums in SW7. T: 071-938 9123. Map 5C. U: South Kensington. ; wi N F P ' LY , D N |
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brandt and his Circle, throughout May. Mon-Sat
10.00-17.00, Sun 14.30-18.00. Admission free. Great
Russell Street, WC1. T: 071-636 1555. Map 2E.
U: Tottenham Court Road.
COURTAULD INSTITUTE GALLERIES. Home to
works by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens and
Manet, plus photographic libraries and an astute
selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
paintings. Mon-Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun 14.00-18.00.
Admission £3. Somerset House, Strand, WC2. T: 071-
873 2526. Map 3F. U: Aldwych.
DESIGN MUSEUM. Unique museum celebrating
familiar household items, classic design and industri-
al objects, from tea kettles and television sets to post
boxes and Porsches. Tues-Sun 11.30-18.30. Admission
£3.50. Butler’s Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1. T: 071-403
6933. Map 4H. U: Tower Hill/London Bridge.
DICKENS’ HOUSE. MUSEUM. Charles Dickens only
lived here for two years, but it was during this brief
period — 1837-1839 — that he achieved fame as a nov-
elist. Manuscripts, first editions and original draw-
ings are displayed here. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00. Admis-
sion £2. 48 Doughty Street, WC1. T: 071-405 2127.
and still run by the artists themselves. Special exhibi-
tion: Alexander Calder, throughout May. Daily 10.00-
18.00. Admission £4. Burlington House, Piccadilly,
W1. T: 071-439 7438. Map 3E. U: Green Park.
ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM. Meet “Gertie” cheerful-
ly describing life in London during the Blitz, hurtle
through the Welsh valleys at low level in a Tornado,
or climb into the cockpit of a real jet trainer. Plus 70
aircraft and the history of aviation. Daily 10.00-18.00.
Admission £4.50. Graham Park Way, Hendon, NW9.
T: 081-205 9191 (24 hours). Off map. U: Colindale.
SCIENCE MUSEUM. Discoveries and inventions
through the centuries including a horse-drawn vacu-
um cleaner, the first computer and more. Interactive
displays. Mon-Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun 11.00-18.00.
Admission £3.50 (free 16.30-18.00). Exhibition Road,
SW7. T: 071-938 8000. Map 5C. U: South Kensington.
SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM. Unusual! home of
architect Sir John Soane is crammed with works of
art and antiquities collected during his life. Tues-Sat
10.00-17.00. Admission free. 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
WC2. T: 071-405 2107. Map 3F. U: Holborn.
TATE GALLERY. The nation’s major collection of con-
temporary art, plus British art from Elizabethan
Vaults
Located underground, just off
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Chancery Lane, the Silver Vaults ha
the largest collection of silverware in
the world.
Prices range from £5.00 to £500,000
for the finest quality antique and
modern silverware and jewellery.
There are gifts for every occasion and
a multitude of items for practical as
well as decorative use in the home.
Open
Monday to Friday - 9.00.am to 5.30 pm
The Golden Curry Brasserie |
317/319 Whitehorse Rd., |
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Telephone: 081 684 5779/081 665 0557
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ADMISSION FREE Piazza, Covent Garden, WC2. T: 071-379 6344. Map Road, SW7. T: 071-938 8500. 24-hour information Tel: 071 242 3844 Si
3E. U: Covent Garden. T: 071-938 8441. Map 5C. U: South Kensington. ss sd
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Nearest Underground Station: Westminster
All tickets available from Westminster Pier Booking Office, SW1
(adjacent to Westminster Underground).
further information required phone 071 930 4097
WESTMINSTER PASSENGER SERVICES ASSOCIATION
GARDEN DAY TOURS
Berties Mini Bus Tours} | ,,.,
for the discerning traveller
Panoramic London 2 hrs £10 pp
Windsor Castle & Hampton Ct. 5hrs
Canterbury, Leeds Castle, Dover 8hrs
Oxford, Cotswolds, Stratford on Avon 9hrs £35pp
14 Thur - Beth Chatto Gardens, A Constable
Village, Saling Hall.
17 Sun - Leonardslee, Sussex Village,
Parham House
£95 pp 20 Wed - Sissinghurst Castle, Great Comp,
Iden Croft herbs.
£35pp
21 Thur - Hidcote Manor, Sezincote,
Private Garden.
Stonehenge, Bath, Avebury hrs £35pp
Hastings, Battle, Rye 8 hrs £35pp
Rolls Royce tours at af Ford able prices
All tours fully guided
Door to Door Service
Call O81 778 2480
28 Thur - The London Garden Day and
Kew Gardens
31 Sun - Hillier Arboretum, Exbury
Gardens, Mottisfont Abbey
Guided Garden Day Tours until mid October
Depart Embankment Underground Station
8.45am (riverside exit)
: 6 Wed - Sissinghurst Castle, Long Barn, Knole.
24 Sun - Great Dixter, Hever Castle, Kent Village
PREBOOKING NECESSARY £38.00 per person
To Book/Brochures 071 431 2758 or 0962 713305
SIGHTSEEING
WALLACE COLLECTION. A stunning collection recall-
ing the taste and lifestyle of the Marquesses of Hert-
ford and Sir Richard Wallace, including fine and deco-
rative art and works by Gainsborough, Canaletto and
Fragonard. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 14.00-17.00.
Admission free. Hertford House, Manchester Square,
W1. T: 071-935 0687. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
WIMBLEDON LAWN TENNIS MUSEUM. The history of
tennis in a building which overlooks the world-
famous Centre Court. Explore behind the scenes and
learn the history of lawn tennis. Tues-Sat 11.00-
17.00, Sun 14.00-17.00. Admission £1.50. All England
Club, Church Road, Wimbledon, SW19. T: 081-946
6131. Off map. U: Southfields.
Ar TRACTIONS
BANQUETING HOUSE. The only remaining part of
the old Palace of Westminster. Impressive interior
with ceiling painted by Rubens. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00
(sometimes closed at very short notice, telephone to
check before visiting). Admission £2.25. Whitehall,
SW1. T: 071-839 3787. Map 4E. U: Westminster.
BARBICAN CENTRE. Conference and arts centre in
the heart of the financial district. Theatre, cinema,
music, restaurants, exhibitions and Art Gallery.
Centre open Mon-Sat 09.00-23.00, Sun 12.00-23.00;
Gallery open Mon, Wed-Sat 10.00-18.45, Tues 10.00-
17.45, Sun 12.00-18.45. Admission to Gallery varies
according to exhibition. Silk Street, EC2. T: 071-638
4141. Map 2G. U: Barbican or Moorgate.
CABINET WAR ROOMS. The underground bunker
from which Winston Churchill directed British oper-
ations during World War II. Twenty-one rooms have
been restored, including the top secret map room, the
Cabinet meeting room and the cubicle where
Churchill used to confer with Roosevelt on a scram-
bler telephone. Daily 10.00-17.15 Admission £3.60.
Clive Steps, King Charles Street, SW1. T: 071-930
6961. Map 4E. U: Westminster.
COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE. The centre for Com-
monwealth culture in Britain with 3 floors of gal-
leries showing the history, landscapes, wildlife, arts
and crafts of 50 countries. Also includes a shop and a
restaurant. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 14.00-17.00.
Admission free. Kensington High Street, W8. T: 071-
603 4535. Map 4A. U: High Street Kensington.
GREENWICH. Charming and historical “village” not
far from central London. Stand astride the Meridian
Line and learn the history of shipping at the
National Maritime Museum. (Mon-Sat 10.00-
17.00, Sun 14.00-17.00). See also the Queen’s
House, the Old Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Park and the Cutty Sark, (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00,
Sun 12.00-17.00) the last of the tea clippers. Arts
and antiques market Sat & Sun. Combined admis-
sion ticket for all Greenwich attractions £5.95. For
information T: 081-858 6376. BR: Maze Hill/Green-
wich or catch a riverboat.
GUILDHALL. This glorious hall of the Corporation of
the City of London dates from the 15th century. The
Library, which dates from the same time, contains
about 14,000 volumes and more than 30,000
manuscripts, mainly about London. Museum and
Library open Mon-Sat 10.00-16.45 (occasionally
closed on Mon; telephone to check before visiting).
Admission free. Guildhall Yard, EC2. T: 071-606
9601. Map 3G. U: Bank.
GUINNESS WORLD OF RECORDS. Through life-size
models, videos and the latest audio-technology, thou-
sands of world records come alive. Measure up to the
world’s tallest man and watch a chronicle of man’s
exploration of space. Daily 10.00-22.00. Admission
£5, under 16 years £3.20. The Trocadero, Piccadilly,
W1. T: 071-439 7331. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
HAMPTON COURT PALACE. Beautiful palace built
by Cardinal Wolsey in 1514 and later given to Henry
VIII. Historic state rooms, gardens, Tudor tennis
court and the famous maze. Tues-Sun 09.30-18.00,
Mon 10.15-18.00. Admission £4.90 (park and gardens
free). T: 081-977 8441. BR: Waterloo to Hampton
Court (35 mins).
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
SIGHTSEEING | hh!
TOUR OF
For a spectacular
view of London
you'll never forget -
there is only one choice
A 90 minute sightseeing tour by
open-top double-decker bus.
Live commentary by London
Tourist Board registered guides.
Regular departures from Piccadilly
by the Ritz Hotel (outside Green
Park Underground Station) and
Marble Arch (Speakers Corner).
No booking necessary.
The Big Bus Company
29 Queenstown Road, London SW8
Telephone: 071 498 9345
Fax: 071 622 4580
Five Centuries of History
t the National Army
colourful story of the
British soldier from Tudor
times to the present day.
Don't miss the Museum
Shop with its wide selection
of unusual gifts and a
wonderful range of model
soldiers.
The National Army Museum
Royal Hospital Road
Chelsea
London SW3
Tel 071 730 0717
Open 7 days a week
10.00am — 5.30pm
Nearest Tube: Sloane Square
The National Army Museum
Admission Free
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
SIGHTSEEING
HMS BELFAST. This was, at 11,000 tons, the Royal
Navy's largest cruiser. It was saved from the scrap-
yard and is now a floating museum. Explore the boil-
er room, bridge, punishment cells, operations room
and see the massive guns. Daily 10.00-16.30 (last
admission 16.00). Admission £3.60. Morgan’s Lane,
Tooley Street, SE1. T: 071-407 6434. Map 4H.
U: London Bridge.
KENSINGTON PALACE. Once the main private Royal
residence in London and now the home of the Prince
and Princess of Wales when they are in town. State
Apartments and Court Dress Gallery are open to the
public. See Princess Diana’s famous wedding dress.
Mon-Sat 09.00-17.30, Sun 11.00-17.30. Admission
£3.75. Kensington Gardens, W8. T: 071-937 9561.
Map 4B. U: High Street Kensington/Queensway.
LEEDS CASTLE. Picturesque castle — once the home
of medieval queens — set in a lake surrounded by 500
acres of parkland and gardens. Daily 11.00-17.00.
Admission to castle and grounds £5.80; grounds only
£4.30. Near Maidstone, Kent. T: 0622 765400.
BR: Victoria to Bearsted (65 mins).
LONDON BRASS RUBBING CENTRE. Take home
your own impression of the Middle Ages. Engraved
brasses can be copied, using supplied materials.
Mon-Sat 10.00-18.00, Sun 12.00-18.00. Admission
free, but charge for brass rubbing (£1-£10). The
Crypt, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square,
WC1. T: 071-437 6023. Map 3E. U: Charing Cross.
LONDON DIAMOND CENTRE. See how diamonds are
transformed from rough stones to glittering gems, be
guided around a life-size diamond mine and buy jew-
ellery tax-free at factory prices. Mon-Fri 09.30-17.30,
Sat 09.30-16.30. Admission £3.45. 10 Hanover Street,
W1. T: 071-629 5511. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
LONDON DUNGEON. Set in a dank, dark vault
beneath London Bridge station, the Dungeon depicts
the gorier aspects of British history — torture, pesti-
lence and beheadings — all in glorious blood-spurting
detail. Daily 10.00-17.30. Admission £5.50. 28-34
Tooley Street, SE1. T: 071-403 0606. Map 4G.
U: London Bridge.
LONDON SILVER VAULTS. Subterranean network of
stores boasting one of the largest collections of silver-
ware in the world. Valuations, repairs and advice on
purchasing. Mon-Fri 09.00-17.30, Sat 09.00-12.30.
Admission free. 53-65 Chancery Lane, WC2. T: 071-
242 3844. Map 3F. U: Chancery Lane.
LONDON ZOO. Considered one of the best zoos in the
world with a good reputation for conservation and
breeding. Daily 10.00-17.30. Admission £5.30.
Regent’s Park, NW1. T: 071-722 3333. Map 1D.
U: Regent’s Park/Camden Town or by Zoo Waterbus
from Camden Lock and Little Venice daily every hour
on the hour 10.00-17.00. T: 071-482 2550 (London
Waterbus company).
MADAME TUSSAUD’S. The world’s best-known wax-
works museum — and London’s top admission charg-
ing attraction — with everyone from John Major to
Luciano Pavarotti. Mon-Fri 10.00-17.30, Sat & Sun
09.30-17.30. Admission £6.25. Also The London
Planetarium, featuring a spectacular guided tour of
the universe entitled Starburst, daily from 12.40-
16.40. Admission £3.80 (combined admission to Tus-
saud’s and Planetarium £8.15). T: 071-935 6861 (Tus-
saud’s), 071-486 1121 (Planetarium). Marylebone
Road, NW1. Map 2D. U: Baker Street.
SPENCER HOUSE. Magnificently restored former
London residence of the Spencer family (the most
famous member of which is Princess Diana). This fine
example of an 18th century town house contains a
distinguished collection of painting and furniture.
Access is by guided tour lasting about 60 mins. Sun
only 11.30-17.30. Admission £3.50. 27 St. James's
Place, SW1. T: 071-495 5040. Map 4E. U: Green Park.
THE THAMES BARRIER VISITOR CENTRE. An amaz-
ing post-modernist sight on the Thames. Learn, with
working models, how the massive gates operate. To
see the barrier itself, take a cruise from Westminster
Pier. Centre open Mon-Fri 10.30-17.00, Sat & Sun
10.00-17.30. Admission £2.25. Unity Way, Woolwich,
SE18. T: 081-854 1373. Map 4N/O. BR: Charlton.
Windsor
Castle
For over nine centuries there
has been a castle at Windsor,
nine hundred years of
close association with the
Monarchy.
The Changing of The Queen’s
Guard provides a constant
reminder of Windsor Castle's
continuing role as a Royal Palace
and Fortress; where the State
Apartments, the formal rooms of
the Castle, used for official
entertaining and Ceremonies of
State, are richly decorated with’
pictures and works of art from the
Royal Collection, one of the finest
private art collections in the world.
Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, a
palace in perfect miniature, and
the Exhibition of The Queen’s
Presents and Royal Carriages add
to the experience of a visit to this
most famous of British landmarks.
Windsor Castle is within easy reach
of London by train, car or coach.
Contact your nearest Tourist
Information office or telephone
0753 831118 for information.
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TOWER HILL PAGEANT. Telling the story of the réle
played by the Thames in the development of London
as a port and city. Computer controlled cars take vis-
itors past tableaux tracing London’s history from
Roman times to the present. Daily 09.30-16.30.
Admission £4.50. 1 Tower Hill Terrace, EC3. T: 071-
709 0081. Map 3H. U: Tower Hill.
WEMBLEY STADIUM TOURS. Behind-the-scenes tour
of one of Britain’s most famous sport and entertain-
ment venues. Daily (except for event days) 10.00-
16.00. Admission £3.95. Wembley Stadium, Middle-
sex. T: 081-902 8833. U: Wembley Park.
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL. The most important
Catholic church in Britain, this unusual Byzantine-
style cathedral is also one of the largest. Open daily
from 07.00-20.00 with Sunday services at 07.00,
08.00, 09.00, 10.30, 12.00, 17.30 & 19.00. Admission
free. Francis Street, SW1. T: 071-834 7452. Map 5E.
U: Victoria.
WINDSOR. Beautiful old town on the Thames, filled
with quaint shops and restaurants but dominated by
the world’s largest inhabited castle, the Queen’s
weekend home. Tour the grounds and visit the State
Apartments, Queen Mary’s Dolls House, Exhibition
of the Queen’s Carriages, Royal Mews and St.
George’s Chapel. Opening times and admission
prices vary; for details T: 0753 831118. BR: Waterloo
to Windsor & Eton Riverside (50 mins).
River & CANAL CRUISES
Some services are subject to alteration, so it’s wise to
check by telephoning before you make your trip. For
restaurants near the river, see the dining listings
which start on page 41.
TO THE TOWER OF LONDON from Charing Cross
Pier daily every 20-45 mins from 10.30-16.00. Cata-
maran Cruisers T: 071-839 3572; Westminster Pas-
senger Service Association T: 071-930 4097.
TO GREENWICH from Charing Cross and Tower Pier.
Daily every 30 mins from 10.30-16.00 (Tower Pier
11.00-16.00). Catamaran Cruisers T: 071-839 3572.
RIVERBUS. Operates every 20 mins (every 30 mins
at weekends) between Chelsea Harbour and Green-
wich via Charing Cross Pier, Festival Pier, Swan
Lane and Canary Wharf. T: 071-512 0555.
CANAL TRIPS. Narrow boat cruise passing Regent’s
Park and London Zoo. Start opposite 60 Blomfield
Road, Little Venice, W9. U: Warwick Avenue. Daily
10.30, 12.30 & 14.30. Jason’s Trip. T: 071-286 3428.
‘Tours & GUIDED WALKS
BIG BUS COMPANY. Spectacular 90 minute tour of
London from an open-top (weather permitting!) dou-
ble-decker bus. Live commentary from expert guides.
Departure points at Marble Arch or Piccadilly
(by the Ritz Hotel). Tickets £8 for adults, £4 for chil-
dren. Booking not essential but for more details
T: 071-498 9345.
GARDEN DAY TOURS. Regular one-day guided tours
around beautiful, historic and notable gardens,
including Sissinghurst in Kent, Hatfield House in
Hertfordshire, Luton Hoo in Northamptonshire and
Barnsley House in the Cotswolds. Also London-based
garden tours including the Chelsea Physic Garden,
Kew Gardens and the Royal Parks. For more details
T: 071-431 2758 or 0962 713305.
GUIDED WALKS. Daily themed walks in small
groups, departing from various Underground sta-
tions. Historical Walks of London T: 081-668 4019;
The Londoner Pub Walks T: 081-883 2656; The
Original London Walks T: 071-624 3978.
SIGHTSEEING TOURS. Guided sightseeing tours
around London and Britain. Architectural Tours
T: 071-267 6497; Bertie’s Mini Bus Tours T: 081-
778 2480; Citisights T: 081-806 4325; Evan Evans
T: 071-332 2222; London Pride Tours T: 0708 865
656; London Sightseeing Tours T: 071-582 2838
and Visitor Sightseeing Tours T: 071-636 7175.
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WHERE
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Department stores and
speciality shops galore —
London is a shopper's dream come true
Navy and white geometrics in a jaunty spring jacket from Laurel — see listing under Fashion Stores
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BR: Nearest British Rail station
jb Telephone number
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Map 1A: To find the shops and services in these |
listings, note that the references Map 1A, 5B etc. |
apply to the location on the map on pages 26-27
Department stores are usually open from 09.30-
17.30 Mon-Sat, while smaller shops and boutiques
open at 10.00. Oxford Street shops stay open until
20.00 on Thur, Knightsbridge shops until 19.00 on
Wed. Many stores can arrange overseas shipping
you may prefer to consult the concierge at your hot:
Value Added Tax (VAT) is 17.5%, however most
overseas visitors can shop tax-free in Engiand
recouping the 17.5% VAT. Ask about facilities when
making purchases, or look for shops displaying signs
for FEXCO Foreign Exchange Tax Free Shopping
(T: 081-748 0774), or Europe Tourist Tax Free Shop-
ping (T: 081-785 3277); they can obtain refunds for
you or you can use their instant cash-back facilities at
both Heathrow and Gatwick airports
Major stores e
FORTNUM & MASON. Roya! Warrants holder founded
in 1707, its luxurious Food Hall is legendary. Exce!
lent wine department offers own label Champagne
wines, port and brandies. Also superb selection of gift
hampers and three restaurants. 181 Piccadilly, W1.
T: 071-734 8080. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
HARRODS. It’s the most famous store in the world,
with its beautiful Edwardian Food & Meat Halls and
the new Egyptian Hall with replicas of icons from the
Cairo Museum. 87-135 Brompton Road, SW1. T: 071-
730 1234. Map 4C. U: Knightsbridge.
LIBERTY. A British trademark since it opened in
1873. Apart from the classic Liberty print scarf, it
has good clothes and accessories departments, plus
wonderful gifts, ceramics, antiques, homewares, ori-
ental carpets and fabric. Superb new collection of
Collier Campbell prints and gifts. 210 Regent Street,
W1. T: 071-734 1234. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
MARKS & SPENCER. High-quality all-British mer-
chandise which is very well-priced. Renowned for
ladies’ and mens’ fashion and underwear, for which it
is Britain’s biggest supplier. Well-regarded food
department sells snacks, wines and ready-made
meals. Branches throughout London, but main store
at 458 Oxford Street, W1. T: 071-935 7954. Map 3D.
U: Marble Arch.
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WHERE TO SHOP
PETER JONES. A Chelsea landmark, both architec-
turally, with its revoluticnary curved 1960s building,
and in terms of its range of merchandise, from fash-
ion to fabrics to furniture. Sloane Square, SW1.
T: 071-730 3434. Map 5D. U: Sloane Square.
SELFRIDGE’S. Built by an American in 1909, this
landmark store on Oxford Street is a monument to
shopping with a massive range of items from fashion
to furniture to food. 400 Oxford Street, W1. T: 071-
629 1234. Map 3D. U: Marble Arch.
Accessories
BATES. This family-owned milliner was established
at the turn of the century and has a superb selection
of leisure caps, Panamas, top hats, bowlers and
safari styles. 2la Jermyn Street, SW1. T: 071-734
2722. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
GUCCI. High-fashion Italian accessories, from hand-
bags and shoes to watches and jewellery, all with
that famous logo. 17-18 Sloane Street, SW1. T: 071-
235 6707. Map 4C. U: Knightsbridge.
HERMES. The famous designer scarf, plus beautiful-
ly made accessories (belts, bags, etc) and exclusive
French fashion. 155 New Bond Street, W1. T: 071-
499 8856. Map 3D. U: Green Park. (Also at 179
Sloane Avenue, SW1. T: 071-823 1014. Map 4C/D.
U: Knightsbridge; and 3 Royal Exchange, EC3.
T: 071-626 7794. Map 3G. U: Bank.)
W. & H. GIDDEN. Exquisitely made leather goods and
accessories, including wallets, handbags, briefcases,
picture frames and small luggage. 1-2 Burlington
Arcade, W1. T: 071-495 3670. Map 3D/E. U: Piccadil-
ly Circus. (Also at 15 Clifford Street, W1. T: 071-734
2788. Map 3D. U: Piccadilly Circus.)
CHILDREN’S SHOPS
LA CICOGNA. Beautiful, mostly Continental clothes
and shoes for children, plus stylish maternity wear
for mums. 6A Sloane Street, SW1. T: 071-235 3845.
Map 4C. U: Knightsbridge.
THE DISNEY STORE. A two-storey treasure trove of
Walt Disney goodies with everything from classic
Mickey Mouse T-shirts and cuddly dolls to watches
and videos. 140-144 Regent Street, W1. T: 071-287
6558. Map 3E. U: Oxford Circus.
HAMLEYS. One of the biggest toy shops in the world,
and a Regent Street landmark for more than 200
years, with six floors of fun and games. Everything
from Barbie dolls to bright red Ferraris with real
motors! 188-196 Regent Street, W1. T: 071-734 3161.
Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
MOTHERCARE. Everything you need from maternity
clothes and infant wear to nursery furniture and
educational toys. Reasonably priced and excellent
quality. Mail-order catalogue, too. Numerous stores
throughout central London, but main branch is at
461 Oxford Street, W1. T: 071-622 6621. Map 3D.
U: Marble Arch.
TROTTERS. From a shoe shop in the back to a mini-
hairdresser’s for kiddies, this shop is a child’s dream
— lots of toys, books and videos, plus bright, fun cloth-
ing and accessories. 34 King’s Road, SW3. T: 071-259
9620. Map 5C. U: Sloane Square.
Cina AND GLASS
CHINACRAFT. Superb selection of china, crystal, lim-
ited editions and small fine works of art. 7-11
Burlington Arcade, W1. T: 071-491 7624. Map 3D/E.
U: Piccadilly Circus. (Numerous branches through-
out central London.)
THE CHINA WARE HOUSE. Everything from inex-
pensive gifts to complete dinner services. Friendly
staff speak several languages. Open 7 days a week.
14-16 Ganton Street, W1. T: 071-734 2174. Map 3E.
U: Oxford Circus.
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Shoe & Bootmakers
Business Cases, Luggage
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83 Jermyn Street, St James’s
London SW1Y 6jJD
Tel: 071-930 5385
Beautiful clothes and shoes
for children up to 14 years.
Maternity wear
for mothers-to-be.
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WHERE TO SHOP
LALIQUE. Exquisite French crystal and Limoges
porcelain created by legendary Art Deco craftsman
| René Lalique and his successors, displayed in stun-
( ashmere
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ning new shop. Also good selection of Christofle
range of silver. 162 New Bond Street, W1. T: 071-499
ROYAL DOULTON. Main store for the company which
makes 50% of all English bone china; almost every
pattern available here. 167 Piccadilly, W1. T: 071-493
9121. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
THOMAS GOODE. Over 150 years old with a vast
selection of china, glass, porcelain, silver and gifts,
much of it exclusive to them. Also have top ranges
from the Monogrammed Linen Shop, Penhaligon’s,
and Bentley’s (luggage). 19 South Audley Street, W1.
T: 071-499 2823. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
WATERFORD/WEDGWOOD. The most famous china
and crystal company in the world, they have several
large showrooms in London. 270 Regent Street, W1.
T: 071-734 4737. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
FAsuion STORES
AQUASCUTUM. Understated elegance for women
and men with their classic designs in outdoor wear
and co-ordinated accessories. Also look for Quayside,
their new leisure and cruisewear line. 100 Regent
Street, W1. T: 071-734 6090. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly
Circus.
AUSTIN REED. Tailored fashions for men and
women, including their superb ladies’ Options collec-
tion. Superb range of men’s suits from Chester Bar-
rie to Hugo Boss. 103-113 Regent Street, W1. T: 071-
734 6789. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
BROWNS. Collections by all the world’s top designers
in this fashion emporium — from Jean-Paul! Gaultier,
Moschino and Donna Karan to Romeo Gigli and
Azzedine Alaia. 23-27 South Molton Street, W1.
T: 071-491 7833. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
BURBERRY. The internationally recognised raincoat,
and stylish British classics, including a children’s
store for the kid-around-town. 18-22 Haymarket,
SW1. T: 071-930 3343. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
CYRIL LTD. Leather and sheepskin specialists with
massive selection of English-made jackets and coats,
including Morlands, all at extremely good prices. The
Ritz Hotel, The Colonnade, 153 Piccadilly, W1.
T: 071-629 5015. Map 4D. U: Green Park. (Also at
127 Regent Street, W1. T: 071-734 3181. Map 3E.
U: Piccadilly Circus.)
DESIGNER SALE STUDIO. Large selection of top-
ranking designer clothes, the majority of which come
from last season’s collections, at drastically reduced
prices. 241 King’s Road, SW3. T: 071-351 4171. Map
6C. U: Sloane Square.
FENWICK. Bond Street’s only fashion department
store, specialising in both inexpensive and designer
labels plus good lingerie, accessories and cosmetics
areas. Menswear and gift sections, too. 63 New Bond
Street, W1. T: 071-629 9161. Map 3D. U: Bond
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JAEGER. Flagship fashion store for men’s and
women’s clothes and accessories. Designer boutique
on mezzanine level. 204 Regent Street, W1.
T: 071-494 3101. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus. (Branch-
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JOSEPH. Stylish designer fashions and clever acces-
sories from Jasper Conran to Rifat Ozbek for women,
John Richmond and Nicole Farhi for men, as well as
Joseph’s own label. Main shop at 77 Fulham Road,
SW3. T: 071-823 9500. Map 5C. U: South Kensing-
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housewares chain with two levels filled with floral
print outfits and stylish, casual clothing for ladies
and children, plus wallpaper, furniture, fabric and
accessories. 256 Regent Street, W1. T: 071-437 9760.
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LAUREL. Exclusive Mayfair boutique with bright
colours and stylish, casual lines, all with co-ordinat-
ing accessories, including handbags, shoes, gloves,
jewellery and scarves. 105-106 New Bond Street,
W1. T: 071-493 1153. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
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ranging from kilts to tam-o’shanters; also huge selec-
tion of knitwear and a range of classic casual clothes.
2 Brompton Road, SW1. T: 071-581 2151. Map 4C.
U: Knightsbridge.
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sics, but numerous top designer collections for men
and women, from Christian Dior to Diane Freis. Also
several shops-within-shops, such as Saville-Edells,
Geo F. Trumper and Church’s Shoes. 203 Piccadilly,
W1. T: 071-734 2002. Map 4D. U: Piccadilly Circus.
TZAR. Specialists in ladies’ and men’s leather and
sheepskin coats and jackets, plus a good range of
classic silky print bomber-style jackets with co-ordi-
nating scarves. Excellent prices on all goods. 91 Pic-
cadilly, W1. T: 071-499 4319. Map 4D. U: Green
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hand-dipped, hand-carved and moulded candles in
wide range of colours and sizes. Workshop downstairs
on Mon, Wed & Fri. 35 Neal Street, WC2. T: 071-497
8956. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS SHOP AND GALLERY.
Ceramics co-operative for up-and-coming designers
and all the best in British pottery. 7 Marshall Street,
W1. T: 071-437 7605. Map 3E. U: Oxford Circus.
GEO F. TRUMPER. Classic-style barbers since 1875,
they also produce a lovely range of gentlemen's toi-
letries and small gifts. 9 Curzon Street, W1.
T: 071-499 1850. Map 4D. U: Green Park. (Also in-store
at Simpson Piccadilly, and at 20 Jermyn Street, SW1.)
THE IRISH SHOP. Linen, tweed, woollens, Waterford
crystal and other lovely gifts from the Emerald Isle.
11 Duke Street, W1. T: 071-935 1366. Map 3D.
U: Bond Street.
JAMES BODENHAM. Treasure trove of covetables,
from hand-pressed stationery to animal-shaped
doorstops and scented wooden fruit. 88 Jermyn Street,
SW1. T: 071-930 5340. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
OPUS #1. Craft and gift gallery with innovative designs
by the top names in British arts and crafts. Also
“Name That Toon” animation exhibit presents celluloid
cartoon characters and third Festival of Contemporary
British Glass, throughout May. 25a Maddox Street,
W1. T: 071-495 2570. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
PENHALIGON’S. Traditional perfumes, scents and
toiletries concocted according to original Victorian
recipes by Mr. Penhaligon in 1870. 41 Wellington
Street, WC2. T: 071-836 2150. Map 3E. U: Covent
Garden. (Several other central London branches.)
SAVILLE-EDELLS. Unrivalled gift range, from clever-
ly captioned cushions to battery-operated pepper
grinders. 25 Walton Street, SW3. T: 071-584 4398.
Map 5C. U: South Kensington. (Also at Simpson, 203
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SENKA. Sophisticated shop featuring gifts and food
from Britain and Europe, including Austrian hand-
painted porcelain, Annick Goutal’s French bath and
beauty line, and the Duchess of Devonshire’s teas, cof-
fees, cakes and biscuits. 169 Piccadilly, W1. T: 071-495
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exquisite jewellery, antiques, ceramics, leather goods
and fine books, with several Royal Warrants and
beautiful window displays. 165-169 New Bond
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WHERE TO SHOP
BOUCHERON. Fine jewellery and watches in tradi-
tional classic designs from this long-established
French master. 180 New Bond Street, W1. T: 071-
493 0983. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
CARTIER. Beautiful jewellery, gifts and watches, plus
the distinctive “Les Must de Cartier” range of acces-
sories. Look for their sleek Panthére pens ornament-
ed with semi-precious stones and their exclusive new
line of sunglasses. 175-176 New Bond Street, W1.
T: 071-493 6962. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
GARRARD THE CROWN JEWELLERS. One of Lon-
don’s great treasure houses for jewellery, and the sup-
nliers of many Royal engagement rings, including
that of the Princess of Wales. 112 Regent Street, W1.
T: 071-734 7020. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
LONDON DIAMOND CENTRE. Both a shop and an
attraction where you can learn about the process of
diamond-mining and cutting, then buy from an enor-
mous selection of diamonds at tax-free prices. Admis-
sion £3.45. 10 Hanover Square, W1. T: 071-629 5511.
Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
THE WATCH GALLERY. All the prestigious makes,
including Longines, Tag Heuer and Breitling. 129 Ful-
ham Road, SW3. T: 071-581 3239. Map 5C. U: South
Kensington. (Also at 100 Jermyn Street, SW1.)
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BENNETT’S CASHMERE HOUSE. Long-established
specialists famous for very competitively priced
knitwear and high-fashion styles in luxurious Scot-
tish cashmere. 13-14 Golden Square, W1. T: 071-437
2688. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
S. FISHER. The shop at #22/23 has the UK’s largest
stock of John Smedley knitwear, while #32/33 has
only Pringle goods, including Nick Faldo’s line of golf
sweaters and shirts. Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly,
W1. T: 071-493 6221. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
HOUSE OF CASHMERE. Competitively priced Scot-
tish cashmere for both men and women in a variety
of styles and shades. 10-11 Burlington Arcade, W1.
T: 071-499 1349. Map 3D/E. U: Piccadilly Arcade.
LONDON HOUSE. Extensive collection of fine cash-
mere plus own label lambswool sweaters and acces-
sories, tartan kilts and Shetland woollens. 445 Oxford
Street, W1. T: 071-491 0010. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
N. PEAL. The finest, high-fashion cashmere cardi-
gans, sweaters, dresses, dressing gowns, scarves and
socks, all made in their own Scottish factory. 37, 54
(menswear) and 71 Burlington Arcade, W1. T: 071-
493 9220. Map 6E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
PORTOBELLO CHINA AND WOOLLENS. Selected
seconds and high-quality sweaters, knits, scarves,
gloves, rugs and much more at very reasonable
prices. 89 Portobello Road, W11. T: 071-727 3857.
Map 3A. U: Notting Hill Gate.
WESTAWAY & WESTAWAY. Large range of beautiful
knitwear from Scotland at extremely affordable
prices. 62-65 and 92-93 Great Russell Street, WC1.
T: 071-405 4479. Map 3E. U: Tottenham Court Road.
Menswear
ALFRED DUNHILL. Long-established men’s outfit-
ters for stylish suits, casual wear and beautifully
crafted leather goods, plus a range of smoker’s acces-
sories antheir own brand of whisky. 30 Duke Street,
SW1. T: 071-499 9566. Map 4E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
GIEVES AND HAWKES. Famous bespoke tailors, they
also supply formal wear to Royalty plus have an exten-
sive ready-made collection and a good range of ties and
accessories. 1 Savile Row, W1. T: 071-434 2001. Map
3D. U: Piccadilly Circus.
HACKETT. The outfitters where a gentleman can
dress from head to foot in traditional styles. Good
range of accessories and toiletries, too. 20 Piccadilly,
W1. T: 071-734 0868. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
(Also 5 branches in Fulham and 2 City shops.)
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
HIGH & MIGHTY. Leading menswear retailer for big
or tall men. Expert fitting and personal service, plus
competitive prices. 120 Oxford Street, W1. T: 071-
436 4861. Map 3D/E. U: Oxford Circus/Tottenham
Court Road. (Branches throughout London.)
HILDITCH & KEY. Shirts for men and women avail-
able ready-to-wear or made-to-measure, plus silk ties,
suits, accessories and formal wear. 42 Beauchamp
Place, SW3. T: 071-584 2682. Map 5C. U: Knights-
bridge. (Also at 37 and 73 Jermyn Street, SW1.)
LORD’S. Burlington Arcade’s oldest business, they
specialise in shirts and knitwear, cotton and silk
nightwear and ties (more than 7,000 in stock!). 66-70
Burlington Arcade, W1. T: 071-493 5808. Map 3E.
U: Piccadilly Circus.
PAUL SMITH. Hugely successful British designer
with stylish range of classic menswear, including
suits, knitwear, casual clothes and exclusive acces-
sories. 41-44 Floral Street, WC2. T: 071-379 7133.
Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
SHOE SHOPS
CHURCH'S. Their impeccable craftsmanship for top
quality men’s and women’s shoe styles is known
worldwide. 58-59 Burlington Arcade, W1. T: 071-493
8307. Map 3D/E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
FOSTER & SON. Over 150 years in business, this
master shoemaker also produces briefcases, luggage
and leather accessories. Excellent personal service.
83 Jermyn Street, SW1. T: 071-930 5385. Map 4E.
U: Piccadilly Circus.
EMMA HOPE SHOES. Hand-made, beautifully trendy
shoes by young English designer, many with
appliqués and intricate stitching. 33 Amwell Street,
EC1. T: 071-833 2367. Map 1F. U: Angel.
SPECIALIST SHOPS
ANYTHING LEFT HANDED. Scores of useful gadgets
and novelties for left-handed people. Over 30 types of
scissors alone! 57 Brewer Street, W1. T: 071-437
3910. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
THE ASTROLOGY SHOP. Personal Horoscopes, astro-
logical books, tapes and videos plus prints, maps and
other heavenly gifts. 78 Neal Street, WC2. T: 071-497
1001. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
AUSTRALIAN GIFT SHOP. No need to travel “down
under” when you can shop for Aboriginal jewellery,
vegemite and Aussie bush hats in London! 115
Strand, WC2. T: 071-836 2292. Map 3F. U: Aldwych.
CHURCHILL GIFTS. Souvenir shop crammed with
T-shirts, postcards and gifts open seven days a week.
Two Oxford Street shops at #359 and #443, W1.
T: 071-491 2408. Map 3D. U: Bond Street. (Also at 8
Bridge Street, W1, and 23 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1.)
CREATIVITY. Superb needlecraft shops with good
range of knitting, tapestry, embroidery and crochet
patterns plus all the accessories you'll need. 37/45 New
Oxford Street, W1. T: 071-240 2945. Map 3E. UV: Tot-
tenham Court Road.
DRESS CIRCLE. Records, tapes, CDs and videos of
famous musicals, plus memorabilia associated with
West End shows. 57-59 Monmouth Street, WC2.
T: 071-240 2227. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
MYSTERIES. London’s leading New Age centre and
psychic shop. Holistic books, music, healing remedies,
natural oils and more. 9-11 Monmouth Street, WC2.
T: 071-240 3688. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
PEARL CROSS. Nearly a century old, they are spe-
cialists in secondhand jewellery, silver, clocks and
watches. 35 St. Martin’s Lane, WC2. T: 071-836
2814. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
PETER DALE LTD. Antique arms and armour, some
400 years old, painstakingly restored by traditional
techniques. 11-12 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall,
SW1. T: 071-930 3695. Map 4E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
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Among antique shops the best value and service are
at those displaying the signs of the British Antique
Dealers Association (BADA) or the London and
Provincial Antique Dealers Association (LAPADA).
Good hunting ground for all sorts of antiques:
Camden Passage, N1. Open Wed, Thur & Sat. Map
1F. U: Angel;
Camden Antiques Market, NW1. Open Thur-Sun.
Off map. U: Camden Town;
Church Street, NW8. Open Mon-Sat. Map 2C.
U: Edgware Road;
Kensington Church Street, W8. Open Mon-Sat.
Map 4B. U: High Street Kensington/Notting Hill Gate;
King’s Road, SW3. Open Mon-Sat. Map 6C.
U: Sloane Square;
New Bond Street, W1. Open Mon-Sat. Map 3D.
U: Green Park;
Pimlico Road, SW1. Open Mon-Sat. Map 5D.
U: Sloane Square;
Portobello Road, W10/11. Open Sat. Map 3A.
U: Notting Hill Gate;
ANTIQUE & ART FAIRS.
3 May: Heritage Antiques Fair, Kensington Hilton
Hotel, Holland Park Avenue, W11: also Wakefield
Antiques Fair, Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch, W1:
4-11 May: British Antique Dealers’ Association Fair,
Duke of York’s Headquarters, King’s Road, SW3;
10 May: Adams Antique Fair, Royal Horticultural
Hall, Vincent Square, SW1; also Heritage Antiques
Fair, London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, W1;
ll May: Antiquarian Map & Print Fair, Bonnington
Hotel, Southampton Row, WC1:
17 May: Heritage Antiques Fair, Kensington Palace
Hotel, De Vere Gardens, W8;
23 May: London Decorative Arts Fair, Kensington
Town Hall, Thornton Street, W8:
31 May: Heritage Antiques Fair, London Hilton on
Park Lane, W1.
ANTIQUE MARKETS AND CENTRES.
Alfies Antique Market, 13-25 Church Street, NW8.
T: 071-723 6066. Map 2C. U: Edgware Road;
Antiquarius, 131-141 King’s Road, SW3. T: 071-351
5353. Map 5C. U: Sloane Square;
Bermondsey Street Antiques, Bermondsey Street,
SE1. T: 071-351 5353. Map 4H. U: Borough;
Bond Street Antiques Centre, 124 New Bond
Street, W1. T: 071-351 5353. Map 3D. U: Bond Street;
Chenil Galleries, 181-183 King’s Road, SW3. T: 071-
351 5353. Map 6C. U: Sloane Square;
Grays Antique Market & Mews, 58 Davies Street,
W1. T: 071-629 7034. Map 3D. U: Bond Street;
Kensington Church Street Antiques Centre, 58-
60 Kensington Church Street, W8. T: 071-376 0425.
Map 4B. U: High Street Kensington;
The Mall, Camden Passage, N1. T: 071-351 5353.
Map 1F. U: Angel;
Roger’s Antiques Gallery, 65 Portobello Road, W11.
T: 071-351 5353. Map 3A. U: Ladbroke Grove.
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From fine art to ephemera,
a guide to London’s auction houses,
antique shops and galleries
Russian artist Konstantin Lomikin’s “Still Life with Samovar and Watermelon” is one of 25 new
works at Roy Miles Gallery this month in the New Works From Moscow exhibition
Auction HOUSES
BONHAMS. Moderate prices and interesting selec-
tions. Sales this month include Modern Decorative
Arts (8 May), Antiquities (20 May) and Early English
& Continental Furniture & Objects (28 May). Mont-
pelier Street, SW7. T: 071-584 9161. Map 4C.
U: Knightsbridge. Also, sales at Chelsea showrooms
include Ceramics & Glass (6 May), Toys & Dolls (13
May) and Modern British Pictures (28 May). 54-59
Lots Road, SW10. T: 071-351 7111. Off map. U: Ful-
ham Broadway.
CHRISTIE’S. Two locations in London - sales in their
impressive King Street Great Rooms include
Rare Stamps (7 May), Silver, Objects of Vertu & Russian
Works of Art (13 May) Continental, Scandanavian &
Russian Pictures (22 May). 8 King Street, St. James’,
SW1. T: 071-839 9060. Map 4E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
Sales at South Kensington branch feature Pop & Gui-
tars (7 May), the Dr. Robert Blass Collection of Chess
Books (8 May) and the Ashley Collection of Dinky Toys
(19 May) and Dolls & Teddy Bears (20 May). Old
Brompton Road, SW7. T: 071-581 7611. Map SC.
U: South Kensington.
LOTS ROAD CHELSEA AUCTION GALLERIES. Weekly
Monday sales at 15.00 for modern furnishings and 18.00
for antiques, furniture, rugs, art, silver, ceramics and
objets dart. (Viewings Fri-Mon). 71-73 Lots Road, SW10.
T: 071-351 7771. Off map. U: Fulham Broadway.
PHILLIPS. Good mix of traditional and modern sales
include Antique & Modern Jewellery (5 May), Modern
British Paintings (12 May) and Postage Stamps of the
World (28 May). 101 New Bond Street, W1. T: 071-629
6602. Map 3D. U: Bond Street. Also, PHILLIPS WEST
TWO. Sales include Paintings, Watercolours & Prints
(6 May) and Toys & Dolls (20 May), plus sales of
Antique & Modern Furniture, Ceramics & Objects
most Thursdays at 10.00. 10 Salem Road, W2. T: 071-
229 9090. Map 3B. U: Bayswater.
SOTHEBY'S. World’s largest auctioneers and fine art
specialists in fine art. This month’s sales include a
charity auction of contemporary wildlife paintings to
benefit the Rhino Rescue Trust (6 May), Chinese
Porcelain & Works of Art (12 May), Collection of Tin-
plate Toys (15 May), Marine Pictures & Nautical
Works of Art (20 May) and Music Manuscripts (22
May). 34 New Bond Street, W1. T: 071-493 8080. Map
3D. U: Bond Street.
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April 29 — May 30
The Third Festival of
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David Reekie — The Prediction
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25a Maddox Street,
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071-495 2570
Monday to Saturday, 11-5.30
Thursday till 7.00
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ANTIQUES, AUCTIONS & GALLERIES
ComMERCIAL GALLERIES
AGNEW’S. Superb collection of Old Masters, prints,
drawings, watercolours and sculpture. Showing
Recent Work by contemporary British artist Phillip
Sutton, from 5-29 May. 43 Old Bond Street, W1.
T: 071-629 6176. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
BERKELEY SQUARE GALLERY. The Black and White
Tradition, from 7-26 May, examines British prints
from 1880, including works by Gerald Brockhurst,
Wilfred Fairclough and James McBey. 23a Bruton
Street, W1. T: 071-493 7939. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
BRUTON STREET GALLERY. Large, new gallery pre-
sents one-man show of Recent Works by Roy Petley,
from 14 May, including oils, watercolours and draw-
ings of both English country scenes and French land-
scapes. 28 Bruton Street, W1. T: 071-499 9747. Map
3D. U: Bond Street.
COLNAGHI GALLERY. Experts in Old Master paint-
ings and drawings. 14 Old Bond Street, W1. T: 071-
491 7408. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
FROST & REED. Double exhibition of two very differ-
ent watercolourists — recent works by Edwin Penny,
an accomplished painter of birds, and evocative,
familiar scenes and subjects in the works of Nigel
Ashcroft, both 7-22 May. 16 Old Bond Street, W1.
T: 071-629 2457. Map 3D. U: Green Park.
HAMILTON GALLERY. Major exhibition by master |
photographer Horst P. Horst, entitled Forms, from 12
May, shows of works from 1937 to present. 13 Carlos
Place, W1. T: 071-499 9493. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
LISSON GALLERY. Top contemporary art gallery with
two exhibitions this month, from 8 May: Iranian-born
Shirazeh Houshiarys installation entitled Jsthmus,
plus On Kawara’s minimalist works — Date Paintings
and One Million Years Future. 67 Lisson Street, NW1.
T: 071-724 2739. Map 2C. U: Edgware Road.
MARLBOROUGH FINE ART. Thérése Oulton’s abstract
oils on canvas in exhibition entitled Abstract with
Memories, throughout May. 6 Albemarle Street, W1.
T: 071-629 5161. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
THE MAYOR GALLERY. Exhibition entitled British
Surrealism includes drawings, paintings, sculpture
and memorabilia by artists such as John Tunnard,
Ceri Richards and Henry Moore, in addition to a
group of works from the Penrose Collection, until 22
May. 22a Cork Street, W1. T: 071-734 3558. Map 3D.
U: Green Park.
PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY. Exhibition entitled
Jem Southam: The Raft of Carrots, which concerns
the environment and man’s relationship to it, until
9 May; then Marysia Lewandowska’s specially com-
missioned installation, from 15 May. 5 Great New-
port Street, WC2. T: 071-831 1772. Map 3E. U:
Covent Garden.
ROY MILES GALLERY. Russian art from Moscow and
Siberia from 1930s-1990s, plus New Works from
Moscow, a selection of works by Konstantin Lomikin,
from 7-21 May. 29 Bruton Street, W1. T: 071-495
4747. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
SPINK & SON LTD. Specialists in English paintings,
silver and jewellery, Oriental, Asian and Islamic art,
textiles, medals and coins. Exhibition of Indian &
Islamic Works of Art, until 22 May. Also annual show
of Spring Watercolours from 6-29 May in the Picture
Department. 5-7 King Street, St. James's, SW1. T: 071-
930 7888. Map 4E. U: Green Park.
TRYON GALLERY. Two-part exhibition this month
entitled Twenty Years in Cork Street focuses on
works by past and living artists shown at gallery.
Part I: The Past, until 8 May; Part II: The Present
14-28 May. 23/24 Cork Street, W1. T: 071-734 6961.
Map 3D. U: Piccadilly Circus/Green Park.
WATERMAN FINE ART. Figurative oils on board by
British artist Christopher Hall in one-man exhibition
entitled A Journey Through Rural Italy, from 6-30
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Major West End productions are listed here, plus
those at the National Theatre on the South Bank
and the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbi-
can. Theatres can be located on the Theatreland
map on pages 64-65. Running times given include
intervals and are approximate only.
Comeptes
THE ALCHEMIST. Ben Jonson’s riotous satire on
greed and city life shows three rapacious con
artists hard at work juggling six scams at once.
8, 9, 11, 12, 20, 21, 29, 30 May 19.30; also 9, 21, 30
May 14.00. Seats £6.50-£20. Running time 135
mins. Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, Silk
Street, EC2. T: 071-638 8891.
BERLIN BERTIE. Howard Brenton’s savagely
funny play is a psychological study of two sisters,
each of whom has a personal crisis. With Diana
Rigg and Penny Downie. Mon-Sat 20.00; also Sat
16.00. Seats £5-£15 (all seats £5 on Mon). Royal
Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1. T: 071-730
1745. Last perf 9 May.
AN EVENING WITH GARY LINEKER. Set in a
Majorcan hotel room on the night of England’s
World Cup semi-final against West Germany. Mon-
Thur 20.00, Fri & Sat 18.00 & 20.45. Running time
120 mins. Seats £5-£17.50. Duchess Theatre,
Catherine Street, WC2. T: 071-494 5075.
DON’T DRESS FOR DINNER. Classic farce themes
of mistaken identity and attempted adultery. It’s
better than it sounds. Mon-Fri 20.00, Sat 17.00 &
20.30; also Wed 15.00. Running time 135 mins.
Seats £5.50-£17.50. Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury
Avenue, W1. T: 071-494 5070.
THE POCKET DREAM. Mike McShane and Sandi
Toksvig present this comedy about a disso!ving
theatre company’s attempt to stage A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. Slapstick stuff. Tues-Sat 19.45; also
Sat & Sun 15.00. Running time 135 mins. Seats
£5-£18.50. Albery Theatre, St. Martin’s Lane,
WC2. T: 071-867 1115. Last perf 31 May.
PYGMALION. Possibly George Bernard Shaw’s
most famous play, this exuberant comedy tells the
tale of Covent Garden flower girl, Eliza Doolittle,
who is transformed from “draggletailed gutter-
snipe” to lady by phonetician Professor Henry Hig-
gins. 1, 2, 4, 5, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, 26 May 19.15;
also 2, 5, 16, 23, 26 May 14.00. Seats £6.50-£18.
Olivier, National Theatre, South Bank, SE1.
T: 071-928 2252.
THE RECRUITING OFFICER. George Farquhar’s
hilarious 18th century comedy features Captains
Plume and Brazen who raise an army and become
foot-soldiers in a campaign run by the local
women. 6-9, 11, 19-21 May 19.15; also 9, 21 May
14.00. Seats £6.50-£18. Olivier, National Theatre,
South Bank, SE1. T: 071-928 2252.
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duo perform at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 11 May
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THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE
STRAIGHT AND NARROW. Adult comedy by Jimmy
Chinn. Nicholas Lyndhurst stars as the young man
with an unconventional lifestyle whose friends and
family try to mend his ways. Mon-Sat 20.00: also
Wed 15.00 & Sat 17.00. Running time 135 mins.
Seats £7-£19. Wyndham’s Theatre, Charing Cross
Road, WC2. T: 071-867 1116.
Mustcats
ASPECTS OF LOVE. Unlike other Lloyd Webber
productions, there are no spectacular effects, just
masses of enthusiasm and splendid singing. Mon-
Sat 19.45; also Wed & Sat 15.00. Running time 180
mins. Seats £17.50-£27.50. Prince of Wales
Theatre, Coventry Street, W1. T: 071-839 5972.
BLOOD BROTHERS. Willy Russell’s award-winning
musical of a mother who gives up one of her new-
born twins. After leading totally different lives the
brothers are reunited. Take some hankies. Mon-
Sat 19.45; also Thur 15.00 & Sat 16.00. Running
time 180 mins. Seats £8.50-£23. Phoenix Theatre,
Charing Cross Road, WC2. T: 071-867 1044.
BUDDY. The Buddy Holly phenomenon goes on
with this portrayal of the years in which Holly
became one of the world’s top recording artists.
Mon-Thur 20.00, Fri & Sat 17.30 & 20.30. Running
time 165 mins. Seats £7-£22 (all seats half-price
for Fri 17.30 perf). Victoria Palace Theatre, Victo-
nia Street, SW1. T: 071-834 1317.
CARMEN JONES. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s
famous re-working of Carmen. Wilhelmenia Fer-
nandez and Sharon Benson alternate in the title
rdle. Mon-Sat 19.45; also Wed & Sat 15.00. Run-
ning time 150 mins. Seats £10.50-£30. Old Vic
Theatre, Waterloo Road, SE1. T: 071-928 7616.
CATS. Lloyd Webber’s 10-year old award-winning
staging of T. S. Eliot’s wry verses about feline
friends and foes is still one of the hottest tickets in
town. Mon-Sat 19.45; also Tues & Sat 15.00. Run-
ning time 165 mins. Seats £10-£25. New London
Theatre, Drury Lane, WC2. T: 071-405 0072.
THE COTTON CLUB. All-singing, all-dancing musi-
cal telling the story of the stars of the famous Cot-
ton Club era. Mon-Fri 19.30, Sat 16.00 & 20.00;
also Wed 14.30. Running time 150 mins. Seats
£13.50-£26. Aldwych Theatre, Aldwych, WC2.
T: 071-836 6404.
FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE. Award-winning musical
celebration of jazz star Louis Jordan. Five guys
named Moe emerge from the radio to cheer Nomax
up with the tunes of Jordan and furious dancing.
Mon-Thur 20.00, Fri & Sat 18.00 & 20.45. Running
time 120 mins. Seats £3-£25.50. Lyric Theatre,
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1. T: 071-494 5045.
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR
DREAMCOAT. Glossy revival of Andrew Lloyd
Webber and Tim Rice’s religious rock musical.
Starring teen idol, Jason Donovan. Mon-Sat 19.30;
also Wed & Sat 14.30. Running time 180 mins.
Seats £8.50-£25. The London Palladium, Argyll
Street, W1. T: 071-494 5020.
ME AND MY GIRL. Now in its sixth year, this huge-
ly successful triple Tony winner tells how a poor
cockney becomes heir to an ancient noble title,
much to the dismay of the “toffs”. Mon-Fri 19.30,
Sat 16.30 & 20.00; also Wed 14.30. Running time
165 mins. Seats £11-£25. Adelphi Theatre, Strand,
WC2. T: 071-836 7611.
LES MISERABLES. Victor Hugo's epic tale is an
unlikely basis for a folk opera. But it works,
thanks to inspired sets and truly superb singing.
Mon-Sat 19.30; also Thur & Sat 14.30. Running
time 195 mins. Seats £7-£27.50. Palace Theatre,
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1. T: 071-434 0909.
MISS SAIGON. Madame Butterfly transported to
Vietnam, it tells the tragic tale of lovers thrown
together in a society torn apart by war. Mon-Sat
19.45; also Wed & Sat 15.00. Running time 180
mins. Seats £5.50-£25. Theatre Royal Drury Lane,
Catherine Street, WC2. T: 071-494 5000.
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THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE
MOBY DICK. A whale of a tale from the Cameron
Mackintosh stable. Wacky musical version of Her-
man Melville’s classic tale. Mon-Sat 20.00; also
Tues & Sat 16.00. Running time 135 mins. Seats
£9.50-£26. Piccadilly Theatre, Denman Street, W1.
T: 071-867 1118.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Lloyd Webber’s
huge hit features spectacular costumes and special
effects, with Dave Willets as the phantom. Still the
best Lloyd Webber on the circuit. Mon-Sat 19.45;
also Wed & Sat 15.00. Running time 150 mins.
Seats £8.75-£28. Her Majesty’ Theatre, Haymar-
ket, SW1. T: 071-494 5400.
RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET. Rock
musical based on sci-fi film Forbidden Planet and
on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Tues-Thur 20.00,
Fri & Sat 17.00 & 20.30; also Sun 17.00. Running
time 140 mins. Seats £9.50-£19.50. Cambridge
Theatre, Earlham Street, WC2. T: 071-379 5299.
SIKULU. A vibrant and colourful celebration of
African song and dance from the team that
brought Jpi Tombe to the West End stage. Mon-
Thur 20.00, Fri & Sat 17.00 & 20.30. Seats £8.50-
£23.50. Queen’s Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1.
T: 071-734 1166.
SOME LIKE IT HOT. The hilarious antics of two
band-players who find eluding gangsters a real
drag. Starring Tommy Steele. Mon-Sat 19.45; also
Thur & Sat 15.00. Running time 155 mins. Seats
£10.50-£28. Prince Edward Theatre, Old Compton
Street, W1. T: 071-734 8951.
STARLIGHT EXPRESS. Lloyd Webber’s dramatic
musical about trains with frantic rollerball races
around a £1.5 million rinkway. Mon-Sat 19.45; also
Tues & Sat 15.00. Running time 150 mins. Seats
£9-£25. Apollo Victoria Theatre, Wilton Road,
SW1. T: 071-828 8665.
A TRIBUTE TO THE BLUES BROTHERS. Jubilant
musical appreciation of Jake and Elwood Blues.
With Brian Hibbard and Simon John Foster. Mon-
Thur 20.15, Fri & Sat 18.15 & 21.00. Running time
120 mins. Seats £9.50-£17.50. Whitehall Theatre,
Whitehall, SW1. T: 071-930 7765.
PL AYS
BLUE ANGEL. Trevor Nunn directs this RSC adap-
tation of the famous von Sternberg film which
starred Marlene Dietrich (who can forget her ren-
dition of “Falling in Love Again”?). Kelly Hunter is
Lola, the alluring night-club singer and Philip
Madoc is Professor Raat, the man she captivates.
Mon-Sat 19.30; also Wed & Sat 15.00, Seats £7.50-
£24.50. Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1.
T: 071-494 5065.
DANCING AT LUGHNASA. Winner of the 1991 Play
of the Year Award, Brian Friel’s play is set during
harvest-time in 1936 in an isolated and insular
Irish village. Mon-Sat 20.00; also Thur 15.00 & Sat
16.00. Seats £7.50-£19. Running time 145 mins.
Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Road, WC2.
T: 071-494 5085.
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. Nail-biting, political
thriller involving a woman who is tortured during
a dictatorship. Years later she meets one of her tor-
turers and exacts revenge. Ariel Dorfman’s bril-
liant drama has riveting performances from Geral-
dine James, Paul Freeman and Michael Byrne.
Mon-Sat 20.00; also Thur & Sat 16.00. Running
time 115 mins. Seats £5-£18. Duke of York’s
Theatre, St. Martin’s Lane, WC2. T: 071-836 5122.
HEARTBREAK HOUSE. George Bernard Shaw’s
rarely performed play has a star-studded cast,
including Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Imogen
Stubbs, Felicity Kendal and Daniel Massey. Mon-
Sat 19.30; also Wed & Sat 15.00. Running time 225
mins. Seats £9-£22. Theatre Royal, Haymarket,
SW 1. T: 071- 930 8800. Last perf 16 May.
HENRY IV PART 1. The Royal Shakespeare Com-
pany launches its new season with the tale of a
king troubled by state and home affairs — quelling
a rebellion against the Crown and controlling his
wayward son. Charismatic actor Owen Teale plays
the hot-headed Hotspur. 4, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 25,
27, 28 May 19.30; also 7 May 13.30 & 16, 23 May
14.00. Seats £6.50-£20. Running time 210 mins.
Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, Silk Street,
EC2. T: 071-638 8891.
HENRY IV PART II. Prince Hal (Michael Maloney)
learns the duties of kinship and emia in an
E ngland coming to terms with peace. 1, 2, 5, 6 May
19.30, 7 May 19.00, 14, 15, 19, 23, a 28 May
19.30; er 2 May 14.00. Seats £6.50-£20. Running
time 210 mins. Barbican Theatre, Barbican Cen-
tre, Silk Street, EC2. T: 071-638 8891.
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Tennessee Williams
at his steamy best in this classic drama. Frances
Barber, Eileen Atkins, Robin Bailey and Alfred
Molina star. 7-9, 27-30 May 19.30; also 9, 30 May
14.15. Seats £6.50-£18. Lyttelton, National
Theatre, South Bank, SE1. T: 071-928 2252.
REFLECTED GLORY. This brand new play by
Ronald Harwood has an all-star cast — Albert
Finney, Stephen Moore and Nicky Henson. Mon-
Fri 20.00, Sat 17.00 & 20.30; also Wed 14.30. Run-
ning time 130 mins. Seats £12.50-£20. Vaudeville
Theatre, Strand, WC2. T: 071-836 9987.
A SLIP OF THE TONGUE. Long-awaited Steppen-
wolf Theatre Company’s presentation of this vehi-
cle for star of stage and screen John Malkovich.
Set in Czechoslovakia, the play tells the story of a
leading dissident writer. Mon-Thur 20.00, Fri
18.00 & 21.00, Sat 16.30 & 20.30. Seats £7.50-£20.
Shaftesbury Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2.
T: 071-379 5399.
A WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS. Heywood’s
powerful tragedy sees one woman facing tempta-
tion and another forced into the arms of a man she
does not love. 8, 9, 11, 12, 20, 21, 29, 30 May 19.30;
also 9, 21, 30 May 14.00. Seats £11.50-£13.50. Run-
ning time 180 mins. The Pit, Barbican Centre, Silk
Street, EC2. T: 071-638 8891.
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THE MOUSETRAP. In its 40th year, Agatha
Christie’s legendary “whodunnit” is the world’s
longest-running play. Mon-Sat 20.00; also Tues
14.45 & Sat 17.00. Running time 135 mins. Seats
£7.50-£18. St. Martin’s Theatre, West Street, WC2.
T: 071-836 1443.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Stephen Mallatratt’s grip-
ping thriller in which a man attempts to exorcise
the horrors that haunt him. A ghost story everyone
should see. Mon-Sat 20.00; also Tues 15.00 & Sat
16.00. Running time 120 mins. Seats £7-£18.
Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, WC2.
T: 071-836 2238.
Concerts & RECITALS
Selection of concerts taking place this month; com-
plete listings are available from box offices.
BARBICAN HALL. Barbican Centre, EC2. T: 071-
638 8891.
5 May 19.45: The Chamber Orchestra of Europe,
Sandor Vegh conductor, Matthew Wilkie bassoon —
Mozart, Bartok.
6 May 19.45: London Symphony Orchestra,
Michael Tilson Thomas, Alexander Barantschik
violin — Britten, Barber, Tchaikovsky.
7 May 19.45: English Chamber Orchestra, Ion
Marin conductor, Yo-Yo Ma cello — Haydn, Vivaldi,
Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev.
9 May 20.00: London Concert Orchestra — Gilbert
& Sullivan Gala.
10 May 19.30: English Chamber Orchestra, Ian
Watson director, Jack Brymer clarinet, Stephanie
Gonley violin — Handel, Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi.
16 May 19.45: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Owain Arwel Hughes conductor, Kathryn Stott
piano — Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Mussorgsky.
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THEATRE, MUSIC & DANCE
17 May 19.30: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Enrique Batiz conductor, Sequeira Costa piano —
Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Elgar,
Bizet.
19 May 19.45: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Antonio de Almeida conductor, Stephanie Gonley —
Smetana, Sibelius, Bruch, Grieg, Dvorak.
21 May 19.45: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields, Sir Neville Marriner conductor, Stefan
Vladar piano — Beethoven.
22 May 19.45: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark
Wigglesworth conductor, Thomas Zehetmair violin,
Sophie Roland cello — Schoenberg, Brahms,
Haydn.
23 May 20.00: London Concert Orchestra & Choir,
Paul Wynne-Griffiths conductor — Verdi Gala
Night.
24 May 19.30: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra &
London Choral Society, Adrian Leaper conductor —
Orff (Carmina Burana), Schubert.
26 May 19.45: City of London Sinfonia, Julian
Reynolds conductor, Dmitri Hvorostovsky baritone,
Olga Borodina mezzo soprano — Rossini, Donizetti.
27 May 19.45: Takacs String Quartet — Haydn,
Bartok, Schubert.
28 May 19.45: English Chamber Orchestra, Jef-
frey Tate conductor, Cécile Ousset piano, José-Luis
Garcia violin — Saint-Saéns, Fauré, Franck,
Chausson, Massenet.
30 May 20.00: Mozart Festival Orchestra, Ian
Watson conductor — The Complete Brandenburg
Concertos (in costume).
QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL. South Bank Centre,
SE1. T: 071-928 8800.
5 May 19.45: London Soloists Chamber Orchestra,
David Josefowitz conductor — Vivaldi & Mozart.
7 May 19.45: London Sinfonietta, Antony Pay con-
ductor — Schnittke/Bashmet, Maw, Schnittke.
8 May 18.45: 19.45: Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend
conductor — Mozart & Schumann.
li May 19.45: Dmitry Sitkovetsky violin, Bella
Davidovich piano — Mozart, Prokofiev, Grieg,
Ravel.
14 May 19.45: London Sinfonietta, Martyn Brab-
bins conductor, Joan Atherton violin — MacMillan
& Schnittke.
16 May 19.45: London Chamber Orchestra,
Christopher Waren-Green director/violin — Mozart
programme,
21 May 19.45: London Sinfonietta, Diego Masson
conductor, Christine Whittlesey soprano —
Smirnov, Mason, Schnittke.
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL. South Bank Centre, SE1.
T: 071-928 8800.
3 May 19.30: The Philharmonia, Walter Weller
conductor, Peter Donohoe piano — Brahms,
Mendelssohn, Strauss.
4 May 19.30: London Festival Orchestra Birthday
Honours, Ross Pople conductor, Piers Lane piano —
Brahms, Tchaikovsky.
5 May 19.30: London Philharmonic, Klaus Tennst-
edt conductor, Dmitri Alexeev piano — Glinka,
Prokofiev, Stravinsky.
6 May 19.30: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor, Viktoria Mullova
violin — Schoenberg, Sibelius.
8 May 19.30: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Viadimir Askenazy conductor, Peter Jablonski
piano, Raymond Simmons trumpet -
Shostakovich, Brahms.
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20 May 19.30: The Philharmonia, Yan Pacal Torte-
lier conductor, Janos Starker cello — Walton, Elgar,
Sibelius.
22 May 19.30: Grand Opera Gala.
23 May 19.30: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Car-
los Paita conductor, Lucy Parham piano, JOhn
Birch organ — Dukas, Bizet, Grieg, Saint-Saéns.
26 May 19.30: The London Philharmonic, Framz
Welser-Mést conductor, Nigel Kennedy violin —
Ravel, Prokofiev, Stravinksy (Oedipus Rex).
28 May 19.30: Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin,
Vladimir Ashkenazy conductor — Schumann,
Brahms, Strauss.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
HAMMERSMITH ODEON. Queen Caroline Street,
We. T: 081-748 4081.
16 May 19.30: Hawkwind.
ROYAL ALBERT HALL. Kensington Gore, SW7.
T: 071-589 8212.
26-31 May 20.00: Frank Sinatra.
WEMBLEY ARENA. Wembley. T: 081-900 1234.
6, 7 May 20.00: Cher.
21 May 19.30: Kiss.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL. South Bank, SE1.
T: 071-928 8800.
4 May 19.45: The Black Cat Rhythm Band with
the Resident Orchestra at the Ritz.
20 May 19.45: Bheki Mseleku.
23 May 19.45: The Duke Ellington Anniversary
Concert.
Opera
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA. London Coliseum,
St. Martin’s Lane, WC2. T: 071-836 3161. All per-
formances are in English.
1, 7, 9, 12, 15, 19, 22, 27, 30 May 19.30: Madam
Butterfly (Puccini).
2, 8, 14 May 18.15: Don Carlos (Verdi).
5, 13, 16, 18, 21, 28 May 19.30: BAKXAI — The
Bacchae (Buller).
20, 23, 29 May 19.00: The Return of Ulysses (Mon-
teverdi).
ROYAL OPERA. Royal Opera House, Covent Gar-
den, WC2. T: 071-240 1066. All foreign language
productions have English surtitles.
2 May 20.00: The Fiery Angel (Prokofiev, in Rus-
sian).
1, 4, 7, 9 May 19.30: Lelisir d’anore (Donizetti, in
Italian).
16, 19, 21, 26, 28 May 19.30: La Boheme (Puccini,
in Italian).
12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 27, 29 May 19.00: I Puritani
(Bellini, in Italian).
22, 25, 30 May 20.00: Salome (Strauss, in Ger-
man).
D’OYLY CARTE. Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Rosebery
Avenue, EC1. T: 071-278 8916.
5-9, 15, 16 May 19.30; also 6, 9, 16 May 14.30: The
Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan).
1, 2, 4, 11-14 May 19.30; also 2, 13 May 14.30: The
Yeoman of the Guard (Gilbert & Sullivan).
Some half-price tickets are available for
many theatres at the Ticket Booth in Leicester
Square, WC2. Tickets for matinées available from
midday and for evening performances from 14.30-
18.30. Another service available is “Theatre
Tonight” which provides last minute seats for that
night’s performances. Ring 071-753 0333 Mon-Sat
between 11.00-18.00 for more details. Tickets are
charged at box office rates. Credit card sales only.
All listings details are current and correct at
time of going to press, but productions can and do
change at short notice, so it is always wise to
double-check details when you book.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
LONDON
RESTAURANTS &
The elegant Chelsea Room at the Hyatt Carl-
ton Tower presents superb classical French
cuisine. See listing under French
CAFES
Essential facts on
more than 200 restaurants
and eating places
Exotic flowers, lush foliage and traditional
Thai menus all feature at the exquisite Blue
Elephant. See listing under South East Asian
From steak and mushroom pie to bread and
butter pudding, Porters gets down to British
basics. See listing under British
How to Read the Listings
Within each section, restaurants are listed
alphabetically. Thus, “L’Auberge de Provence” is
| found under A, and “Le Gavroche” is under G.
Daily: Open seven days a week. Mon-Sat: Open
Monday to Saturday only. B: Open for breakfast.
L&D: Open for lunch and dinner — normally |
12.00-15.00 and 19.00-23.00 approx. Open 11.00-
23.00: Restaurant remains open non-stop
between hours shown. Inc: Including. Rec: Rec-
ommended. Alc: A la carte. Price: Approximate
cost of a 3-course meal for 2 people including
house wine. Set Meals: Prices are shown per per-
son unless stated otherwise. T: 071-629 0382:
Telephone number. Map 2A, Map 5D: Grid refer-
ence to locate your restaurant on the CENTRAL
LONDON MAP on pages 26-27. U: Oxford Cir-
cus: Nearest London Underground station. BR:
Nearest British Rail station. Smart dress: Gentle-
men are expected to wear a jacket and tie. Credit
cards: Major cards accepted; check when booking
your table. Value Added Tax is charged at 17.5%
and service charge, if included, should be
itemised on the final bill.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
Arcuan
BUZKASH. Ethnic decor of tapestries, carvings and
traditional headgear. Try ashak (pasta filled with
leeks). Mon-Sat L & D, Sun D only. Set 4 course L
Mon-Fri, £9.95. Ale about £35 for 2. 4 Chelverton
Road, SW15. T: 081-788 0599/3182. Off map. U: East
Putney.
CARAVAN SERAI. Top Afghani cuisine which combines
subtle curry flavours, creamy pastas, fish and meat,
plus rich, exotic teas. Mon-Fri L (set, £9.95) & daily D.
Alc about £40 for 2. 50 Paddington Street, W1. T: 071-
935 1208. Map 2D. U: Baker Street.
Arrern OON TEA
BROWN’S HOTEL. Peaceful chintz-filled lounge. Try
their superb toasted scones with raisins, finger sand-
wiches and rich pastries. Full afternoon tea £11.75,
served daily 15.00-18.00. High Tea £15.50 (including
grills and fishcakes) in l’Aperitif restaurant from
16.15-17.30. Dover & Albemarle Streets, W1. T: 071-
493 6020. Map 3D. U: Green Park.
THE DORCHESTER. Recently refurbished at enor-
mous cost, the magnificent gilded Promenade is a
poseur’s paradise and tea an afternoon event, with
acres of marble, a performing pianist and delicious
pastries. Daily 15.00-18.00. Full afternoon tea £12.80.
The Dorchester Hotel, 53 Park Lane, W1. T: 071-629
8888. Map 3D. U: Hyde Park Corner/Marble Arch.
FORTNUM & MASON. Luxury stove serves tea in the
dignified St. James’s Restaurant (4th floor) as well as
in the bustling Fountain Restaurant on the lower
ground level. Mon-Sat 15.00-17.20. Full afternoon tea
£8.25; high tea £10.25. Piccadilly, W1. T: 071-734
8040. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
LE MERIDIEN. The Tea Lounge has a harpist to lull
you with strains from Phantom of the Opera and
Porgy and Bess while you sample from their 35 blends
of tea and delicious cakes. Daily 15.00-18.00. Full tea
£11. Le Meridien Hotel, Piccadilly, W1.
T: 071-734 8000. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
THE RITZ. Tea at the Ritz is a London institution and
reservations are essential in the elegant Palm Court.
Daily at 15.00 & 16.30. Full afternoon tea £13. Book
well ahead. Smart dress. The Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly,
W1. T: 071-493 8181. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
THE SAVOY. Delicious homemade pastries, scones and
tea are accompanied by piano music in the Thames
Foyer. Daily 15.00-17.30. Full afternoon tea £13.50.
The Savoy Hotel, Strand, WC2. T: 071-836 4343. Map
3F. U: Charing Cross/Aldwych.
THE WALDORF. Take along your dancing shoes for
afternoon tea with a difference — tea dances with big
band music in the Palm Court. Afternoon tea: Mon-
Thur 15.30-18.30; tea dances: Fri-Sun 15.30-18.30.
Full teas £10.50, tea dances £16.75. The Waldorf
Hotel, Aldwych, WC2. T: 071-836 2400. Map 3F.
U: Covent Garden.
Am ERICAN
THE BIG EASY. Authentic American BBQ and “crab
shack” restaurant serving hot ’n’ spicy shrimp in the
shell, hickory burgers, crab claws, fried scallops, baby
back ribs and delicious frozen cocktails. Daily 12.00-
24.00. Ale about £25 for 2. 332-334 King’s Road, SW3.
T: 071-352 4071. Map 6C. U: Sloane Square.
CHICAGO MEATPACKERS. Steam trains chug around
this huge red, white and blue basement restaurant.
Specialities inc burgers, baby back ribs, pecan pies and
special salad menu. Children’s menu £4.50; magician
on Sun 13.00-16.00. Mon-Sat 11.45-23.30, Sun 12.00-
22.30. Ale about £25 for 2. 96 Charing Cross Rvad,
WC2. T: 071-379 3277. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
CHICAGO PIZZA PIE FACTORY. Bob Payton’s famous
American-style deep-dish pizzas, plus lasagne, ham-
burgers, chilli, garlic bread and a very good cheese-
cake. Mon-Sat 11.45-23.30, Sun 12.00-22.30. From
about £20 for 2. 17 Hanover Square, W1. T: 071-629
2669. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
CHICAGO RIB SHACK. Specialities inc barbecued
ribs, onion loaves and delicious pecan pies. Children’s
menu (£7.25) plus crayons and competitions. Happy
hour Mon-Sat 17.30-19.30. Mon-Sat 11.45-23.30, Sun
12.00-23.00. From about £28 for 2. 1 Raphael Street,
SW7. T: 071-581 5595. Map 4C. U: Knightsbridge.
CHRISTOPHER’S - THE AMERICAN GRILL. Upmar-
ket East coast US-style menu inc steak and lobster
plus superb Caesar salad, lobster Newburg and baked
New York cheesecake. Stunning Victorian setting with
hand-painted walls and antique curtains. Popular bar
area also open for lighter meals. Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D
only. Ale about £70 for 2. 18 Wellington Street, WC2.
T: 071-240 4222. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
ED’S EASY DINER. Four branches of this fun, busy
and brightly decorated diner with stools around the
counter and juke boxes with 1950s hits. Great cheese-
burgers, club sandwiches, California Cobb salads and
Coke floats. Daily L & D. Alc about £12 for 2. 12 Moor
Street, W1. T: 071-439 1955. Map 3E. U: Leicester
Square. (Also at 362 King’s Road, SW3, T: 071-352
1956; 16 Hampstead High Street, NW3, T: 071-431
1958; and 335 Fulham Road, SW7, T: 071-352 1952.)
FAT BOY’S DINER. That American classic, the diner,
has found a home in Covent Garden with the cuisine
to match: burgers, hotdogs, BLTs and milkshakes. Ale
about £15 for 2. Daily B, L & D. Maiden Lane, WC2.
T: 071-240 1902. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
GATE DINER. Hearty portions of authentic American-
style and international cuisine, inc grilled fish and
meat, hamburgers, chilli and superb salads. Excel-
lent, relaxing alc Sun brunch features corned beef
hash, minute steak and eggs plus Creole pecan pie.
Daily L & D. Alc about £35 for 2. 184a Kensington
Park Road, W11. T: 071-221 7055. Map 3A. U: Not-
ting Hill Gate/Ladbroke Grove.
HARD ROCK CAFE. London’s original burger joint has
some of the best anywhere, although the queues to
get in are now legendary. Try the famous “pig’s sand-
wich”! Sun-Thur 11.30-00.30, Fri & Sat 11.30-01.00.
From about £25 for 2. 150 Old Park Lane, W1. T: 071-
629 0382. Map 4D. U: Hyde Park Corner.
HENRY’S CAFE BAR. Large, busy bar and restaurant
open for breakfast through late-night drinks. Varied
menu inc all-day breakfast, steak baguette, spicy
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
lasagne, club and BLT sandwiches. Alc from £25 for
2. Mon-Wed 08.00-23.00, Thur-Sat 08.00-24.00, Sun
10.00-22.30. 80 Piccadilly, W1. T: 071-491 2522. Map
4D. U: Green Park.
JOE ALLEN. Faithful reproduction of the New York
Joe Allen. Haunt of the theatre crowd and popular for
after-show dining. Favourites inc eggs Benedict. bar-
becued meat and chicken, plus great steak tartare.
Their burgers, though not on the menu, are delicious.
Mon-Sat 12.00-01.00, Sun 12.00-24.00. From £30 for
2. 13 Exeter Street, WC2. T: 071-836 0651. Map 3E.
U: Covent Garden.
JOHNNY ROCKETS. An original 1950s style diner
with lots of chrome and formica. American menu inc
chilli burgers, sandwiches (even peanut butter and
jelly!) and ice cream floats. Daily 11.30-24.00. Alc
about £14 for 2. 140 Fulham Road, SW10. T: 071-370
2794. Map 6B. U: South Kensington.
PJ’S GRILL. The deep mahogany wood trim makes it a
clubby ambience and the location is perfect for theatre-
goers. Menu is mix of British and American inc clam
chowder, homemade sausages with garlic mash, spicy
Creole fishcakes and barbecued ribs. Daily 12.00-
24.00. Alc from about £35 for 2. 30 Wellington Street,
WC2. T: 071-240 7529. Map 3F. U: Covent Garden.
ROCK ISLAND DINER. A testament to the rock’n’roll
era of the 1950s, the decor here is straight from
American Grafitti, inc a 54 Chevy, antique Wurlitzer
jukebox and a typical diner menu of burgers, fries
and apple pie. Friendly, young staff. Rec: slo-roast
BBQ pork and chocolate brownies. Bonus on week-
ends where all children under 10 years eat free. Daily
11.00-23.30 (until 22.30 Sun). Ale about £25 for 2.
London Pavilion, 2nd Floor, 1 Piccadilly Circus, W1,
" 'T: 071-287 5500. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
SMOLLENSKY’S BALLOON. Good steak sandwiches
and burgers, plus superb desserts inc peanut butter
cheesecake. Live music Mon-Sat eves and Sat & Sun L
party for kids, with toys, magicians and the latest Nin-
tendo games. Mon-Sat 12.00-24.00, Sun 12.00-22.30.
Alc £35 for 2. 1 Dover Street, W1. T: 071-491 1199. Map
4D. U: Green Park. (Also Smollensky’s on the
Strand with dancing to 1940s-60s music Fri & Sat
21.00-01.00. 105 Strand, WC2. T: 071-497 2101. Map
3E. U: Charing Cross.)
STICKY FINGERS. Owned by Rolling Stones bass player
Bill Wyman, the decor features an amazing array of
memorabilia from 28 years of touring the world. Menu
is a mix of all-American favourites inc burgers, hot dogs,
tuna melt, potato skins, Cajun chicken, T-bone steaks
and pecan pie. Daily 12.00-23.30. Happy hour with half-
price drinks 17.30-19.00 Mon-Fri. Alc about £25 for 2.
la Phillimore Gardens, W8. T: 071-938 5338. Map 4A.
U: High Street Kensington.
Ausrrian & SWISS
KERZENSTUBERL RESTAURANT. Typical Austrian
atmosphere with authentic menu and wines, plus
cheerful staff in traditional Alpine costumes. Rec:
Kerzenstiiberl Platte (variety of grilled meats gar-
nished with salad and potatoes) and Tafelspitz (ten-
der boiled beef served with various cold sauces). Set L
menu inc 2-courses £12.50, 3-courses £15.50. Live
accordion music Mon-Sat 20.00-24.00. Mon-Sat L &
D. Ale about £40 for 2. 9 St. Christopher’s Place, W1.
T: 071-486 8103. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
MARCHE MOVENPICK. Handy location just off
Leicester Square. Upmarket cafeteria service with
superb array of freshly-prepared Swiss specialities at
individual market-style stalls. Rec: Swiss filled pan-
cakes and traditional raclette. Perfect for pre-theatre
or cinema. Daily L & D (plus B in upstairs café). Alc
about £20 for 2. 1 Swiss Court, W1. T: 071-734 1291.
Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
OLD VIENNA BUDAPEST (Austro-Hungarian).
Antique bric-a-brac in pretty restaurant with Austri-
an and Hungarian menu. Nightly entertainment
from accordionist. Mon-Sat L & D, Sun D. About £40
for 2. 94 New Bond Street, W1. T: 071-629 8716. Map
3D. U: Bond Street.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
The Fresh Taste of the Deep Blue Sea
Lucullus is London’s foremost seafood restaurant. Situated in
pleasant surroundings in the heart of Knightsbridge, |
Lucullus offers its patrons a combination of
ambience and gastronomic delight. Our
glistening display of fresh seafood
is a joy to behold.
LUCULLUS
SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
48 Knightsbridge, London SW1__ Reservations: 071-245 6622
Open seven days a week 12—3 pm and 6-11.30 pm
Private Parties Pre & After Theatre welcome
Major Credit Cards accepted
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Discover our delicious authentic
Indian cuisine and we will serve you
; with a complimentary bottle of our
Peemnanccicmmees Vee 2 | house wine, for two with your meal.
Monday-Saturday 12-2.30, 5.30-11.30 Sunday 1.00-3.30, 6.30-11.30
3 Harrington Road, SW7 (opp. South Kensington Tube Station)
Reservations: 071 581 2900 Fax: 071 581 5980
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menu and charcoal grilled, baked and vegetarian dishes
skillfully prepared at the bar. Maroush I offers live music
and dancing every evening from 8pm.
MAROUSH I 21 Edgware Road, London W2
Tel: 071 723 0773 / 262 1090 Open 7 days 12.00-2.00am
MAROUSH II 38 Beauchamp Place, London SW3
Tel: 071 581 5434/5/6 Open 7 days 12.00-5.00am
MAROUSH III 62 Seymour Street, London W1
Tel: 071 724 5024 Open 7 days 12.00-1.00am
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
ST. MORITZ (Swiss). Wood-beamed Alpine chalet
with good meat and cheese fondues, veal specialities
and famous air-dried beef. Ideal for post-theatre.
Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D. Alc from about £30 for 2. 159
Wardour Street, W1. T: 071-734 3324. Map 3E.
U: Oxford Circus/Piccadilly Circus.
Bairisu
BERNERS RESTAURANT. Splendid Edwardian setting
at one of the few genuine carveries in London. Set
Carvery L £13.50 (except Sat), set 4-course D £15.75 or
choose from extensive alc menu. Also daily B 06.00-
10.30. Good pre-theatre Carvery D £12.50, from 18.00-
19.00. Ale about £50 for 2. Berners Park Plaza Hotel,
Berners Street, W1. T: 071-636 1629. Map 3E.
U: Oxford Circus.
BOSWELL’S. Traditional English fare from finest sea-
sonal game to roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, all
served in an Edwardian-style dining room. Daily D.
About £38 for 2. 239 Old Brompton Road, SW5.
T: 071-373 3502. Map 5B. U: Earl’s Court.
THE CAIRNGORM GRILL. Elegant restaurant with
traditional grill fare plus seasonal specialities. Prime
Scottish beef and Dover sole are popular dishes.
Watch meal being prepared in the glass-sided
kitchen! Excellent wine list. Set D £18.90, Mon-Sat
18.00-22.30. Ale from about £60 for 2. 28 De Vere
Gardens, W8. T: 071-938 4971. Map 4B. U: High
Street Kensington.
THE CARVERY. A restaurant steeped in British tradi-
tion, overlooking St. Katharine’s Dock. Starters, sweet
and coffee served at table, main courses from carvery.
Some vegetarian dishes plus salad bar. Daily L & D
(set, £14.95). Supper menu 22.00-24.00 in lounge area.
Ale about £40 for 2. Tower Thistle Hotel, St.
Katharine’s Way, E1. T: 071-481 2575. Map 4H.
U: Tower Hill.
THE CARVING TABLE. Sumptuous late Victorian
carvery. Traditional English roasts with light French
influence, plus several vegetarian dishes. Daily B, L
(set, £15.90) & D (set, £16.90). Pre-theatre D from
18.00. Stakis St. Ermin’s Hotel, Caxton Street, SW1.
T: 071-222 7888. Map 4E. U: St. James’s Park.
CHIMES. Old-fashioned decor plus traditional home-
cooked English pies and puddings, complete with
English wines and ciders. Rec: pheasant, orange and
walnut pie or Gloucestershire lamb pie. Daily L & D.
Alc about £25 for 2. 26 Churton Street, SW1. T: 071-
821 7456. Map 5E. U: Victoria. (Also at 91 High Street,
Wimbledon Village, SW19.)
THE DINING ROOM. The most talked about new hotel
in London has a stunning restaurant supervised by
chef Paul Gayler. Modern English cooking inc roast
breast and sausage of wild duckling and iced parfait of
pear and whisky on shortbread with butterscotch
sauce. Excellent wine list. Daily L & D. Set L £24, set
D £43.50; ale about £80 for 2. Lanesborough Hotel,
1 Lanesborough Place, SW1. T: 071-259 5599. Map 4D.
U: Hyde Park Corner.
THE GREENHOUSE. Talented chef Gary Rhodes
mixes basic English cooking with flamboyant French
and Italian influences in this pretty conservatory-
style decor. Rec: griddled scallop salad or beef carpac-
cio. Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat D, also excellent Sun L. Ale
from £50 for 2. 27a Hays Mews, W1. T: 071-499 3331.
Map 4D. U: Green Park.
GREEN’S RESTAURANT AND OYSTER BAR. Popular
restaurant serving traditional British favourites inc
omelette Arnold Bennett, kippers with poached eggs
and fish cakes. Mon-Sat L & D, Sun brunch 12.30-
15.30. About £70 for 2. 36 Duke Street, St. James’s,
SW1. T: 071-930 4566. Map 4E. U: Green Park.
GREEN’S WESTMINSTER. Sister restaurant to
Green's with clubby atmosphere popular with MPs —
the division bell even sounds to summon them to Par-
liament. Classic British dishes inc steak and kidney
pie or “bangers and mash”. Alc about £70 for 2. Mon-
Fri L & D. Marsham Court, Marsham Street, SW1.
T: 071-834 9552. Map 5E. U: Pimlico/St. James's.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
THE IVY. This fashionable spot is a bastion of tradi-
tional English cuisine re-interpreted in a modern man-
ner. Rec: salmon fishcakes, fillets of beef with bear-
naise sauce and bang bang chicken (with spicy peanut
sauce). Daily L & D. Alc about £60 for 2. 1 West Street.
WC2. T: 071-836 4751. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
THE ORIGINAL CARVERY. Succulent roast pork, beef
and lamb, plus cold table of gammon, turkey and sal-
ads. Excellent for pre-theatre. Set all-you-can-eat buf-
fet menu at £14.95. Mon-Sat L & D. Alc about £38 for
2. The Strand Palace Hotel, Strand, WC2. T- 071-836
8080. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden/Charing Cross.
PORTERS. Cheerful place for traditional English pies.
Rec: steak and mushroom, Old English fish or lamb
and apricot. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding served
Sat & Sun. Desserts inc treacle tart and spotted Dick.
Daily L & D. About £24 for 2. 17 Henrietta Street.
WC2. T: 071-836 6466. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
THE RIB ROOM. Clubby, relaxing atmosphere and
very traditional British menu. Grills and fish a spe-
ciality, also excellent 3-course set L menu at £21 (£24
inc 1/2 bottle of wine). Rec: Rib Room Mixed Grill
(lamb cutlet, fillet steak, veal kidney, sausages, calf’s
liver and bacon). Daily L& D. Ale about £70 for 2.
Hyatt Carlton Tower, Cadogan Place SW1. T: 071-235
5411. Map 5D. U: Knightsbridge.
RULES. London’s oldest restaurant (opened in 1798)
was once a haunt of writers and actors, from Charlie
Chaplin to Graham Greene. Very traditional British
menu. Rec: Scottish beef, oyster pies, sherry trifle and
steamed puddings. Mon-Sat L & D. Alc about £70 for
2. 35 Maiden Lane, WC2. T: 071-836 5314. Map 3E.
U: Covent Garden.
SHUTTLEWORTH’S OF ALDWYCH. Extensive alc
menu of steaks, game and seafood. Pre- and post-
theatre D £12.50. Also Theatre Bar for snacks. Mon-
Fri L & D, Sat D only. Ale about £36 for 2. 1 Aldwych,
WC2. T: 071-836 3346. Map 3F. U: Charing Cross.
(Also Shuttleworth’s at the Phoenix, 1 Phoenix
Street, Charing Cross Road, WC2. T: 071-836 1077.
Map 3E. U: Charing Cross.)
SIMPSON’S-IN-THE-STRAND. Classic British food
since early 19th century in traditional ambience. Rec:
superb beef from trolley. Daily L & D, inc excellent Sun
L. Good value pre-theatre 3-course D £17.50 from
18.00. Ale from about £60 for 2. 100 Strand, WC2.
T: 071-836 9112. Map 3E. U: Charing Cross.
TIDDY DOLS. The King of English Eating Houses.
Group of charming Georgian townhouses (circa 1741)
in historic Shepherd Market features traditional Old
English dishes inc jugged hare, roast beef and York-
shire pudding, cock-a-leekie and syllabub. Live enter-
tainment nightly with pianist and strolling lutenists.
Mon-Fri L, daily D. Ale £50 for 2. 55 Shepherd Mar-
ket, W1. T: 071-499 2357/8. Map 4D.U: Green Park.
THE VINE GRILL. Ideal for lunch and pre-theatre
suppers. Very traditional English menu. Generous
beef and veal steaks are charcoal-grilled and deli-
cious. Mon-Fri L & D. Pre-theatre D from 17.30. Alc
about £35 for 2. 2-3 Piccadilly Place, W1. T: 071-734
5789. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
CHINESE
CHINA RENDEZVOUS. Traditional Chinese cuisine,
inc aromatic crispy Peking duck and the rarely-found
Mongolian cuisine. Try the steamboat: pork, beef,
chicken, seafood, vegetables and noodles cooked
together at your table (£24). Mon-Fri L, daily D. Set
menus from £13.50-£16.50; also special L menu
£7.99. Alc about £30 for 2. 62 Marylebone Lane, W1.
T: 071-486 2004. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
CHOYS. Stylish, family-run restaurant in Chelsea for
nearly 40 years serves classic Cantonese, Peking and
Szechuan cuisine with several seafood specialities.
Try various lobster dishes or fresh sea bass with gin-
ger and onions. Set meals £16 (minimum 2 people) or
£17.50 (minimum 4). Daily 12.00-24.00. Alc about £40
for 2. 172 King’s Road, SW3. T: 071-352 9085. Map
5C/D. U: Sloane Square.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RISE ABOVE IT ALL.
The Hilton on Park Lane is one
of the landmarks of the capital and
at its very summit is the Windows
on the World restaurant
and bar, a unique venue
in a unique setting.
By day, the bustle
of the metropolis
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beneath you. By night,
stars and city lights
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provides a glamorous
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experience.
Open for breakfast,
lunch and dinner
7 days a week.
Put London at your
feet — telephone
(071) 493 8000.
For reservations: Telephone (071) 493 8000 or fax (071) 493 4957
London Hilton on Park Lane, 22 Park Lane, London W1A 2HH.
JAPANESE RESTAURANT.
Extended ‘Sushi’ Bar offering: many.”
specialities cooked right before
your eyes, served by traditional
costumed waitresses.
‘Suki-Yaki’ also available. :
Lunch 12.30pm-2.30pm
Dinner 6.30pm-10.30pm
Monday to Saturday
Res: 071-408 2236
43 South Molton Street, London W1
Bond Street Tube Station
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Lunchtime Bites at the Terrace
Long, cool drinks in Erik’s Bar — any time 5S
Dine deliciously in the Three Crowns Restaurant \,
International Menu with Swedish specialities —,.
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SCANDIC CROWN HOTEL Ss
EUSTON - LONDON
17—18 Upper Woburn Place London WC1
Tel: 071 383 4105
I! MAROUSH
LONDON’S LEADING CHAIN OF LEBANESE RESTAURANTS
Offers a choice of 71 dishes with an extensive wine list,
ideal for everyone from business lunches to late-night revellers,
party bookings up to 100, outside catering also arranged.
Reservation & opening times
please refer to Lebanese restaurant listings
‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’
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Voted ‘Restaurant of the year’ - Inside Mayfair
REGIONAL MIDDLE EASTERN FOOD
18 SHEPHERD STREET MAYFAIR LONDON W1 071 493 3320 - 491 8739
TASTE OF
INDIA
RESTAURANT
Covent Garden's stylish Indian
Restaurant opposite The Theatre Royal.
3 La Boheme
at Covent Garden
Exclusive French Cuisine
in the Heart of Theatreland
Open 6 Days a Week
12-—3pm 5.30—Midnight
Monday — Saturday
27 Catherine Street, Covent Garden
London WC2B 5]S
Tel:071 240 9705 Fax: 071 240 2951
Opposite Theatre Royal
Open Seven Days a Week
12.00 - 2.30pm. 5.30 - midnight
Tel: (071) 836 6591 or 836 2538
Recommended by The Egon Ronay Lucas
Guide, The Guardian, The Evening Standard,
LBC Radio, Time Out, Harpers & Queen, AA
Award for Good Food and Good Service
25/27 Catherine Street, Covent Garden
London WC2B 5JS
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
CHUEN CHENG KU. Large, lively 4-storey restaurant
popular with local Chinese community. Enormous
menu inc fried oysters and Peking duck. Numerous
vegetarian dishes. Good dim sum served from 11.00-
17.45. Daily 11.00-23.45. Set meals from £10 per per-
son; alc from about £35 for 2. 17 Wardour Street, W1.
T: 071-437 1398. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
DRAGON’S NEST. Spacious, elegant 2-storey restau-
rant specialising in Peking and Szechuan dishes
from northern China. Good meat, fish and lobster
dishes plus vegetarian dishes. Daily L & D. Set
meals from £11.50; ale from £30 for 2. 58-60 Shaftes-
bury Avenue, W1. T: 071-437 3119. Map 3E. U: Pic-
cadilly Circus.
HAPPY GARDEN. Three-storey restaurant close to
theatreland. Good seafood specialities inc deep-fried
squid, oysters with ginger and spring onions or
steamed eel with black bean sauce. Set meals range
from £18 for 2 to £56 for 4 people. Daily 11.00-24.00.
Alc from £25 for 2. 47-49 Charing Cross Road, WC2.
T: 071-437 7472. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
HARBOUR CITY. Spacious Chinatown restaurant on 2
levels with extensive menu inc range of seafood dish-
es and exceptional dim sum (served Mon-Sat 12.00-
17.00). Szechuan set meals from £12. Good for pre- &
post-theatre dining. Mon-Sat 12.00-23.30, Sun 11.00-
23.00. Alc from £20 for 2. 46 Gerrard Street, W1.
T: 071-439 7859. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
HONG KONG CHINESE. In the heart of Chinatown
with authentic Cantonese and Peking cuisine, plus
good traditional dim sum. Many vegetarian options.
Daily L & D. Ale about £25 for 2. 6-7 Lisle Street,
WC2. T: 071-287 0324. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
IMPERIAL DINER. Centrally situated Chinatown
restaurant specialising in Cantonese and Peking
dishes inc aromatic crispy duck and lobster with gin-
ger and spring onions. Set menus from £12; seafood
from £29 for 2 people and Peking menus from £19-
£42. Daily 12.00-04.30. 26-28 Wardour Street, W1.
T: 071-734 4691. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
JOY KING LAU. Chinese food at its best in this stylish
Chinatown restaurant serving classic Peking and
Cantonese cuisine. Mon-Thur 11.30-23.30, Fri & Sat
11.30-23.45, Sun 11.00-22.30. Set meals from £8.20;
alc from about £20 for 2. 3 Leicester Street, WC2.
T: 071-437 1132. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
MR. KONG. Set on 3 floors and very prettily decorat-
ed, this is one of London’s best Chinese restaurants.
Specialists in traditional Cantonese dishes inc chick-
en with mango and many seafood dishes. Good roast-
ed Peking or crispy aromatic Szechuan duck. Daily
12.00-01.45. Set meals from £8.60; also Mr. Kong’s
Special Set Dinner (minimum 4 persons) from £15-
£18. Alc about £30 for 2. 21 Lisle Street, WC2. T: 071-
437 7341. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
NEW FOOK LAM MOON RESTAURANT. Extensive
Cantonese and Peking menu is strong on seafood,
with exceptional lobster. Mon-Sat 12.00-23.30, Sun to
22.30. Special seafood menus £15.50-£18; also Peking
menus from £15.50. Alc from about £30 for 2. 10 Ger-
rard Street, W1. T: 071-734 7615. Map 3E. U: Leices-
ter Square.
NEW LOON FUNG. Spacious restaurant with good Can-
tonese and Peking food on 2 storeys. Good L dim sum.
Specialities inc baked lobster, king prawns and crispy
aromatic duck. Special set D menus from £12. Daily
12.00-23.30. Alc about £40 for 2. 42-44 Gerrard Street,
W1. T: 071-437 6232. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
THE ORIENTAL RESTAURANT. Superb Cantonese
cuisine in beautiful dining room decorated with
exquisite Far Eastern antiques. Rec: lunch-time dim
sum (£5) to go with extensive set L menu (£20). Also
good braised shark’s fin soup with crab or deep-fried
prawns and mango in rice paper. Mon-Sat L & D. Alc
from about £60 for 2. Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane,
W1. T: 071-629 8888. Map 4D. U: Marble Arch/Hyde
Park Corner.
PEARL OF KNIGHTSBRIDGE. Recently opened, it’s
located just two minutes from Harrods and is one of
the most stylish Chinese restaurants in Southwest
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
London. Decor features beautiful hand-painted Taoist
murals. Specialities inc Mongolian barbecued lamb.
sweet & sour fish with fresh fruit and delicious
dumpling soup. Daily L & D. Alc about £60 for 2. 22
Brompton Road, Knightsbridge Green, SW1. T: 071-
225 3888. Map 4C/D. U: Knightsbridge.
k ISH & SEAFOOD
BENTLEYS. Wood panelling, cosy booths and superb
seafood. Champagne and Oyster Bar has short menu
of salmon, crab, oysters or lobster, while Seafood
Restaurant offers extensive alc selection. Rest: set L
menu (2 courses £19.50, 3 courses £22.50): about £60
for 2. Mon-Fri L only. Oyster Bar: Alc about £30 for 2.
Mon-Fri 11.00-22.00. 11 Queen Victoria Street, EC4.
T: 071-489 8067. Map 3G. U: Bank. (Also Mon-Sat L
& D at 11-15 Swallow Street, W1. T: 071-734 4756.
Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.)
CAFE FISH. Fresh fish in a charming, informal
French atmosphere. Rec: Brittany oysters, coquilles
St. Jacques and fishcakes with tomato sauce. Mon-Fri
L, Mon-Sat D. From about £35 for 2. Snack menu in
wine bar (open daily 11.30-23.00). 39 Panton Street,
SW1. T: 071-930 3999. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
FLOUNDERS. Popular fish restaurant featuring tra-
ditional fish and chips to Dover sole and lobster.
Menu changes every 2 weeks. Mon-Sat L & D. Set 3-
course meal £15.85; alc about £35 for 2. 19-21 Tavis-
tock Street, WC2. T: 071-836 3925. Map 3E.
U: Covent Garden.
GEALES. Some of the best fish and chips in London
but very informal ambience. Huge portions. Rec:
chowder and excellent apple crumble for dessert.
Tues-Sat L 12.00-15.00 & D 18.00-23.00. Alc about
£25 for 2. 2 Farmer Street, W8. T: 071-727 7969. Map
4A/B. U: Notting Hill Gate.
GRAHAME’S FISH RESTAURANT. Informal, with old-
fashioned booths, sweet and efficient waitresses and
superb fresh fish. Kosher menu is popular with local
businesses, many celebrities and visitors. Rec: grilled
Dover sole or halibut, home-made hummus and
hearty soups. Good for pre-theatre. Mon-Sat L, Mon-
Thur D 17.30-21.00, Fri-Sat D 17.30-20.00. Alc from
about £35 for 2. 38 Poland Street, W1. T: 071-437
3788. Map 3E. U: Oxford Circus.
L’HIPPOCAMPE. Excellent all-fish restaurant in
heart of Soho. Trendy minimalist decor with piscine
theme. Innovative seafood concoctions inc ravioli of
mussels and brochette of salmon and langoustine
with saffron risotto. Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D. Good set
menu £17.50; alc about £60 for 2. 63 Frith Street, W1.
T: 071-734 4545. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
LUCULLUS. Fine international seafood restaurant
with lovely views of Hyde Park. Choose from the ice-
bed display of shellfish and fish or lobster from the
seawater tank cooked to your taste. Numerous meat
and vegetarian dishes, too. Daily L & D. Set L from
£12.50-£15.50; alc about £55 for 2. 48 Knightsbridge,
SW1. T: 071-245 6622. Map 4C. U: Knightsbridge.
MANZI’S. Great shellfish and seafood in stylishly
informal, family-run restaurant near Leicester
Square. For a quick snack try oysters or mussels with
wine at the bar. Ideal for pre- or post-theatre dining.
Mon-Sat L 12.00-14.30, D 17.30-23.30, Sun D only
18.30-22.30. Ale about £40 for 2. Leicester Street,
WC2. T: 071-734 0224. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
Frencu
L'AUBERGE DE PROVENCE. Authentic Provengal
dining room modelled on legendary Oustau de Bau-
maniere restaurant in the South of France. Speciali-
ties inc game dishes plus superb 3-course “menu gas-
tronomique” (£30) and 6-course “menu dégustation”
(£40). Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D. Special set L for £22.50;
alc about £90 for 2. St. James Court Hotel, Bucking-
ham Gate, SW1. T: 071-834 6655. Map 4E. U: St.
James’s Park.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
W hat’s the English for
Haute Cuisine?
Simpson’s-in-the-Strand. It is where traditional English
cooking is raised to its greatest heights. The finest roast beef
and roast lamb in the world. Lancashire Hotpot.
Aylesbury Duck. Grilled Dover Sole. And Simpson’s
unforgettable Treacle Roll. Simpson’s-in-the-Strand is open every
day from 12.00 -
and on Sundays from 12.00 -
2.30pm and from 6 - 11pm in the evenings,
2.30pm and from 6 - 9pm.
Close to theatreland, it is ideal for supper before
or after the show. But please book now.
After all, the English are renowned for being reserved.
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For reservations, please call (071) 836 9112.
Simpson’s-in-the-Strand warmly welcomes the American Express Card. Cards
GRAHAME'S
FISH RESTAURANT
Mayfair G reek Taverna
Over 37 years of serving you
superb fresh fish selected daily.
Kosher Style
Pre theatre dining
Lunch Mon. - Sat. 12 noon - 2.45pm
Dinner Mon. - Thurs. 5.30 - 9.00pm
Fri. - Sat. 5.30 - 8.00pm
38 Poland Street, London W1
Tel: 071 437 3788 / 0975
AUTHENTIC GREEK CUISINE SERVICE AND AMBIANCE
Open daily 12 noon to midnight
5-6 Down Street, Mayfair W1
Tel: 071-499 1383/491 3810
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EAT AS MUCH
AS YOU LIKE!
Ti This wonderful buffet of traditional
Swedish fare includes herrings,
prawns, salmon, smoked fish,
cold meats, Jansson’s Temptation,
meatballs, cheeses and desserts.
| Swedish beers and snaps available.
Every Sunday from 8 March;
Price £16.00 for adults.
Children’s special prices.
IN LONDON:
| SCANDIC CROWN HOTEL NELSON DOCK
Tel 071 231 1001
SCANDIC CROWN HOTEL EUSTON
Tel 071 383 4105
SCANDIC CROWN HOTEL VICTORIA
Tel 071 834 8123
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SCANDIC CROWN HOTEL GATWICK
Tel 0293 561186
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The Original people of
India are offering the
True Taste of Indian Cuisine.
Authentic Tandoori and
Indian Specialities
Takeaway and Outside Catering
services available
Under the management of
Gaylord Restaurants, New Delhi
& Bombay
G‘A‘Y‘L:O-R-D
79-81 MORTIMER STREET LONDON W 1
Tel: 071-580 43615 / 636 O8O8
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
AU BON ACCUEIL. Traditional and dependable fare
in attractive, well-established restaurant. Short
menu inc cog au vin, veal escalope with orange and
rum and steak au poivre a la Armagnac. Mon-Fri L &
D, Sat D. About £40 for 2. 19-21 Elystan Street, SW3.
T: 071-589 3718. Map 5C. U: South Kensington.
LA BRASSERIE. Informa! Parisian-style brasserie
open throughout the day for casual coffees, light
snacks, full meals or late-evening drinks. Rec: salade
au Roquefort, boeuf bourguignon, steak minute and
creme caramel. Daily B, L & D. Alc from about £30
for 2. 272 Brompton Road, SW3. T: 071-584 1668.
Map 5C. U: South Kensington.
BRASSERIE DU COIN. Large range of classic French
meat, fish and poultry dishes. Try starters like snails
in garlic butter and home-made fish soup. Mon-Fri L
& D. Ale about £35 for 2. 54 Lamb’s Conduit Street,
WC1. T: 071-405 1717. Map 2F.U: Holborn/Russell
Street.
LE CAFE DES AMIS DU VIN. Popular and amiable,
this traditional French café attracts a wide range of
clients, from businessmen to the pre-theatre Covent
Garden crowd. Many regional plats du jour. Good
vegetarian selection and award-winning cheeseboard.
Mon-Sat 11.30-23.30. Alc from about £35 for 2. 11-14
Hanover Place, WC2. T: 071-379 3444. Map 3E.
U: Covent Garden.
LE CAFE DU JARDIN. Bustling Parisian atmosphere
in this long-established Covent Garden spot serving
authentic French cuisine. Specialities inc goat’s cheese
salad and lamb a la grecque. Good pre-theatre set
menu £9.50 from 17.30-19.30. Mon-Fri 12.00-14.30 &
Mon-Sat 17.30-23.30, Sun 12.00-15.00 & 18.30-22.30.
Alc about £40 for 2. 28 Wellington Street, WC2. T: 071-
836 8760. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
CAFE PELICAN. Winner of 1991 best service award,
this genuine French brasserie/restaurant offers
everything from drinks and light snacks to full ale
meals, inc classic French dishes and daily specials.
Live piano music nightly from 21.00. Daily 11.00-
24.00 (bar open until 02.00). 3-course set menu
£16.50; alc about £40 for 2. 45 St. Martin’s Lane,
WC2. T: 071-379 0309. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
CAFE ROUGE. Bustling French bistro with informal
atmosphere in charming St. Christopher’s Place shop-
ping area. Authentic menu inc Normandy fish stew,
soupe au pistou and good grilled entrecéte and frites.
Mon-Sat 10.00-23.00. Ale about £35 for 2. 46-48 James
Street, W1. T: 071-487 4847. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
THE CAPITAL. Set in a luxurious private hotel (cele-
brating its 21st birthday this month!) near Harrods is
some of London’s best French haute cuisine. Small,
pretty Michelin-starred dining room under supervi-
sion of master chef Phillip Britten, this is superb cook-
ing to savour and remember. Perfect presentation and
impeccable service. Special set 6-course anniversary D
menu throughout May inc 4-courses at £37.50. Daily
L & D. Regular set L menus £20 & £23, set D £25. Alc
from about £100 for 2. Basil Street, SW3. T: 071-589
5171. Map 4C. U: Knightsbridge.
CAXTON GRILL. Sophisticated French cuisine with
house specialities such as stewed rabbit, veal Orloff,
duck a l’orange and red grouse. Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D
only. Set 3 course L £19.95, set D £21.50; ale about
£60 for 2. Stakis St. Ermin’s Hotel, 2 Caxton Street,
SW1. T: 071-222 7888. Map 4E. U: St. James's Park.
CHELSEA ROOM. Magnificent views of leafy square
from this traditional French first-floor dining room.
Chef Bernard Gaume’s alc specialities inc boudins de
crabe chauds a la moutarde (crab sausages with mus-
tard sauce), lasagne of celeriac with lobster, and
mignons de canard Périgourdin (fillets of duck topped
with duck liver on a polenta pancake). Daily L & D.
Excellent set 3-course L £21.50 (or £24.50 inc 1/2 bot-
tle wine). Or alc about £90 for 2. Hyatt Carlton Tower,
Cadogan Place, SW1. Map 5D. U: Knightsbridge.
CHESHAM’S. A surprising little find tucked away in
Belgravia. Talented chef Thierry Aubugeau’s menu
boasts Anglo-French influences inc salmon marinated
with Chablis and supreme of chicken with roquefort
Ty agon 5 A lesf
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Offering superb Peking &
Szechuan dishes from the
Northern Provinces of China.
Open 7 days a week,
credit cards accepted.
58-60 Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1
Reservations: (071) 437 3119
AUTHENTIC AMERICAN AND
INTERNATIONAL CUISINE
CHARMING AND COSY, WITH HEARTY
PORTIONS AT REASONABLE PRICES.
PRIVATE ROOM AVAILABLE
FOR PARTY BOOKINGS.
OPEN DAILY 11.30 TILL 12 MIDNIGHT
SPECIAL SUNDAY BRUNCH TILL 4.00 PM
184 A KENSINGTON PARK ROAD
LONDON W11 TEL:071 - 221 2649
IN THE HEART OF PORTOBELLO MARKET.
Los Remos
RESTAURANT & TAPAS BAR
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Exquisite Spanish cuisine and live music
Open Monday to Saturday
12 noon-3pm, 7pm-midnight
Tapas bar 12 noon-midnight
38A Southwick Street
Paddington, London W2
071-723 5056 / 706 1870
Sri SIAM
THAI RESTAURANT
The Finest Thai food & service
WELL RECOMMENDED
“Its good news, flavours are clear, distinct and positive”
The Times - Jonathan Meades
"Immediately appealing, try this”
Evening Standard - Fay Maschler
“I commend to your attention the set menu”
Observer - Paul Levy
Open for Lunch & Dinner Daily
from 12 - 3pm, 6pm - 11.15pm
Sunday 6pm - 10.30pm
14 Old Compton Street,
Soho, W1 071 434 3544
Sri Siam City Branch
85 London Wall, EC2 071 628 5772
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
sauce. Set 2-course L £19.95 inc 1/2 bottle wine. Spe-
cial offer to Where readers: free pre-dinner
glass of Champagne! Mon-Fri L & D, Sat & Sun ale
D only. Alc about £70 for 2. Sheraton Belgravia Hotel,
20 Chesham Place, SW1. T: 071-235 6040. Map 5D.
U: Knightsbridge.
CHEZ GERARD. Successful group of restaurants ooz-
ing simple Gallic charm. House specialities inc a wide
selection of charcoal grills — céte de boeuf, le
Chateaubriand and a superb steak-frites. Daily plats
du jour inc fish and French regional dishes. Mon-Sat
L & D. Excellent value set D 4-courses £15. Alc about
£45 for 2. 31 Dover Street, W1. T: 071-499 8171. Map
3/4D. U: Green Park. (Also 8 Charlotte Street, W1.
T: 071-636 4975. Map 2E. U: Goodge Street; and 119
Chancery Lane, WC2. T: 071-405 0290. Map 3F.
U: Chancery Lane.)
CHEZ NICO. The brilliant Nico Ladenis gives you a
chance to taste his inspired 2 Michelin-starred cook-
ing for £27.75, the price of 3-course set L. Choice of 2
courses from D menu, £41. Mon-Fri L & D. 35 Great
Portland Street, W1. T: 071-436 8846. Map 2D.
U: Oxford Circus. (Also Very Simply Nico, 48a
Rochester Row, SW1. T: 071-630 8061. Map 5E.
U: Victoria/St. James’s Park.)
L'ESCARGOT. Its series of dining rooms attracts a
young smart crowd. Ground-floor brasserie (about
£50 for 2; evening set meal £12.50), restaurant above
(about £70 for 2). French cuisine but with modern
British dishes. Live music in evenings. Mon-Fri L &
D, Sat D. 48 Greek Street, W1. T: 071-437 2679. Map
3E. U: Tottenham Court Road.
LVETOILE. Reputedly the oldest French restaurant in
London (established in 1896), its menus and decors
have hardly changed in the last century. Classic
French food inc turbot a la Monogasque, coquilles St.
Jacques and a perfect entrecéte. Mon-Fri L, Sat D.
Ale about £80 for 2. 30 Charlotte Street, W1.
T: 071-636 7189. Map 2E. U: Tottenham Court Road.
THE FOUR SEASONS. Lovely views of Hyde Park, lav-
ish decor and superb Michelin-starred cuisine from
acclaimed young chef Bruno Loubet. Try the £22.50,
3-course set L (Mon-Fri, £25 on Sun) or the “Dinner
Surprise” at £40. Extensive, impressive wine list.
Smart dress. Daily L & D. Ale from about £85 for 2.
Inn on the Park, Hamilton Place, W1. T: 071-499
0888. Map 4D. U: Hyde Park Corner.
LE GAVROCHE. Gourmets who really know food and
presentation come to the only London restaurant to
be awarded 3 Michelin stars, and they deserve them.
Superlative French cooking under supervision of cele-
brated master Albert Roux, but very expensive —
especially the wines. Less costly at L, when there’s a
£28.50 set meal. Mon-Fri L & D. From £120 for 2.
Smart dress. 43 Upper Brook Street, W1. T: 071-408
0881. Map 3D. U: Marble Arch.
MAGNO’S BRASSERIE. Very popular Covent Garden
restaurant with notable céte de boeuf aux vin du Bor-
delais and other traditional French bistro dishes. Pre-
theatre set D from 17.30 is great value at £9.95, inc
coffee. Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D. Set D £16.50; ale about
£50 for 2. 65a Long Acre, WC2. T: 071-836 6077. Map
3E. U: Covent Garden.
MON PETIT PLAISIR. An offshoot of the Covent Gar-
den original, offering the same classic mix of French
cuisine and wines in a cosy atmosphere. Specialities
inc haddock and smoked salmon terrine and lamb fil-
lets with tarragon sauce. Good selection of vegetarian
dishes. Mon-Fri L & D. Set L £12.95 and early “menu
rapido” D £13.70; ale about £75 for 2. 33 Holland
Street, W8. T: 071-937 3224. Map 4B. U: High Street
Kensington.
MON PLAISIR. Long-established and popular for
authentic Parisian bistro cooking. Rec: coq au vin.
Good for pre-theatre D; 3-courses, a glass of wine, all-
ine £13.70, 18.00-19.15. Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D. Set L
£13.70; alec from £50 for 2. 21 Monmouth Street,
WC2. T: 071-836 7243. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
MON PLAISIR DU NORD. Bar/brasserie and restau-
rant offspring of Covent Garden original, serving
same mix of classic French cuisine, fine wines and
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
snacks. Close to Camden Passage antique shops.
Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D. Set L £13.70. About £40 for 2.
359 The Mall, Upper Street, N1. T: 071-359 1932.
Map IF. U: Angel.
THE OAK ROOM. Beautiful, oak-panelled, romantic
Michelin-starred restaurant just steps from Piccadilly
Circus. Classic French menu and impeccable service.
For special occasions, Menu Paps amymid 7 courses £46
per person. Alc about £90 for 2. Mon-Fri L (set, £24.50
per person) & D, Sat D. Le Meridien, 21 Piccadilly,
W1. T: 071-734 8000. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
LA POULE AU POT. Very popular, typical French
bistro with simple, excellent menu — traditional dish-
es inc terrines, boeuf bourguignon, gigot of lamb and
cog au vin. Friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Mon-Fri L,
Mon-Sat D. Alc about £40 for 2. 231 Ebury Street,
SW1. T: 071-730 7763. Map 5D. U: Sloane Square.
ROYAL ROOFTOP RESTAURANT. Modern French cui-
sine from top-floor restaurant over-looking Kensington
Palace Gardens. Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D only. Live piano
music every evening; dancing on Sat eve 7. Set L
£18.95, set 6-course D £33; ale about £80 for 2. Royal
Garden Hotel, Kensington High Street, W8. T: 071- 937
8000. Map 4B. U: High Street Kensington.
RUE ST. JACQUES. Michelin starred, impeccable
haute cuisine from chef Gunther Schlender makes din-
ing here glamorous and memorable. Mon-Fri L & D,
Sat D. 3-course set L £19.50, 3 course set D £25: alc
haus £120 for 2. 5 Charlotte Street, W1. T: 071-637
0222. Map 2E. U: Goodge Street.
SOHO SOHO. The influence is regional Provence in
both the dining room upstairs (menu inc brilliant
soupe de poisson and brouffado, marinated beef in
red wine) and the brasserie ambience of the Café-
Bar/R6tisserie downstairs (omelettes, moules and
brochettes). Restaurant: Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat D. Alc
about £55 for 2. Downstairs: Mon-Fri B, Mon-Sat
11.00-01.00. Ale about £30 for 2. 11-13 Frith Street,
W1. T: 071- 494 3491. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
SOLANGE’S. Restaurant, wine bar and brasserie on 3
levels. Menu features authentic French dishes inc
moules mariniéres and cog au vin. Convenient for
West End theatres. Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat D (from
17.30). Ale about £40 for 2. 11 St. Martin’s Court, WC2
T: 071-240 9936. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
LA TANTE CLAIRE. Celebrated chef Pierre Koff-
mann’s Michelin-class cooking blends traditional and
modern French. One of London’s best, but quite
expensive. Set 3-course L £23.50, inc service. Mon-Fri
L & D. About £140 for 2. 68 Royal Hospital Road,
SW3. T: 071-352 6045. Map 6C. U: Sloane Square.
GREEK
CLEOPATRA TAVERNA. Lively spot for traditional
Greek menu and entertainment, inc belly dancing,
live Greek music and plate-breaking! Rec: moussaka,
dolmades, humous and kalamari. Daily D only. Alc
from about £40 for 2. 146-150 Notting Hill Gate, W11.
T: 071-727 4046. Map 4A. U: Notting Hill Gate.
FOUR LANTERNS. Excellent meze at £11.50 per per-
son and other Greek dishes; or choose one of their
international specialities. Good value with lively
dancing to Greek and English music. Mon-Fri L & D,
Sat D only. About £30 for 2. 96 Cleveland Street, W1.
T: 071-387 0704. Map 2D. U: Great Portland Street.
MAYFAIR GREEK TAVERNA. Authentic Greek cuisine
in sophisticated Mayfair restaurant. Try meze and
traditional specialities like moussaka, souvlakia, dol-
mades or kleftiko, then baklava and strong black
Greek coffee. Good for pre- and post-theatre. Daily
12.00-24.00. Alc about £40 for 2. 5-6 Down Street,
W1. T: 071-491 3810. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
ROMANTICA GREEK TAVERNA. Quiet and cosy, this
traditional Greek restaurant specialises in grilled fish
(prawns, sea bass, trout) plus superb meze. Good set
menu for L or D ine 12 dishes such as houmous,
taramosalata, lamb kebab and salad (£12.50). Daily L
& D. Alc about £40 for 2. 10-12 Moscow Road, W2.
T: 071-727 7112. Map 3B. U: Bayswater/Queensway.
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AMJADIA. Near Selfridges, this friendly restaurant
has been established for over 20 years. Specialities
inc vegetarian thalis (£9.90) and meat thalis (£10.90).
king prawn masalla and chicken tikka masalla. Daily
L & D. About £20 for 2. 15 Picton Place, W1. T: 071-
935 0885. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
BHATTI’S. Pretty, award-winning restaurant in
theatreland. Specialities inc lamb passanda, buttered
chicken and tandoori fish. Vegetarian thali £10.50.
Pre-theatre D, 18.15-19.15, £8.95. Mon-Wed L & D.
Thur-Sun D only. Set 2-course meal £12.50: ale about
£40 for 2. 37 Great Queen Street, WC2. T: 071-831
0817. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
BOMBAY BRASSERIE. Near-legendary status among
London's Indian restaurants is justified by high qual-
ity, popularity and reasonable prices. Superb dishes
from all over sub-continent; specialities inc Goan lob-
ster peri peri, elaichi gosht and dum ka biryani
(chicken with rice). Daily L & D. Set buffet L £13.50:
alc about £60 for 2. Courtfield Close, Courtfield Road,
SW7. T: 071-370 4040. Map 5B. U: Gloucester Road.
BOMBAY PALACE. Belonging to the well-known US
group, it is palatial and impressive. Authentic North
Indian cuisine; excellent Palace Dinner at £12.95. Also
chicken kheema. Daily L & D. Daily buffet (12.00-
15.00) £9.95. Ale about £40 for 2. 50 Connaught Street,
W2. T: 071-723 8855. Map 3C. U: Marble Arch.
CHUTNEY MARY. Menu celebrates fusion of British
and Indian cultures and cuisine. Voted “Best Indian
Restaurant” by the Curry Club of Great Britain. Rec:
spicy Bombay “bangers” and devilled steak. Daily L&
D. Ale about £30 for 2. 535 Kings Road, SW10. T: 071-
351 3113. Off map. U: Fulham Broadway.
DELHI BRASSERIE. Classic Indian dishes — fish,
lamb and vegetables — skilfully prepared. Try chicken
korma or tarka dhal. Attractive modern decor. Daily
L & D. Set meals £14.95 & £29.90; ale about £30 for
2. 134 Cromwell Road, SW7. T: 071-370 7617. Map
5B. U: Gloucester Road. (Also 44 Frith Street, W1. )
GAYLORD. Part of a big chain in Asia and the USA,
it’s spacious and ever-popular. Extensive North Indi-
an menu with unusual dishes inc aubergine curry.
Daily L & D. Set meals £11.50-£12.50; ale about £25
for 2. 79 Mortimer Street, W1. T: 071-580 3615. Map
3D. U: Oxford Circus.
INDIA PALACE. Specialists in tandoori and maghalai
cuisine. Rec: Indian prawns marinated in Goan
spices, tandoori lamb chops or chicken tikka. Special
L buffet £8.95. Daily 12.00-24.00. Alc about £50 for 2.
112-114 Edgware Road, W2. T: 071-723 0181. Map
3C. U: Marble Arch.
KHANS. Extravagant decor in this spacious, well-
known restaurant seating nearly 300. Specialities inc
meat biryana, murgh tikka masala and chicken jal-
frezi. Some vegetarian dishes also available. Daily L
& D. About £20 for 2. 13-15 Westbourne Grove, W2.
T: 071-727 5420. Map 3B. U: Queensway/Bayswater.
KHANS OF KENSINGTON. Newly-opened sister
restaurant to well-regarded Memories of India.
Ground level dining room with attractive bar down-
stairs. Specialities inc fish coliwada and sabzi kofta,
plus daily changing traditional biryani. Special offer
of half-bottle of wine at L or D to Where readers.
Daily L & D. Alc about £40 for 2. 3 Harrington Road,
SW7. T: 071-581 2900. Map 5C. U: South Kensington.
MAHARAJA. Long-established with varied menu. Rec:
tandoori chicken and duck. Large range of vegetarian
dishes. Courteous staff and pleasant, air-conditioned
surroundings. Daily 12.00-23.45. Set meals from
£28.95 for 2; alc about £30 for 2. 50 Queensway, W2.
T: 071-727 1135. Map 3B. U: Bayswater.
MAJLIS. Traditional Punjabi menu inc many tandoori
dishes, karahi gosht and several vegetarian options.
Daily L 12.00-15.00, D 18.00-23.30. Ale about £30 for
2. 32 Gloucester Road, SW7. T: 071-584 3476. Map
5B. U: Gloucester Road.
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
MEMORIES OF INDIA. Soothing decor and subtle use
of spices make this a popular place. Rec: lamb pas-
sanda nawabi and murg makhani. Deluxe set meal
£28.95 for 2. Daily L & D. Ale about £32 for 2. 18
Gloucester Road, SW7. T: 071-589 6450. Map 5B.
U: Gloucester Road.
PIMLICO TANDOORL This restaurant offers all the
popular Indian dishes, but the chef’s tandoori cuisine
is particularly recommended. Handy to Tate Gallery.
Daily L & D. Alc about £15 for 2. 38 Moreton Street,
SW1. T: 071-834 3375. Map 5E. U: Pimlico.
PUNJAB. London’s oldest Punjabi restaurant with a
wide range of North Indian and Punjab food, with good
tandoori and vegetarian dishes. Mon-Sat L & D. Alc
£25 for 2. 80-82 Neal Street, WC2. T: 071-836 9787.
Map 3E. U: Covent Garden/Tottenham Court Road.
THE RED FORT. Michelin-rated, it is well-known for
its lighter, nouvelle-style Indian cuisine, plus a good
range of Bangladeshi dishes. Rec: lamb pasanda
Nawabi (with yoghurt, cream and nuts). Daily L &
D. Sun L £10.95. Ale £40 for 2. 77 Dean Street, W1.
T: 071-437 2525. Map 3E. U: Tottenham Court
Road/Leicester Square.
SHAHZADA. Elegant, small and very good value, their
fine Indian cuisine inc many specialities from the
North West frontier such as tandoori murgh, seekh
kabab and vegetable shashlik. Daily L & D. Alc from
about £35 for 2. 7 Beauchamp Place, SW3. T: 071-589
0581. Map 5C. U: Knightsbridge.
SPICE MERCHANT. Stylish, spacious restaurant serv-
ing classic Indian cuisine. Specialities inc Boari chick-
en masala and Mangalorean lamb curry. Buffet L (set
L £9.75). Daily 12.00-15.00 & 19.00-24.00. Alc about
£45 for 2. The Coburg Hotel, 130 Bayswater Road,
W2. T: 071-221 2442. Map 3B. U: Queensway.
TASTE OF INDIA. Chic Indian restaurant with sophis-
ticated menu. House specialities inc lamb pasanda, tan-
doori lamb and vegetable thali. Executive 4-course L
£7.95; 4-course pre-theatre D £8.95 from 17.30-19.30.
Daily L & D. Ale £20 for 2. 25-27 Catherine Street,
WC2. T: 071-836 6591. Map 3F. U: Covent Garden.
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BIAGIO CHEZ VICTOR. Good mix of authentic Italian
and French dishes make this traditional restaurant
(est. 1901) a good bet for everything from fish and
pasta to meat and veal. Rec: coquille St. Jacques and
scaloppine Marsala. 45 Wardour Street, W1. T: 071-
437 6523. Map 3E. U: Tottenham Court Road/Leices-
ter Square.
BIBENDUM. Fashionable restaurant upstairs in beau-
tiful Art Deco Michelin Building which also houses the
Conran shop. Chef Simon Hopkinson offers best of
French and British cooking — but definitely not “nou-
velle”. Daily L (prix fixe only, £24) & D. Ale at D £120
for 2. Michelin Building, 81 Fulham Road, SW3.
T: 071-581 5817. Map 5C. U: South Kensington.
BISTROT 190. Award-winning chef Anthony Worrall-
Thompson’s fashionable restaurant offers interesting
menu inc Toulouse sausages with fried apples and
mashed potato. Reservations not taken. Daily 07.00-
00.30. Alc £50 for 2. 190 Queen’s Gate, SW7. T: 071-
581 5666. Map 5B. U: South Kensington.
CAFE MEDITERRANEE. Popular, informal café open
for snacks or full meals throughout the day; located
near Buckingham Palace. Menu inc variety of interna-
tional dishes. Open B, L, afternoon tea & D daily
07.00-23.00. St. James Court Hotel, Buckingham Gate,
SW1. T: 071-834 6655. Map 4E. U: St. James's Park.
CAFE ROYAL. Dining and small conference complex
with several bars and restaurants. Grandly decorated
Grill Room (Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D) serves French cui-
sine (set 3-course £25 L or pre-theatre D from 18.00-
19.30), while Daniels Wine Bar is ideal for pre-
theatre drinks (L & drinks only in evening). The Bar
and Brasserie (Mon-Sat L & D, Sun L) offers casual
Continental menu (set 3-courses £14.50; post-theatre
2-courses £12.50 inc coffee and liqueur). Also Café
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
Nichols serves B and light snacks (open 08.30-19.00
Mon-Sat). The Cocktail Bar serves drinks (daily
12.00-15.00, Mon-Sat 17.00-23.00) and afternoon tea
£8.50 (daily 15.30-17.00). 68 Regent Street, W1.
T: 071-437 9090. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
LE CAPRICE. Favourite for discerning diners, this
ever-smart restaurant has streamlined black-and-
white mirrored decor and short menu, plus dishes
of the day and vegetarian suggestions. Pianist in
bar in evenings (20.00-24.00). Daily L & D. About
£70 for 2. Arlington Street, SW1. T: 071-629 2239.
Map 4D. U: Green Park.
CATAMARAN CRUISERS. Series of Thames cruises
with refreshments. Sun L £15.50 (children. £9.50)
with traditional roasts 12.45-14.45. Evening disco on
the water. Mon-Thur £8.95, Fri-Sun £12.95: 19.00-
23.00 or 20.00-24.00. Essential to book in advance.
From Westminster Pier, SW1. T: 071-839 2349. Map
4E. U: Westminster.
DAN’S. A Chelsea secret with exquisite conservatory
area and outdoor terrace for al fresco dining. Rec:
salmon and chive soufflé and breast of duck with
blueberry sauce. Set D 2 courses (£18.50), 3 courses
(£22). Mon-Fri L (ale only), Mon-Sat D. About £55 for
2. 119 Sydney Street, SW3. T: 071-352 2718. Map
5C/D. U: South Kensington.
DEALS. Owned by Princess Margaret’s son, Lord Lin-
ley, and his photographer cousin Lord Lichfield.
Eclectic “East meets West” menu inc burgers, spare
ribs, satay dishes, Thai curries and good desserts (try
chocolate mud or New England apple pie). Relaxed
atmosphere and good service. From £34 for 2. Mon-
Sat 11.00-23.00, Sun 12.00-22.30. Harbour Yard.
Chelsea Harbour, SW10. T: 071-376 3232. Off map.
U: Earl’s Court. (Also Deals West, 14-16 Foubert’s
Place, W1. T: 071-287 1001. Map 3D. U: Oxford Cir-
cus/Piccadilly Circus.)
THE DIPLOMAT GRILL. Country house atmosphere
makes this a pleasant venue. Rec: breast of chicken
with Stilton sauce and swordfish with lemon fennel
butter. Daily B & D, Sun-Fri L; Sun brunch menu
£22.95 inc unlimited bubbly (£11.50 for children).
About £65 for 2. London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor
Square, W1. 071-493 1232. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
DUKES HOTEL. One of London’s most luxurious
small hotels with menu designed by top chef Steven
Robinson. Typical speciality inc roulade of Dover sole
with spinach and smoked salmon. Daily L & Sun-Fri
D and daily for afternoon tea (£10.50). Set D (3 cours-
es) £28.50, set Sun L (3 courses) £25 inc half-bottle
wine per person; alc from £60 for 2. 35 St. James’s
Place, SW1. T: 071-491 4840. Map 4E. U: Green Park.
THE ELEPHANT ON THE RIVER. Lush, opulent decor
and splendid views across the Thames. Excellent
international menu changes regularly. Tues-Sat
19.00-02.45, Sun until 01.45; also Sun L (set £17).
From about £65 for 2. 129 Grosvenor Road, SW1.
T: 071-834 1621. Map 6E. U: Pimlico.
GHQ. Although it’s a private dining club in the
evening (annual membership £30), it’s open to the
public for L. Seasonal international menu inc fresh
fish, game and several vegetarian dishes. Rec: hot
salmon mousse with spinach, baked avocado with
goat’s cheese and black olive sauce and breast of duck
with orange and peppercorn sauce. Set L menus (L 2-
courses £12.50, 3-courses £14.50). Ale D about £45 for
2. 17-21 Gower Street, WC1. T: 071-631 4115. Map
2E. U: Tottenham Court Road/Goodge Street.
THE GRILL ROOM. Rather formal, but still an excit-
ing place to eat. All the classic English favourites like
steak and kidney pie, plus more cosmopolitan dishes.
Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat D. Pre-theatre D, 18.00-19.00,
£25.75 & £28.75, then return for dessert and coffee
after the show. Alc about £90 for 2. Smart dress.
Savoy Hotel, Strand, WC2. T: 071-836 4343. Map 3E.
U: Charing Cross.
THE HALCYON. A gem of a hotel tucked away in Hol-
land Park. Oak-panelled bar is relaxing and welcom-
ing. Fashionable restaurant has separate entrance
and gentle pastel decor. Lovely terrace garden for
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in the heart of Knightsbridge.
Open Daily
Lunch 12pm-3pm Dinner 6pm-11.30pm
22 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge Green SW]
(Opposite Harrods) Reservations 071-225 3888
THE BOMBAY BUTLER SERVES US PROUD (c.1891)
The Bombay Butler, pictured one hundred years
ago, graces the front of our brand new menu. A
menu which includes several glorious dishes
unique to this country. And because they are
presented by the Bombay Brasserie, then you
should know that they are very special indeed.
Take for example Chicken Asafiahi,
cooked in a delicate sauce made from almonds,
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stature of a menu praised the world over.
Exaggeration? Not so. Many of the most
prominent restaurant writers (a more difficult
group of critics would be hard to find) continue to
regard the Bombay Brasserie as one of the
world’s finest restaurants (of any kind).
Our reputation wasn't earned overnight.
It takes time, patience, care and commitment.
And with history on our side we are sure that the
Bombay Butler, even today, would be serving us
all, proudly.
To make a reservation please call
071 373 0971 or 071 370 4040, Fax: 071 835 1669
COURTFIELD CLOSE, COURTFIELD ROAD, LONDON SW7
Gloucester Road Tube opposite. NCP and cab rank adjacent
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
intimate al fresco dining. Menu is broad-based, from
brasserie classics to twists on traditional dishes inc
excellent fish cakes. Daily B, L & D. Ale from £50 for
2. 129 Holland Park Avenue, W11. T: 071-221 5411.
Map 4A. U: Holland Park.
JOE’S CAFE. Owned by designer/retailer Joseph
Ettedgui, this stylish restaurant completes the
Joseph empire of fashionable spots. Menu has
Mediterranean as well as British influences. Rec:
salad of grilled goat’s cheese, walnut and tomato, deli-
cious ravioli with wild mushrooms and brochette of
monkfish with saffron sauce. Mon-Sat L, daily D, Sun
brunch (11.00-15.30), Sat & Sun B (from 10.30). Alc
from £50 for 2. 126 Draycott Avenue, SW3. T: 071-225
2217. Map 5C. U: South Kensington.
KENSINGTON PLACE. One of London’s “hip” places in
which to be seen. Unusual dishes inc chicken and
goat’s cheese mousse. Stark but stylish decor. Daily L
& D. Set 3-course L (Mon-Fri) £12.50 inc wine; alc
about £50 for 2. 201-205 Kensington Church Street,
W8. T: 071-727 3184. Map 4B. U: Notting Hill Gate.
LANES. Superb spot for lunch with their extensive
buffet with choice of 3 set menus from £23.75, includ-
ing wine and coffee. All-inclusive excellent value spe-
cial a la carte dinner menu offers 3 courses at £27.
Also good after-theatre supper (£23) available from
23.00 inc choice of soups, cold buffet and dessert. Pre-
dominantly British menu inc roast saddle of lamb
with rosemary sauce, risotto with wild mushrooms
and grilled Dover sole. Daily B, L & D. From about
£60 for 2. Inn on the Park Hotel, Hamilton Place,
Park Lane, W1. T: 071-499 0888. Map 4D. U: Green
Park/Hyde Park Corner.
LANGAN’S BRASSERIE. Highly regarded restaurant
and favourite showbiz hang-out, owned by Michael
Caine and chef Richard Shepherd. Don’t miss Lan-
gan’s pork “bangers and mash” with white onion
sauce. Aim for a table downstairs if you can. Mon-Fri
L & D, Sat D. About £80 for 2. Stratton Street, W1.
T: 071-491 8822. Map 4D. U: Green Park. (Also Lan-
gan’s Bistro, 26 Devonshire Street, W1. T: 071-935
4531. Map 2D. U: Regent’s Park.)
LE MIRAGE. Specialises in classic English and
French cuisine. Excellent for pre- and post-theatre
(licensed until 01.00). Live piano music. Mon-Sat L &
D, Sun D only. Set menu £9.95, alc from £30 for 2. 9
Greek Street, W1. T: 071-734 0545. Map 3E. U: Tot-
tenham Court Road.
PIZZA ON THE PARK. Smart but informal; straight-
forward menu of pizza (over 15 different types), sal-
ads and pasta. Numerous dishes suitable for
vegetarians. Late night jazz cabaret from top US
acts. Daily 08.00-24.00. Entrance fee £12.50-£14
downstairs for entertainment. Alc from about £30 for
2. 11 Knightsbridge, SW1. T: 071-235 5550/5273. Map
4D. U: Hyde Park Corner.
POMEGRANATES. Truly cosmopolitan restaurant situ-
ated on the scenic Pimlico Embankment. Variety of
dishes inc Danish pickled herring, Cajun jambalaya
and Tennessee oyster stew. Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat D. Set
L menus from £14.50-£20.50, set D £17.75-£26.50.
About £60 for 2. 94 Grosvenor Road, SW1. T: 071-828
6560. Map 6E. U: Pimlico.
LE PONT DE LA TOUR. Stylish new “gastrodome” com-
plex owned by design guru Sir Terence Conran and
located on Thames, near Tower Bridge and the Design
Museum. Facilities inc Bar & Grill (with live music in
evenings), Crustacea Bar (oysters, crab and lan-
goustines), a bakery and food store, plus the Restau-
rant with modern international menu. Rec: Rossmore
oysters, foie gras salad and scallops Dauphinoise.
Daily L & D. Alc about £70 for 2. Butler’s Wharf, SE1.
T: 071-403 8403. Map 4H. U: Tower Hill.
LA RESERVE. Housed in a small private hotel at the
western end of the Fulham Road, the decor is a mix of
geometric brights and sleek chrome. Mediterranean
-menu inc crabcakes and chargrilled aubergines. Very
pleasant bar. Daily B, L & D. Alc from £45 for 2. 422-
428 Fulham Road, SW6. T: 071-385 8561. Map 6B.
U: Fulham Broadway.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
THE RITZ. Still one of the most stunning places to eat
and drink in London. Classic international dishes
served with aplomb. Rec: pastry case of quails eggs in
a foie gras sauce and sliced fillet of monkfish on lentil
sauce with leeks. Daily L (set, £22-£28) & D (set.
£39.50 Mon-Thur; £43.50 Fri & Sat, inc dancing). Alc
about £100 for 2. Smart dress. Piccadilly, W1. T: 071-
493 8181. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
THE ROOFTOP RESTAURANT. Romantic roof-top
restaurant and bar offers good value menu, candlelit
dining and dancing and excellent views. Superb 3-
course D menu (£15.50) served Fri & Sat 18.00-22.00,
followed by Late Supper Menu 22.00-24.00 (£17.50).
Entertainment charge (£5) 20.00-22.00. Open B, L &
D daily. St. George’s Hotel, 7 Langham Place, W1.
T: 071-580 0111. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
THE SQUARE. New on the scene but an instant hit in
St. James's. Bright, modern decor matched by innova-
tive menu from chef Philip Howard and consistently
slick service. Rec: Provencal tart (good for vegetari-
ans) and lightly cooked fish dishes. Mon-Fri L & D,
Sat D only. Alc about £65 for 2. 32 King Street, SW1.
T: 071-839 8787. Map 4E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
SUTHERLANDS. Top chef Garry Hollihead oversees
chic minimalist decor and imaginative menu which is
inspired modern European cuisine in this trendy
Soho location. Tues-Fri L, Tues-Sat D. Special L “du
jour” 3-course menu (£24) or alc £39.50 for 3 courses
(also at D). 45 Lexington Street, W1. T: 071-434 3401.
Map 3E. U: Oxford Circus.
SYDNEY STREET. Stark decor features aboriginal-
style primitive art. Menu spans Pacific Rim, inc fresh
fish from the Coral Reef, game from the Northern
Territories and fine New Zealand and Australian
wines. Rec: roasted salmon in pistachio crust and
spiced Australian bouillabaise. Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat
D. Ale from £50 for 2. 4 Sydney Street, SW3. T: 071-
352 3433. Map 5C. U: South Kensington.
TALL ORDERS. Award-winning Mediterranean food
and informal atmosphere, busy with locals. Rec:
mixed grill of seared salmon, monkfish and mullet.
Daily 12.00-24.00. Ale £30 for 2. 676 Fulham Road,
SW6. T: 071-371 9673. Off map. U: Parsons Green.
(Also at 2 St. Anne’s Court, Wardour Street, W1. )
ZUMA. Recently re-opened, reasonably priced and full
of simple bistro style. Excellent bar. Lots of grilled
fish and meat on short, interesting menu. Highlights
inc rigatoni with broccoli and foie gras, and char-
grilled swordfish with lime mayonnaise. Mon-Sat D
only; Sun brunch. Alc £45 for 2. Chelsea Cloisters,
Sloane Avenue, SW3. T: 071-225 1048. Map 5C.
U: South Kensington.
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MINOGUES. Eat at bar at lunch, in the restaurant for
dinner. Traditional Irish dishes, from coddle (broth of
potatoes, cabbage and sausages) to Wexford mussels
to beef in Beamish. Mon-Sat 11.00-23.00, Sun 12.00-
15.00 & 19.00-22.30. Alc from £30 for 2. 80 Liverpool
Road, N1. T: 071-354 4440. Map 1F. U: Angel.
MULLIGANS OF MAYFAIR. Lively restaurant and oys-
ter bar featuring only Irish cuisine, inc turnip and
brown bread soup, and beef and Guinness casserole.
Twelve brands of Irish whiskey at memorabilia-filled
bar. Oyster bar Mon-Sat 11.00-23.00, Sun 12.00-16.00
(special brunch menu £10.25); restaurant Sun-Fri L,
Mon-Sat D. About £45 for 2. 13-14 Cork Street, W1.
T: 071-409 1370. Map 3D. U: Green Park.
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AMERIGO VESPUCCI. Sophisticated Italian cuisine
set in the atmospheric 18th century vaulted cellars of
Tobacco Dock. Large selection of fish, veal and poul-
try dishes, or try house specialities such as inter-
costata pizzaola and fragosta di manzo alla Siciliana.
Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D and Sun L. Alc from about £20
for 2. 15 Porters Walk, Tobacco Dock, E1. T: 071-481
0675. Map 3J. U: Shadwell.
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RESTAURANT
535 Kings Road, London SW10
(on the corner of Lots Road & Kings Road)
Reservations: 071-351 3113 :
Voted "Best Indian Restaurant in the Country"
by members of Curry Club of Great Britain
OPEN FOR LUNCH AND DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK
SPECIAL LUNCH PRICES & GRAND SUNDAY BUFFET |B)
| For an exceptional meal that will be remembered
| Various Vegetarian dishes. Extensive Meze menu. Live Music Nightly.
222 Kensington High Street London W8
Tel: 071-938 1794/5/6 937 1030 - 937 8938
CHELSEA’S UNIQUE THAI RESTAURANT
Exquisite Cuisine Served Amid Oriental Luxury
We also offer a traditional Eastern dining room where you recline sumptuously on hand made
cushions. Open daily for lunch and dinner at reasonable prices
1A Langton Street, World’s End, Chelsea SW10 Reservations: 071-352 7414/7517
of India
—7 Quality food in elegant
surroundings.
One of the most popular Indian
restaurants in London. Recommended
by many top food guides nationally and
internationally.
Reserve your table in the conservatory
Open 7 days a week
12 noon-2.30pm 5.30pm-11.30pm
18 Gloucester Road, London SW7
Tel: 071-589 6450/581 3734
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Atmosphere, Bar and Grill Room
The very finest steaks and chops, cooked on a charcoal grill.
Mouthwatering selection of fish dishes. Set 3 course menu
and coffee £14.95. Elegant bar open all day to non-diners.
Pre-theatre suppers served from 5.30pm.
“Combines the virtues of the best English pubs
with an outstanding grill” NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE
2-3 Piccadilly Place, Piccadilly, W1 (next to Le Meridien Hotel)
Reservations: (071) 734 5789 (closed Sat & Sun) -
Opening times: Grill - Mon-Fri for lunch and dinner a a. 4
Bar — Mon-Fri 1lam-11pm Sat 1lam-5pm
PICCADILLY,
For over 16 years the same chef has been preparing superb Tandoori and Curry dishes.
PIMLICO TANDOORI
Relax and enjoy high quality traditional Indian cuisine.
For those unaccustomed to Indian food, we offer a selection of English dishes
freshly prepared.
Open daily Lunch 12-3, Dinner 6-midnight.
Private room available for parties.
38 Moreton St , Pimlico, London SWI
Bookings advisable Tel: 834 3375 / 976 6331
A TEN MINUTE STROLL FROM THE TATE GALLERY
“Take in the sights - then try our delights”
Fully Licensed
Visit the Modhubon - 29 Pembridge Rd, Notting Hill Gate, W11. Tel: 727 3399
for more fine traditional Indian Curry & Tandoori dishes.
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
ANDREA DORIA. Small, friendly and just off Regent
Street. Extensive, traditional Italian menu inc many
different types of tasty pastas and delicious veal dish-
es. Good selection of wines, and complimentary red
roses for the ladies. Mon-Sat L & D. From £35 for 2.
17 Beak Street, W1. T: 071-734 6615. Map 3E. U: Pic-
cadilly Circus.
BERTORELLI (Notting Hill). Cosy, well-established
family-run business seating 45. They have recently
extended their menu to inc delicious home-made
pasta, plus numerous meat, quail, veal and chick-
en dishes. Daily L & D. About £30 for 2. 17 Notting
Hill Gate, W11. T: 071-727 7604. Map 4A. U: Not-
ting Hill Gate.
BIANCONE. Lively and bustling atmosphere suggests
an outdoor feel. Serving authentic regional Italian
cuisine with emphasis on pasta and meat dishes. Pre-
and post-theatre 2-course menu £9.95, also table
d’hote menu £14.25. Tues-Sat D 17.30-23.30. Alc from
£30 for 2. Strand Palace Hotel, Strand, WC2. T: 071-
379 7223. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
BIZZARRO. Fun, friendly spot with two restaurants
in one — upstairs is a trattoria with traditional north-
ern Italian fare, downstairs dining and dancing to
live music. Rec: bistecca di manzo alla pizzaiola
(steak with wine, capers, olives and tomato sauce).
Daily L & D (until 01.00). Entertainment Mon-Sat
21.00-02.30. Alc about £30 for 2. 18-22 Craven Road,
W2. T: 071-402 4695. Map 3C. U: Paddington.
CHRISTI. Friendly and relaxed restaurant just off
exclusive St. Christopher’s Place, so handy for West
End shopping. All the traditional Italian favourites
with daily specialities. Good for pre-theatre. Daily L
& D. From about £30 for 2. 32 James Street, W1.
T: 071-935 0416. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
CIBO. Traditional northern Italian dishes in this
stylish and very popular west London restaurant.
Excellent pasta selections with interesting sauces.
Desserts quite noteworthy, inc presniz (strudel from
Trieste) or tiramisu. Set 3-course L £17.50. Daily L,
Mon-Sat D 19.00-23.00. Alc about £50 for 2. 3 Russell
Gardens, W14. T: 071-371 6271. Map 4A. U: Olympia.
EMPORIO ARMANI EXPRESS. Trendy in-store café of
the stylish shop which carries the more affordable
Giorgio Armani fashions. Menu inc carpaccio, light
pastas and crostini with chicken livers, tomato, moz-
zarella, Parma ham and artichokes. Separate
snack/tea menu mid-morning and afternoon. Mon-Sat
10.00-18.00 (until 19.00 Wed). Ale £40 for 2. 191
Brompton Road, SW3. T: 071-823 8818. Map 4C.
U: Knightsbridge.
EST. Small, stylish California-influenced restaurant in
the heart of Soho. Separate menu at bar ideal for light
meals or snacks with drinks. Good range of grilled fish
and chicken dishes, plus Italian specialities such as
gnocchi gorgonzola. Mon-Sat L & D, until 24.00. From
about £40 for 2. 54 Frith Street, W1. T: 071-437 0666.
Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
LA FAMIGLIA. Popular Chelsea spot with award-
winning Tuscan menu and decor. Very friendly and
family-oriented with lots of pictures on the walls and
traditional dishes perfectly prepared. Try grilled fish
or pastas as main course. Daily L & D. About £45 for
2. 7 Langton Street, SW10. T: 071-351 0761. Map 6B.
U: South Kensington.
LA FINEZZA. Bright yellow decor (awnings, table-
cloths and walls) makes it a sunny spot. Traditional
Italian menu but with stylish ambience. Specialities
inc scampi in black bean sauce and porco del mare
(grilled sea bass with langoustines). Mon-Sat L 12.30-
14.45 & D 19.00-23.45. Alc about £60 for 2. 62-64
Lower Sloane Street, SW1. T: 071-730 8639. Map 5D.
U: Sloane Square.
LA GAFFE. Situated in picturesque Hampstead Vil-
lage and close to Hampstead Heath, the building
dates back to 1734 and restaurant celebrates 30th
anniversary this year. All dishes made with fresh
ingredients. Traditional English Sun L £9.95. Daily L
& D in restaurant, wine bar open all day. From £30
for 2. 107-111 Heath Street, NW3. T: 071-435 8965.
Off map. U: Hampstead.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
GRITTI. Sophisticated new restaurant with excellent
traditional cuisine from Venetian area with strong
emphasis on fresh fish, veal and several superb pasta
dishes. Mon-Fri 12.30-14.30 & Mon-Sat 18.00-23.30.
Alc from about £60 for 2. 11 Upper St. Martin’s Lane,
WC2. T: 071-836 5121. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
GUALTIERO MARCHESI AT THE HALKIN. Prominent
Milanese restaurateur Marchesi supervises superb
menu inc “new wave” Italian dishes. Rec: ravioli aper-
to (open ravioli with scallops) and involtino di spinaci
e branzini (spinach and seabass roulade). Set L “menu
Milanese” £22.50. Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat D. Alc about
£80 for 2. The Halkin Hotel, Halkin Street, SW1.
T. 071-333 1000. Map 4D. U: Hyde Park Corner.
KRUST’S. Small, cosy and family-run, the menu is a
mix of Italian and French traditional dishes. Rec:
butterfly king prawns or fettuccine with smoked
salmon and vodka. Mon-Fri B & L 08.00-16.00, Mon-
Sat D 18.30-23.00. Ale about £30 for 2. 13 Seymour
Place, W1. T: 071-724 3446. Map 3C. U: Marble Arch.
MIMMO D’ISCHIA. The very high profile owner
Mimmo is a strong presence in this popular Pimlico
spot. Rec: excellent pasta dishes (served in massive,
colourful Italian earthenware dishes). Mon-Sat L &
D. Ale about £60 for 2. 61 Elizabeth Street, SW1.
T: 071-730 5406. Map 5D. U: Victoria.
THE NEAL STREET RESTAURANT. Owner Antonio
Carluccio is one of London’s culinary leaders. Stylish
decor with Hockney prints. Traditional Italian fare
and some European dishes inc ravioli stuffed with
game and fish in rich sauces, many with wild mush-
rooms, a passion of the owner. Mon-Fri L & D. Ale
about £80 for 2. 26 Neal Street, WC2. T: 071-836
8368. Map 3E. Covent Garden.
ORSO. Entrance is almost concealed with only a tiny
sign on street level. Busy basement-level restaurant
is slick and bustling. Crispy pizzas, interesting pastas
and salad dishes with fresh ingredients flown in from
Italy. (Does not take credit cards.) Daily L & D. About
£50 for 2. 27 Wellington Street, WC2. T: 071-240
5269. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
PAPPAGALLI’S PIZZA. High-quality pizzas and pastas
in an American-Italian ambience. Light menu and
afternoon snacks also available. Attentive service.
Just steps from Piccadilly Circus. Mon-Sat 12.00-
23.00. Ale from about £20 for 2. 7-9 Swallow Street,
W1. T: 071-734 5182. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
LA PERUGINA. Traditional, friendly Italian restau-
rant open throughout the day. Specialities inc tourne-
dos alla Rossini and braciola di Maiale (pork with
sage and rosemary). Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D only. Alc
about £25 for 2. 196/198 Great Portland Street, W1.
T: 071-436 2547. Map 2D. U: Great Portland Street.
PIRANDELLO. Named after the famous Sicilian play-
wright, this is a cosy, romantic restaurant serving
excellent Italian cuisine. Good value menu inc many
house specialities. Rec: penne al gorgonzola and
fiorentina ai funghi (steak with mushrooms and
wine). All main dishes inc vegetables and salad. Mon-
Fri L, daily D. Ale about £30 for 2. 339 Euston Road,
NW1. T: 071-383 2693. Map 2D. U: Warren Street/
Great Portland Street.
RIVA. Considered by some to be the best northern
Italian restaurant in England, its decor is basic but
the menu is superb — lots of polenta, pasta and wild
mushrooms. Sun-Fri L, daily D. Ale about £60 for 2.
169 Church Road, Barnes, SW13. T: 081-748 0434.
Off map. BR: Victoria to Barnes.
THE RIVER CAFE. Well worth the trek to Hammer-
smith, this chic café overlooks the Thames. Northern
Italian specialities inc polenta, grilled fish, many dif-
ferent pasta dishes and delicious bruschetta. Daily L,
Mon-Fri D. Alc about £70 for 2. Rainville Road, W6.
T: 071-381 8824. Off map. U: Hammersmith.
SAN LORENZO. Trendy spot for celebrity watching.
Owners Maria and Lorenzo Berni are an important
presence and their Italian cuisine is classical with
modern twists. Notable pasta and veal dishes. Mon-
Sat L & D. About £60 for 2. 22 Beauchamp Place,
SW3. T: 071-584 1074. Map 5C. U: Knightsbridge.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
ERTORELLIS
Italian Restaurant & Café Wine Bar
44a Floral Street, Covent Garden
opposite the stage door of the Royal Opera House
Reservations: 071-836 3969
For over 75 years Bertorelli’s have served
the best value Italian food in London.
Our extensive wine list of Italian &
Californian wines offer superb value.
Great Italian food with the old Bertorelli magic
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
TOPO D’ORO. Intimate and relaxed, this traditional
Italian restaurant specialises in pasta plus many
fish, chicken and meat dishes. Rec: medaglioni de
manzo al Pepe (sliced fillet steak in pepper sauce).
Alc about £30 for 2. Daily L & D (to 23.30). 39
Uxbridge Street, W8. T: 071-727 5813. Map 4A.
U: Notting Hill Gate.
VERBANELLA. Authentic Italian feel in this estab-
lished Knightsbridge restaurant currently enjoying
silver anniversary. Mix of modern and traditional
northern Italian cuisine. Set 3-course L £12. Alc
about £50 for 2. 30 Beauchamp Place, SW3. T: 071-
584 1107. Map 5C. U: Knightsbridge.
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AJIMURA. Oldest Japanese restaurant in Britain,
still family-owned with friendly atmosphere. Spe-
cialises in seafood, sashimi and sushi dishes. Mon-Fri
L & Mon-Sat D. Set L £7.50, set meals from £13.80-
£32; ale from £40 for 2. 51-53 Shelton Street, WC2.
T: 071-240 0718. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
CHA CHA HOUSE. Smal! and popular with local
Japanese community. Set menus from £5-£11, also
Japanese lunch box at £7 or Tokyo Ramen at £6. Bot-
tles of whisky personalised to be kept for next visit.
Good sushi bar, too. Tues-Fri L, daily D. From about
£40 for 2. 102 Baker Street, W1. T: 071-935 2529.
Map 2D. U: Baker Street.
HASHINO. Stylish, extensive menu inc familiar tradi-
tional dishes (sashimi, tempura and sukiyaki) plus
interesting specialities inc sea eel or cuttlefish mari-
nated in its own gut. Mon-Fri L & D. Alc about £60
for 2. 4 Borough High Street, SE1. T: 071-407 0927.
Map 4G. U: London Bridge.
KAGURA. Traditional Kyoto-style cuisine with sushi
bar, teppanyaki bar and tatami room for private din-
ing. Also sukiyaki and shabu-shabu at table. Good for
pre- & post-theatre D (set from £14-£18), available
18.00-19.30 and 22.30-23.30. Tues-Fri L & Tues-Sun
D. Set L £12-£16, set D £25-£30. Alc from about £60
for 2. 13 West Street, WC2. T: 071-240 0634. Map 3E.
U: Leicester Square. (Also Aukoku-Kaku, 9 Wal-
brook, EC4. T: 071-236 9020. Map 3G. U: Bank.)
MITSUKOSHI. In prestigious London Mitsukoshi
department store (the Japanese equivalent of Har-
rods) with large restaurant and modern sushi bar on
basement level. Rec: tempura, teriyaki, sukiyaki and
shabu-shabu. Superbly presented set meals from £18-
£40. Mon-Sat L & D. Ale L £25-£120; ale D £30-£120.
Dorland House, 14-16 Regent Street, SW1. T: 071-930
0317. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
NAKANO. Traditional Japanese cuisine brought up-
to-date in this bright, modern restaurant in Knights-
bridge. Many unusual, innovative dishes inc cuttle-
fish marinated in its own gut. Set menus good value
(L from £15-£38; D £25). Tues-Sat L & D, Sun D only.
Alc about £60 for 2. 11 Beauchamp Place, SW3.
T: 071-581 3837. Map 5C. U: Knightsbridge.
SAGA. Elegant, subdued decor; large Japanese clien-
tele. Specialities inc sukiyaki and shabu-shabu pre-
pared at your table £18 per portion. Large choice of
hors d’oeuvres, inc sashimi and yakitori. Set lunch
menus £7.50-£16, set dinner £35-£50. Mon-Sat L &
D. Alc about £70 for 2. 43 South Molton Street, W1.
T: 071-408 2236. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
SAKURA. Less quietly formal than most Japanese
restaurants and renowned for their fine cooking, from
sashimi to shabu-shabu and sukiyaki. Popular with
local Japanese businesses. Good sushi bar. Daily L
(set, £9-£15) & D (set, £25-£35); ale about £60 for 2.
9 Hanover Street, W1. T: 071-629 2961. Map 3D.
U: Oxford Circus.
SHOGUN. Sushi bar and restaurant located in vault-
ed stone cellar with decor styled with Japanese mili-
tary art from 17th and 18th century. Menu inc choice
of 6 set dinners (£30) plus alc. Good sashimi, too.
Tues-Sun D only. Ale about £60 for 2. Britannia
Inter-Continental Hotel, Adams Row, W1. T: 071-493
1877. Map 3D. U: Bond Street.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
BELGRAVIA’S ONLY
THAI RESTAURANT
TRADITIONAL CUISINE PLUS OTHER
SOUTH-EAST ASIAN DELICACIES
OPEN DAILY. REASONABLE PRICES.
SET LUNCH AT £8.95 & £12.95.
UNLIMITED BUFFET AT
WEEK-END: £16.50.
TAKEAWAY SERVICE.
EASY PARKING AT NIGHT
14-15 LiTTLe CHESTER STREET,
WILTON Mews, SW1
(ABOVE THE GROUSE AND CLARET PUBLIC HOUSE)
RESERVATIONS:
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
TARO. Popular with local Japanese. Stylish and up- |
market with comprehensive menu of barbecued dish-
es. Each table has its own small, recessed barbecue in
the middle for you to cook your own sliced meat or
vegetables. Taro Special set menu £40. Mon-Fri L &
D, Sat D only. Alc from £60 for 2. 12 Newburgh Street,
W1. T: 071-287 0191/2. Map 3E. U: Oxford Circus.
Jewisn
GABY’S. Famous, busy and long-established restau-
rant serving inexpensive Jewish and Middle Eastern
cuisine. Handy for West End shows. Good selection of |
vegetarian meals inc stuffed aubergine or spinach roll
with salad, plus traditional dishes inc falafel, chopped
liver and pastrami. Mon-Sat 10.00-24.00, Sun 10.00-
22.00. Ale about £15 for 2. 30 Charing Cross Road,
WC2. T: 071-836 4233. Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
LEpanese
AL BASHA. Delicious food in gracious surroundings.
Specialise in traditional Lebanese hors d’oeuvres and
charcoal-grilled main courses inc king prawns with
garlic and coriander and marinated chicken fillet
with garlic sauce. Daily 12.00-24.00. Ale about £40 for
2. 222 Kensington High Street, W8. T: 071-938 1794.
Map 4A. U: High Street Kensington.
AL SULTAN. Intimate, airy restaurant in the heart of
Shepherd Market featuring exquisitely presented tra-
ditional Lebanese dishes. Specialities inc lahem
meshwi bil foter (grilled cubes of lamb with tomatoes
and mushrooms) and samakeh harah (trout with
spicy sauce). Good range of Lebanese wines. Daily L
& D. Alc about £50 for 2. 51-52 Hertford Street, W1.
T: 071-408 1155. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
FAKHRELDINE. Excellent views over Green Park
from this splendid restaurant which is always crowd-
ed and lively until the early hours. Masses of hors
d’ceuvres; beautifully cooked charcoal grill speciali-
ties: also over 20 different types of kebabs. Live music
every evening. Daily 12.00 until 01.00. Set meal
available, £18; alc about £32 for 2. 85 Piccadilly, W1.
T: 071-493 3424. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
MAROUSH I AND III. Chain of excellent, lavish
restaurants offering a wide choice of traditional
Lebanese dishes: meze (selection of appetisers inc veg-
etables, pulses, meats and spicy dips), shish kebabs
and firri (charcoal grilled quail). Good range of
Lebanese wines and Arak. Beautiful decor of soft pink
marble and pastel furnishings. Most food available for
takeaway, too. Daily 12.00-01.00. Alc about £45 for 2.
Maroush I, 21 Edgware Road, W2. T: 071-723 0773.
Map 3C. U: Marble Arch. Maroush III, 62 Seymour
Street, W1. T: 071-724 5024. Map 3C. U: Marble Arch.
MAROUSH IL. Popular, traditional sister restaurant to
the busy Maroush chain. Ideal for late-late night din-
ing. Rec: Maroush’s farrouge mishwi (charcoal grilled
chicken with special sauces), falafels and sujuk
(Lebanese sausage). Daily 12.00-05.00. Ale from
about £45 for 2. 38 Beauchamp Place, SW3.
T: 071-581 5434. Map 5C. U: Knightsbridge.
RANOUSH JUICE BAR. Informa! for a snack or
leisurely meal. Massive selection of fresh fruit and
vegetable juices (rec: carrot, melon or tamarind).
Menu inc sharwama pitta sandwiches, plus falafel
and bean dishes. Daily 09.00-02.00. Ale about £10 for |
2. 43 Edgware Road, W2. T: 071-723 5929. Map 3C. |
U: Marble Arch.
Mexican
CAFE PACIFICO. Trendy Covent Garden cantina
hung with evocative pictures of Mexico and a menu
featuring all the traditional national dishes: fajitas,
tacos, empanadas, spicy chilli Colorado and gua-
camole. Drinks inc tequila and Margueritas. Mon-Sat
12.00-23.45, Sun 12.00-22.45. Ale about £30 for 2.
5 Langley Street, WC2. T: 071-379 7728. Map 3E.
U: Covent Garden.
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The Place that has stood the test of time.
30 years under the same management
serving Italian cuisine and fine wines.
Lunch and Dinner daily 071 794 7526
Once a Shepherd’s Cottage ¢1734,
now providing accommodation with an
emphasis on comfort and hospitality
Reservations 071-435 8965
Fax bookings 071-794 7592
107/111 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3
(close to tube -12 mins West End)
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New Loon Fung
The largest Chinese Restaurant
in Chinatown
Specialising in Dim Sum,
Cantonese and Szechuan
cuisine cooked to perfection.
Fully Licensed - Air Conditioned
42-44 Gerrard Street, London WI
Open 7 days a week 12am-11.30pm
Tel: 071-437 6232 & 071-437 3540
Tel: 071-439 0458
CHINESE RESTAURANT
Mr. Kong Restaurant for the
finest Cantonese cuisine;
specialising in seafood and
highly spiced dishes.
Parties catered for. Fully licensed.
Opening hours
12.00 Noon - 2.00 am
21 Lisle Street, London WC2.
Tel: 071-437 7341 / 071-437 9679
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
DOWN MEXICO WAY. Recently re-opened restaurant
inc large bar serving snacks and Mexican-style
drinks with Latin American music on Fri & Sat
evenings. Menu inc traditional tortilla soup,
mesquite-smoked fajitas and prawn and avocado bur-
ritos. Alec about £30 for 2. 25 Swallow Street, W1.
T: 071-437 9895. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
NACHOS. Buzzing, friendly Mexican spot just west of
Notting Hill Gate, popular with locals. Substantial
portions of nachos (rec: nachos deluxe for just £5.25),
empanadas (spicy fried patties stuffed with shrimp
and tomatoes) or traditional tacos. Good Sun L; rec:
egg motulenos (with tortillas, refried beans, salsa,
ham and cheese). Interesting drinks, too, inc frozen
Margueritas and Mexican beer. Daily L & D. Alec
about £24 for 2. 147-149 Notting Hill Gate, W11.
T: 071-221 5250. Map 4A. U: Notting Hill Gate.
Our OF TOWN
LES ALOUETTES. Michelin starred and romantic
with classical French cooking. Excellent wine list fea-
tures more than 200 selections. Superb value fixed-
price 3-course menus L & D £22.50. Rec: terrine de
langoustine and a delicious creme brulée.Mon-Fri L,
Sat D only Alc about £90 for 2. High Street, Claygate,
Surrey. T: 0372 464882.
THE BELL INN. Beautiful early 17th century inn with
charming restaurant offering lovely views of the
extensive gardens. Two set menus changed regularly
— “Fraicheur” inc 3 courses (£17.35) and “Gourman-
dise” inc 6-7 courses (£36). Rec: millefeuille de crabe
(with a creamy soya sauce) and medallions of quail.
From about £80 for 2. Daily L and D. London Road,
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. T: 0296 630252.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. One of the prettiest spots
on the Thames, perfect for leisurely afternoon tea in
the conservatory or an elegant dinner in the Valaisan
Restaurant with its international menu specialising
in fish dishes. Rec: lobster salad or turbot with herb
crust. Full afternoon tea £10.50. Daily 15.30-17.30.
Restaurant open daily for L & D. Alc about £80 for 2.
Marlow Bridge, Marlow, Buckinghamshire. T: 0628
484444.
FEATHERS. Antique furnishings, wood-panelled
rooms and log fires in this 17th centry hotel with a
superb British-inspired menu in the dining room.
Daily set L 3-courses £17.50, set D 3-courses £19.50
(Sat only set D 4-courses £29.95). Rec: spinach soufflé
with wild rice and nutmeg, char-grilled tuna and
scallops with ginger, and Norfolk lavender ice cream.
Afternoon tea served in lounge (£5.95). Daily L & D.
Alc from £70 for 2. Market Street, Woodstock, Oxford-
shire. T: 0993 812291.
LE MANOIR AUX QUAT”’ SAISONS. Chef Raymond
Blanc is one of Britain’s best and a meal here is mem-
orable. Sense of wit and humour in presentation. Mix
of classic and modern cooking. Daily L & D. Alc about
£130 for 2. Church Road, Great Milton, Oxfordshire.
T: 0844 278881.
LE TALBOOTH. Situated on the banks of the river
Stour, it is a 16th century timber-framed house which
featured in one of Constable’s landscape paintings of
Dedham Vale. Now owned by charming nearby hotel,
Maison Talbooth. Rec: sup of brill with a lobster
mousse or Gressingham duck sautéed with shitaki
mushrooms and spinach. Daily L & D. Ale about £70
for 2. Dedham, Essex. T: 0206 323150.
VORTOLAN. Innotive chef/owner John Burton-Race
offers several superb fixed price menus Lasagne of
langoustines a speciality and desserts are cleverly
executed (rec: tarte a la poire caramelisée a la noix).
Excellent wine list and notable French cheese board.
Daily L, Mon-Sat D. Ale about £120 for 2. The Old
Vicarage, Shinfield, Berkshire. T: 0734 883783.
| THE WATERSIDE INN. Sister restaurant to the famed
Le Gavroche, this Thames-side gastronomic delight is
run by celebrated chef Michel Roux. Exceptional wine
list. Set L 3-course “menu gastronomique” £27;
5-course “menu exceptionnel” £54.50 at L & D; Sat &
Serving typically English fare,
the Original Carvery lives up to it’s
moto “Eat as much as you like of
whatever you want”. A superb
choice of hors d‘oeuvres, traditional
roasts, vegetarian dishes and
desserts. Three course meal with
coffee for only £14.95.
HALF PRICE FOR UNDER 16’S
UNDER 5’S FREE!
Open 7 days a week
Lunch and Dinner
The Strand Palace Hotel
The Strand, London WC2
071 836 7380 / 8080
‘THE
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Japanese Restaurant —nakano
11 Beauchamp Place,
Knightsbridge,
London, SW3 INQ
Tel: 071-581 3837
Lunch: Tue-Sat. 12.30-15.00
Dinner: Tue-Sun. 19.00-23.00
AT THE COBURG HOTEL
130 BAYSWATER ROAD, LONDON W2
“EGON RONAY GUIDE 1992
“Certainly the best Indian Restaurant to
open in London for sometime”
Open 7 days a Week
Buffet Lunch £9.75
12.30 to 2.30 p.m.
Dinner a la carte menu from
6.30 to 11.00 p.m.
TABLE RESERVATIONS 071-221 2442
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
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Original Korean cuisine served
in exquisite surroundings.
Specialising in Kal Bi — ribs marinated
in a special sauce cooked to your
own liking over barbeque tables.
1 KINGLY STREET, LONDON W1
(off Regent Street)
071 734 8220 / 071 287 9768
Specialising in
Yakiniku Japanese Dishes
grilled at your table
OPEN
Mon-Fri 12.30-2.30pm, 6.30-10.30pm
(Saturday dinner only)
2 LOWNDES COURT, LONDON W1
(OFF CARNABY STREET)
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CHA CHA HOUSE
JAPANESE 3} 3%] SUSHI BAR
RESTAURANT
Choose from 50 different brands of
whisky personalised and kept for your
next visit. Set lunch from only £4.20, or
enjoy a Japanese Lunch Box at £7.00.
Lunch 12.00pm-3pm (Tues-Fri)
Dinner 6.00pm- 12am (Tues-Sun)
102 BAKER STREET
(Basement), W1
1 min from Sherlock Holmes Hotel
071-935 2529/4739
CUISINE ET VINS DE FRANCE
Au Bon Accueil
Open Lunch 12.30pm to 2.30pm
Dinner 7.00pm to 11.30pm
CLOSED SAT LUNCH & SUNDAY
19-21 ELYSTAN ST. CHELSEA, S.W.3
RESERVATIONS: 071-589 3718
Brasserie du Coin
FRENCH CUISINE
Open Mon to Fri
12.00 to 3.00, 6.00 to 10.00
54 LAMBS CONDUIT ST.
BLOOMSBURY, LONDON WC1
RESERVATIONS: 071-405 1717
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WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
Sun set L 3-courses £34. Wed-Sun L, Tues-Sun D. Alc
about £150 for 2. Ferry Road, Bray, Berkshire.
T: 0628 20691.
P. ORTUGUESE & SPANISH
CARAVELA (Portuguese). Basement restaurant with
pretty, rustic decor. Specialities inc fresh grilled sar-
dines and charcoal-grilled chicken in hot sauce. Gui-
tarist Tues-Fri evenings; traditional Fado singer
Tues-Sun evenings. Mon-Sat L & D, Sun D. From £50
for 2. 39 Beauchamp Place, SW3. T: 071-581 2366.
Map 5C. U: Knightsbridge.
REBATO’S (Spanish). One of the best selections of
tapas in London from £1.25. Very pretty restaurant
and atmospheric tapas bar serves Spanish and inter-
national dishes. Mon-Fri L, Mon-Sat D. Set menu
£12.95; ale £35 for 2. 169 South Lambeth Road, SW8.
T: 071-735 6388. Map 6E. U: Stockwell.
LOS REMOS (Spanish). Boasting over 150 Spanish
wines, they specialise in seafood dishes — paella,
zarzuela de pescados or langoustines. Singer/guitarist
Wed-Sat from 20.30. Tapas bar downstairs (Mon-Sat
12.00-24.00), ale £20 for 2 with wine. Restaurant:
Mon-Sat D; alc £40 for 2. 38a Southwick Street, W2.
T: 071-723 5056/706 1870. Map 3C. U: Paddington.
Puss
THE ADMIRAL CODRINGTON. Atmospheric, with
gaslights and Victorian pictures on the walls, plus
attractive Liberty prints on the tables. Menu a mix
of home-made pies, salads and desserts. 17 Mossop
Street. SW3. T: 071-589 4603. Map 5C. U: South
Kensington.
THE DICKENS INN. Ideal for families, it’s a former
18th century brewery warehouse turned galleried
inn, serving real ale and either snacks at the bar or a
more continental menu upstairs with steaks, salmon
and chicken. St. Katharine’s Way, E1. T: 071-488
1226. Map 4H. U: Tower Hill.
THE LAMB & FLAG. Once frequented by Charles
Dickens, it’s an original 17th century two-storey
building right in the heart of Covent Garden. Popu-
lar spot for pre- or post-theatre with an excellent,
although very informal, menu, upstairs inc agood
international cheeseboard (try very good plough-
man’s lunch in main pub). 33 Rose Street, WC2.
T: 071-836 4108. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
THE PROSPECT OF WHITBY. Once known as the
Devil’s Tavern, its colourful history dating back to
1520 counts Samuel Pepys, Whistler and Turner
among the regulars. Superb Thameside location with
no-nonsense pub grub, from Cornish pasties to
sausages, beans and chips. 57 Wapping Wall, E1.
T: 071-481 1095. Off map. U: Wapping.
THE SHIP. Just south of the river, adjacent to
Wandsworth Bridge, it is tucked amid slightly indus-
trial buildings. On weekends it is heaving with locals
who enjoy the outside BBQ-grilled menu and the fab-
ulous view of the Thames. Jews Row, SW18. T: 071-
081-870 9667. Off map. U: Fulham Broadway.
THE WHITE HORSE. Regularly voted “pub of the
year” with special mention made of its food and wine
selections, it’s set in a leafy residential section of Ful-
ham and attracts a well-heeled clientele. Good selec-
tion of beer, inc many old ales and some unusual
finds. 1 Parsons Green, SW6. T: 071-736 2115. Off
map. U: Parsons Green.
Riversive
THE ANGEL, ROTHERHITHE. Superb food and won-
derful views of Tower Bridge and the City of London
from this 18th century public house on the south
bank of the Thames. Classic English cuisine plus
many international dishes. Sun-Fri L, daily D. Ale
about £50 for 2. 101 Bermondsey Wall East, SE16.
T: 071-237 3608. Map 4J. U: Rotherhithe.
( pen / days a week
For a great atmosphere
and excellent food
32 James Street London WI
Reservations: 071-935 0416
CAFE PACIFICO
Mexican Restaurant « Cantina
5 Langley Street Covent Garden |
WC2. Tel: 071 379 7728
LONDON + AMSTERDAM : PARIS « COLOGNE |
Traditional Austrian atmosphere
with live Accordian music and
singing - serving authentic food
and wine :
Lunch 12 - 3 pm Mon - Fri
Dinner 6 - 1 am Mon - Sat
(last orders 11.00 pm)
9 St. Christopher's Place
Wigmore Street, W.1
(Near Bond Street tube)
Res. 071 486 3196 / 8103
OPEN DAILY
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@ Lunch @ Afternoon Tea
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11 KNIGHTSBRIDGE SW1
071 235 5273
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Family run restaurant serving
excellent cuisine in a relaxed
atmosphere offering very good value
with no added extras.
Tel: 071-724 3446
13 Seymour Place London W.1.
3 mins from Marble Arch ©
Open —. the day
12 noon -1 1pm
Mon - Sat, (closed Sun)
7-9 Swallow Street
(near Piccadilly Circus)
London W1R 7HD
Tel: 071-734 5182
Serving many specialities and a good
selection of vegetarian dishes.
RISTORANTE ITALIANO
17 Beak Street, London, W.1
Tel: 071-734 6615
NEW FOOK LAM (NOON |
Chinese Restaurant
_ Specialising in Seafood,
Cantonese & Peking Cuisine.
Open 7 days a week
12 to 11.30pm (last orders)
Sunday 12pm to 10.30pm
Fully acateelt- Air CondthiGned
Tel: 071 734 7615 / 437 5712
10 Gerrard Street, London W1
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RESTAURANTS & CAFES
BLUE PRINT CAFE. Located upstairs in the style-
conscious Design Museum, it has an unbeatable bal-
cony view of the Thames and Tower Bridge. Cos-
mopolitan menu inc many Italian-influences from
panzanella Tuscan bread salad and carpaccio to vari-
ous pasta dishes. Good daily specials. Daily L, Mon-
Sat D. Alc about £60 for 2. Butler’s Wharf, SE1.
T: 071-378 7031. Map 4H. U: Tower Hill.
OLD THAMESIDE INN. A Victorian warehouse south
of London Bridge has been converted into an olde-
worlde inn with 3 bars (1 for Champagne) and a
restaurant with splendid views of Thames. Home-
made pies, roasts and fish. Good Sun L. Daily L & D.
About £40 for 2. St. Mary Overy Wharf, Clink Street,
SE1. T: 071-403 4253. Map 4G. U: London Bridge.
PRINCES ROOM. Superb views of the Thames and
Tower Bridge. Wide-ranging international dishes.
Dancing Fri & Sat eves. Mon-Fri L (set, 2-course
£20.45; 3-course £22.50) & D (set, 6-course £27.60),
Sat D only. Alec about £70 for 2. Smart dress. Tower
Thistle Hotel, St. Katharine’s Way, E1. T: 071-481
2575. Map 4H. U: Tower Hill.
THE REGALIA. Reconstructed livery barge on three
levels. Three-course dinner-dance and cabaret every
Fri £35, Sat £40. Mon-Fri L, Fri-Sat D. Ale about £25
for two. Swan Pier, near London Bridge, EC4. T: 071-
623 1805. Map 3G. U: Monument.
S CANDINAVIAN
SCANDIC CROWN. Wide selection of dishes with
Swedish influence in Scandinavie Restaurant. Set L 2-
course (£14.95) and 3-courses (£17.95). Ale D menu
approx £60 for 2. Daily L & D. Also Rhapsodie Restau-
rant open for B, L & D. Special Sun L Royal Swedish
Smorgasbord £14.95 (available in all Scandic Crown
Hotels). 2 Bridge Place, SW1. T: 071-834 8123. Map
5D. U: Victoria. (Also Scandic Crown Euston, 17/18
Upper Woburn Place, WC1; and Scandic Crown Nel-
son Dock, 265 Rotherhithe Street, SE16.)
Sourn EAST ASIAN
BAMBOO KUNING (Malaysian, Indonesian & Singa-
porean). Superb selection of Far Eastern cuisine very
popular with locals. Specialities inc roticanai
(Malaysian bread) and dending (marinated beef fried
with onions). Daily L & D. Ale about £30 for 2. 114
Seymour Place, W1. T: 071-723 2920. Map 3C.
U: Edgware Road/Marylebone.
BLUE ELEPHANT (Thai). Authentic Royal Thai cui-
sine in this popular and lavishly adorned restaurant
with tropical plants and a very pretty waterfall. Try
Pearls of the Blue Elephant, then the Royal Platter.
Special “Festival of Thailand” from 18 May inc exotic
food, local costumes and colourful decor from four dif-
ferent regions of Thailand. Sun-Fri L & daily D
(19.00-00.30 Mon-Sat; 19.00-22.30 Sun). Set D £25-
£28. Alc about £70 for 2. 4-6 Fulham Broadway, SW6.
T: 071-385 6595. Off map. U: Fulham Broadway.
BUSABONG TOO (Thai). Translated into Thai the
name means “lotus” and this theme is carried
throughout the restaurant. Popular spot with excel-
lent menu featuring many Thai specialities inc soft
shell crabs with ginger and chilli. Daily L & D. Alc
about £40 for 2. la Langton Street, SW10. Map 6B.
U: Sloane Square/South Kensington.
DEES (Thai). In literary Bloomsbury, this authentic
Thai restaurant is frequented by local Thai communi-
ty. Rec: pad Thai (fried noodles with pork, shrimp,
bean sprouts and peanuts). Mon-Fri L & D, Sat D only.
Set menus from £16. Alc £45 for 3. 17 New North
Street, WC1. T: 071-831 7932. Map 2F. U: Holborn.
| DESARU (Malaysian). Spacious and bustling, with
authentic Malaysian fare. Good seafood and vegetari-
an dishes; exceptionally attentive service. Budget L
£4.50. Mon-Fri L & D, Sat 12.00-23.45, Sun 13.00-
22.00. Huge set meal for 2 inc wine £39. 60-62 Old |
Compton Street, W1. T: 071-734 4379. Map 3E.
U: Leicester Square/Piccadilly Circus.
Where else would one get...
BIAGIO
CHEZ VICTOR
The best of both worlds
For the finest French and
Italian cuisine in the heart of
London’s theatreland
Open daily 12-11.30pm
Serving lunch, dinner,
Pre and after theatre meals
45 Wardour Street, London W1
Tel: 071 437 6523
THE LANTERNS
96 Cleveland St. London,W.1.
Recommended by"WHAT’S ON
AND WHERE TO GO"
as one of the best
GREEK RESTAURANTS
Tel: 071 387 0704
A little bit of France in the
heart of London
Solange's
Restaurant, Brasserie, Wine Bar
and Summer Terrace.
Open:
Lunch: Mon-Fri 12-3pm
Dinner: Mon-Sat
5.30-11.30pm
11 St. Martin's Court, hs
Covent Garden, WC2
Res: 071 240 9936
071 240 0245
30 Sea. Place, Knightsbridge,
London SW3 Telephone: 071- 584 1107
RISTORANTE ITALIANO
Italian Cuisine
Dine in comfortable surroundings. The
finest Italian food & wines. Open from
12-3 and 7-11.30 pm, 7 days a week.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
, Mon - Sun
ENGLISH
WAY OF
LIFE...
for Lunch
and Supper
ENGLISH RESTAURANT
AND CIDER/WINE BAR
26 CHURTON STREET. PIMLICO. S.W.1.
TEL: 071 - 821 7456
91 HIGH ST, WIMBLEDON VILLAGE.
SW19.
TEL: 081 - 946 2471
BERTORELLI
RISTORANTE
17 NOTTING HILL GATE, LONDON wii
for reservations Phone 071-727 7604 / 071-221 1723
ren ON!
ITALIAN FOR BEER
LA PERUGINA
RISTORANTE ITALIANO
Open daily, breakfast, lunch, evening meals.
Private room for all corporate events.
196/198 GREAT PORTLAND STREET
LONDON WI
O71-430 2547 /436
25306
Excellent
Italian Restaurant
specializes in home-made pasta.
339 Euston Road, London NW1
Tel: 071 383 2693
25 years under the same management
TANDOORI SPECIALITIES
MAHARAJA
INDIAN RESTAURANT
Open daily noon - midnight
Fully licensed & air conditioned
50 Queensway, London W2 Tel: 071 727 1135
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Swiss Restaurant
Built in the style of an Alpine chalet. This charming restaurant
features a selection of mouthwatering Swiss specialities,
including a variety of Fondues.
Mon - Friday lunch & dinner Sat. Dinner only
Ideal for post theatre meals
161 Wardour Street London W1 Tel: (071) 734 3324/8895
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WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
RESTAURANTS & CAFES s
KHUN AKORN (Thai). Part of growing chain of sophis-
ticated Thai restaurants owned by Thailand's Imperial
Family of Hotels. Rec: Tongsai Platter (mixed Thai
hors d'oeuvres), Tom Yam Kung (spicy prawn soup),
roast duck curry and perfectly grilled sirloin steak with
chilli sauce known as weeping tiger, prepared in Royal
Thai style. Mon-Sat L & D. Ale about £60 for 2. 136
Brompton Road, SW3. T: 071-225 2688. Map 4C.
U: Knightsbridge. (Also at 121 Earl’s Court Road,
SW5. T: 071-373 3018.)
MYUNG GA (Korean). Stylish, intimate restaurant
with excellent Korean food and super service. Variety
of set meals and vegetarian dishes. Daily L & D. Set
meals from £20. Alc about £60 for 2. 1 Kingly Street,
W1. T: 071-287 9768. Ma» 3E. U: Oxford Circus/Pic-
cadilly Circus.
ORIENTAL BRASSERIE (Thai). Just upstairs from the
Grouse and Claret pub, this charming restaurant is
tucked away in Belgravia. Menu is a mix of flavours
and dishes from all over South East Asia — rec:
Penang curries, Mongolian Hot-pot from North China
and Japanese chicken teriyaki and tempura. Daily L
& D. Set Sun buffet L £16.50 (weekdays £14.50). Alc
about £45 for 2. 14-15 Little Chester Street, SW1.
T: 071-245 1224. Map 4D. U: Hyde Park Corner.
SRI SIAM (Thai). Elegant, light and airy award-
winning Soho restaurant. Specialities inc larb (pork,
beef or chicken on rice with salad) and kai pookao fai
(chicken with liquor cooked in foil). Mon-Sat L (set,
£9) & D (set, £14.95), Sun D only. Alc about £40 for 2.
14 Old Compton Street, W1. T: 071-434 3544. Map
3E. U: Leicester Square. (Also at 85 London Wall,
EC2. T: 071-628 5772.)
‘Turkisu
SOFRA. Wonderful combination of good food, attractive
decor and superb service in this popular, centrally
located Shepherd Market spot. Good “Healthy Lunch
& Dinner” inc a mix of 12 different hot and cold mezes,
all low in fat, inc hummuz, tabulle, fallafel and Albani-
an liver (£8.45 L, £9.95 D), good for pre- or post-
theatre. Also rec: Shepherd’s special (grilled lamb fil-
lets with onion, green pepper and tomato), moussaka
and marinated swordfish on a skewer. Daily 12.00-
24.00. Ale about £35 for 2. 18 Shepherd Market, W1.
T: 071-493 3320. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
TOPKAPI. Good example of traditional Turkish
restaurant, decorated with brass ornaments. Popular
with local community. Good service; busy at L. Rec:
shish kebabs and imam bayildi (stuffed aubergines).
Special set menu L & D inc selection of meze plus
mixed kebab (£12.50). Daily 12.00-23.30. Alc about
£35 for 2. 25 Marylebone High Street, W1. T: 071-486
1872. Map 2D. U: Baker Street.
Ve GETARIAN
CRANKS. London’s pioneer vegetarian restaurants
serve a huge selection of delicious inexpensive, home-
baked pies, nut roasts, quiches, flans, pizzas, fruit
salads and cheesecakes. Sandwiches and snacks for
takeaway, too. Mon-Fri 08.00-20.00, Sat 09.00-20.00.
From £14 for 2. 8 Marshall Street, W1. T: 071-437
9431. Map 3E. U: Oxford Circus. (Branches through-
out central London.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Although it’s small and busy,
the home-made food is good and the menu changes
daily. Rec: soups, stews, quiches and hearty breakfasts.
(Not licensed.) Mon-Sat B, L & D (until 20.00), Sun L
only. Ale from about £10 for 2. 31 Neal Street, WC2.
T: 071-836 0239. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
MANDEER VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Indian).
Long-established wholefood vegetarian restaurant
offering an extensive Indian menu in unusual quasi-
temple atmosphere. Try samosas, tofu curry, chana
masala or panir kurma. Mon-Sat L & D (from 17.30).
Set buffets from £3, set meals from £6.75-£9; alc
about £30 for 2. 21 Hanway Place, W1. T: 071-323
0660. Map 3E. U: Tottenham Court Road.
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GREEK TAVERNA & RESTAURANT
Warm welcome and Great Food.
Private room available for parties up to 70.
| Open every day Noon -3pm & 6pm-midnight
Fully licensed
10/12 Moscow Road, London W2
(off Queensway) Res: 071 727 7112
A True Traditional approach
DEE’S THAI RESTAURANT
Lunch Mon—Fri noon—3.00 pm
Dinner Mon-Sat 6.00 pm—1!.00pm
IT NEW NORTH STREET
Tel: O71 831
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Tel: 071-734 4691/437 0485
26-28 Wardour Street, W 1
London’s oldest & uniquely historic
Gordon’s Wine Cellar
Original 19th century decor,
cobwebs, barrels, food and wine.
Mon-Fri 11am-11pm
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Dinner 6.15-11.15pm Mon-Sat
63 FRITH STREET, SOHO
THE HEART OF THEATRELAND
LONDON WIV 5TA
071 734 4545
QUALITY *« ELEGANCE *« AMBIANCE
London’s most celebrated
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CATERING FOR LONDON'S
THEATREGOERS FOR OVER 10 YEARS
O71 836 6077 ¢
This fine Indian Restaurant is situated in
an historic 17th Century listed building.
Excellent food and service are assured.
L.B.C. Radio's restaurant of the year
finalist 1986 and 1989
Located in the heart of Covent Garden
& Theatreland. Close to New London Theatre.
37 GREAT QUEEN ST. LONDON WC2
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SPECIAL PRE & AFTER THEATRE DINNERS
at London’s oldest and most authentic French Restaurant.
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Classical French cuisine, Superb French wines
Open daily except Sat Lunch and all day Sunday
21 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, WC2
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LONDON’S DINNER DANCE
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Dancing from 8pm Last orders 12 pm
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Served up to 6pm.
17 Wardour Street W1
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pre or alter theatre dinners. Dishes from
various regions cooked to perfection and
served with style.
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(2 doors away from Ronnie Scotts.
off Shaftsbury Avenue)
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SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS
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LONDON
CLUBS &
NIGHTLIFE
Henry J. Bean’s on the King’s Road is a
“Cheers” -style bar serving burgers, beer and
bonhomie. See listing under Wine Bars
Discos, jazz venues,
dining and dancing and
all-night restaurants
On a clear day you can see forever from
Windows on the World at the Hilton on Park
Lane. See listing under Dine & Dance
Take a trip down memory lane and sing for
your supper at the music hall of Underneath
the Arches. See listing under Entertainment
CABARET
L’HIRONDELLE. Restaurant with flamboyant floor
show at 23.00 and 01.00; bands for the rest of the
evening. 3-course D £30. Non-diners at the bar pay
£10 entrance. Mon-Sat 20.30-03.30. Swallow Street,
W1. T: 071-734 6666. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
STORK CLUB. Glamorous and colourful shows at
23.30 and 01.00. Fine food attentively served (3-course
D £35 inc coffee) and dancing to the Stork Club Trio.
Early morning B; £10 cover charge for non-diners.
Mon-Sat 20.30-03.30. 99 Regent Street, W1.
T: 071-734 1393. Map 3E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
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ANNABEL’S. The best known club in London is also
probably the most difficult to get into. If you’re an
overseas visitor, apply for temporary membership
(with your passport) in advance and you may be lucky.
Mon-Sat 20.30-04.00. 44 Berkelely Square, W1. T:
071-629 3558. Map 3D. U: Green Park.
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THE WAG CLUB. The decor and the clientéle can best be
described as “alternative” and the door is very selective
— only the coolest people are admitted. Definitely a place
to see and be seen. Mon-Sat 22.30-03.30. Entrance fee
Mon-Wed £3, Thur £4. 33 Wardour Street, W1. T: 071-
437 5534. Map 3E. U: Tottenham Court Road.
Dine & DANCE
BARBARELLA 1 & 2. Dine and dance in 2 sophisticat-
ed, friendly late-night restaurants. Romantic atmo-
sphere and superb cuisine. From £60 for 2 inc danc-
ing. Mon-Sat 19.30-03.00. 428 Fulham Road, SW6.
T: 071-385 9434/9977. Off map. U: Fulham Broadway.
(Also 43 Thurloe Street, SW7. T: 071-584 2000/8383.
Map 5C. U: South Kensington).
CLEOPATRA TAVERNA. Extensive and traditional
Greek menu in this cheerful Notting Hill restaurant.
Band plays both popular and Greek music for danc-
ing and belly-dancing after 21.00. Mon-Sat 19.00-
03.00, Sun 19.00-01.00. Ale about £40 for 2. 146-150
Notting Hill Gate, W11. T: 071-727 4046. Map 4A.
U: Notting Hill Gate.
THE ELEPHANT ON THE RIVER. Lush, opulent decor
and splendid views across the Thames. Excellent
international menu changes regularly. Cocktail bar
and live entertainment nightly with Studio 84 band.
Tues-Sat 19.00-02.45, Sun until 01.45; also superb
value Sun buffet L 12.00-15.00 (set £17). From about
£65 for 2. 129 Grosvenor Road, SW1. T: 071-834 1621.
Map 6E. U: Pimlico.
THE RITZ. Dine and dance in the elegant surround-
ings of the Ritz Restaurant for a memorable and
truly stylish evening; both alc and table d’héte
(£42.50) menus are available. Fri and Sat between
22.00-01.00 the famous Palm Court fills with Big
Band sounds of the twenties, thirties and forties.
Ideal for post-theatre D. 3-course D £33. Night out for
2 from about £100. Smart dress. Piccadilly, W1.
T: 071-493 8181. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
THE RIVER RESTAURANT. Dinner-dances with a
superb international menu plus fabulous views across
the River Thames. Dancing to a live band from 20.30.
Mon-Thur 19.30-24.00, Fri 19.30-00.30 & Sat 19.30-
01.00 (Sun D but no dancing). Night out for 2 from
£100. Smart dress. Savoy Hotel, Strand, WC2. T: 071-
836 4343. Map 3E. U: Embankment.
WHERE/LONDON MAY 1992
CLUBS & NIGHTLIFE
WINDOWS ON THE WORLD. See London from 28th
floor, dance until 02.00 and dine on fine French food.
Mon-Sat from 19.00, live music from 20.30; Sun
19.00-01.00. Also open B & L daily. Set menus L
£24.50-£29.95, inc wine, D £39 plus £6 cover charge.
Alc about £100 for 2. London Hilton on Park Lane,
W1. T: 071-493 8000. Map 4D. U: Hyde Park Corner.
Discos
LACEYS. Fashionable disco with extravagant decor.
Resident DJ and occasional celebrity appearances.
Separate piano bar and restaurant downstairs serv-
ing steaks, scampi, chicken and so on and a full range
of cocktails. Mon-Sat 21.30-03.00. Entrance fee £10.
81 St. Martin’s Lane, WC2. T: 071-240 8187. Map 3E.
U: Leicester Square.
ST. MORITZ CLUB. An informal rabbit warren of a
place and a must for heavy rock fans. Pub. not night-
club, bar prices make it easy on the pocket. Daily
21.00-03.00. Admission £5. 161 Wardour Street. W1.
T: 071-734 3324. Map 3E. U: Tottenham Court Road.
XENON. Mainstream disco with three bars including
a special piano and cocktail bar. Speciality acts —
mime, juggling and magic — take place on the stage
alongside the dance floor. Mon-Thur 21.00-03.30. Fri
& Sat 22.00-06.00. Entrance fee Mon & Tues £7. Wed
& Thur £8, Fri & Sat £12. 196 Piccadilly, W1. T: 071-
734 9344. Map 4D. U: Piccadilly Circus.
E\NTERTAINMENT
COMEDY STORE. Top US and UK acts in front of very
tough audiences. Snack-style menu changes weekly.
Admission £6 Tues, £7 Wed-Fri & Sun, £8 Sat. Does
not take reservations. One show Tues-Thur & Sun
20.00; 2 shows Fri & Sat 20.00 & 24.00. (Doors open
19.00.) 28A Leicester Square, WC2. T: 0426 914433
(24-hour info line). Map 3E. U: Leicester Square.
UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES. Restaurant and music
hall with Fri & Sat evening performances recalling
old-fashioned Victorian comedy music halls. Tradi-
tional English menu. Restaurant open Mon-Fri L
(about £22 for 2); Fri & Sat D with show (from 19.30)
£22.50 per person. 82 Great Suffolk Street, SE1.
T: 071-620 0384. Map 4G. U: Borough.
Jazz CLUBS
BASS CLEF. Popular venue to hear live jazz, Latin
American and African music. Basic, but good vegetar-
ian menu. Sun-Wed 21.00-02.00, Fri & Sat 19.30-
02.00. Admission charge from £3.50. 35 Coronet
Street, N1. T: 071-729 2476. Off map. U: Old Street.
DOVER STREET RESTAURANT & WINE BAR. Impres-
sive selection of live jazz, blues, soul and swing per-
formers at this popular restaurant/club. Good French
cuisine served with emphasis on fish, meat and chick-
en. Snacks also available. Mon-Fri 12.00-15.00 &
17.30-03.00, Sat 20.00-03.00. Ale about £50 for 2.
Cover charge from £3-£7 after 20.00. 8-9 Dover
Street, W1. T: 071-629 9813. Map 4D. U: Green Park.
PIZZA ON THE PARK. Late night jazz cabaret with
many top U.S. performers with both modern and
traditional jazz. Straightforward American-style
menu of pizza, sandwiches, chilli and salads. Daily
08.00-24.00 with live music from 21.15. Admission
for music from £8-£12, depending on acts. 11 Knights-
bridge, SW1. T: 071-235 5550. Map 4D. U: Hyde
Park Corner.
THE ROADHOUSE. Pull in off the road to this inex-
pensive and atmospheric new venue. Decor is retro-
American, complete with 1950’s Harley Davidson and
Chevvy. Menu inc grilled swordfish, fajitas, Caesar
salad and the famous New York Reuben sandwich.
Live music — jazz, blues, soul and country — nightly.
Admission £7.50 (variable) after 21.30. Ale about £30
for 2. Mon-Sat 18.00-03.00. Jubilee Hall, The Piazza,
Covent Garden, WC2. T: 071-240 6000. Map 3E.
U: Covent Garden.
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RONNIE SCOTT’S. The cuisine may not interest
Michelin, but you can order steaks and good snacks
at Britain’s foremost jazz club. Always big names on
the programme. Mon-Sat 20.30-03.00. Entrance fee
£12. 47 Frith Street, W1. T: 071-439 0747. Map 3E.
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HARRY’S CAFE. Perfect for insomniacs and late-night
revellers, West Soho’s original all-night café offers
| excellent coffee, steak and eggs or scrambled eggs
with smoked salmon. Daily 18.00-06.30. Alc from
about £20 for 2. 19 Kingly Street, W1. T: 071-434
| 0309. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus.
MAROUSH II. Luxurious Lebanese restaurant
attracting well-heeled clientele. Extremely high qual-
ity cuisine and service. Traditional dishes inc falafels,
| hommos and sujuk. Most food available for takeaway.
Daily 12.00-05.00. Ale about £45 for 2. 38 Beauchamp
Place, SW3. T: 071-581 5434. (Also Maroush III at 68
Seymour Street, W1. T: 071-724 5024. Map 3C.
U: Marble Arch; and Maroush I at 21 Edgware Road,
W2. T: 071-723 0773. Map 3C. U: Marble Arch.)
UP ALL NIGHT. Standard menu of burgers, steaks
and traditional pastas in this informal place, popular
with the after-midnight crowd. Mon-Sat 12.00-06.00.
Alc about £30 for 2. 325 Fulham Road, SW10. T: 071-
| 352 1996. Map 6B. U: South Kensington.
Wine BARS
BALLS BROTHERS. Traditional wine merchants for
150 years. Excellent fish, seafood and salads, plus
more than 100 wines. Rest: Mon-Fri 11.30-23.00 (last
orders 21.00); bar: 11.00-23.00. (Light jazz piano
music from 18.30.) Ale about £40 for 2. 20 St. James's
Street, SW1 (entrance in Ryder Street). T: 071-321
0882. Map 4E. U: Piccadilly Circus.
CRUSTING PIPE. Traditional wine bar with classic
British fare. Specialities inc charcoal grilled steaks
and pork, plum and celery pie. Bar: Mon-Sat 11.30-
23.30, Grill Room: Mon-Sat L & D. Pre-theatre
menus: 2-courses £8.50, 3-courses £10.50. Ale about
£30 for 2. 27 The Market, Covent Garden, WC2.
T: 071-836 1415. Map 3E. U: Covent Garden.
GORDON’S WINE BAR. Long-established (about 200
| years!) wine bar in atmospheric candle-lit basement
next to Charing Cross station. Range of wines and
fortified wines from around the world. Good choice of
snacks, full meals and salad bar. Mon-Fri 11.00-
23.00. 47 Villiers Street, Strand, WC2. T: 071-930
1408. Map 3E. U: Embankment/Charing Cross.
HENRY J. BEAN’S. Three authentic American bar-
grills with great cheeseburgers, hotdogs and chilli.
Mon-Sat 11.45-23.00, Sun 12.00-22.30. Ale about £15
for 2. 195-197 King’s Road, SW3. T: 071-352 9255.
Map 6C. U: Sloane Square. (Also at 54 Abingdon
Road, W8. T: 071-937 3339. Map 4A. U: High Street
Kensington; and 490-492 Fulham Road, SW6. T: 071-
381 5005. Off map. U: Fulham Broadway.)
MR. LAMBRUSCO. Busy wine bar serving superb Ital-
ian and international cuisine. Full alc menu at L &
D. Also Mon-Sat £5 L buffet. Tapas available. Live
jazz Tues & Thur. Mon-Sat 11.00-23.00. Ale about £24
for 2. 15-16 New Burlington Street, W1. T: 071-287
8327. Map 3D. U: Oxford Circus/Piccadilly Circus.
SHAMPERS. Immensely popular wine bar and
brasserie. Long wine list plus good selection of hot
and cold food. Very busy at L and early evenings
upstairs. Mon-Sat L, Mon-Fri D. About £25 for 2 in
wine bar; alc about £40 for 2 in downstairs restau-
rant (open L only Mon-Sat). 4 Kingly Street, W1.
T: 071-437 1692. Map 3E. U: Oxford Circus.
TUMBLERS WINE BAR & DINING ROOM. Previously
an old bank vault, it is now a traditional wine bar
serving British dishes, fine wines and snacks. Mon-
Fri L & D. Set meals from £9.95-£14; ale about £20
for 2. 1 Kensington High Street, W8. T: 071-937 0393.
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He added: “They have
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Yakuza take revenge
on film director
FROM JOANNA PITMAN IN TOKYO
IN AN alarming case of life
imitating art, Juzo Itami, a
film director whose latest sat-
ire about gangsters was re-
leased last week, was attacked
outside his Tokyo home at the
weekend by three Japanese
men suspected of being
yakuza mobsters, Japan's
equivalent of the Mafia.
Mr Itami, whose acerbic
films Tampopo, about a noo-
dle shop, and A Taxing
Woman, about a tax inspec-
tor, have been well received in
Britain, suffered multiple
slashes two inches deep on his
face and arms and was last
night recovering in hospital.
For a country that prides itself
on one of the lowest crime
rates in the world, where dia-
mond-laden elderly women
can Stroll confidently alone at
midnight, the attack has
come as a shock and prompt-
ed national media coverage.
Police officers investigating
the attack believe that it was
directly related to Mr Itami’s
latest film, Minbo no Onna,
his irreverent and colourful
look at the underworld. In a
recent interview, Mr Itami
Said that his film was intend-
ed to teach ordinary J apanese
that they must use the law to
counter yakuza extortion at-
tempts and all other forms of
yakuza harassment that have
become a feature of daily life
for many.
“Japanese people have
been suffering from yakuza
blackmail, extortion and oth- -
er forms of intimidation. It is
a threat to our freedom, but
people have been afraid to try
to stop them. I want them to
learn to fight back.”
In Ninbo no Onna, as in all
of his feature films, Mr Itami
takes delight in deftly deflat-
ing the proud and strutting
male element of his story, in
this case the gangsters, so
that they come across as buf-
foons. “Japanese men are
really only small children
with big fantasies. I have to
express that every time in my
films,” he said.
Until now, Japan’s tattooed
yakuza mobsters have been
accustomed to seeing them-
selves glamourised on screen
and in literature, portrayed as
an unlikely cross between
James Bond and Robin
Hood. But the traditional
yakuza are being replaced to-
day by a new breed of pin-
Striped gangster, intent on
amassing a fortune and igno-
rant of the philosophy of the
old yakuza, to whom obliga-
tions and loyalty to the gang
boss were all.
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culturally rich. great explanatory belief systems,
Football has risen to meet the there might only be boredom —
were it not for the physiological
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intricacies of Gazza’s right knee.
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from a Berlin mural of that era.
Director Richard Eyre decided
several weeks ago to introduce the
idea of Richard as a warrior earlier
on in the play. “There had been
criticisms that Richard did not
appear in armour until the very
end,” says a spokesman. But given
the reputation of American audi-
ences as less than open-minded,
it is not inconvenient that their
blushes will be spared.
Steering into trouble
SIR NORMAN FOWLER will
have to move swiftly to prevent a
public challenge to his authority at
the annual conference in Brighton
in October when the rebellion
within the Conservative party at
constituency level is likely to get a
public airing. A new association,
the Party Reform Steering Com-
mittee, has been formed with
the aim of making Central Office
accountable to party members.
The ringleader of the movement is
Michael Normington, a member
Host of problems
THE BRAIN GAME, Channel 4’s
charity fundraising quiz, may have
been held in Canary Wharf Tower,
Britain’s most high-tech office
block, but that did not prevent
the technical hitches which
had the shows host, Jonathan
Dimbleby, biting his nails until
three minutes before the broad-
cast. First the Docklands Light
Railway, which was to ferry the
celebrities to the tower for the
opening sequence of the show,
broke down after 25 yards. Then,
during the warm-up, the com-
puter and TV screens surrounding
Dimbleby blanked out.
Unknown to any of the contes-
tants, a heavy metal door had
sliced through one of the main Cca-
bles. It was repaired only three
minutes before the show went on
air. Dimbleby says: “1 was white-
faced at the prospect of 90 minutes
of live television under those cir-
cumstances, and was wondering
what I could possibly do if they did
not get it right in time”.
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‘nude was taken
of the national union executive
committee.
Normington’s rebels are de-
manding a special meeting, where
they will propose “bringing Cen-
tral Office under democratic con-
trol”. Officers of 16 Conservative
associations, along with the newly
re-elected MP Piers Merchant,
met to discuss accountability and
control of Central Office at the
offices of Hounslow, Brentford
& Isleworth Conservative Associ-
ation on May 9.
The minutes of that meeting
have been sent to every constit-
uency chairman and the rebels
are hoping to get the support
of 50 constituency associations
to enable them to. hold their
special meeting. Central Office is
taking the threat seriously and
Sir Norman’s family will be seeing
even less of the new chairman until
the rebellion has been quashed.
The broadcasters are consider-
ing repeating the exercise, and
Dimbleby says he would be “de-
lighted” to play a part — as long as
his nerves are up to it.
@ The vows of the Cistercian order
were overlooked by the Mother
Superior at Seville’s San .Cle-
mente convent last week, so im-
pressed were her nuns by the
music of Byrd and Tallis and the
dulcet tones of the Westminster
Cathedral Choir. The choir had
heen invited to hold a concert at
the newly-restored convent as part
of Britain's cultural programme
at Expo 92. The nuns, an en-
closed order, are allowed into
part of the convent's chapel par-
titioned by a grille, and should
under normal circumstances have
been in bed by the time the concert
started.
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all the English authors, fictional
mrents — the iate, mayor, tas
healer and the psychic and, in the
romantic view, of the artist.
The writers and artists of old who
instruct Timothy in his visions are
all distant but ideal fathers. The
peculiar intensity of this book
derives from the dodgy behaviour
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patience.” Listen to English Music
again then, da capo. And if not
now, later. “For what is time but the
very passage of music from genera-
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he brief period of bourgeois
triumphalism which fol-
lowed the opening of the
Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolu-
tion in Prague has waned. Even the
fiasco of the hardliners’ coup in
Moscow last August did not re-
awaken the mood of heady opti-
mism which briefly flourished after
1989.
Then the transition from com-
munism back to capitalism was
seen as simple: it was out with the
Five Year Plan and in with the
Shock Therapy. The poverty and
industrial decay which charac-
terised communism everywhere
was seen as the product of a
mistaken set of economic doctrines.
Substitute the correct approach
and, hey presto, the economy
would flourish again from Pilsen to
Vladivostock.
But today, more and more people
are coming to see that creating a
viable society out of the ruins of
communism is not just a matter of
introducing the rules of a market
economy. The key problems of
transition lie much deeper.
In his writings before the revolu-
tion which catapulted him from the
relative obscurity of being a dissi-
dent-playwright to the presidency
of Czechoslovakia, Havel had al-
ways talked about communism as
an essentially moral problem. For
dissidents like Havel, it was the
totalitarian system’s corrosion of
honesty, individual responsibility
and purpose which was its central
effect. Its economic blunders and
incompetence were a by-product of
this key factor.
Despite becoming a professional
politician, now running for re-
Mark Almond |
SUMMER
MEDITATIONS
Politics, Morality and Civili-
ty in a Time of Transition
By Vaclav Havel
Translated by Paul
Wilkinson
Faber and Faber, £14.99
THE SADDLED COW
East Germany’s Life and
Legacy
By Anne McElvoy
Faber and Faber, £14.99
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election, Havel has not lost his
emphasis on morality in politics.
He starts his Summer Meditations
by pointing out an uncomfortable
home-truth: “The return of free-
dom to a society which was morally
unhinged has_ produced...an
enormous and dazzling explosion
of every imaginable human vice.”
In the West, capitalism is under-
pinned by a pre-capitalist morality,
eroded and decaying year by year,
but still there, whereas in the East it
was conscientiously rooted out by
the communists.
Havel is not a pessimist, but his
book makes sobering reading for
those who think the revolutions are
over. Anne McElvoy’s book, too, is
sobering — despite its funny char-
acter sketches of some of. the
shallow mediocrities who ruled or
represented East Germany for so
long. Unlike many journalists
packed off east in the autumn of
1989, Anne McElvoy had had the
advantage of spending time in East
Berlin as a student. She catches the
atmosphere of the German Demo-
cratic Republic in the 1980s well.
For all its unreality, it existed; as she
notes, it has left its mark on its
citizens as well as on the polluted
industrial landscape of East
Germany.
In retrospect, historians will
probably conclude that the appar-
ently boundless growth of the West
German economy had already
peaked before 1989, but most West
Germans today know who to blame
for the current high taxes and
inflation inching ever higher. Re-
unification has been a nightmare
for the wealthy children of the West
German economic miracle. They
hardly knew their brothers in the
east, who sat gawping at West
German television night after night
from beyond the Wall. The
“Wessies” were more likely to go to |
Dallas on holiday than visit Dres-
den, but the “Ossies” had to make
do with JR on the box.
East and west may now be
irrevocably united in one Ger-
many, but as Anne McElvoy’s book
makes clear, the imprint of “Made
in the GDR” will still be visible for
years to come. Even more, at heart,
all of today’s “Ossies” cannot
escape from its legacy. But spare a
thought for their former fraternal
allies further east; they do not even
have grudging western brothers to
bail them out of the material
heritage of communism, let alone
soothe the moral scars.
Mark Almond is a lecturer at Oriel
College, Oxford. His book, The
Rise and Fall of Nicolae and Elena
Ceausescu, was reviewed in The
Times last Saturday.
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