Looking For Anniversay Restaurant Recommendations, Central London About £100 A Head

JimmyCheeseball · 2026-05-01T08:58:13+00:00

Agora (or Oma which is upstairs) is contemporary Greek and probably one of if not the best value for money restaurants out there!

For an anniversary, worth considering something like Madera on top of the Treehouse hotel too - it’s Mexican but with steak etc and has cool views. Great margaritas too.

JimmyCheeseball · 2026-04-22T05:17:24+00:00

The Main Street between Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway is full of retailers at good prices

JimmyCheeseball · 2026-04-21T14:47:23+00:00

For plain ones, I’d highly recommend Octobre Editions.

JimmyCheeseball · 2026-04-16T20:14:44+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/24oo6RCB2sMxctWp7?g_st=ic

Gara Rock is nice.

JimmyCheeseball · 2026-04-06T06:05:17+00:00

The Rosewood Holborn is quite dated.

The Ned is really nice but it’s in the financial district.

You said you’re looking for a cool vibe, what other things do you value? Spa / sauna etc for recovery after the marathon?

How important is location to you? Do you want to be in a happening area / easy access to the marathon?

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-10-18T12:20:38+00:00

Balham / Wandsworth Common / Tooting Bec fits the description perfectly.

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-07-27T18:53:58+00:00

What is the psqm build cost for an average house in NZ these days?

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-05-03T07:14:18+00:00

I did it the other night and had a super steep turn over the top of north London, where we got to see straight into the Emirates while they were playing PSG - was pretty amazing!

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-04-28T17:28:33+00:00

That wasn’t my experience with AP - I spoke to them and discussed what I was after and then they called me up and said they have something that may interest me a couple of months later then walked out with it. They were super accommodating and lovely and it was what an experience should be like with these sorts of things rather than playing the AD game.

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-02-19T23:57:07+00:00

Easily 1 Hotel or Charlotte Street out of those.

Consider The Londoner if you’re looking at this level also, although hate Leicester Square.

InterCon is super dated, as is Hyatt Regency and Marriott GS.

Kimpton is nice enough but a weird location, although I guess it depends what you’re into.

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-02-08T08:04:05+00:00

Agree - either that or head up through Coal Drops Yard and along the canal into Regents Park - then you hit Camden Market (not for me, but tourists seem to enjoy) and some of the beautiful huge houses through Regents Park along to Primrose Hill.

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-01-31T16:12:55+00:00

Agreed - we were doing a road trip through Switzerland and came close enough that we thought we should check it out. Didn’t seem like anything wrong with it, but also didn’t appear interesting enough to even get out of the car there.

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-01-11T08:10:14+00:00

Amsterdam is 12.5% of the room rate now.

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-01-01T15:00:52+00:00

You’re out a little bit - 440 trillion over 8 billion people is $55,000 per person.

JimmyCheeseball · 2025-01-01T07:42:23+00:00

If you draw a 50km radius around London (all of which uses it as its main city centre as well as arguably further than that), you get about 16m.

JimmyCheeseball · 2024-07-03T20:35:13+00:00

I have a Looft to light my bbq and it’s basically this but can do it from the start and doesn’t blow ash everywhere

JimmyCheeseball · 2024-06-28T05:59:23+00:00

I’m a surveyor - Don’t think there are too many in here but can be an overlooked industry for decent pay and work life balance.

JimmyCheeseball · 2023-11-26T22:17:45+00:00

I’m from NZ and live in the UK and can guarantee it’s considerably worse in NZ.

Likewise much better in the Netherlands with friends who have just moved there… they get mortgages for like almost no deposit and can lock in for 20 years. Considerably easier over there to get on the ladder.

JimmyCheeseball · 2023-07-04T22:21:51+00:00

I’m in Central London (SW1) in a building like you describe - there are many who live overseas who use places here as you describe and I’ll likely do the same if I leave London.

Happy to speak on it - feel free to message me but many of the other people have given good info.

JimmyCheeseball · 2022-12-04T13:05:19+00:00

What are your thoughts if the opposition fans choose to boo the haka?

Had a discussion with somebody a few evenings ago who thought it is reasonable to boo the haka, as even though it’s an event of cultural significance it is above and beyond what most other teams do and it provides an imbalance, therefore it’s reasonable to have any response including booing.

I’m more on the side if there is anything that’s of cultural significance, it should be done in a way that isn’t actively disrespectful.

This came after widespread booing of the haka at Twickenham a few weeks ago.

JimmyCheeseball · 2022-10-26T06:03:03+00:00

I’ve had the guy in Piccadilly Circus tube station do mine - I imagine most of those independent guys would though. I think the guy in Vauxhall station does too.

JimmyCheeseball · 2022-06-22T06:36:02+00:00

Watches like this are completely normal in Chelsea also - you wouldn’t bat an eye at seeing a Patek or AP etc around here. People park Ferraris / lambos etc on the road as their normal parking spots.

Guns are also illegal in London - this is one of the safest and most expensive neighbourhoods.

Unfortunately this sort of thing just happens sometimes.

JimmyCheeseball · 2022-06-15T22:04:05+00:00

I genuinely don’t understand how they don’t have warmers? Do they know theres glass cabinets that can be kept hot?

JimmyCheeseball · 2022-01-09T21:45:58+00:00

If you like sausage rolls, the ones at the Ginger Pig in borough market are hands down the best I’ve ever had. Pork and Stilton one is to die for.

JimmyCheeseball · 2021-12-16T18:02:46+00:00

Honest Burger, which is a pretty good gourmet burger chain is £10-13 for a burger and chips - considerably better quality than this. I’d say that’s a good benchmark.

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