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14 SUMMER 2021 ART & CULTURE FOOD TRAVEL News and views from Pimlico We discover the ancient art of How to give your al fresco 100 years on, our writer and beyond, featuring the best mudlarking with practical tips feasts an Asian twist according rediscovers the Scott openings and upcoming events from devotee, Nick Stevens to Masaki Sugisaki Fitzgerald's French Riviera 1 THE SQUARE - ISSUE 14 SUMMER STUDIO, ONE, TWO, AND THREE-BEDROOM APARTMENTS Located in Pimlico, central London, Zone 1, Dolphin Square is an all-rental development with 24/7 security and an Welcome on-site management team. Rental apartments available, furnished or unfurnished, to suit all budgets. From £295 per week. We've decided to mix things up by taking a seasonal approach rather than picking a specific theme for our fourteenth issue; as a result, these pages LETTINGS OPENING HOURS Monday to Thursday 8am-7pm are filled with nothing but feel-good summer stories – and a healthy dash of Friday 9am-6pm inspiration too. Who isn't in need of some new memories to replace the tragic, Saturday 9am-1pm tedious experiences of the pandemic? So round up all those friends you've most missed for an Asian-inspired picnic, set off on some of Blighty's best weekends Outside these hours by appointment only away and tramp the banks of the Thames in search of secrets from the past, then reward yourself with a pint at your favourite pub. This summer is all about CALL US rediscovering the joy of the little things we once took for granted – and boy, is Natalia – 07841 764 901 London a beautiful city in which to do so. Alberto – 07710 713 348 Contributors: Imogen Lepere Lucy Kehoe Ian Belcher Hannah Summers Editor Contributor Contributor Contributor After four years as senior Lucy Kehoe is a freelance Award-winning writer Ian Travel journalist Hannah writer at Food and Travel, lifestyle and environmental Belcher has spent the last 25 Summers may have spent Imogen Lepere is making journalist who has previously years reporting from various most of her career exploring the most of freelance life penned for The Spectator points on the map, while far-flung destinations but by travelling everywhere and Geographical. In this also working as a Guardian with a new partner on the from Melbourne to issue, she tries her hand columnist and magazine scene – that’s her Romanian Mongolia. As travel at mudlarking along the editor. For our summer rescue pup, Bobby Jean restrictions remain in Thames with the help of issue, he heads to the French – she’s happily exploring place, she makes the case expert Nick Stevens (p.8) Riviera to see what's left of much closer to home. Here for Asian food being the and gives us the scoop on the Jazz Age a century after she shares her ultimate secret to a perfect British London's loveliest ice cream the Bright Young Things first dog-friendly weekend picnic (p.20). parlours (p.14). packed their trunks (p.28). breaks (p. 36). Dolphin Square Chichester Street, London SW1V 3LX 2 2 [email protected] Design & Art Direction: Hutton Farquhar huttonfarquhar.com Cover image by: Sheri Silver on Unsplash 3 THE SQUARE - ISSUE 14 SUMMER Summer Sun Contents by Robert Louis Stevenson Great is the sun, and wide he goes Inside this issue: Through empty heaven with repose; And in the blue and glowing days More thick than rain he showers his rays. Though closer still the blinds we pull To keep the shady parlour cool, Yet he will find a chink or two To slip his golden fingers through. 26 The dusty attic spider-clad GET FIT FAST He, through the keyhole, maketh glad; With gyms finally open, And through the broken edge of tiles fitness instructor Owen Into the laddered hay-loft smiles. 14 Harradine shares simple circuits for THE INSIDE maximum results. Meantime his golden face around SCOOP He bares to all the garden ground, And sheds a warm and glittering look In summer we all scream for ice cream, so Lucy Among the ivy's inmost nook. Kehoe has scoured 36 London's parlours to Above the hills, along the blue, serve you the best. A WELL Round the bright air with footing true, 8 EARNED PAWS To please the child, to paint the rose, TREASURES The gardener of the World, he goes. What could be better OF THE THAMES than discovering Great Ever since humans Britain with your pup have walked the banks at your side? Hannah of the Thames they've Summers suggests five dropped things into it. canine-friendly escapes. Unearth their secrets with expert mudlarker 28 Nick Stevens. THE BEAUTIFUL, THE DAMNED AND THE REAL RIVIERA 20 Ian Belcher visits some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's EASTERN PROMISE favourite haunts along With its sizzling street the French Riviera to see bites, fragrant herbs and what's left of the Jazz succulent seafood, Asian Age's glamour. flavours might just create the perfect picnic, says Imogen Lepere. 4 5 LOCAL NEWS, OUT & ABOUT LOCAL NEWS, OUT & ABOUT PIMLICO PIMLICO HOT TICKETS Feeling fresco Three cheers for festival season and what a show London is putting on. We're particularly excited to eat our way around top restaurants at Taste of London in Regent’s Park between 7-11 and 14-18 July and for Kaleidoscope, which will see stars such as Groove Armada and author Irvine Welsh perform in Alexandra Palace's gardens, 24 July. london.tastefestivals.com kaleidoscope-festival.com The perfect match London’s restaurants have really while away a Saturday afternoon embraced the terrace trend and over classic French food and The smell of a freshly chalked try line, there are more options for al excellent wine, while Daffodil the roar of the crowd, fan banter… fresco feasting than ever before. Mulligan, chef Richard Corrigan’s There's so much we’ve missed about Pimlico stalwart La Poule au Pot’s Irish-inspired spot, recently live sport and this summer sees handful of tables on Orange opened a buzzy 28-seat terrace a slew of matches of gladiatorial Square are the perfect place to that's ideal for work drinks. proportions. India will face New Zealand in the ICC World Test pouleaupot.co.uk daffodilmulligan.com Championship final at Lords (18-22 June), Wimbledon will delight tennis fans (18 June-11 July) and the final of Euro 2020 is coming to Wembley (11 July). Buckle up. Through the looking glass Photo by Shep McAllister on Unsplash icc-cricket.com wimbledon.com uefa.com Tumble down the rabbit hole into one of this season’s most exciting exhibitions. Alice in Wonderland (27 March-31 December) at the V&A celebrates 150 years since the book was first published through film, LET’S DANCE performance, fashion and art, including Salvador Dali’s surrealist sketches of the characters. Dust off your dancing shoes and practice your cha cha – Baby has been in the corner for too long. SMOOTH AND SIZZLING Secret Cinema is recreating the Seventies holiday resort from Dirty With more than 19 years experience in impressive Dancing for an immersive theatre names such as Nobu and Zuma, chef Padam Raj Rai event this summer. It promises to be is well placed to bring sublime sushi and just seared a ball. 14 July-31 August. £49. wagyu to residents of Pimlico and Belgravia. Hot Stone's interiors are as refined as its food – expect secretcinema.org blonde wood panelling and artwork by 18th century painter Hokusai Katsushika. hotstonelondon.com vam.ac.uk 6 7 THE SQUARE - ISSUE 14 SUMMER THE SQUARE - ISSUE 14 SUMMER It’s early morning and London’s skies are a poltergeist- shade of grey. A low tide has left the Thames meandering lethargically eastwards, exposing the edges of the riverbed. I’m standing under Battersea Bridge on a strip of shingled land that loops towards central London, disappearing under Albert Bridge’s steel swags. The foreshore is almost empty, bar a lone figure, orange supermarket bag slung around his wrist. A mudlarker. Ever since humans have walked the banks of the Thames, they’ve dropped things into it. Whether intentionally discarded or accidentally lost in the swirling waters, countless personal artefacts, building materials and mundane household furnishings have been swallowed by London’s famous waterway. Mudlarks – those hunched scavengers you’ll spot scampering over the foreshore – have long scoured the river’s edges looking for treasure. The moniker was first used to describe impoverished Victorians searching the transient beaches for disused rope and metal nails to exchange for food scraps. Today, their occupational descendants seek out objects with a different worth: those TREASURES with historical value. Nick Stevens first started combing the foreshore in 2008. Often armed with little more than wellies and a of the Thames trowel, he’s spent the last 13 years looking for antiquities relinquished by the waters. Childhood fossil-hunting From Georgian clay pipes to Roman vanity pins, primed him for prehistoric spots; some of his first the shingled foreshore of the River Thames is a finds were ammonite and sea urchin fossils. Later, a megalodon tooth from the dagger-like gnashers of a vast graveyard of London’s lost items which tell gigantic shark which would have hunted Europe’s tropical a changing story of the city’s past. waters approximately 3.6 to 26 million years ago. “With Lucy Kehoe joins the mudlarks mudlarking, there are an infinite number of possible things you could find,” says Stevens. “Or that’s what it seems. That’s the beauty of the Thames, the randomness of it all.” 8 9 THE SQUARE - ISSUE 14 SUMMER THE SQUARE - ISSUE 14 SUMMER hats, hold shawls and prevent trailing hems.