LEBANESE MEAT AND BELLY DANCE AT MAROUSH 1

A wide glass door with a posh handle, cream-colored pavements, a long bar and some tables with leather sofas: the Maroush restaurant in Edgware road appeared very expensive and sophisticated at first.

An elegant waiter turned up his nose as we asked him a place for three on Saturday evening at eight. “I can give you one, but I need it free by 10.30,” he said, and guided us in the main hall downstairs.

The room was crowded, but the low light made the ambience very warm and inviting. A lot of squared and round tables with white coverts and shell-shaped napkins were disposed very close to one-another.

We walked in front of a tiny stage on one corner and sat at a large table with a bowl of multicoloured vegetables on it. A waitress gave us the menus and waited for our orders.

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EXCITING JAZZ AND TASTY FOOD AT THE 606 CLUB

Cosy atmosphere, inspiring live music, refined dishes and selected wine: this is the 606 Jazz Club.

Popular among the Jazz lovers, it’s situated in the basement of an old brick building in 90 Lots road, close to the Imperial Wharf overground station: quite difficult to find it, as there’s no signal outside. It’s a place for connoisseurs.

We went there on Thursday at nine, just in time for the one band concert of that evening: Tim and the Whitehead Quartet. We rang a doorbell and a waiter came upstairs to open a big black door gate and let us in.

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