Cheval Life

A quick taxi ride east from Cheval Three Quays will bring you to The Princess of Shoreditch, a refurbished and award winning 270 year old gastro pub in the heart of Old Street. Renowned for their Sunday menu, The Princess offers five choices of roast dinner ranging from Kentish lamb to roasted free range  guinea fowl .  All varieties are served with duck fat potatoes, seasonal vegetables and a delightful Yorkshire pudding topped with gravy. Those with a sweet tooth, the pub also offers a range of classic British deserts including apple crumble and sticky toffee pudding. If in need of some after dinner drinks or a well-deserved break, a lively basement bar operates on a ‘first come’ basis. A quality guest wine rotates monthly with some bottles also being sold at Michelin starred restaurants than other modest gastro pubs. For beer drinkers, three ales are also constantly interchanging. Cheval would recommend The Princess of Shoreditch for a quick catch up with f...

Cheval Calico House is a few metro stops from New Oxford Street. You may even have already seen or gone into some pop-up bar (we love pop up things in London) but this is certainly different. For the London Design Festival , a pop-up bar in New Oxford Street, themed as a metro station will serve London's Camden Town Brewery beer, but there will be some other foods and drinks as well, all in designjuction . Obviously, the nerd within us is excited about the prospect of drinking in a bar as a tiled subway station. Camden Town Brewery already has its own bar in Kentish Town and will soon have a microbrewery on site, so if you like the beer brand, you know you will be in good hands. But the pleasure is not just in beer. An Italian coffee directed by the ice cream vendor Gelupo, which recently named as probably the best gelateria in London, will also be on site. Enjoy a gelato with a prosecco or coffee La Marzocco in your corner on designjunction, which will be furnished...