The Ivy Restaurant in St Johns Wood, London

 There's the famous Ivy restaurant in central London, very expensive and hard to book. Then, there's the Ivy Restaurant in St John's Wood, NW London. Famous locally.

A favourite of my family. They went there to celebrate an anniversary. the restaurant can supply fancy desserts. No age restriction. They welcome children and toddlers.

The Ivy Restaurant, St John's Wood, London. Photo from Sharot family. Copyright.

In addition to the two in London, you will find Ivy restaurants in ABCD and M - Los Angeles, Birmingham, Cambridge, Manchester. There are many more spinoffs, some restaurants for fine dining and others called brasseries and cafes with slightly different branding.

Historic Pictures

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ivy_(UK)#:~:text=Since%202014%20the%20company

https://the-ivy.co.uk/

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Honey Bees In Dessert In The Ivy, St John's Wood, and Ivy restaurants in England, Scotland and Wales

Dessert at The Ivy, St Johns Wood. Photo from Sharot family.

For main courses my family had pate as a starter. For main courses the four diners had duck curry or duck salad as main courses. (The duck salad selection could have been bigger, said my hungriest relative who is a big chap.)

The dessert was honey them. In our picture you can see the honeycomb design, also the bee which is edible, chocolate.

My family have eaten there several times. The decor is kitch rainforest stained glass.
 

My family in London went to the Ivy in St John's Wood. Not the famous Ivy in central London.

St John Wood is a short high street in a smart area of London. Around the corner from Lord's Cricket Ground, which has a museum, and the zebra crossing where the famous photo of the Beatles was taken. Not far from Regents Park, London Zoo, and Baker Street with the Sherlock Holmes museum.

The Ivy in St John's wood had delightfully presented desserts.

The Ivy

120 St John's Wood High Street

NW8 7SG

Other branches are in the England, in Cardiff, Wales, in Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland, and Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. The ones in England are in Marlow, St Albans, York, and other places. 

My family member says, "It's turning into an upmarket chain. Same every time. No surprises. You don't go there for novelty."

I thought the bee dessert was a great novelty.

Useful Websites

https://theivystjohnswood.com/

Bellanger Restaurant, Islington Green Has Closed - What next?

The Bellanger restaurant at Islington Green is closed since around August 10th 2019. They said if you have a booking they will contact you.

I was wondering if they would open elsewhere, taking with them the paintings and pictures and furniture. If you want to buy something, now is the time to ask.

Or will they sell the place as is?

Sometimes the landlord asks you to remove everything or charges you for removing it. Sometimes you can offer to sell to the landlord the ovens etc so they can sell it as ready to go restaurant to another business. But other times the landlord won't pay or expects new tenants to be a brand with their own decor starting to renovate and old stuff simply gets in the way.

You can read my old posts about the about to depart restaurant and the locations of other related restaurants and what is nearby in Islington.

Their old address was:
Bellanger Restaurant
9 Islington Green
London N1 2XH
England

Update
Tues 20 Aug 2019. I looked on their website.
The Bellanger website says:
Other dog friendly Corbin & King restaurants:
Soutine in St John's Wood, Colbert in Chelsea and ZL Café at Brasserie Zédel in Soho
Your closest Corbin & King restaurant is now
The Delaunay in Aldwych or Fischer's in Marylebone.

I tried googling their address to see whether another restaurant had opened up on the site but just got referred back to the Bellanger website.

Useful Websites
https://www.bellanger.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Bowie, the Brixton Boy and the Bowie statue and mural

London landmarks include those to Shakespeare and heroes of the old days as well as museums and statues and monuments to the heroes and celebrities of our century. The latest is the mural to Bowie in Brixton which has received protected status. Discussions are taking place with his family about the possibility of adding a statue.

London Landmark List
Beatles' zebra crossing, St Johns Wood
Bowie mural, Brixton
Amy Winehouse Statue, Camden
Jimi Hendrix Museum

You can also take walking tours taking in sites associated with the Beatles and Shakespeare. More on these landmarks in my previous posts.

Bowie

Other monuments to Bowie are a statue in Aylesbury. 

A star is in the Hollywood walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

London Clocks & Worldwide Clocks - Are you in time, on time - watch the world's clocks

London Clocks
Last weekend in London the clocks went back.
Big Ben in London is one of the world's famous clocks.

It featured in the film The Thirty Nine Steps directed by Alfred Hitchcock with the hero Hannay hanging onto the clock face hands. The book was by Scottish author John Buchan. A stage play of The Thirty Nine Steps is on in London.
www.love39steps.com

You can see a weathervane featuring Old Father Time at Lords Cricket Ground in St John's Wood which is just north of Baker Street, on the bus or underground train. As it's high up you might be able to spot it from the top of a bus or a nearby building.

Clockmakers' Museum, London, UK

Closed - whilst moving to London's Science Museum where it will be in the Time gallery, opening next year in summer 2015.

Clocks & Watches Gallery, British Museum, London, UK

Clocks in Wales

Newport clock

Clocks in France

Rheims

Canada

Steam clock, Vancouver

(See video in Wikipedia)

Germany

House of 1000 clocks, Triberg (see Tripadvisor)

USA

National Watch and Clock Museum, PA

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g52399-d102891-Reviews-National_Watch_and_Clock_Museum-Columbia_Lancaster_County_Pennsylvania