TRAVEL INSIDER: LONDON
Where do chefs in London eat after hours?
Duck and Waffle for a high-end, 24-hour kitchen. Bagel Bake, Brick Lane, for a stumbling, late-night munch before bed. Where’s the best place to see a cool local band? Columbia Rd Market. Great buskers on a Sunday if you can handle the crowds. Proud gallery, Camden. XOYO Shoreditch, Oslo in Hackney Central, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. Best place for a bracing walk? Along the canal to Hackney Wick. Att thethe endend of the walk is a brewery with a pizza oven.ven. Enough said. Best club? Arsenal? I don’t get out much these days. Where’s the ‘It’ place to see and be seen? The Chiltern Fire House in Marylebone. Poolside on the roof at Shoreditch House — weather permitting. Where’s the best public place to hide away from it all? The Tube guarantees absolute anonymity and no special treatment t whatsoever. Where do you get the best view of London? The penthouse space on the 16th floor of New Zealand House on Haymarket. Wh Where do you go for a long lunch? PetershamPet Nursery. WhereWh do you go for a great cocktail?co TheTh Bar With No Name, 69 ColebrookC Row. BestB place for vintage goodies? AntiquesA and vintage market at SpitalfieldsS on a Thursday, Cheshire St,S E2, off Brick Lane. London’s best-kept secret? Rochelle Canteen. Best gallery? Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery. Best place to buy cookbooks? Books for Cooks, Notting Hill. What food market has the most unusual ingredients and produce? Borough Market, Broadway Market on a Saturday. Best shop to buy vinyl? Rough Trade. Best park to take your kids? Victoria Park, East London.
Miles Kirby, from Wellington, is chef and cofounder of Caravan, at King’s Cross and Exmouth Market, and Caravan Coffee Roasters, London.