The Boutique Adventurer

The Boutique Adventurer 👒 For Experienced Travellers 50+ getting older not old
🇬🇧 London Based
🍷 WSET Level 3

09/13/2026

📍 The Ginger Pig, 137-139 Askew Road, London W12 9AU
🚇 Nearest stations: Ravenscourt Park or Stamford Brook (District line), or Goldhawk Road / Shepherd's Bush Market (H&C line)
🕒 Mon–Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 10am–3pm
💰 Rotisserie chicken £19.50 (feeds 4 / 4 meals)
🥪 Also worth trying: shepherd's pie, jams & chutneys (great gifts)

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09/10/2026

🌶️ JINCHENG ALLEY — Central London's under-the-radar Sichuan spot

What we ordered:
🦑 Deep-fried calamari flowers, Sichuan pepper salt
🍜 Special fried noodles with prawns and ham
🍆 Crisp sliced aubergine, yu xiang sauce
🦐 Signature fried spicy prawns, dried chilli and Sichuan peppers
🥩 Steamed beef ribs wrapped in lotus leaf

📍 43 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1BN
🚇 Holborn / Tottenham Court Road
☎️ +44 7376 666858
Press visit

09/08/2026

Having an Ethiopian coffee experience… in Shepherd’s Bush ☕🇪🇹

📍 Delina, Arch 176, Shepherd’s Bush Market, London W12 8DF
☕ Coffee ceremony + brunch — £24pp
🕚 Open Wed–Sat, 11am–6pm (worth double-checking before you go)
🔥 Green beans roasted over open flame, ground by hand, brewed in a traditional clay jebena
🍲 Served with wats on injera — or spiced tea if coffee’s not your thing

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09/05/2026

John Lewis has just launched Platter 🍕

The Oxford Street flagship has an open kitchen making pizza with hand-stretched dough, a made-on-site deli, a full dessert parlour, and even its own in-house coffee roastery — I turned mine into an espresso martini ☕🍸

Top it off with a glass of English sparkling wine from Silverhand and the fifth-floor terrace looking straight out over Oxford Street, and this doesn’t feel like a department store food hall anymore.

📍 Platter, John Lewis Oxford Street
🍝 Pizza, deli, desserts, coffee roastery & bar

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09/03/2026

London’s cathedral of sewage 🚂✨

Crossness Pumping Station doesn’t look like much from the outside. Step into the Octagon and it’s a different story — soaring arches, colourful Victorian ironwork, and giant restored beam engines. It’s easy to see why they call it a cathedral.

What’s on site 👇
🚽 The Great Stink exhibition — original Victorian WCs, including a Thomas Crapper toilet
🎬 A 15-min film on why London desperately needed this place
⚙️ A working model showing exactly where it all goes
🪖 Hard hats on for the boiler room — a filming location favourite
☕ On-site café for sandwiches and coffee
📍 Bazalgette Way, Abbey Wood, SE2 9AQ
🚇 Nearest station: Abbey Wood — then a 30-min walk or ~5 min Uber
🎟️ Only a handful of escorted tours run each month — book ahead, they sell out

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09/01/2026

Afternoon tea on a vintage London bus 🚌🧡 — Paddington style!

The Paddington Afternoon Tea Bus Tour by Brigit’s Bakery takes you round London’s most iconic sights — tSt Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey — on a classic double-decker Routemaster, while you tuck into a full Paddington-themed spread: paw-print biscuits, the “best marmalade sandwich ever,” and more.

📍 Departs from 8 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BY 💷 From £37.50pp (check live pricing/times before booking) 🎟️ Book via my link for 10% off:https://glnk.io/0m8pv/feverxtheboutiqueadventurer1au — also in my bio!

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08/29/2026

London Alpacas, Epping 🦙

Alpaca cuddles a few minutes from the Tube — who knew?

📍 London Alpacas, near Epping Underground Station, Essex
🚖 Just a few minutes’ taxi from Epping station
🎟️ Shared Alpaca Experience — £24.99pp (ages 8+)

Run by Sander, who swapped a City career for a life with alpacas — and it shows. Shy at first, then strokes, cuddles and a proper feeding frenzy with the babies of the herd. They even sell wool products made from their own alpacas’ fleece.

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08/27/2026

Blackbook Winery, Arch 41, London Stone Business Estate, Battersea SW8 3QR
Open Saturday evenings or book the afternoon tasting: £25, 4 wines, 1hr15
London’s real urban winery — under the arches, minimal intervention, one of only a handful in the city.
Save this for your next London wine night 🍷
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08/25/2026

Chiswick House Kitchen Garden 🌿

Most people walk straight past this and never know it’s here — a 350-year-old walled garden growing 200+ varieties of fruit, veg, flowers and herbs, right behind Chiswick House.

Thursdays & Saturdays from 11am they sell what’s been freshly picked from the produce cart — card only, while stocks last. Prices are genuinely reasonable, and it’s for a good cause too: run by the Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, with at least half of everything grown donated to local food charities.

📍 Burlington Lane, Chiswick, London W4 2RP 🕰️ Kitchen Garden open Thurs–Sun, free entry 🛒 Produce cart: Thurs & Sat, 11am (card only)

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08/22/2026

Not typical to find great Asian food in Shepherd’s Bush — but Mr Dumpling on Goldhawk Road is proving

Buns, potstickers, dumplings, are all handmade in an open kitchen in front of you. I started with the beef steamed buns (soft, pillowy, gone in two bites), then the prawn and chive potstickers — crack them open and enjoy the delicious filling, all wrapped up in a delicious sauce. The prawn, egg and chive dumplings came next, swimming in a garlic-heavy sauce, so soft and fluffy. Ordered more than I could finish (as always) — they just box it up for you.

📍 Mr Dumpling, 10-12 Goldhawk Rd, London W12 8DH — just south of Shepherd’s Bush Green
🕚 Open daily, no bookings taken so allow a little time for a wait
💷 Around £20–30 per person

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