Tag: Cafe

Sunday - what a terrible day it is. It’s the day before you have to go back to work, and often the day after a big night.  Past experience tell you it involves either hours vegging in front of the TV, some banal family occasion, or worse - both.  But thankfully Petersham Nurseries are on hand to get you out of this familial mess.

Located in leafy West London among flowers and their oak brethren, this café and teahouse is the perfect place to get away from the in-laws.  Oh, and the food’s pretty good as well.  Sourcing the best local ingredients, and growing most of the fruit and vegetables in the surrounding gardens, it gives off just the right amount of homemade nostalgia without conjuring images of your niece putting mud in the oven.

Potter around the award-winning shrubberies, saunter through the lemon trees, or sample the herbs growing wild in the herb bed.  Sundays here are what Sundays should be – indulgent.  And who needs family when your fellow diners may include Mick Jagger, Paul Smith and Madonna.  A belly of lamb with mustard and a glass of Merlot, or screaming kids and burnt gravy - need one really ask? By Matthew Hussey