Kensington & Chelsea gets its first allotment!

News reaches the Observer vegetable patch of the opening of another allotment. In Chelsea. We were under the impression that there weren't any actual allotments in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. However, you won't find any water butts there, this one is a bar-restuarant. The Allotment has been set up by acclaimed multi-skilled furniture designer Martino Gamper and his 'design activists' Platform 2 from the Royal College of Art. Opening on Friday at 8 Egerton Gardens Mews the painfully cosmopolitan yet tasty-sounding menu features Portugese spinach toasts with mozzarella cheese & chorizo, Korean dumplings and Dutch seed cheese. The decor sounds like it may reach our organic standards, with a bar made of tree branches and grass growing from the stairway walls. Can't wait to pull on my wellies and get down there...