Where to, Parker. Issue 5 | Summer 2017
Issue 5: Summer edition of Where to, Parker, the in-car magazine for Parker cars. Showcasing the best of London
Issue 5: Summer edition of Where to, Parker, the in-car magazine for Parker cars. Showcasing the best of London
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lonDon VIllages<br />
Left page <strong>to</strong>p: new<br />
apartments in the old<br />
BBC TV Centre. Left<br />
page below: Burgista<br />
burger bar. Right page,<br />
clockwise from <strong>to</strong>p<br />
left: Bush Hall Dining<br />
Rooms; The Green<br />
Room; Nut Case.<br />
Great restaurants<br />
Next <strong>to</strong> the gorgeous music venue Bush Hall is<br />
Bush Hall Dining Rooms, a rare gem on the strip<br />
of fast-food joints that comprises the Uxbridge<br />
Road. North of Shepherd’s Bush Green you’ll<br />
find a more than decent burger restaurant called<br />
Burgista. But best of all is Albertine, a wine bar at<br />
the base of Wood Lane. It recently opened under<br />
new management, with a wine bar, a restaurant<br />
and a private dining and party space. Another<br />
new restaurant is Pergola on the Roof, an open-air<br />
offering on <strong>to</strong>p of Television Centre.<br />
Great music venues<br />
Shepherd’s Bush Empire is the big one, with<br />
household names regularly taking up residence here.<br />
But far more intriguing is the much smaller Bush<br />
Hall, a former Vic<strong>to</strong>rian dance hall where you’ll often<br />
find folk and Americana bands rocking the house.<br />
There can’t be many live music venues in London<br />
where you can drink out of real glass and stand on a<br />
plush carpet while listening <strong>to</strong> the gig.<br />
Great shopping<br />
It’s difficult <strong>to</strong> look beyond Westfield London. And<br />
why would you? This 150,000-square metre (and<br />
growing!) behemoth of a shopping centre is home<br />
<strong>to</strong> everyone from Apple, Ann <strong>Summer</strong>s and Nike <strong>to</strong><br />
Gucci, Jimmy Choo and Prada. But if you can brave<br />
the grotty Uxbridge Road you’ll stumble upon the<br />
occasional independent gem: Stuart’s London, for<br />
example, has been dressing football casuals since<br />
1967, and is now a mecca for men’s street fashion.<br />
If you’re feeling peckish try Nut Case which s<strong>to</strong>cks<br />
every nut you ever knew existed (plus a few more).<br />
Did you know?<br />
The now demolished White City Stadium was home<br />
<strong>to</strong> the 1908 Olympic Games, back when athletes<br />
wore white trousers, cravats and moustaches the<br />
size of small mammals. It was at these games that<br />
the standard marathon distance of 26 miles and 385<br />
yards was first established. Fac<strong>to</strong>ry scenes in the<br />
1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? were filmed<br />
close <strong>to</strong> the current site of Westfield London.<br />
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