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The GFG Briefing | 31 August 2018
Tom Kitchin to pop up for one night in London, new opening from the Westerns Laundry team, Dishoom expands into Manchester and Lorne reopens after flood damage
Tom Kitchin to pop up for one night in London, new opening from the Westerns Laundry team, Dishoom expands into Manchester and Lorne reopens after flood damage
On the evening of November 17th, 1873, two decades before Eros pitched up, Piccadilly Circus welcomed a glittering newcomer into its midst. Designed by architect Thomas Verity, who had a hand in both the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) and the Royal Albert Hall, The Criterion was an ornate, five-storey building with the Marble Hall and a grand, American-style Long Bar on the ground floor, and a theatre in its basement; not to be upstaged, the floors above featured several dining rooms and a ballroom.
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Our pick of where to eat in Covent Garden
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