On the list… Plane Food

There can’t be many people who are tempted with a trip to Heathrow’s terminal five, but I am one. Not for the planes you realise – I’m not a fool – but for the food.

Gordon Ramsay is one of the landmark restaurants in the place and promises to offer something a bit different to the usual airport fare – no plastic seats here. The only downside of course is that you have to book a flight with British Airways to eat there.

The Evening Standard did an interesting piece on the restaurant here.

On the list: Unpackaged

Don’t need three layers of packaging around your apples? Think you can cope without a couple of bags to protect your bananas? Then you might be interested in Unpackaged (walkable from Farringdon or Angel tube). Opened last year, it appears to be a bit of a ‘back to basics’ idea – bring your tupperware containers and fill them up… with rice, seeds, flour, muesli, toilet cleaner..

It reminds me of those discount shops that used to exist where you scooped up all your shopping into plastic bags, though I reckon the goods there were anything but organic and wholesome. In any case, we tended to scoop up our family shopping from Tesco.

I’ve been meaning to pop along to Unpackaged for a while now. I’ll report back if/when I make it.

> The Camden New Journal covered the opening last November

> Monocle has a picture