PAUL ROTHE AND SONS 35 Marylebone Lane London W1U 2NN
Tatsuo Miyajima’s profoundly spiritual art explores Buddhist philosophy through technological installations.
EXHIBITION TATSUO MIYAJIMA: ART IN YOU 10 February – 9 April Lisson Gallery 67 Lisson Street, NW1 5DA lissongallery.com Japanese installation artist and sculptor Tatsuo Miyajima, whose profoundly spiritual art explores Buddhist philosophy through technological installations, unveils three new bodies of work – Keep Changing (Mondrian), Painting of Change and Unstable Time – all of which use digits, in the form of LED lights, oils or gold leaf, to explore ideas of life, reincarnation, chance and flux.
Tatsuo Miyajima
Places for a bowl of soup in Marylebone
It’s been 50 years since Paul Rothe took over from his father, Robert—and 119 years since his grandfather Paul opened this German-ish deli. To step inside and survey the 1950s-style tables and gleaming jars of handmade jam and chutney is to feel all is right with the world – at least for the time you’re there. Paul is still serving, alongside his son Stephen, and their soups are as reassuring as they are retro. There’s a vegetable and a meat option, which change daily – pea and mint, celery and stilton, lamb broth, chunky vegetable – and while plain bread is available, the traditional Rothe practice of ordering a sandwich to dip in your soup is advised. LE PAIN QUOTIDIEN 72-75 Marylebone High Street London W1U 5JW lepainquotidien.com Growing up in Belgium, Alain Coumont spent every Wednesday afternoon at his grandmother’s house, where she treated him to a small bowl of hot chocolate. The memory of cupping his cold hands around it, soaking up its warmth, followed him to the tables of the bakery he founded almost 30 years ago in Brussels – and thence to his opening in Marylebone, where hot drinks and soups continue to be served in wide, round bowls. The soup is organic, seasonal – think icy gazpacho in summer, butternut squash topped with rosemary in winter – and served alongside Le Pain Quotidien’s eponymous daily bread. GAIL’S 4-6 Seymour Place London W1H 7NA gailsbread.co.uk There are not one, not two, but five richly flavoursome
soups to choose from at Gail’s, each created with the help of a nutritionist to provide maximum nutritional boost for your buck. Choose from hot paprika beef goulash; soothing, protein-rich Moroccan lamb harira; fragrantly spiced sweet potato and coconut; lentil broth bright with lemon and sweet with pumpkin; or chicken and vegetable. And get dunking with the fresh, local, handcrafted sourdough Gail’s serves alongside. FISCHER’S 50 Marylebone High Street London W1U 5HN fischers.co.uk Those looking for the ultimate soup for sore bodies (chicken) can rest easy. Fischer’s chicken soup with spätzle is the platonic ideal of Jewish penicillin: silky, buttery, laced with noodles and studded with just the right amount of chicken broth-infused veg. Enjoyed in the decadent comfort of this wood-panelled, marble-floored homage to the grand cafés of 19th century Vienna, this – and maybe a small, restorative glass of Austrian riesling – is the culinary equivalent of a Lemsip all-in-one capsule. LA BRASSERIA 42 Marylebone High Street London W1U 5HD labrasseria.com Tomatoes, pasta, parmesan, beans. When it comes to comfort food in a bowl, it’s hard to beat minestrone – especially when that minestrone is made to a Milanese family recipe and served in the soothing surrounds of teal blue walls and velvet chairs. Order Nonna Rosa’s focaccia alongside—another family favourite—and soak up the bustling, buoyant atmosphere and Italian hospitality. The experience of a holiday, but in your lunch break. Prognosis—63
