eephus wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:00 pm
We had a great trip.
Our place in Shoreditch was roomy, cheap, and located perfectly. It also sucked, but not enough to bother somehow canceling/rebooking. Not there much.
Food:
Dishoom Shoreditch (great, if not necessarily better than a couple places on Devon Ave in Chicago)
Rochelle Canteen (great)
St John Bread and Wine (superb, one of my fave restaurants anywhere)
St John (great but I didn't like it quite as much as Bread and Wine)
Smokestak (improbably good barbecue but don't get the wings, they're done wrong)
Kiln (spectacular Thai, ate there twice, long waits both times, totally worth it)
Borough Market (great)
Etc. etc.
We had tea at the Goring which was pretty expensive but fine to do once.
Lots of markets and window shopping and some actual shopping. Lots of museums including both Tates--an art historian friend said Tate Modern might be the puffed-up one but Tate Britain is better...he was right, good as the Modern was (great Yoko exhibit). Really liked the Britain's Sargent exhibit (weirdly run down in the Guardian) and the JMW Turner rooms--there's a Rothko in the middle of some "unfinished" works there, and the placement is a stroke of genius (also Rothko's idea evidently).
Saw Sunn at Barbican, great. Hit some of the big tourist spots but mostly just to see them from the outside.
Walked massively, mostly central London and environs. Parks, 'hoods, paths. There's so much we didn't do, will have to get back sometime.