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Boisdale 20 15 Eccleston Street SW1 020-7730 6922 Victoria is attached to

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Boisdale (20), 15 Eccleston Street, SW1, 020-7730 6922 (Victoria), is attached to a Franco-Scottish restaurant and has one of the largest selections of malt whiskies in London.Dinner With The LocalsLondon restaurants come and go, but some seem as though they've been here forever. Daquise (21), 20 Thurloe Street, SW7, 020-7589 6117 (South Kensington), was founded in the 1940s. Large portions of traditional Polish food including pierogi (a kind of Polish ravioli), spicy sausage and sweet apple strudel have made this restaurant an institution. Book ahead for Assaggi (22), 39 Chepstow Place, W2, 020-7792 5501, (Notting Hill Gate), a small but hugely popular Italian restaurant above a pub It's on the pricey side (£35 per head), but well worth it. Veronica's (23), 3 Hereford Road, W2, 020-7229 5079 (Bayswater), is a real one-off. It serves historic dishes (try a Victorian starter, a Roman main course and an Elizabethan pudding) in friendly surroundings. Set menus from £18.50, booking essential.Sunday Morning – Go To ChurchWestminster Cathedral (24), Victoria Street, SW7, 020-7798 9055 (Victoria), is the premier place of worship for British Roman Catholics.

John Francis Bentley's immense neo-Byzantine building, completed in 1903, is hard to miss. The green marble columns (cut from the same stone as Istanbul's sixth-century St Sophia), the mosaics (fashioned from more than 100 different kinds of marble) and Eric Gill's Stations of the Cross all make a visit worthwhile, as does the view from the campanile.Bracing BrunchShoreditch Electricity Showroom (25), 39A Hoxton Square, N1, 020-7739 6934 is a 10-minute walk from Liverpool Street Brunch is served from 1pm onwards (from £6.25). Combine this with a trip to the White Cube2 gallery at 48 Hoxton Square or Petticoat Lane Market (26), Middlesex Street, EC1, 9am-1pm. Galicia (27), 323 Portobello Road, SW10, 020-8969 3539 (Notting Hill Gate), serves a tapas brunch (from £2.95).A Walk In The ParkKensington Gardens (28) is one of the prettiest royal parks.

Enter at King's Arms Gate (High Street Kensington), and take in the Sunken Garden, the Orangery, the Round Pond, Sir George Frampton's statue of Peter Pan and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground. From here, head for the Albert Memorial along the exuberantly planted Flower Walk, before returning to King's Arms Gate.Write A PostcardPick up a card from the Courtauld Gallery (29), Somerset House, Strand, WC2, 020-7848 2526, www.courtauld.ac.uk (Temple) and write it in this new riverside development which includes a sculpture terrace, an open-air summer caf?nd the restored King's Barge House.The Icing On The CakeFreshen up with a visit to Porchester Spa (30), Porchester Road, W2 020-7792 3980, (Bayswater). For a combined price of £26.75, couples can use the Russian steam room, a Turkish hot room and a plunge pool. The Savoy (31), Strand, WC2, 020-7836 4343, (Embankment) holds tea dances on Sundays between 2.45pm and 6pm. Cost is £28 and includes a triple-tiered platter of cakes and sandwiches.. Two swallows do not a summer make, nor does an uninterrupted run of half a dozen or so daily rises on the FTSE100 Index constitute a bull market – but it is a start.

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