Jenson

Am looking for really unique places to have drinks, lunch, dinner while in London ...

Anyone know of any restaurants or bars in a conservatory anywhere in London? Went to a bar in a conservatory in Vienna and it was the most unbelievable setting!

daph

Tea is served in the conservatory of the Lanesborough Hotel and lunch and tea are served in the Orangerie in back of Kensington Palace.

The_Pixies

Unique means one of a kind - something cannot be really unique.

Jacqui

For a conservatory setting the following spring to mind:

Terrace Restaurant at Le Meridien Picadilly - rooftop (low floor though) conservatory overlooking Picadilly Circus. Haven't eaten there, but pictures (including and IPIX 360 on www.toptable.co.uk) look lovely.

Opera Terrace at Chez Gerrard in Covent Garden. Lovely setting, particularly for lunchtime people watching - ate here several years ago and food was OK.

Xenos

For a unique setting, the Roof Garden above Kensington High Street is pretty hard to beat.
http://www.geocities.com/televisionc...ocations19.htm
shows a couple of views of the garden itself and
http://www.toptable.co.uk/details.cfm?rid=1157
has details of Babylon, the restaurant overlooking it.

Jenson

WOW! Pics of the conservatories mentioned are beautiful! Many thanks ... looks like I've found a "unique" place thanks to the help here.

Tulips

The Roof Garden on Kensington High Street is indeed fabulous; very unexpected to find there. Some time since I went there; are there still flamingos in the gardens? If you like conservatories, maybe consider the Bombay Brasserie; ask for a table in the conservatory. They serve indian food. Not unique, but I like the Enterprise in Walton Street for drinks (dinner possible too).

mclaurie

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34443228

Xenos

Tulips, it's a long time since I went to the Roof Garden too, but according to the picture on the link I posted, the flamingoes are still there

KenHW

Thanks, Pixies, for your absolutely worthless response.

Scarlett

Dear Pixies,
Unique - matchless, only, peerless, unequaled, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unrivaled ,extraordinary, rare, singular, uncommon, unimaginable, unordinary, unthinkable, unusual, unwonted

The_Pixies

Because unique is so often misused by people its definition has been changed in dictionaries to include such terms as: rare, extraordinary, uncommon. Singular, unequal, and unmatched are truer meanings for unique.

The_Pixies

By the way, one of my favourite episodes of The West Wing had a take on this. Someone wrote a speach for President Bartlett that was reviewed by Sam Seaborne. He chastised the writer for using the term "very unique".

Nikki

People who get bothered by the contemporary use of "unique" as defined in the dictionary usually complain when people say "very unique". I understand that criticism (although the current dictionary definition would make that criticism somewhat archaic) but I do not understand why one would criticize the way the poster here used it in the phrase "really unique". Why can't something be really singular, unequal(led) or unmatched? Something can surely be "not really unique" if it is not singular, unequalled or unmatched, can't it? Or not really one of a kind? So why not really unique?

hansikday

petty grammar queen hijacks another thread.

Give Jenson some more suggestions and salvage this thing.