Tag: South Kensington

  • The musical tramp

    The musical tramp

    The musical trampA can of beer in hand, this bearded wanderer likes to serenade customers outside Brompton Road restaurants such as La Brasserie and Aubaine. He’s been known to do handstands and especially loves persuading old ladies to dance. A donation of £1 will have him jump into a jig.

     

  • No clowning around

    No clowning around

    Matthew Steeples reviews Toto’s in Knightsbridge, London

     

    It takes something for me to be impressed with a restaurant but after three visits to the newly reopened Toto’s in Knightsbridge, I will boldly declare that I believe it to be the best opening of 2014 (more…)

  • Overheard: 29th April

    Overheard: 29th April

    Classic clangers from the last week (more…)

  • Overheard: 21st April

    Overheard: 21st April

    Classic clangers from the last week (more…)

  • Overheard: 14th April

    Overheard: 14th April

    Classic clangers from the last week (more…)

  • The contrasting couple

    The contrasting couple

    Season for rich Arabs to parade in London has begun

     

    The time has arrived; the annual invasion has begun. The streets of Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Mayfair have been taken over by Arabs and each year they come earlier and earlier. (more…)

  • Raising the cocktail

    Raising the cocktail

    Karol Rybicki of The Sanderson wins La Brasserie’s first inter-bar cocktail competition

     

    On Sunday evening La Brasserie in Brompton Cross, South Kensington hosted their first inter-bar cocktail competition. The winner was Karol Rybicki of The Sanderson. (more…)

  • Plated VI

    Plated VI

    15 more of the best plates spotted by readers of ‘The Steeple Times’

     

    Continuing our series, below we feature 15 more unusual, laughable and entertaining number plates (more…)

  • Overheard: 31st March

    Overheard: 31st March

    Classic clangers from the last week

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  • Felicity Kendal CBE

    Felicity Kendal CBE

    Felicity KendalThis stunning actress has been known to have both lunch and dinner at La Brasserie in South Kensington on the same day and is best known for playing Barbara Good in The Good Life. Warwickshire born, twice divorced and a convert from Catholicism to Judaism, Kendal’s dream dinner party would include Byron, Gandhi, Eddie Izzard and George Bernard Shaw. She was voted one of the “100 sexiest women in the world” by FHM Magazine in 1995 and once stated: “I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I’m 70, like my mother did”. She loves a martini.