London Rendez Vous

In Zara dress and biker jacket, Miu Miu bucket bag, headband and ballerinas from Prada

Hello Gorgeous!! It took a while for me to finish this blog since I've been a bit tied up with wedding prep. And here it is my London restaurant and cafes list.

As some of you might know that I used to be a cabin crew working for Australian's national airline for almost 10 years. During our glorious days of flying, one of the destination that we used to go all the time was London. So we spent most of our time in this city as our third home apart from Sydney.

When I was a trolley dolly probably around 2003

When my evil twin and I decided to take a career break for the 2nd half of this year, we agreed that we should go to London for our old time reminiscence and just chill for 10 days. So the area we chose to stay had to be in our old time area which is Gloucester Rd. Our Airbnb apartment is located on Cromwell Rd close to Earl's Court tube station which is super convenient.

There are a few things that I would recommend you to do if you will stay longer than one week in UK.

1. Buy a local sim card for unlimited mobile data. I think data helps a lot when you travel especially with navigation system like City Mapper and etc and if you have to connect with your friends or book a restaurant.
2. Buy an Oyster card. It saves you time to buy tube/bus ticket. For us, we bought a card with £30 value and only top up once this trip.

And here is the list of what we did, ate and visited this trip!

To Eat

Four Seasons - 84 Queensway

After we landed in to London Heathrow in an early morning flight and settled in the apartment, we decided to just relax and have an easy breezy day. The first destination is our favourite roasted duck place "Four Season" restaurant in Bayswater area. I guess this restaurant is a very well known place for Thais and they even have branches in BKK. Personally I found that the duck meat is not soo juicy as the original and my favourite chili oil/pickled green chillies are not as nice.

The usual - half roasted duck and stir fried french beans with hot&sour soup.

HJEM Kensington - 3 Launceston Place, W8 5RL Kensington

We found this small cute Danish inspired cafe between the way we walk through Kensington area to Four Season. The coffee was nice but we didn't try the food menu as we had to save our space for the duck. 

Matching my Prada headband with the cinnamon roll 😆

The Creperie - 2-6 Exhibition Rd. South Kensington

This creperie had been the favourite place for many BKK base crew back in the old days. We just took the chance to go there if it is still there and yes it is! This creperie serves both savoury and sweet French style crepe. Personally I love their savoury menu and the proportion is good for light breakfast.

Just across the street from the Creperie, you will arrive at Victoria & Albert museum

V&A

Aubaine Selfridges - 2nd Fl. 400 Oxford St., Marylebone

I found this restaurant from my instagram fellows. The place worth the visit for its menu, service and pretty wisteria decoration. Unfortunately we were still full from the crepe so we could only tried their desserts and coffee. I would recommend to make a reservation for the good seat.

With my twins

In Naugthychickygirls dress, vintage bag from Rockingdoll, Pineapple earrings from Zara, Pazzion slides and Miu Miu sunglasses

Sea Containers at Sea Containers London - 20 Upper Ground, South Bank

We went there at the end of our third day, to enjoy the sunset view along the river Thames. Nice concept with good menu and service. Worth to go there and sit on the terrace for people watching. You can also go to the rooftop bar to enjoy London night view at 12th Knot.

Sketch - 9 Conduit St, Mayfair

Advance booking is a must! We took a chance to go there during the weekend and could only managed to get a table at breakfast room. The highlight would be The Gallery room which you might already seen this room in a beautiful pink decoration. Even though we could only try the breakfast, but I have to say that the food was very nice and the breakfast room was definitely worth our trip there. And don't forget to check out the restroom!

The breakfast room

In Shopdearsociety vintage blouse, custom made denim dungaree from Pich Studio and Prada ballerinas 

Chiltern Firehouse - 1 Chiltern St, Marylebone

We actually found this place by accident while searching for a place for pancake. It came up in one of London Top Ten pancake. We went there and found out that it was an old fire station became a hotel/restaurant. We were surprised to find that the garden area is very nice during summer. Unsurprisingly, it was fully booked so we had a table inside and found out that actually the buttermilk pancake is not on the menu. But you can order with the waiter. I have to say that it was heaven after a long walk in a hot summer day with a glass of Bellini which made it even more perfect!

Just walk past this fire brigade entrance, you will find the garden entrance

I would say that this photo doesn't do justice to this place. It was actually really nice in there.

Our DIY buttermilk pancake with my favourite summer drink Bellini

Voila! 

The Monocle Cafe - Opposite of Chiltern Firehouse

OK. This cafe has been featured in many instagram photos and it was in my cafe list. But as you know, this kind of place has limited seats and mostly people take time to sit there and take photos. Since it is right opposite of Chitern Firehouse, so why not! So for me there's not much to write about. I tried matcha latte and it was disaster, long waiting and my matcha is still not dissolved properly.

It's been too long. Next stop Lavender Farm. See ya 💋