Bar Lina Review: She Opened an Italian Shop in 1944
Bar Lina Review: She Opened an Italian Shop in 1944 | Italy had been at war with Britain for four years. Italians here had been interned. And she put her name over the door.
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Vermouth Bar Review: Apples and Pears Is Rhyming Slang for Stairs
Vermouth Bar Review: Apples and Pears Is Rhyming Slang for Stairs | The restaurant is called Mele e Pere and the bar is downstairs, and it is the best bilingual joke in five postcodes
Glasshouse Stores Review: A Glasshouse Is a Military Prison
Glasshouse Stores Review: A Glasshouse Is a Military Prison | Soldiers have called it that for over a century, and it comes from a glass-roofed detention block at Aldershot
Duke of Argyll Review: The Campbells Killed Their Hosts
Duke of Argyll Review: The Campbells Killed Their Hosts | Glencoe, 1692 – and the crime was not the killing. It was that they had accepted the hospitality first.
Lina Stores Review: A Soho Deli From 1944 That Never Left
Lina Stores Review: A Soho Deli From 1944 That Never Left | A green-and-white shopfront on Brewer Street, opened by an Italian woman during the war, and still selling the same pasta
Crown Review: The Second One, and It Has Outlived Everything
Crown Review: The Second One, and It Has Outlived Everything | Nine monarchs, a republic, a beheading and a restoration – and the sign has never needed a single brushstroke