I love well cooked food, and I certainly love dumplings. I was kindly given a complimentary dining experience at the lovely Dim T. It is the perfect place to visit as a tourist, you can get all of the best angles of London Bridge right outside of the restaurant, it is truly very beautiful.
We arrived quite late in the evening, however the staff were very accommodating, and more than eager to please; we were seated immediately. After being presented with a lovely flute of Prosecco we were presented with a fabulous easy to read menu.
I selected the five spice squid and my mother had the vegetable gyoza dumplings to start; both dishes were adequately heated and extremely delicious; I am a calamari super fan, so I always order that if its on the menu. The dumplings were lightly toasted, served with a tangy but sweet dipping sauce.
As I have mentioned in my previous blog, I do have an intolerance to sugar so I didn’t try to many, but what I had was extremely scrumptious.
For our mains, we ordered jasmine rice with Korean fried chicken and crispy sea-bass. The fish melted like butter in your mouth and the chicken was again crunchy, tangy, and well seasoned.
The sea-bass was coated in a light batter, cooked to perfection and very fragrant.
For our dessert we ordered the chocolate bento box and a raspberry sorbet. The Chocolate brownie must have been cooked by Santa himself, it was rich chocolate laden, a perfect sticky sweet treat that was nicely complimented with a mellow vanilla ice cream. The sorbet was lovely, light and refreshing.
The evening was filled with a lovely ambience; as we sat there I watched the lights, draped across tower-bridge light the night sky. The food and location truly are a magical combination.
Take care,
Stylishsafiya X
(This was a complimentary dining experience, however all thoughts and opinions are my own.)
]]>If you are looking for good food, live music and sophistication then you can't go wrong with Sanderson London Social. I recently visited the restaurant and had the most delightful experience, me and my mother were kindly greeted by our hostess and swiftly seated in their courtyard dining area.
there was live music playing in the courtyard where we was seated. the tables were all a beautiful black and white pure marble, decorated with real lit tea lights; each seat had a green winter blanket for each guest.
In the centre of the courtyard, there was a vast array of healthy plants, of all different species, amongst them was two beautiful water displays.
At the front of the courtyard was a pretty tropical garden chair pictured below.
When I saw it, I knew I needed to add it to my blog/feed. From the moment the waiter took our first order. Our food came swiftly; I sampled the teriyaki beef starter, that came with bok choy, peanuts and thin slices of spring onion. the beef was tender, well seasoned and slightly sweet. My mother had the soft shell crab that was lightly fried and teamed with a green apple and fennel salad. Both dishes were refreshing and highly recommended.
For the main we had, a beautiful fillet of monkfish, that came with a cold runner bean, cherry tomato, and noodle salad. What really heightened the flavours of the main was the sweet blueberry chutney, which had a sweet and sour pickle flavour too it too.
I love fish, so most well cooked seafood dishes, pass my test, however it was genuinely good.
At the end of our main, we had the best cooked chocolate fondant; it wasn’t too sweet and oozed with a caramel centre that was balanced out with an apricot ice cream, that was topped with an a caramelised biscuit.
After dining, we wandered over to the long bar, which is really called the long bar; I had a cocktail, called the Sanderson, and my mum had the Pineapple Express, which was a strong drink but so delicious. Mine was light and fruity, and refreshening. We then finished up both with another cocktail, and I had the Pineapple Express and my mum had another one too.
There was a live Dj playing at the end of the bar, he started to play around 8pm, and the bar was really lively on a Thursday night...
I highly recommended you visit this luxury, boutique hotel, you will not be disappointed.
Until next time, take care!
Stylishsafiya X
(this was a complimentary dining experience, however all thoughts and opinions, are my own)
]]>Depending on your aesthetic you may love these as much as I do. If you follow me on Instagram, you will see that one of them has been featured quite a few times so of course we will start with that place first.
I am in love with this place, it has a vast architectural landscape. Beautiful historical design, and the perfect backdrop, for evening wear, such as long cocktail dresses, or a classical casual sophisticated look. It is high traffic and always book up for London fashion week for the above reasons. It is hard to beat such beautiful cobbled grounds, and it’s vast archways. I went here a few weeks ago with my photographer and we took many outfit shots at the entrance of the building.
Unfortunately we were unable to access the centre of the building since it was booked for a private event, but we still gathered good content.
2. Vivi restaurant
If pink is your thing, and you are a girly girl at heart, then you will love this place. I have reviewed it on the blog before and I have uploaded countless pics of it on my instagram feed. I can’t really stress enough how gorgeous it is for a clean aesthetic and pictures. If you would like to shoot there I recommend you go there and catch their breakfast menu, and dine on their powder pink leather bound seats. Not only is the decor gorgeously insane, they have tasty and very affordable menu options with salmon and avocado, yummy!
3. The London Eye
This is my final recommendation, not only because it is a landmark in London, there is also an adjacent street pictured below that is literally 10 secs away from the London eye itself. I captured these amazing shots, on a bright sunny day, and they came out beautifully. I loved the clean aesthetic and feel it gave to my outfit, and it was so easy to find. If you actually wander around these streets there are many places you can shoot, especially if you head towards St. Thomas Hospital.
So there you have my top three places to shoot in and around London; if you are looking for more recommendations, I will have plenty more soon up on my blog, so please stay tuned.
Chat soon!
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Finding this restaurant is like slowly approaching the entrance to Aladdins cave. It is concealed within a beautiful complex of other places. I had this dining experience on my hit list for a while; yes I am that instagrammer that runs around trying to seek out the perfect locations for that money shot, don't judge me, haha...
I was quite astounded by the size of this place, as we entered the main entrance on the ground floor, we were greeted by lovely reception staff, who quickly booked us in, and then escorted us up two flights of stairs. As we hit the top of the staircase that was panelled in large sheets of glass, we finally entered VIVI's itself.
The restaurant is structured over two floors, and it is large. They have two separate dining areas, one for their for their dinner menu which is featured above and the one that is pictured below, for their breakfast and lunch menu.
I can honestly say that my heart skipped a beat as I glided down the stairs towards the breakfast dining area. The floors tiles, and the view outlooking the glass panelled window was so beautiful; not to mention the rows of pink seating, that were perfectly decorated with a golden base trim. I did not stop for breakfast, but I have full intentions of doing this sometime soon.
After taking a plethora of photos in the breakfast area, we went upstairs to be seated. The crushed velvet pink chair, perfectly matched my pink dress from Topshop, It was so soft and comfortable. On the left hand side, where we were stationed was the beautiful glass mirrored bar with high turquoise bar stools (as featured below).
The staff we so accommodating and the menu was very simple and sophisticated, we had, the cauliflower cheese croutons to start which we so delicious, roasted cod as our main, and I opted for a green kale smoothie before a glass of white wine which was also divine.
If you would like a divine dining experience, and really good food, make a booking at VIVI's today!
Catch up soon,
Stylish Safiya X
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I digress, there is more that one reason why you need to go there. It is steep in history and one of the worlds biggest museums standing today.
Not only the above mentioned qualities, but it is not too far from central Paris shopping centre and it has one of the most beautiful museum displays I have ever seen, Napoleons Apartments. I went there with my mum and dad back In November, and we there all blown away by the magnitude of gold on display in those three rooms. The amount of gold that have been harvested and sculpted was beautiful to the point of vulgar.
It is definitely breathtaking; I do advise however that you hear a pair of trainers as your feet are going to burn, if you don’t. I mistakenly wore a pair of heels boots and after wandering around for three hours was shattered.
We had a really great time, and also encountered a sheikh and his 50 security guards and media as we were passing through, as you do.
They have Uber out there too, so if you are a user of the app it all works the same out it paris. Make sure, as I always advise to go there nice and early to get that perfect Instagram photo right outside, before you go in.
Until next time, take care!
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