If you're a bit of a boozehound, which admittedly I am, The Distillery on Portobello Road, Notting Hill is your hotel dream come true. You can drink, eat, drink some more, and sleep on the same spot. The quirky multi-level venue is the world's first-ever hotel on the site of an alcohol distillery, the libation in question being gin. Albeit, it is very small - there are only three rooms - and the night we visited, two couples had travelled from Manchester and Lincoln to check the place out. My friend Mary Lou and I checked into the hotel's corner room, which boasts beautiful views of the qu...
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If you go down to Hoxton today you're in for a big surprise. For hidden away from the main thoroughfare of bustling bars and eateries is a new gem of a restaurant serving up an array of playful dishes that will get your tastebuds tingling. Chriskitch Hoxton is the second restaurant from Christian Honor, a chef who worked in some of the most prestigious kitchens in the world, from the 5 star Oberoi hotel in Egypt, to Gordon Ramsay in London and The Dorchester. The Sydney-born cook set up his first restaurant in London's Muswell Hill in 2013 but his latest venture really steps the game up ...
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