Around the corner from Balthazar in London’s Covent Garden is the little known London Film Museum. You need to know about this gem of a basement space because for the next nine months just about all the Bond cars you ever wanted to see are yours for $25.
I only found out it was there because I walked the wrong way out of Balthazar after a long lunch involving a couple of bottles of Montrachet and a couple of follow up Grappa cleansers. As you can imagine I wasn’t paying. No, it was the first time in all the years writing this column that a motoring PR person, and a very attractive PR person at that, has ever bought me a meal.
If someone else is paying then you should go to Balthazar. Keith McNally, the son of a London dock worker, went to New York 30 years ago and has had enormous success opening imitation French and Italian eateries. No surprise then that he has opened an imitation of his New York based imitation French bistro, Balthazar, in London.
