Eat London: Architecture and Eating (London guides) Book

An updated edition of the best-selling guide to London's flourishing restaurant scene. There are restaurants in London today that will satisfy everyone from gourmets to gluttons, every palate from Arkansas to Afghanistan, every mood from canteen to cantina. This book illuminates the various ways in which we are eating out now by focusing on a key factor in the success or failure or any restaurant - its design. Grouping the 66 restaurants and bars covered thematically, the guide analyses the way design contributes to the experience of eating and drinking with an informed and skeptical eye. Among the new restaurants covered in this edition are the Coq d'Argent, Terence Conran's latest outlet on the top of James Stirling's posthumous po-mo masterpiece in the City; PukkaBar, a curry hall in the form of a tea-planter's hut in a former bleak 1960s suburban post office; and the Great Eastern Dining Room, an eating experience for readers of wallpaper* - fleeces obligatory.Read More