The restaurant capital of north west London is Hatch End, said a newspaper, and I've been saying that for years. Hatch End's Hatchet's restaurant has a blue plaque to pioneering cookery writer Mrs Beeton. She introduced lists of ingredients at the start of recipes.
Go on line and suss out the eateries I've listed at the end, read their menus, and see what takes your fancy.
We have a non-smoking Wetherspoons pub with alcoves if you arrive early for a real budget two for the price of one lunch Monday to Thursday I think. If you are not in an anorak you feel overdressed.
You can treat me any day. My birthday is Friday 16th. I shall be one year younger.I try not to drink with strangers, only coffee. But I think I might have a glass of white wine, rose or sparkling on my birthday.
If, like most diners in Hatch End, you are a bit more upmarket, if you have time for a leisurely lunch you might like Sugar Snap which has a chef trained by Gordon Ramsey. They have a budget set lunch but if you want to splurge or you are on expenses (are you fifteen miles from home?) you can run up a huge bill.
For a real romantic time there's cosy San Marco, Italian, with no windows but trompe l'eoil of windows overlooking Venice.
For fun there's my favourite, Fellini, all pink and pretty. I love to dress up. The manager is jolly Franco who throws his arms around the ladies and will serenade us with a song or two from Italy or opera (he's professional - he sings at Covent Garden).
Wetherspoons
Non-smoking section. Alcoves for diners. Garden with benches for diners at the back.
Fellini 451 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 4JR
Reservations tel:020 8428 4359; enquiries tel:020 8428420 1191
www.fellinirestaurant.co.uk
Rotisserie, 316 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middx HA5, tel: 020 8421 2878. Their card says Register online at www.therotisserie.co.uk for special offers
San Marco, 410 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 4HP. tel 020 8421 3000
Sugar Snap, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 , tel: www
Non smoking in public places starts mid-summer.
Website mentions a loyalty card.
Getting There:
Use a car and satnav. Or on line type in the postcode to AA route planner or the RAC route planner (Europe, UK).
Hatch End is on the Uxbridge Road, A410, between Stanmore (east) and Pinner (west).
The car park behind the shops is free. Wardens sneak around elsewhere. Keep watching the signs. Favourite money-making tricks in London are to make different rules either side of the notice, to change the times from 6.30 pm in one area to 8.30 pm in the next high street, or to change the no parking from one side of the road to the other on alternating days.
The shops are just downhill, within sight, about four minutes' walk from the bridge over Hatch End Silverlink railway station. London transport has a site.
Most of the restaurants have websites giving directions which you can print. If you pick up their business cards, San Marco's card has a map on the back showing the free car park.
My other favourites in North London are:
Eastcote: Sambuca.
Pinner: Friends. L'Orient. Pinner Tandoori.
Pinner Green: La Giralda. Mangosteen.
Harrow Weald: Leefe Robinson.
Edgware: Amaretto (Italian). Aviv. B & K (Salt Beef bar take away and restaurant does great salt beef). Ralphy's (kosher). Sheva & Sheva.
Watford: Cafe Mezza.
Finchley Road: (Just Around The Corner used to let you pay what you like. After many years I just heard in June 2007 they'd closed.) Philpott's Mezzaluna. Versilia.
Golders Green: Korean restaurant. Solly's.
Coffee Shops in Northwood. Starbucks. Costa.
Coffee Shops in Watford. Borders.
UPDATE 2014
La Giralda has gone. Who was the chef? Bring him back. Bring back the dessert.
Go on line and suss out the eateries I've listed at the end, read their menus, and see what takes your fancy.
We have a non-smoking Wetherspoons pub with alcoves if you arrive early for a real budget two for the price of one lunch Monday to Thursday I think. If you are not in an anorak you feel overdressed.
You can treat me any day. My birthday is Friday 16th. I shall be one year younger.I try not to drink with strangers, only coffee. But I think I might have a glass of white wine, rose or sparkling on my birthday.
If, like most diners in Hatch End, you are a bit more upmarket, if you have time for a leisurely lunch you might like Sugar Snap which has a chef trained by Gordon Ramsey. They have a budget set lunch but if you want to splurge or you are on expenses (are you fifteen miles from home?) you can run up a huge bill.
For a real romantic time there's cosy San Marco, Italian, with no windows but trompe l'eoil of windows overlooking Venice.
For fun there's my favourite, Fellini, all pink and pretty. I love to dress up. The manager is jolly Franco who throws his arms around the ladies and will serenade us with a song or two from Italy or opera (he's professional - he sings at Covent Garden).
Wetherspoons
Non-smoking section. Alcoves for diners. Garden with benches for diners at the back.
Fellini 451 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 4JR
Reservations tel:020 8428 4359; enquiries tel:020 8428420 1191
www.fellinirestaurant.co.uk
Rotisserie, 316 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middx HA5, tel: 020 8421 2878. Their card says Register online at www.therotisserie.co.uk for special offers
San Marco, 410 Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 4HP. tel 020 8421 3000
Sugar Snap, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 , tel: www
Non smoking in public places starts mid-summer.
Website mentions a loyalty card.
Getting There:
Use a car and satnav. Or on line type in the postcode to AA route planner or the RAC route planner (Europe, UK).
Hatch End is on the Uxbridge Road, A410, between Stanmore (east) and Pinner (west).
The car park behind the shops is free. Wardens sneak around elsewhere. Keep watching the signs. Favourite money-making tricks in London are to make different rules either side of the notice, to change the times from 6.30 pm in one area to 8.30 pm in the next high street, or to change the no parking from one side of the road to the other on alternating days.
The shops are just downhill, within sight, about four minutes' walk from the bridge over Hatch End Silverlink railway station. London transport has a site.
Most of the restaurants have websites giving directions which you can print. If you pick up their business cards, San Marco's card has a map on the back showing the free car park.
My other favourites in North London are:
Eastcote: Sambuca.
Pinner: Friends. L'Orient. Pinner Tandoori.
Pinner Green: La Giralda. Mangosteen.
Harrow Weald: Leefe Robinson.
Edgware: Amaretto (Italian). Aviv. B & K (Salt Beef bar take away and restaurant does great salt beef). Ralphy's (kosher). Sheva & Sheva.
Watford: Cafe Mezza.
Finchley Road: (Just Around The Corner used to let you pay what you like. After many years I just heard in June 2007 they'd closed.) Philpott's Mezzaluna. Versilia.
Golders Green: Korean restaurant. Solly's.
Coffee Shops in Northwood. Starbucks. Costa.
Coffee Shops in Watford. Borders.
UPDATE 2014
La Giralda has gone. Who was the chef? Bring him back. Bring back the dessert.
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