Heading to London! I Need Your Help!
Thu, 25 Oct 2012HUDA BEAUTY | TRAVEL
By Huda Heidi Kattan
Ok my loves! So I haven’t even planned on taking a vacation in a while, since my work load has been insane! Last night I just got the sudden urge to travel! Of course it’s hard to just pick up and leave, but I worked it out to where I could manage 2 1/2 days away! Soooo I am heading to London tomorrow for some much needed chill time!
Here’s the deal, every time I go to London, I usually work or go with my friends! This time, it’s me and my hubby (and my hubby’s NEVER been) with only a couple days trying to get the best out of London! Of course I want to know where the best place to shop for beauty is (naturally), but also where to eat and what’s fun to do! If any of you have any idea, it would be sooooo helpful!! 
I love you all to pieces!! <3<3<3
44 Responses to Heading to London! I Need Your Help!
absolute must : Roka (japanese food in soho) …you book though!
Westfield white city is a beautiful mall. and then of course there are Harrods and selfridges – selfridges has a great beauty and luxury deparrment. AND their shoe department is crazy. in Westfield Stratford you’ll see the Olympic park and Europe s biggest mall. you should try tea tithe Ritz. I’m new to London myself as I just moved here 6 weeks ago so I don’t really know where you’ll find the best places to eat. to sightsee you could take one of those tour busses and jump on and off when you want. hope you have a nice trip. lots of love
Ohhhhh London now is amazing have fun… Okai for afternoon tea time you can
Connaught hotel best scones ever !!! Grosvenor house is also cool.
Try out zuma, Alma’s momos London … Have breakfast at grand cafe
There is a Chinese restaurant in the Knightsbridge but I can’t recall the name, the do the best duck ever yum yum ….
Shopping is amazing everywhere !!! Have fun xoxo
Mr Chow
For beauty – selfridges (great for shopping too), Harvey nics, liberty. Shopping – Knightsbridge and Kensington,
Winter wonderland in Hyde park I think is open now, you must go ice skating there or at the natural history museum!! Go walking around the southbank …
Restaurants/bars – nozomi, Zuma, hakkasan, beach blanket Babylon, so many places along Walton st
Afternoon tea at winter garden (landmark hotel)
Hi I’ve just come across your blog and I’m loving it! I was trying to go through it all in one day ;-p In regards to London – wrap up warm – temprature a are dropping so it’s soooo cold! So any fur coats, fun hats and gloves that you have – now it’s the time to show off! Make sure you visit Covent Garden for some lunch/coffee! London is great and do much to do! Have fun xxx
Go to Westfield in Stratford east London, the newest and biggest shopping complex In London It’s where the 2012 Olympics took place so you can go and visit the Olympic village. Also go to spit fields market in brick land open on Sundays full of vintage shops and stools, loads of food stands also very famous for London street art.
Have a safe trip
Oxford Street, the best for all shopping needs!!
Portobello market for amazing little trinkets, go on saturday (nearest station: ladbroke grove/notting hill gate). Camden town is great on the weekend too! Knightsbridge for harrods and south kensington for the original hummingbird bakery! Westfield shopping centre has all the high street stores as well as designer brands. Nearest station is shepherds bush and while ur there go to Precious About Makeup (PAM), it stocks MUFE and quite a few makeup brands u won’t get in Debenhams or Boots. Oxford St is a must , make sure to visit LV and Victoria’s secrets on New Bond St. Carnaby St/ Soho for cute little shops and restaurants (the main MAC PRO store is there too). Touristy locations are picadilly circus, leicester square.. Edgware road for some great meditteranean cuisine and shisha..
I do realize this list is way too long for 2 and a half days, but hopefully it gives you a few ideas as to how you want to spend them
enjoy your trip!
Enjoy your holiday! I follow your blog from Paris and absolutely love it! Thank you for all this!
Concerning your holiday, I give you my addresses as I was living in london for 3 years.
For beauty my paradises were the department stores: harrods and Harvey Nicols in Knightsbridge (I give you the name of the underground stations). Next you have in Oxford street (Oxford circus) John Lewis, house of Fraser, debenhams and of course selfridges. For premium and exclusive product you also have to visit liberty near carnaby street (Oxford circus). In carnaby st you can find lovely places for shopping and shops of beauty products.
But shopping won’t fill your belly! I suggest you different restaurants: Sakura (Japanese) behind regent st, busaba eathai (thai) behind GAP of Oxford st,
For Turkish food: ozer in regent st, haz near Liverpool st station. For libanese food, In edgware road (marble arch), al arez And al dar.
Indian food: tayyabs near algate east.
Enjoy darling !
Hey, i used to go in london so i’m gone try to share my best places
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To do shopping you’ve many places as oxford street, bond street actually, a part of center london, also there are shopping centers as westfield, it’s so big or Harrords . ( for beauty, you’ve got boots,superdrug)
For tourism, i love going to center london of course, going to london eye, big ben, trafalgar square, picadilly, buckungham palace of course,covent garden, leicester square. I also love the area of kensignton ( french and american area) and knightsbridge.
For the food, i only eat hallal, so i go to edgware road in center london, or there are some chinese restaurants in leicester which offer hallal food.
So, voilà that’s all lol enjoy your trip xx
You should definitely watch a musical while you’re there (Lion King, Dirty Dancing, and there’s a gazillion others to choose from).
Hey! Its awesome you’re coming to London!!!!! (Welcome in advance!
). The best places for make up shopping is definitely Selfridges on Bond Street (everything from Dior to Nars to Bobbi Brown), and on the other floors it has clothes, shoes and every thing you can imagine! For clothes you should check out Westfield (shepherds bush or stratford) they have loads of designer and high street brands as well as lots of little make up stores (mainly make up brands from sweden which are awesome!!) or you can try Camden market which has alot of independent boutiques aaannddddfor food, there are places around bond street, covent garden…anywhere! There are a lot of good restaurants in every corner of London! Hope that helps ! Xx
Oh also! For fun things you can check out our museums, go on the london bridge experience (super scary), bike riding on Borris Bikes, site seeing, get a boat on the Thames, also your coming in time for the MENA festival which is a middle eastern film festival taking place over the next month! X
You gotta go to Londons eye specially in the night because its way charmer and stuff
Huda where do I even start? I loooove London, I’m proud to have been born and raised there because we have a LOT to do! I love Dubai too, I’ve visited far too many times but I can’t stay away from London for too long!
With beauty, visit BeautyMART which is on the 3rd floor of Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge; it’s the newest place for beauty in London with an range of amazing products from Bioderma Crealine to luxury candles from Ecoya. It’s such a wonderful store to visit and I work for BeautyMART and would love to meet you there! Other places you could visit is Selfridges’ new Beauty Workshop.
Enjoy London!!
You’ll be happy to go and shop in sloane square kensington where they have space NK stockists of great brands like chantcaille etc, there’s lovely designer stores at this end of london. Also near the olympic park westfield, you cannot come to london in 2012 n not go to westfield, this “mall” is packed out with the best of all worlds and here you’ll find milan makeup line store kiko! Oxford st and regent st shopping goes without saying! And as for food there’s great places at every corner, but you’ve got to be V.careful cos not everything is halaal as it would laargely be in dubai. This is a misconception loads of khaleeji’s have when they travel abroard, just a reminder tho stay safe! Hope this helps xx ping me/text me if you need anything xx (@lubnaxh)
please go to kai in mayfair for the best chinese restaurant, best lebanese in the world is al hamra in london, the atmosphere in levant is realy nice, chocolate bar in harrods very nice…. covent garden, kings road, knigtsbridge, bond street,oxford street have nice shopping for cloths. for make up selfridges havew a brilliant variety of makeup.
and best indian food ive ever tried is amaya in london
I love london!! All the resturants in harrods r amazing!! But especially the fish and chips also a place called asia de cuba amazingggg food bbut the dessert is to die for the mexican doughnts yuuuuummmyyyy!! Finalllyyyy tom’s cooks or tom’s kitchen! Enjoooyyyyyy
Well I think you should visit the Chanel pop up store in covent garden, and also there is this ice cream place called the icecreamist which is also in covent garden and has some unusual flavours. Most resturants I know are not fancy but with good food such as Sofra and prezzo. You can’t go to London and not try the salt beef sandwich at selfridges and the pizzeria and Godiva chocolate bar in Harrods.
I absolutely LOVE the eyeshadow in the picture! What is it?
Hey Huda! Selfridges Beauty Hall is amazing! Harrods is kinda tacky but they have a good beauty department. If you are looking for some cultural things to do give the Victoria and Albert museum a visit, they have some great fashion exhibitions on at the moment. Enjoy your visit!! xx
Hey Huda hope you would enjoy your vacation
The best places to shop for beauty umm, Harrods, Selfridges & Harvey Nichols. Places to eat Pizzeria at Harrods, Joe’s Cafe which is located behind Harrods,Area(italian food) & Joury(lebanese food)restaurants are located in front of Harrods, Hafez(iranian food) restaurant at Hereford Road, Mamounia Lounge is my favourite place in London & lastly for afternoon tea at Dorchester Hotel
Enjoy
XXX
Try nando’s
MUST: your class & elegance, you must go to the Savoy Hotel. Really, the best, better than the Ritz. 3 difft bar/restaurants. Have a cocktail in the downstairs black/gold room.
Piccadily Circus walking/shopping & Savile Row (famous street for tailored mens wear) for your hub. Boots pharmacy obviously! Cheers
Hey huda i went to london in april 2011 and it was great the people were so nice and tollerant but ime and all of my friends had a big problem : NO FOOD!!!! Of course there was food butbecause im from berlin a multi culti shock place its the most usual thing for ke to have falafel On the one side chinese food on the other side and döner in front of me so it was realy hard to find something different than kfc but my advice for you is to look for one of the best indian restaurants we found one ( lamb tikka you have to trynthis meat yummy ) but i forgot the adress it was in this famous “indian street” so enjoy london its a wonderful city and i invite you to berlin perhaps you visit the little istanbul
I hope this help you a bit… For afternoon tea Calridge’s Hotel, The Park Lane, and English Tea Shop in Intercourse.. I stayed at The London Hilton, love the Spa..
. For Shopping Selfridges in Oxforf St, Harrods, Highgrove Shops.. Dine&drink at My May Fair Hotel in Straton St, I’d recommend the Bar.. Places I love: British Museum, National History Museum,The Royal Opera House, The Tower of London, Bristol Street of Art, Trafalgar Square.. Want more fun?, book a 3 days trip in a Ferry or travel by train… Don’t miss Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub, and Hereford Festival, places to eat: Andy’s Kitchen, Thai on Wye, and Razbari and breakfast in All Saints Church, High St… =P
Oxford street for shopping
enjoy
hop on the tube and get down on covent garden that place is fun… shopping would be on oxford street all the way
Go to Planet Organic!! Portobello road/market!! Harvey Nichols!! And of course romantic strolls by the river, london eye and the bridge.. if you get a chance I would say pay a visit to our lovely richmond park.. Enjoy your visit
x
you can visit Chessington World of Adventures its really amazing <3
I love London – Take an evening ride on the London Eye for a panoramic view of the city’s sparkling lights.visit Brick Lane for wall to wall authentic curry houses. Or head to Edgware Road for tasty Lebanese mezzes.
Xoxo and hope you guys have a blast
Hey love your blog it’s amazing! In LDN the best places for beauty are Harrods, Selfridges & House of Fraser, there you can’t go wrong. For food, pretty much anywhere. Mayfair is an amazing location. Wrap up warm, it’s pretty cold here. Muchos love xoxo
Huda, can you tell me what’s your sister Mona’s web site?? Thanxx
Hi baby!!! It’s http://adventuresinmonaland.com/ <3
your going to london so definaley visit the london eye, i know a few people find it boring because it takes a hour to go round but the view i swear is beautufil. perfect for taking pic, especially in the evening. do take him to see the queens palace seeing as he hasnt visited london yet. if only i was in london right now i could have seen you!!
westfield shopping centre, there are 2 i recommend the sheperds bush one
tayyabs restaurant
oxford circus/marble arch for shopping
edgware road for shisha
Leicester square or victoria for theatre
london eye
harrods
mayfair/knights bridge/convent garden/chelsea/ camden lock for walking round
Food: Sumosan, Novikov (italian side), Zuma, Hakkassan, Nobu, China Tang, Kai Mayfair, Hawksmoor & Entrcote (for steak), amaya (indian), Scotts (in Mayfair- for fish), signor sassy (italian), Gordon Ramzay’s MAZE, 34 at Grosvenor Square, Also (a great restaurant but in a not so great are is Gilgamesh in camden, and MOMO’s in regent street
For more casual places go to Jacks (home style food) on Walton Street or to Muriels Kitchen in South Kensington as well as James Street behind Selfridges for casual restaurants like Sofra, Busbaba & Cocochan
Tea: Ritz, Berkley Hotel, or Lanesbourough Hotel, & Fortnum & Mason
Beauty: Harrods, Harvey Nichols & Liberty of London for perfume selection, Selfridges
On Regent street make sure to visit Burlington Arcade & if if your’e in knightsbridge the Victoria & Albert Museum is a Must! Chelsea and Sloane Square & Kings Road is great and Chelsea Bridge is wonderful next to the river….
You have GOT to visit beautyMART in Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge. It’s like a sort of pop-up beauty shop which has been founded by Anna-Marie who is the former beauty director for British Vogue and Millie Kendall who is the founder and creator of Ruby and Millie cosmetics. They have basically just chosen their most favourite beauty products from around the world including MANY drugstore products (which you love) and they have brought them all to this one shop. They are also the ONLY place in UK if I am not mistaken to stock Bioderma so you know it’s THE PLACE to be to stock up on your beauty fix! Hope you have a great time in London. xx
P.S Your blog and yourself are super duper amazing.
You should visit Iceland sometimes. It’s beautiful and has sooo many things to check out! Plus it’s fairly cheap for visitors to buy things here since our currency isn’t very strong at the moment
omg have an amazing trip!! Most of the comments nailed where to go for shopping. For fun you should check out the London Eye, and Madame Tussauds
Hope you have a great trip<33
you need to go to Marivana the russian restaurant in Knightsbridge, Novakov for Japanese, Roka for Japanese, Dortchester for high Tea, you must visit Cirque de soir as it just opened in Dubai, good to compare.
Hakkassan in mayfair.
Jaks on Walton Street
Nazomi in buchamp place……
Ive read ALL the comments. You are there 2 days, ppl act like you have a week :/ NO one has mentioned Savoy Hotel like i said. Skip the Ritz, i promise. Selfridges, yes, products, you prob have time for 1 really nice dinner w/ the hub: Mayfair is the wealthiest, nicest neighborhood. All the restaurants are great. Too many choices make it overwhelming. Im not stearing you wrong. Have a wonderful trip