Showing posts with label french. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Cafe review: Le Pain Quotidien, Southbank, London

What's the curbappeal?
- contemporary farmhouse styling (large wooden communal tables)
- French cafe dining: lovely coffee, croissants and baguettes. I had a silky smooth latte (note they don't do 'skinny's ' here). And a buttery melt-in-your-mouth croissant with ham and gruyere cheese. Lovely!
- The Southbank is an atmospheric place to wander around. Especially at Christmas with the Christmas market. 

With love,
Ms. Curbappeal x







Polite notice : all photos © Curbappeal 2013







Saturday, 12 January 2013

Cool hangout: Petit Ermitage, Private Rooftop Club, Los Angeles, California


 What’s so cool, Curbappeal?
- A very exclusive ‘private club’ in LA: This hotel is where young film and music stars stay when they want to relax in a low-key, residential, environment. Not widely known outside the media industry. During our stay at the hotel, lounging by the pool, we saw Mario Testino’s number two/stylist sashaying back-and-forth with her crew, a UK girl pop group sat on the loungers next to us, and we chatted to an uber-cool UK film crew covering a local music event.
- Dining at the restaurant feels a bit like you’re in a whimsical French country cottage garden. Yet the Hollywood Hills are clearly in view from this roof-deck: a slightly surreal experience, but a good one!
- Delicious Mediterranean dishes: the lamb tagine in the photo below was melt-in-your-mouth good.
As you’ll see by our last photo, the outside fireplaces are heavenly to snuggle up next to. This was our first night so, jetlagged, I succumbed to the warmth of the fire…
      - The only slight disappointment was the rooms – they don’t look anywhere near as good, or as nicely appointed as the roof-deck, so we’d suggest staying somewhere else, and see if you can book a table at the restaurant…

Some photo’s from our Canon SLR….