City Guides: London and Singapore - Abi Comber

The Head of Brands & Marketing at British Airways give us her tips on London and Singapore.

LONDON

Best hotel for business?
The newly-opened Landmark hotel.

Best hotel for pleasure?
Soho hotel.

Best bar for celebrating?
Claridges Art Deco bar.

Best restaurant for business lunch?
1901 at Andaz Liverpool.

Best way to spend an hour in-between meetings?
Depending on your starting point, either the Espa Life spa at the corinthia hotel, a walk round the back streets of mayfair or browse daunt books on Marylebone high street (and another bookshop to check out is Persephone books in Bloomsbury, which reprints neglected books by mid-century writers (mostly women). Or finally the cast courts at the V&A (newly reopened after a three-year rennovation). This room originally opened at the end of the 19th century and conceived as the definitive collection of Europe’s great works all rerproduce in plaster cast.

Best restaurant for dinner?
Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental.

If you only have time to one thing in my city, then do this…
Dennis Sever’s house. In London’s east end, it’s a still life drama of what life would have been like for a huguenot silk weavers and is totally unique.

SINGAPORE

Best hotel for business?
Park Royal on Pickering, Fullerton Bay Hotel.

Best hotel for pleasure?
Sugarhall, Potato Head folk.

Best bar for celebrating?
Manhattan.

Best restaurant for business lunch?
Wild Rocket.

Best way to spend an hour in-between meetings?
Grab a coffee at Ronin, a great café hidden among the shophouses on Hong Kong street.

Best restaurant for dinner?
Restaurant Andre.

If you only have time to one thing in my city, then do this…
Experience hawker food, one of the most important aspects of Singapore culture. For a great low-key street-food experience, eat at Sin Huat Eating House on Geylang Road. Be Sure to order the chef's fried Sri Lankan crab bee hoon.

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