felt I'd got the short straw by facing the restaurant rather than St James’s Park, until I realised that actually I could still enjoy the magnificent greenery of the ancient trees above the duck pond, the pods of the London Eye and Charles’ Union Jack

With a car-mad four-year-old (and his daddy) in tow, there was always a chance that we were never actually going to make it into the restaurant when there is one of Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One racing cars in the foyer to drool over. But that’s just

Procuring the top table at a restaurant usually means you have the plum seats from which to survey all comers. At Bangalore Express, it means you can take your seat in a ‘floating’ booth, reached by a bunk-bed style ladder. A perfect enticement, you