14 Great Reasons To Be A Londoner In 2014

9. Heston Blumenthal's New Airport Cafe

If you've seen any of Heston Blumenthal's food on the telly, chances are you've wanted to try it. Heston's Feasts was a cooking show like no other, and maintained Blumenthal's reputation for making damn weird - but damn impressive - food. Blumenthal's other restaurants offer nearly incomprehensible menus, including one (at The Fat Duck) where instead of a meal, you have a multi-sensory experience designed to bring "a sense of theatre to the dining experience". Whilst this might sound incredibly pretentious, it's probably incredibly delicious. So an airport cafe. Everybody who's ever been stuck in an airport for hours knows that they suck. You turn up, spend a tenner on a sandwich and a coffee, then have to eat it sitting hunched over on your case because there's no seats left anywhere. No more! Adorably named, The Perfectionist's Cafe is set to serve traditional British favourites - quite fitting for a place in Heathrow - and intends to recall the glamour that air travel had way back when. About time too, because sitting on a cold floor getting trampled on by apparently blind strangers whilst trying to navigate a very flimsy cup full of boiling hot tea is no way to start a holiday.
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