Valentine's Day Suggestions From Hatch End

Bella's Blooms.

Flowers and red heart shape balloons.

O r a m a Greek restaurant. 

3 courses and prosecco £24.95 with live music.

Pizza Express.

Love at first bite. 2 courses and a glass of Prosecco for £17.95.

The Moon and Sixpence pub.

2 steaks and a bottle of wine for £20.

Krosbie and co.

Cakes from Genuine Cakes.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Christmas is Coming: last post dates; Xmas meals; Dec 18 event: Hatch End

Put up lights in gardens, post the cards, buy and decorate trees, book dinners, lots to look at and plan.

The front gardens are getting ready.

Christmas tree outside Fellini Caffe Italian restaurant.

Get fit and healthy with your pills and prescriptions from Tanna's chemists. 

Buy and post your seasonal cards in time for Christmas. This handy reminder is in Tesco Express. Last local postal times 1st class 21st December 2015, 2nd class 19 December. 

Bookings for Christmas dinners:

The moon and Sixpence pub.

 Or Pizza Express.

Or maybe Christmas at home.

A Christmas tree for the table from Tesco, at £3.

Or something from Bella's Blooms:

If you've nothing else planned, yet, Friday December 18th, note the date in your diary, Hatch End charity Christmas street event happens in Hatch End, 4-8 pm, with a sweet cart, Santa's Grotto, a raffle and horse-drawn carriage.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Summer On the Streets Of London - Restaurants, Caffes and Pubs With Street Seating Or Gardens

Flags flying at Fellini Caffe restaurant in Hatch End

Like Indian continent food? Coriander has some outdoor seating too. Whether you want to puff on a cigarette, or actually enjoy fresh air.

Prefer to be at the back away from traffic sights and sounds and smells?

Wetherspoons Pub in Hatch End

Eat at the front on the street in the Moon and Sixpence

Or on wooden benches and tables in their rustic beer garden at the back

 In a back garden next door at Pizza Express

Choose Chinese and sit outside at ChikaYan

Across the street more Italian and continental restaurants with windows open onto the street"

Dona Teresa on the left.