The London Traveler

 Life isn’t easy if you’re a vegetarian. Just too many restaurants have a single vegetarian option, or offer an unimaginative array of single-veg dishes.
Buffet V is different. It’s a Chinese buffet with a difference – all the dishes are vegetarian. Soya ‘duck’ and ‘chicken’ are available, but you can also find spiced aubergines, spring rolls, wonderful greens. It even smells great when you’re walking down the road – which is what attracted me in the first place.
And the greens actually looked green – not completely limp and overcooked. In fact the whole display looked exceptionally appetising, with a …read more

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Fancy lunch in a crypt? If you want to mix some history into your lunch break, you can eat in the Norman crypt of St Mary le Bow, which dates back to before 1100.
If you’re looking for the macabre, though, you’ll be disappointed. This crypt has never been a plague pit or full of coffins, as it was used for many years as a church law court – the meeting place of the Court of Arches.
It now contains a fine vegetarian restaurant run by Bill Sewell, called ‘The Place Below’. (I wonder if there’s just a slight allusion in the …read more

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