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London Gems: Is Canary Wharf more than a banking hub?
Jan 24, 2025
Is Canary Wharf more than a banking hub? Join City AM as we spend a day exploring the best spots of this London district. Whether it's a relaxing morning coffee, a fun activity with friends, or indulging in fine dining. We check out its green spaces and cutting-edge architecture, to see how Canary Wharf is redefining how we live, work, and play. This video is in partnership with the Canary Wharf Group 👇 https://group.canarywharf.com/ Featured Locations: ☕️ Joe Blakes https://joeblakes.com/ 🍽️ Marceline - https://marceline.london/ 🧩 The Cube - https://bookthecube.com/the-game/ 🍛 Kricket - https://kricket.co.uk/canary-wharf/ 🏡 Vertus - https://thisisvertus.com/ Get more of City AM 👇 🌐 http://www.cityam.com X(formerly Twitter): http://twitter.com/CityAM Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cityam
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we're sneaking out of City a.m. in
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central London today to go and spend
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some time in the other business district
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of the city Canary Wolf come spend the
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day with
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me back in the 1800s Canary wolf used to
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be at dockland since then some of the
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biggest banks have set up shop here like
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HSBC but when co9 hit a lot of people
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stopped coming in to work which meant
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Canary wolf has had to go through
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another transformation Canary 3.0
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meaning it's not only a place to come to
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work but it's a place to live work and
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play but if you're anything like me you
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can't do any of those things without a
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good coffee and I've been told Joe
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Blakes is the place to come to get your
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caffeine fit let's go check them
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out so this is my oat flat white it's
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really good it's really good coffee this
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is Sam fry he is the managing director
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of job Blake so you started this coffee
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business yes this is the first shop that
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you started and you started it here in
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Canary w why did you choose canary W
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yeah I think there's some amazing retail
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in here I think but also a lot of
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discerning customers and you know we
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really pride ourselves on the quality of
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the drink and the quality of the coffee
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and I think actually it's the perfect
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place for it what makes a good cup of
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coffee I think a lot of precision and a
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lot of detail um from you know how we
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produce it to how we train the team but
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then also the hospitality of the team as
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well I think it's really key Canary wolf
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has gone through quite a few
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Transformations over the past decade 20
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years and it's kind of becoming this
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place to like live and play and work how
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is coffee a part of that I think coffee
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is a daily ritual I think a lot of
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people are kind of really getting into
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coffee at home and coffee on the way to
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work and it's great to be able to ride
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that throughout the day for
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them okay so I've just downed my coffee
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and if you're working in the canary Warf
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maybe you've gone to take a meeting
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you've sat down at a cafe to get some
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work done and you've probably worked up
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a little bit of an appetite I'm feeling
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a bit pick so we're going to head to a
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new restaurant called mareline that's
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just opened up Marceline is inspired by
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the brower's of Paris and the grand
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cafes of New York leading the kitchen is
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Robert Akin he developed a menu centered
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around his signature style of confident
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browery cooking with a hint of
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playfulness and on our way we're
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wandering through this very cute little
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garden they've got all of these flower
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people so you don't really feel like
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you're like bogged down in the city it's
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very like rejuvenating there are all
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these little coins in here so I'm going
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to make a wish
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wishing for some yummy
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food Lissa nice to meet you shall I show
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you brand yeah that would be
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great and then main dining room it's
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gorgeous in here yeah I mean there's
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lots of like Heralds back to traditional
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brasseries so you know we're not trying
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to reinvent the wheel here but sort of
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nods to the history and just really kind
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of look people in the eye serve them
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great food and kind of try and look
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after people a little
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bit so this is balcony so that kind of
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incredible look at the Double height
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ceilings you book a table in meline you
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might end up up here you might end up
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down there but I think it gives it that
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sort of quieter space lots of business
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meetings happening up here we've still
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got quite a few regulars that kind of
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prefer the enclosed space and the
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ability to kind of have conversation up
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here which I think is nice so this
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delicious spread of foods just come out
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what have we got here um so we've got a
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couple of things cheese Soule over here
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um so just a really great mix of guier
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and compter and of course black truffle
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shaved over the top I think that's the
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like element of indulgence that you kind
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of associate with French food you know
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that like loads of butter loads of
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cheese absolutely amazing um snails so
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real kind of classic cooked in the stab
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there's a little bit of hazelnut in ours
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which I think just adds that kind of
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textural nature to it which I really
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love I think you can smell those like
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copious amounts of garlic as well then
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just a really simple salad in the middle
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so salads were really important you know
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bres aren't just about Indulgence what
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would you say makes Canary Warf special
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what do you think it makes it different
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you've obviously operated businesses
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right in central London what's different
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about being here and I think just
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walking down the streets there's so much
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space and I think when you've got that
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sort of one landlord place
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they can do more you know there's more
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exciting things happening
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here so Scarlet behind the camera has
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got some delicious profiter rals you
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can't smell it but that dark melted
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chocolate and I have got some dark
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chocolate sbet which is
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vegan so good my wish in the jub garden
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is pom came true got some good
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food okay we've been incredibly well
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feed at mareline but now it's time for
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the part of the day I've been most
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excited for we're here at the cube which
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has just opened in Canary Warf it's
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based on the TV game show I'm going to
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get lovely Scarlet from behind the
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camera to come and play a few games with
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me guys 20 seconds on the top good luck
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watch me win this is
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s nice I'm going to
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lower oh that was
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close
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lift
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down a so
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close twoes remaining 3 2 1
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did we do
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it
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yay good game Soldier but after all that
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excitement I feel like freshening up and
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if you were living in Canary Warf you
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could just pop straight back to your
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apartment I'm here at New Foundland and
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we're going to get a tour of some very
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nice spots to
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live I'm here with DOT who is is the
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events manager here at verus and Dot is
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going to be showing us around the
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apartment so what are we going to see
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today so today I'll be happy to show you
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our imunity spaces that you have access
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to if you live here and we have a
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beautiful one two bedroom and a
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three-bedroom apartment taking in all
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the views of canary Warf so you're in
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for a treat what would you call this
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room that we're in at the moment yeah so
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this is called The Snug and it's a place
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where residents can relax meet up with
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their neighbors they have access to free
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coffee and subsidized wine Ma
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machine would you call this kind of like
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a 15minute city it seems like you've got
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everything you want right absolutely
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everything is here the Elizabeth line
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has opened up now and just we see people
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coming to Canary Warf they're not going
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out of can where everything is here I am
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so Keen to go and check out what these
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apartments look like should we do it
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absolutely
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okay we're at our final destination for
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today I'm standing outside Cricket which
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I'm very very excited to try it's
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British ingredients with Indian spices
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which is some of my favorite type of
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food let's go check it
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out so I'm here with Abby who is the
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head chef here at Cricket what would you
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say makes Cricket special what's the
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whole idea behind the restro as someone
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who is Indian I think what I like so
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much about Cricket is it's Indian food
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made with British ingredients but it's
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not just like your runof-the-mill Indian
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food there's a lot of thought that goes
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into it it's different and special but
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not in like a contrived jaded way
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there's there are surprises but in a in
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a way that seems quite natural with the
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food can you tell us what you're going
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to be making for us and sort of the
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British ingredients that goes into so
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I'll be making the Bale Puri it's like a
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Bombay street food snack which is a
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mixture of puffed rice uh raw mango red
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onion and it's dressed with a coriander
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Chutney I'm going to make the garard
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pandar rasa uh the garard is a fish
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that's quite native and special to
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British Waters and it's very sustainable
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as well and it's I I feel it's uh the
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underdog of the fish world it's got
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great slaver but it never kind of uh
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gets used enough Canary wolf is not just
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about skyscrapers and business it's a
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thriving community that supports local
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hidden treasures and offers a balanced
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mix of work life and fun
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