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Chiswick House - Chiswick W4 - Feb 2012
Local artist Sir Peter Blake recalled his long association and affection for Chiswick House Gardens this week when he opened the Camellia Festival 2012 which runs until March 18th.
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Chiswick House - ForMums Chiswick - Feb 2012
The second annual Chiswick House and Gardens Trust Camellia Festival opened last Saturday in the gorgeous setting of the Chiswick Gardens Conservatory. It’s amazing to discover that the camellia collection is a national treasure and probably the oldest in the Western World.
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Chiswick House - Chiswick W4 - Jan 2012
Chiswick House and Gardens Trust will bring a burst of glorious spring colour with the second annual Camellia Festival running from February 18th to March 18th.
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The House - Hackney Council Press Release - Dec 2011
Hackney Council will be reopening Clissold House to the public on 3 January, 2012 after 18 months of intense renovation work.
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The House - eastlondonlines.co.uk - Dec 2011
Clissold House reopened this week to the delight of residents, marking an end to the two-year restoration of Clissold Park.
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Chiswick House Cafe - Chiswick W4 - Dec 2011
If you want to feel like you are in the country over the Christmas holidays but are reluctant to face the motorway drive,then there is a simple alternative.
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Chiswick House Cafe - London Town - Dec 2011
The modern Chiswick House Cafe, in the grounds of Chiswick House, Lord Burlington's 18th-century Palladian villa is a favourite with West London families.
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CONCRETE - Emerald Street - Nov 2011
We hold our hands up, prior to last Friday we had no idea this bar existed. The aptly named Concrete is tucked to the side of the Hayward Gallery on one of the upper walkways of the Southbank Centre.
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The House – Hackney Council Press Release - Nov 2011
‘Company of Cooks’ has been awarded a five year contract to run the Clissold House Café and Pump House Kiosk in Clissold Park, Hackney Council announced today (8 July 2011).
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The House – N16 Magazine - Nov 2011
Mike Lucy, founder of Company of Cook said “I'm so pleased that we will be working in partnership with the team at London Borough of Hackney and Clissold Park and House. These are important redevelopment projects in London and we hope to complement them with great hospitality.”
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The House – Stoke Newington People - Nov 2011
Well it looks like it won't be a Starbucks afterall! Stokeypeople are happy to reveal that Clissold House will be taken on by a group called Company of Cooks, who are already behind the food at Kenwood House, The Southbank Centre and The Royal Opera House, among others.
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The House – Hackney Gazette - Nov 2011
Company of Cooks has been awarded a five year contract to run the Clissold House Café and Pump House Kiosk in Clissold Park, Hackney Council announced today (8 July 2011).
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Chiswick House Café - Time Out - London's Best Park Cafés
Visiting the stately environs of Chiswick House, with its wide gravel pathways, ornamental plants, pristine rolling lawns and sweeping waterway feels like strolling through an Austen novel.
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Observatory Café - Baby London Magazine
An incredibally busy, but swift operation, this cafe is a specticle in itself just to see how many people get served, seated and fed at such an amazing pace.
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Chiswick House Café - Design Restaurants
The elegant architecture to be seen here is the work of Caruso St John Architects. The building is encircled by its pillared arcade made from textured “Roach Bed” Portland Stone, with the café at its heart – a modern take on the Italian arcades of the 19th Century. The combination of light and shadow contribute to a sculptural labyrinth effect – a transitional zone between inside and outside.
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Chiswick House Café - View London
I visited Chiswick House Cafe with a friend yesterday and was extremely impressed. The service was really good, staff were friendly. We had the lamb stew and a cheese toastie, which both tasted great. I’ve been there a few times over the summer and found it average at the time so was surprised to see such a change this time.
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Kitchen Front - Time Out
On our Remembrance Sunday visit, the spacious cafeteria was busier than the mess on an aircraft carrier, only with more high chairs.
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Chiswick House Café - The Good Food Guide 2011
This lovely modern cafe in the beautiful grounds of Chiswick House delivers exactly what it promises. The menu is locally sourced, seasonal and packed with honest, freshly cooked dishes you want to eat;
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The Brew House - Harden’s Guide 2011
"After a stroll on the Heath, you won’t find a better location on a sunny day than this self-service cafe, with it’s beautiful garden." Top tip is the "brilliant Full English", but many of the light bites and cakes are "above average" too.
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Kitchen Front - Good Food Magazine
She finished up with tea and cake in the museum’s Kitchen Front cafe and was particulary impressed with the Ginger cake - moist, with a wonderfully dense hit of ginger.
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LIDO - Time Out - Best Cafés With Fountains
Small children and adults alike trail a pilgrim-like route around the chilly water of this circular fountain in Hyde Park. Bypass the Serpentine bridge kiosk and head for the nearby Lido Café if you’re looking for refreshment. Taken over this year by Company of Cooks, it offers full meals, snacks and organic ice-cream as well as a bar.
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Kitchen Front - Fluid London
The Imperial War Museum Café, currently known as Kitchen Front, has been getting down and dirty with some history, to the point where spam sandwiches are again on a menu in the UK (no I didn’t try them, we all have our limits when it comes to food exploration).
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Chiswick House Café - Elle Decoration
Have lunch at the Chiswick House Cafe - perfect for enjoying the sun and keeping an eye on children in the new playground.
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R200. No: 45 - Company of Cooks. Based: London. Founded: 1996. Sites: 15. Sites last year: 15
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The Brew House - Ham & High
Kenwood’s generous, hearty breakfasts, are a big draw (come rain or shine) especially at weekends. At lunchtime there’s a selection of hot food, soup, sandwiches, cakes and puddings.
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Serene, tranquil and calm, the cafe gives day-trippers a chance to refuel and, with lots of facilities on site for kids and dog owners, this demographic are visible wherever you look.
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LIDO - Time Out
A lakeside venue to give the Serpentine Bar & Kitchen serious competition. Refurbished and taken over by Company of Cooks just a few weeks ago, the new lido boasts 300 outdoor covers (in good weather) and about 40 indoors.
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The Brew House - Time Out
The breakfasts of fat, fabulous sausages, grilled mushrooms, roast tomatoes, creamy scrambled eggs and wholesome toast at this Hampstead institution are worth getting up earlier for.
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LIDO - Square Meal Magazine
Run by catering outfit the Company of Cooks (whose portfolio includes Kenwood, Greenwich Park & more besides), the Lido Café is housed in the original changing pavilion – a plum spot right by the water’s edge, next to Princess Diana’s memorial fountain.
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Ministry of Food - Evening Standard
Wartime rationing is back in force at the Imperial War Museum to coincide with the Ministry Of Food exhibition. The museum’s celebrated café Kitchen Front serves wartime recipes. The Large Exhibits Gallery is popular with its collection of tanks, planes and submarines.
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Kitchen Front - Time Out
The Ministry of Food is the Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition covering the 14 years of food rationing in Britain that began in 1940. It explains how our food imports were reduced by enemy attacks on our merchant navy, and how we had to reinvent the ways that we grew, transported and consumed food.
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Chiswick House Café - ChiswickW4.com
The long awaited, and much discussed, Chiswick House Café opened its doors on Monday 1st February to a larger audience than customary for a cold February morning under the watchful eye of manageress Jenny Shaw.
Jenny has worked with Company of Cooks since their inception 14 years and has come to Chiswick from Kenwood.
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Ministry of Food - East End Woman's Institute
I don’t know about everyone else, but I have just about recovered from our coffee morning visit to the Ministry of Food exhibition at the Imperial War Museum on Friday. It’s a great exhibition, beautifully set out and curated, with lots of information, including films and artefacts, interspersed with art and posters. It was great to see everyone enjoying the exhibition and it was especially thrilling to see our pretty jams and pickles on display in the period kitchen.
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Kitchen Front - The Ministry of Food - Time Out
(Don’t write off Kitchen Front because of the two-star rating above - it’s actually a compliment, reflecting how accurately this cafe has recreated the ’never-again’ flavours of the rationing era.)
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Imperial War Museum - The Ministry of Food - Time Out
When World War II came to an end it didn’t mean rationing was over. It continued until 1954 and the Imperial War Museum’s temporary exhibition shows in detail how - and what - the population of Britain was fed for 14 long hard years.
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Wakehurst Place - Hitched
Located in West Sussex, Wakehurst Place is a beatuiful 180 acre country estate and conservation area managed by the royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Royal Opera House - Big Hospitality
Company of Cooks, which recently won the catering contract at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, has taken on Pierre Koffmann as a consultant.
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Company of Cooks wins £52m Food Contract With The Royal Opera House - Caterer and Hotelkeeper
Contract caterer Company of Cooks has signed a deal worth £52m with London’s Royal Opera House to oversee the iconic venue’s food and beverage operation.
The caterer has won the contract, previously held by Searcy’s for ten years, following a tender process led by Royal Opera House Enterprises director of operations John Seekings and managing director Stephen Michael.
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The Brew House - Time Out - London’s Best Breakfasts - October 2009
Mornings are the best time to visit this English Heritage institution. It serves top-notch free-range scrambled eggs, dry-cured bacon, superb sausages, tomatoes and mushrooms, cafeteria style - with plenty of toast included if you opt for the £7.25 set breakfast.
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The Brew House - Time Out - 25 Best Summer Places To Eat
Grab your coronation chicken sarnie or quiche-or maybe, if you can get to Hampstead Heath early, one of the legendary cooked breakfasts (fabulous sausages, lush grilled mushrooms, roast tomatoes, creamy scrambled eggs, toast) - and potter around three levels of seating
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Imperial War Museum - Time Out - Family Friendly Museums In London
The welcome It’s a shame you can’t get a pram - or wheelchair for that matter - up the steps to the main entrance. The central atrium is a stunning showcase of military hardware - from a soaring Spitfire to a sinister Polaris missile. Instead of that as our first glimpse, we had to trek to the side of the building and wait for a ponderously slow lift.
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The Garden Café - Tatler Restaurant Guide 2009
The iconic Sixties egg box-shaped building was remodeled a few years back and the kitchen overhauled. This is one of the top park cafes in London.
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Imperial War Museum - ES Magazine - Restaurant Spy
People are always asking me which is my ’favourite’ London restaurant. Sadly, there’s no one magical, do-it-all place that will guarantee perfection. You choose your venue according to your mood, your needs and, of course, your choice of dining companion.
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Imperial War Museum - ES Magazine
He came out with guns blazing. How many times have you heard that? Applied to a politician who’s struggling to hold on to his career, perhaps, or to a CEO embroiled in boardroom battle.
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Riverside Terrace Café - Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2009
When the weather’s bright, the cafe in the Royal Festival Hall makes an excellent pitstop during a walk along the Thames. Alternatively, head to the Concrete Bar next to the Hayward Gallery for great coffee, cocktails and cakes.
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The Brew House - Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2009
Peak times at this much-loved Kenwood institution may seem chaotic, but that’s just the customers. Look carefully and you’ll see staff working like a well-oiled machine. It’s an impressive set-up. The daily changing - abeit firmly structured - menu will feature some sort of gourmet sausages (and for once they are) served with gravy and roast veg, plus a hot dish (maybe lamb shanks) and something quichey.
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