LONDON

EATING OUT
GOURMET MEATBALLS
Break up your shopping spree
in beautiful Covent Garden with
gourmet meatballs from takeaway
restaurant The Bowler. Choose
from vegetarian or meat varieties
such as beef chuck, or lamb and
feta, served in a pitta or salad box.
There’s a fast-track lunch service
to ensure you’re swiftly fed.
Open daily 9am-11pm.
1 Monmouth St, WC2H 6DA.
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TIME FOR TEA
Treat yourself to a decadent spin
of The Savoy hotel’s Temptation
Wheel – a lit-up mahogany
spinning wheel divided into
scrumptious sections of chocolates,
desserts and cocktails. Take a seat
under the hotel’s glass domed
atrium and let the wheel pick the
combinations you should sample.
We recommend the rosemary fig
dessert with absolutely anything!
Daily 7.30pm-midnight; from
£15. Strand, WC2R 0EU
SCOTTISH SUPPERS
Happy birthday, Robert Gaelic dance night. Learn the
Burns! The Scottish moves to classic routines and
writer, born 25 Jan 1759, indulge in a Burns buffet with
is remembered every all the trimmings, including a
year on Burns Night, meat-free haggis (16, 22-23,
when groups gather to dance 29-30 Jan & 6 Feb. From
to Scottish reels, recite Burns’ £31.50. Hammersmith Town
poetry, drink whisky and eat Hall, King St, W6 9JU).
haggis – a traditional
At Mac & Wild’s Burns
Scottish dish made
Night Blow Out,
using a sheep’s
entertainment
stomach stuffed
includes a piper,
with liver, lungs
poetry and a
and heart.
sing-a-long to
Boisdale of
Auld Lang Syne,
Canary Wharf
created by the
boasts its own
poet (30 Jan. 65
whisky bar with
Great Titchfield
more than 1,000
St, W1W 7PS).
bottles (inset). Its
If you prefer
Burns Night includes a
your haggis in bite-size
bagpiper and live music from canapés, then visit Mr Fogg’s
the Rat Pack band. Last year’s (above). Famed for its quirky
menu included fish pie with interior, the bar’s Burns Night
coastal sea greens (23-25 Jan. includes a bagpiper, but the
£75. Cabot Place, E14 4QT). real draw is the tots of whisky
Courtesy of the Ceilidh Club, to get you in the mood (25 Jan.
you can take part in a Burns 15 Bruton Lane, W1J 6JD).
Night ceilidh, a traditional − Sam Rogg
BAGPIPER COURTESY OF MR FOGG’S; MEATBALLS COURTESY OF THE BOWLER; TEMPTATION WHEEL COURTESY OF THE SAVOY
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