"Big Ben is gleaming from across the water. The lastminute.com London Eye towers above you in all of its ferris wheel-like majesty. You think you feel someone pickpocketing you but realise it’s a small French child poking you with a stuffed donkey toy from the inimitably London experience, Shrek’s Adventure. If this is why you avoid central London parts of the Thames, then let us direct you towards The Garden Museum Café. The peaceful canteen—inside the Garden Museum and St Mary-at-Lambeth church—is a very tranquil restaurant. The food is modern British in the best possible way (not fancy, but full of thought), and lunch of poussin, pancetta, and peas followed by rhubarb fool in this quiet courtyard is the stuff of dreams. In which direction you want to walk along the Thames, before or after, is up to you." - rianne shlebak, daisy meager, sinead cranna, jake missing