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Anita Pati

Anita Pati has written 13 posts for The London Word
Anita Pati has now lived in London longer than her hometown, making her, in her brown eyes, a reeyul Londoner. As a freelance journalist, she writes on social affairs, books, food and culture. She can be found wandering the derelict and overgrown of the capital – for kicks, so she says.

El Pirata de Tapas

While the lunch time service was quiet, the tempo was right for the restaurant’s muted décor of black wood and amber lights

Polo in the Park

There were youngish blokes on rippling little ponies impressively swinging their mallets into wild backhanders

Chinatown’s Rasa Sayang

The lighting was bright, unforgiving and all the better to see the food with should the photos not suffice

Gaylords of Mortimer Street

Despite its refreshed image, the food is not necessarily lighter, although there are exciting variations here

Hula Hooping at The Ebury

The Ebury restaurant in Chelsea is running hula hooping classes this January to help punters shimmy off that Christmas fat

Facial Acupuncture at Home House

She stuck tiny acupuncture needles into my shins and wrists to stimulate the energy channels to my face

Wax On, Wax Off

It sounds scary: Ministry of Waxing – less beauty institute, more S&M House of Pain

TLSee Afternoon Tea at Swissôtel

Last week I had London’s landmarks in the palm of my hand

White Clouds in Pimlico

The Feng Shui master of the White Cloud Temple of Beijing pops by Pimlico for a visit

Benja on Beak Street

The guppies were a talking point for the Americans. Magnificent, squirming creatures, scaling the walls in electric blue and pillar box red plastic…