Positively Pink – Breast Cancer Awareness in London
From 1st October, in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month and The Haven, the Wyndham Grand London, Chelsea Harbour’s 5* all-suite hotel, launches a new pink afternoon tea.
The positively Pink Afternoon tea’s menu consists of pink, bite-sized treats, with ‘super food’ ingredients such as watercress, green tea, ginger, spinach and turmeric.
These are all known for their medicinal properties in preventing and treating cancer. The menu was put together with expert advice for The Haven’s own nutritionalists.
The positively Pink afternoon tea supports breast cancer charity The Haven, which has support centres in London (Fulham), Leeds and Hereford. 10% of the bill will be donated to The Haven.
This is a really good way to champion Breast Cancer Awareness in London, just check out what’s on offer:
To start how about a selection of perfectly pink sandwiches? Whole wheat bread filled with smoked salmon, cream cheese & baby spinach; turmeric chicken & watercress; Brie de Meaux with ginger & mango chutney; and free range egg, chive & garlic mayonnaise with mustard cress on onion bread.
Then to home-baked cakes, pastries and deserts; apricot opera cake, banoffee tartlet, green tea panna-cotta, strawberry and lime tartlet and ginger-spiced carrot cake.
And that’s not forgetting the classic, warm mini-scones oozing with fresh clotted cream and fine strawberry jam… served with an optional glass of Pink Champagne and all for a good cause.
London on a Plate – new app for London restaurants
While London cabbies may know the capital like the back of their hand, for the majority of us, London with its sheer size and vastness, can be a little overwhelming.
With literally thousands of restaurants, cafes and bars littering the streets, knowing where to eat here takes overwhelming feelings to levels of exasperation. This is where new app for London restaurants called London on a Plate steps in.
Designed by journalist and author Charmain Ponnuthurai, the London on a Plate app for iPhone is intended to make this tremendous city more ‘intimate, memorable and accessible’.
Rather than simply listing every eatery in the capital, Charmain Ponnuthurai provides a curated list of restaurants that she considers clasps every aspect of food culture.
From the quality of the food, service, drinks, prices, to advice by top British designers on what to wear to a particular restaurant, London on a Plate is intended to give indecisive London diners instant clarity and decisiveness when it comes to choosing where they are going to eat.
Some of the world’s most elite chefs, including Tom Aikens, John Torode and Fergus Henderson, are involved with this new London restaurants app, who have sourced 100 specially-commissioned recipes from some of the most acclaimed kitchens in London.
More reasons why The Wyndham Grand is the best luxury family friendly hotel in London
We recently wrote about luxury family friendly hotel in London, The Wyndham Grand, and the fabulous ‘Back to school afternoon tea’. Now we bring news that totally reinforces the claim of best family friendly hotel in London.
Now the Wyndham grand caters for kids just as much as adults. Here’s why –
* London’s only 5 star all suite hotel can accommodate two adults and two children, with no additional charge.
* All meals for children at the Chelsea Riverside Brasserie are served on an award winning TumTum dining set. The special kids menu is helped further as children will love getting to grips with the colourful sets. Oh, and kids go free at breakfast!
* The suites contain a sofa bed in the living room and travel cots are supplied, giving a sense of privacy when needed. There are two TVs in each suite as well, which is always good news! And a real plus if you plan on staying with a baby or toddler is The Wyndham Grand’s partnership with Easidream. Each baby will receive a ‘Ewan the dream sheep’. The multi award-winning Gift of the Year 2011 emits soothing sounds at a low base frequency and projects a calming pink glow which help settle babies and toddlers into a peaceful sleep.
* For play time, The Wyndham Grand is ideally situated for an exciting boat trip up the Thames. The Wyndham grand also supplies Coiledspring Games that will keep the children happy whilst parents can relax (or join in). The innovative and exciting games and puzzles, which have been designed with an educational role, include Rat-a-tat-cat and Rory’s Story Cubes.
* And The Wyndham grand has not forgotten about the journey home. The Wyndham Grand London has partnered with Little Jetsetter, experts in keeping kids entertained on long (or short) journeys with fun, practical packs and keep parents happy with a range of travel aids. The Little Jetsetter pack includes two reusable sticker books, crayons, doodle areas, a cuddly toy, disposable bibs, change mats, all-natural travel baby wipes and hand sanitizer gel.
Luxury Family Friendly Hotel in London delievers the ultimate kids treat!
Luxury family friendly hotel in London, The Wyndham Grand, has come up with something special for children; The Back to School Afternoon Tea.
It can be a struggle settling back into the school routine after the summer holidays, yet this is something that is bound to help!
Imagine your children being able to turn their play-time tea parties into a real life afternoon tea experience. Now they can and in complete style at The Wyndham Grand.
Thinking small, bite-size everything; the menu includes crunchy Nutella sandwiches, mud-bus brownies, fruit kebabs, milkshake shots, scones and clotted-cream – in true grown-up style – and a choice of teas, fruit infusions and babyccinos.
This is available until 30th September, so you need to be quick! The Back to School Tea (served in The Lounge) is priced at £20 per person.
Children’s tea parties are available upon request. Parents can choose from the regular Afternoon Tea menu (£20 or £30 including a glass of Champagne) or join in the fun with the Back to School tea!
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Two free London events in September 2011
You could never accuse life of being slow or boring in London, and September, like every month in the capital, is brimming with activities and events.
If your wallet is feeling the pinch after your summer holiday, September can often be a month for ‘cutting back’. Although with many events going on that cost no money to attend, Londoners and visitors alike can get out and about without having to spend a penny.
We look at two free London events in September 2011.
The Thames Festival
Saturday 10 – Sunday 11 September, 2011
The Mayor’s Thames Festival is one of London’s largest free festivals. This colourful and vibrant festival celebrates the capital’s multi-culturalism and brings together different communities to rejoice the city and the River Thames in the most imaginative and creative of ways possible.
Choirs, live music, art installations, street art, river races, food and drink, carnivals, pyrotechnics and so much more, will line the River Thames’ banks from Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge.
Be sure to attend one of the biggest and most spectacular street festivals in Europe, and it need not cost you a penny.
