Great atmosphere

Blue Cabana is an outdoor and indoor restaurant in Abuja that besides a restaurant has a gym and a beautiful outside pool where you can swim and relax. It is one of the nice upscale places in Abuja and when you go indoors you feel like you could be in any other city, it feels western and modern. It was a very hot day (above 30 degrees) and we decided to sit indoors with AC, although in the evening it is cool enough to sit outdoors by the pool and smoke shisha if you wish to.

I don’t always agree with what other food critics write, but I always read what they say, as I love eating food, watching food programs, cooking food and reading reviews about food. In one such review mentioning best 2014 restaurants, I noticed that the Colony Grill Room was mentioned. I had never heard of this place, which was strange as it was so close to where I live, less than 5 minutes away from Selfridges. So on one Saturday, my boyfriend and I decided to go there for lunch.

The Colony Grill Room is located in the Beaumont hotel, which I did not know about before, but which looks very pretty. I was a bit surprised about how much I liked the room where the Colony Grill Room was located. The hotel is sort of hidden from the main streets but when you walk into the Colony Grill Room, the room is grand and beautiful and it is buzzing and has so many people there. It is amazing to find something so hidden yet so much fun.

My boyfriend took me to the new Hotel Café Royal for Afternoon tea this weekend. Hotel Café Royal is a 5 star hotel next to Piccadilly station, in the middle of London, and recently refurbished. It used to not be a great hotel, but it closed in 2008, refurbished and re-opened in December 2012. I walk past it frequently, but had never been in there and actually did not know it existed.

Royal Café Hotel is now a beautiful hotel, beautifully redecorated, with rooms in different styles. The lobby and reception seem modern, but the Oscar Wilde room, where we had our afternoon tea, was made up in an old school style with mirrors and paintings and bold golden frames. It is a beautiful room and there are so many things you can look at. There was also a man playing the piano on one side of the room, creating that extra special atmosphere.

I had not been to Sketch in a very long time and was so pleasantly surprised about how great it was. Sketch is sort of a house in Mayfair (Conduit street) that has 2 restaurants and various bars and lounge areas each very quirky and in their individual and very cool style. If you like design, art and furniture, then Sketch is a must visit for you. As the website says “Sketch is a complex and unique site”. The people behind Sketch, that opened it in December 2002, are French master chef Pierre Gagnaire (who has a 3 Michelin star restaurant in France) and restaurateur Mazouz.

The beast is a Norwegian red king crab and hand selected Nebraskan beef restaurant in London. It is located just north of Oxford street by Debenhams and is the new restaurant by the people behind Goodmans and Burger and Lobster. I had heard a lot about this restaurant, it has generated a lot of hype due to its unusual menu.