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Duck & Waffle Local in St James’s Market

We like the Duck & Waffle and enjoy the experience of delicious food with perfect views of London.  It’s a popular place, and is quite hard to get a table without a reservation.  So when we heard the Duck & Waffle were opening a “Local” branch near Piccadilly Circus, we were keen to visit. The Duck & Waffle Local is in the snazzy new St James’s Market area near Piccadilly Circus, among other new restaurants (for example Michelin-starred Aquavit, which we’ve reviewed here). The Local is a casual walk-in with a modern, fast-food vibe. No reservations required. We met at the bar, where they serve cocktails on tap. I tried the millennial mojito – a lightly carbonated drink mixing Bacardi carta blanca, preserved mint and lime. Refreshing! From the bar we were shown to a table.  We then ordered and paid at the counter.  The counter displayed the menu on […]

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‘Wish List’, Zero Hour Contract Play

We’ve just watched Katherine Soper’s debut play at the Royal Court (it premiered in Manchester and won the Bruntwood Prize). Absolutely fabulous! It adds to the intimacy of the experience that the Jerwood Upstairs seats just 85 people and the acting takes place between two sets of rows, with the remaining two ends of the room being set up as the work place and the home of Tamsin (Erin Doherty). She is a 19-year old woman, who works full-time in a soul-destroying zero-hour contract job as a packer in a warehouse, packing boxes with goods from customers’ twist-of-the-moment wish lists, while caring for her 17-year old mentally unwell, housebound brother Dean (Jonathan Quinn) since the death of their mother. He can already be seen while the audience gets seated, engaging in his obsessive compulsive rituals of putting gel into his hair behind the transparent walls of the bathroom, tapping rhythmically […]

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Ed Harris in Buried Child – Don’t Miss This One

We’ve just come back from seeing 66-year old Hollywood veteran Ed Harris star in his West End debut in Buried Child at the Trafalgar Studios, and what a pleasure it was! Ed Harris’ intensity and aplomb on stage are riveting. It would have been worth the visit just for his acting alone, but as it happens all the other talented actors involved were giving their best too. Well, and can’t really go wrong with a Pulitzer-prize winning play like this that is about the breakdown of the American Dream and its values in rural 1970s America, when most family-run farms descended into poverty and despair due to economic slowdown and the consolidation of the market with a few hundred big players ruling the game. To add to it, it’s so cool that Ed is starring with his wife, Amy Madigan, as he did on various occasions before, both on stage […]

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