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Julie Vu knew where to find the right baguette for her bánh mì sandwiches at City Càphê, the Vietnamese luncheonette she was planning to open this month in the City of London. She just wasn’t sure she could find it within 100 miles of Ironmonger Lane. [Read more...]
Picture a one-armed South Bank street performer juggling pumpkins while being sprayed from the Thames by a naked Duke of Edinburgh skidding by on a jet ski and you can begin to appreciate my astonishment upon seeing an elegant Knightsbridge woman walk out of O’Shea’s of Knightsbridge butcher shop without one of its incomparable pork belly sandwiches in her possession. “Is that the queue?” she whined towards the single line of 5 or 6 punters ogling the platter of fat-glistening pork belly. She was outta there within seconds, sans un sandwich au poitrine du porc. [Read more...]
