Posts Tagged hampstead

Holly Bush

Ah, a real pub. With ale, a wooden bar and board games. Serving pies, steaks, bread and butter pudding – the food of champions, all… it’s magic, a pub built as they should be. This place has character, low ceilings, sepia lighting, somewhere you can drop in for a cheeky pint and end up in ‘til closing time. No emphasis on faux Italian food, or noveau continental lagers, just a boozer, as British as the Empire. Marvellous.

22 Holly Mount, NW3 6SG Tel: 020 7435 2892. Web: www.hollybushpub.com

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Goldfish

Hampstead can be a bit of a culinary wasteland, and certainly not somewhere you’d expect to find an experimental Asian seafood restaurant painted electric blue. At least, not a good one. It is despite this dubious background then that Goldfish succeeds in not only serving up tasty modern Chinese food, but food that is tasty when measured by any yardstick. Dishes like wasabi prawns, Dover sole with chilli and black bean sauce and sea bass with ginger and spring onions are the ying to the interior’s yang of oriental artefacts and feng shui water features. Great for dates, and even better for when your parents are picking up the tab.

Price: £50pp. 82 Hampstead High Street, NW3 1RE. Tel: 020 7794 6666

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Everyman Cinema

It’s Sunday night and you fancy an evening of chill out time with your loved one right? A comfy sofa, a gripping film, a bottle of wine and someone waiting on you hand and foot… head to the Everyman Cinema Club situated in various locations around London, where you can have all of this and revel in the satisfaction of actually leaving the house on a Sunday night. The familiar sights of popcorn littered across the floors, chewing gum stuck to the seats and juvenile kids throwing sweets at each other and disrupting your viewing pleasure are nowhere to be seen at this smart, sophisticated and highly salubrious outfit where young professionals chasing the luxury ‘theatre’ experience dominate the scene. For a mere £12, you will see before your eyes how screens become screening lounges, kiosk attendants become butlers and Pepsi and popcorn become wine and wasabi peas – the Everyman does cinema for grown ups and boy does it do it well. So well in fact that you might just find yourself too comfortable on those velvet sofas and drift into a deep slumber… PS: No snoring allowed.

Everyman Cinemas-Hampstead/Islington/Baker Street/Belsize Park. Tel: 0870 066 4777 Web: www.everymancinema.com

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