Where to feel like you've gone on holiday, without leaving London
It is the line almost every mother dreads — and which most of us wish to utter at least once in our lives: “I’m going away for Christmas this year.”
Love them and their roast potatoes as we might, it’s hard not to wonder what December would be like without the pouring rain, the Pogues and the predictability that comes with a British Christmas. Or sometimes its simpler: we just want a little winter sun, an escape, some time away. Schedules are not always so permissive.
Yet there is one way to recreate the experience of escaping for Christmas: by eating in restaurants where the atmosphere, dishes, interiors or even all three invoke a dream destination so clearly, it’s like you're really there. Come fly with me.
Lisboeta (Portugal)
No prizes for guessing which city this is seeking to recreate — yet where the name is fairly obvious, the food is not. Founder and executive chef is Lisbon-born, and it has described it . It’s why he’s so often in, twinkling behind the long marble counter on the tiled ground floor or dashing from the kitchen to tell people about mushroom açorda, a savoury bread porridge with mushrooms, or
