restaurant<\/a>,\u201d he said in the morning and when, extraordinarily, he picked me up again in the afternoon: \u201cHello Jeremy \u2014 I\u2019ve just booked a table!\u201d<\/p>\nHave you ever had a run in with a police officer?<\/p>\n
Forty years ago I got out of my car in Trafalgar Square to confront a dangerous driver and when he wound down his window I accidentally poked him in the nose \u2014 honest! \u2014 only for him to reveal, as he swore at me, a car full of plain-clothes policemen. He said he was booking me for assaulting a police officer and that would f*** up the rest of my life. When I started to explain that I had only remonstrated because he was driving as if he was drunk \u2014 I realised he was \u2014 I said: \u201cAlthough of course that couldn\u2019t be true, could it? I will go to the station with you if you take a breathalyser\u2009\u2026\u201d His \u201cmates\u201d forced him back into the car and they drove away. <\/p>\n
Where do you let your hair down?<\/p>\n
The Turkish baths at the Royal Automobile Club.<\/p>\n
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Jeremy King goes to Anya Hindmarch to have fun<\/p>\n
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Who do you call when you want to have fun?<\/p>\n
Mr and Mrs James Seymour \u2014 the Mrs being Anya Hindmarch. They have a better grasp than me on how to have fun. <\/p>\n
What\u2019s your biggest extravagance?<\/p>\n
My Timothy Everest suits, as well as my shirts and ties. And, I suppose, my car (a Bristol 411, of which fewer than 300 were ever produced). <\/p>\n
What\u2019s your London secret?<\/p>\n
What are you up to for work?<\/p>\n
Paul Smith \u2014 a model of modesty, faithfulness and proprietorial presence.<\/p>\n
Suits! I have 70. But also books (innumerable) and David Dawson\u2019s photos of Lucian Freud, of which I have perhaps 20.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your favourite work of art?<\/p>\n
Outside the galleries? Michael Craig-Martin\u2019s Rose, newly installed at The Park.<\/p>\n
What was the last thing you googled?<\/p>\n
Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s film A House of Dynamite \u2014 my son Jonah is in it.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your favourite grooming spot?<\/p>\n
Josh Wood, if Greg Hill is available to do my hair, or Bastien Gonzalez at 11 Cadogan Gardens Hotel. He\u2019s a supreme podiatrist; a restaurateur\u2019s feet can get ugly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restaurateur Jeremy King talks us through everything he loves about London, from eating at the Fat Badger in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,165916,257,47389,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-506478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-jeremy-king","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-my-london","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115388843202522840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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