
St. John Hotel is tucked away behind a building site near Leicester Square station; to reach it you have to pass scaffolding and netting as you slosh through puddles of construction gruel. Maybe once they’ve finished building Leicester Square the area will be nicer but for the moment it’s a grim, discouraging spot for breakfast.
Côte is a chain of restaurants serving decent French food and is where you go when you feel that you’ve out-grown Café Rouge. A branch recently opened in Highgate so I thought it worth documenting now it’s within easy walking distance.