Inside Knightsbridge | The Luxury & Dangerous London
we have got the backside of Harrods but then where the rich people get their food Mr Chow oh wow these are so nice I can't even get it all in frame the question is is there more to Knightsbridge than Harrods a question that probably no one has asked but I'm going to answer it today we're going to do a little bit of a walking tour we're back got my jacket on because it's probably going to rain standard it's still summer guys it's still summer 2023 I'm clinging onto it but yes I'm going to show you all of the area of the stunning affluent very fancy schmancy at Knightsbridge and already we get hit with some amazing architecture look at the contrast of that one that is quite something as a hotel in the corner look at that combo but I'm gonna throw up a map now so you know where I am in London and we are across a few different boroughs actually it's the Kensington and Chelsea Borough but also Westminster a little bit of a combo but the Knightsbridge area isn't actually that big so hopefully I can show you some of the main roads from the side streets maybe some little news houses coffee places restaurants all sunglasses are coming on and yeah take you along with me for a little bit and this is a very good place to come and cycle but look at that you've got the back of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel that red brick there on there looking very nice we'll go and see in a second and next to it is a modern development which kind of was groundbreaking at the times one Hyde Park and it's famous because it actually sold at the time was expensive flat in the UK it was 100 million pounds so guys yes this is a very fancy place and it's also a very good place if you want to get robbed you may have seen on the news this is a yeah a smash and grab area if you want to get robbed I have nothing expensive on me I don't really own anything expensive do I care no so be careful if you're coming here with some expensive jewels and probably the tallest building in the area you've got the Hyde Park barracks in the background they're part of the British army oh a reason I love this area is the architecture so from the late 1700s onwards again like most areas in London this got a full Redevelopment and a big part of the development was I was reading up the pavement the Knightsbridge Paving act which in 1700 was a reason for all of the Pavements to get out the Berkeley Hotel looking very lovely we're all transformed so that ladies didn't to themselves so maybe we should thank the Knightsbridge Paving act for the sidewalks that we have in London so yes this area like a lot of areas were a little bit swampy so it got drained and cleaned up and yeah lots of beautiful buildings were built in the late 17 into 1800s you can tell it from all the gorgeous architecture around here and we mentioned in the Barclay hotel which does the pret a portea which I think I might go to soon which is the fashion afternoon tea but they also have this Bakery which is very popular Cedric growlet I think I'm pronouncing that but I've seen this on Tik Tok am I allowed in I have to quickly show you these croissants look at this there is also a cookie that is 25 pounds that you can set in or you can sit outside so here's a snapshot of the menu I know you guys want to see the prices it is premium so yes Cedric the lovely guy here was just telling me about it and they even have a full menu on the iPad but he was saying 12 o'clock is when they get like a big batch of all of the goods but if you wanna but if you want to just grab a coffee I'm sure it's amazing obviously this is a Knightsbridge price guys lots of teas and such and actually got a little chocolate croissant in there which apparently is a favorite and you know it's nice when you get like a branded stuff yet um and we have got a little container here you can see of all the different I hope that the lighting's probably gone up a bit funny though look at that tart it's massive and that's what I've got wow this is super nice yeah there's the 25 pounds cookie oh my gosh it gets Gideons and run for their money and they're literally like baking it all in the background there so if you want to sit at the bar or in the main part of the restaurant this is the most popular One coconut oh my gosh and then we have the two flowers pretty it's actually the first vegan item we've actually introduced or said to himself as introduced and croissant in Pockets we are at I don't know how you pronounce this is it Nusrat I don't know you know Salt Bae the guy who Chuck salt down his arm this is his London restaurant and it actually is rated one of the worst restaurants in the whole of the whole of the UK and definitely in London oh gosh there are lots of fast cars around here I'll show you in a minute but yes they now have a set menu That's 39 pounds so maybe I should give it a go because I certainly won't pay a thousand pounds for a steak but anyway oh look at this guy I've got my body in my bag this area has got so many good choices for decent restaurants I think it's probably why it doesn't rate too high which brings us to Harvey Nichols so I'm going to jump back so I think 1800s there actually was a new law where the UK could trade with Japan like back in the day and there was a huge exhibition that all the locals in all of London absolutely adored around Japan and it kind of inspired this area of this affluent area to buy products from overseas and it's not directly linked with Harvey Nichols but basically this became a bit of a shopping area and Harvey Nick's opened can you think how old this is can you guess I'm going to tell you in a second 1831 this is an old department store um and yes it is a really really cool store to have a browse I have done a whole Vlog on this I get requested this quite a lot but I don't think people realize I've got a video and they have an amazing amazing restaurant it's got like a little roof Terrace and it's very reasonable they do like a set lunch I think it was like 29 quid or something way cheaper than that Salt Bay place um I think you've got a little Prosecco with it as well so I will link that one in the description so go check that out after because we all love a shopping Vlog and look at that building that is Amanda we're in Oriental here in Knightsbridge oh they also have an afternoon tea and I think they have a Heston restaurant as well let me know if you've ever been maybe you've stayed there and then this is the famous One Hyde Park which is a full residential building and then they've got fancy shop to the bottom there's a Rolex store I think there's a car store down there I think there's a McLaren I can't remember but it was very controversial at the time if I can get it in short so yeah this was built in like the early 2000s and Prince Charles obviously now King Charles was not very happy with it because he didn't think that was too modern it didn't fit with the Knightsbridge area and a lot of people it was a bit of an uproar also how premium and expensive it was to my earlier Point 100 million that's a lot of money for a penthouse and it was part of the candy and candy development I personally like it but I'm a modern architecture person that would be an amazing place to live but if there's any for sale I will whack them on the screen now but yeah very expensive have a look at these buildings I love it so much so yes the late 1800s I should say is when things started to really really develop like a lot of the areas in the city and on this side road I wanted to highlight look at all the different buildings the red brick is very very prominent in this area and you can see these tiles which is actually the back of the station that kind of style reminds me quite a lot of garden actually but yes there's a very very dense population in this area they say around 10 000 people and down all of the side streets as well you get a lot of restaurants that the locals will know but sale Pepe I think I'm pronouncing it right it's something that I went I've been there quite a few times I mean that building isn't very kind of typical to this area but let me show you the menu it's an amazing restaurant I promise I won't show Too Many menus but I remember this place being fantastic I haven't been here in a couple of years I think I've been here about four or five times but a little selection of the pasta there it's quite a big menu it's definitely very like traditional all obviously you can sit outside but you add that to your list there's also there are restaurants as well in this area that I will tell you are not so great as we walk around and we are on Sloane Street so this goes from the north Knightsbridge all the way down to Sloane Square nice Bridges to the left um and also Belgravia very very popular shopping street and I'm going to say if you want a video on Belgravia I have done a whole video on that as well so remember I'm working my way around either the boroughs or the areas and then I will eventually get to East London eventually but there's a lot of construction again going on they're actually widening uh the pathway as I scoot around very quickly um Gina oh sparkly shoes but yes there's usually sports cars zooming up and down here but sadly none today if you are a sports car Enthusiast you will know Sloane Street it's basically the only like straight big bit of Road in central London where you can get up some speed shall we say um and you do see on Tik Tok quite a few expensive crashes we're talking like really really rare cars and actually to add to that there's a lot of people who live in the area but also come over um maybe it's their second third fourth home from the Middle East and they bring their cars with them which is super Fancy gosh some of these stores are absolutely massive the size of that Gucci store but yes they whiz up and down here all through the night they ship their cars over for the summer and then it quietens down I Believe by the end of September into October and then you do have a little Pub the Gloucester in the middle of that but yes if you want to have a look at nice cars and nice clothes and Handbags this is the place for you hence why like I said quite a few people do get mugged here and I don't know maybe you're driving through here I've seen quite a lot of videos where people have had expensive watches in their hands you know just been leaning out the car door or whatever sat in traffic but there's a lot of mopeds that go around and basically rob you so a bit of a downer but hey that's what it's like living in a city yeah sadly there are no fancy cars to show you and so there's a Prius no doubt an Uber coming along the road um but if you're in the area and you like cars do check it out I am tempted to go into these stores these are the same brands that you're probably going to get in especially in Harrod's and Harvey Nichols so whether you're a department store person or you like to go to the individual stores where we've got Giorgio Armani oh Armani home yes please good old Todds on the corner there I love the building all bit of a vacancy didn't that used to be the Dior store anyway moving on we're going to Hans Crescent which is a very famous one because it loops around to uh Harrods and all of this area is known for the architecture look at this kind of it's classed partly as mock tudor but it is from the late 1800s super cool looking right there's also quite a lot of embassies this is the uh Embassy of Ecuador remember that Julian guy that was also hanging out the window he was hiding out there for a number of years I think he eventually was allowed in anyway let's not go into politics we have got the backside of Harrods always a busy busy corner I am not going to go in Harrods's don't you worry I've vlogged it many many times not until Autumn maybe I'll wait till Christmas I know the Christmas door is open I know some people have vlogged it it feels a bit early I'm not ready for that I got a lot of stick for saying I didn't like this grey in another video what do you think and we're just walking past Harry's I did go here with my sister I vlogged it it was okay I personally wouldn't go there again I feel like I've ticked It Off I guess it's a place to be seen yeah it's quite like a fun vibe to it but I think it's more of a hype to be honest to be seen that but yes we are around the other side I have already vlogged the product Cafe I look at that Lamborghini fancy schmancy but yes I definitely think the product Cafe was better different different restaurant I would say but look at all that beautiful red brick Oh I love it it's so pretty I think there's slowly redoing the brickwork right that looks like it uh I would say so also there is a like a roof Bari thing I'm gonna zoom in in that corner up there good place to get a drink and a nice little view but this brings us onto Walton Place oh look at this it's so pretty this is so cliche London for this area it's absolutely stunning very it was really busy three row to be fair um and even a gorgeous looking church at the end of the road I have to show you this Pond Street Mews you know it's fancy when there's a traffic light but thing for a light so you can't get in no trespassing totally understandable I dread to think how much it costs to live in there again if there's anything for sale I'll let you know but oh very nice even that little cottage Oh my days I love it so much white okay let's head on around to one of the other famous Crescent oh not Crescent a palace we are on hands place which is kind of the biggest grass area in yeah the whole of Knightsbridge and it has this private Garden in the middle yes you need a key so don't come and plant a picnic but these huge huge buildings quite a lot of them are full houses I always think that front there is amazing at the site of Harrods but as I pan around we do have quite a lot of restaurants with outside seating kind of people watching and some bars as well it's very very a nice Bridge thing we love Alfresco dining even if it's raining as long as there's a bit of a roof over us we'll be all right but at the time of filming this yes Harrods has got a lot of scrim a lot of hoarding up along the main Brompton Road which it looks okay it's interesting though it's something I've really noticed I'll look at Ryan Gosling with this Gucci advert um previously I think in London I'm pretty sure you want allowed to have like branded adverts on scrim I've never really noticed it unless there's like a knightsbridge thing there's a lot of it around here so it's like okay I can't even get it all in frame hey girl and with all the beeping and Bun fights going on I've seen quite a lot of road rage today actually yeah so we're going to leave Harrods because I don't need to show you it again I will Vlog it at some point but I do have to call out quite a lot of stores are still vacant since the pandemic and I get asked this quite often I would say all areas of London obviously everyone got impacted um but yeah a lot of physical stores even the fancier stores I mean to be fair I think that was a Top Shop they haven't all been filled back up again so we'll see what happens but everyone's shopping online I thought I'd show you a little bit of the Beaten Track so you know if you're ever going to go to Harrods if you're not going to explore these side roads but we're just on what is this Trevor Square oh and I just love this kind of late 1800s all these cute little roads with the park or something a bit of a three Road as well and all the old lamp posts as well again I dread to think I was looking up online though these houses are usually around the 12 to 20 million oh and this is actually very similar I would say to um I'd say Islington and the kind of King's cross area actually so if you like this look and feel we could probably save a few quid and go up those ways that neck of the woods you know what I mean um but yes I do like to kind of see it's very Harry Potter isn't it oh and Marylebone as well look at this car I guess that's not the fancy Supercar I was hoping to show you I think I can film this the Knightsbridge Apartment it is a residential building it's super modern but honestly it looks like a five-star hotel it's absolutely mental I can't see if there's any for sale there's like a water feature out the front or I can't quite show you oh my gosh but super noisy Road I mean I'm sure they've got really good double glazing triple glazing but yeah you still get the vibrations to the road would you not anyway that's a bit rounder but yeah you've got all these kind of little side streets now where you've got I'd say local stores I guess there is there's a vape store there you know and a European Fusion Restaurant but then where the rich people get their food Mr Chow very very expensive very premium and then a normal Pub next to it which is more My Level I do like the gold let me just quickly show you all brass I should say a prefix menu is always a very good deal so you get a two course dinner for 95 pounds oh my gosh so it is very very expensive I think there's one in California has anyone ever been it does it's not really my thing to be honest I'm just not like a high-end restaurant person and that's okay maybe you are but yeah no no is Mr Chow's really worth the money I'll show you Mari Vana it's like an old-fashioned Russian restaurant I think I probably would be more inclined to try something like this there is oh can you see that it's in Russia and it's also in English um a little bit more reasonable price point wise but I've heard nothing but good things about this place it looks very very old school if I can get any pictures I'll throw them up now also I've had amazing things about the I want to say Bulgari Bulgari Spa it's a hotel wonderful hotel but you can be a day guest and go to the spa this building is such a contrast yes the household Cavalry we're getting a little bit nearer to the big tower so let's head on into the real residential areas I want to show you a couple of the cute streets oh God that building's awful Isn't it and show you some of the Muse houses oh a welcome rest break from the noise of the road so yes we are on Montpelier I think that's pronounce it square and again a private Square in the middle for the residence and all of these wonderful Terrace houses you don't see that too often with the light above that I really like that but yeah a really nice little Street would you live in an area like this but on a more positive note and while it's nice and quiet it was just raining a few minutes ago so uh we have a break from the bad weather why is it called night spread again this might help you in a pub quiz although the answer seems to be a little bit unclear but most people say that it's the ancient name where there is the river there's a river that runs under Knightsbridge like most places in London there's some kind of river that has been covered over the Westbourne and there was a bridge and lots of knights went across there and it was a big meeting place and apparently the name Knightsbridge came about but again it's debatable whether that is true however they came with the real name it's a nice little area I've been looking out for the blue plaques that haven't really been many actually uh who have we got here Bruce Bond's a cartoonist I have been keeping an eye out but yeah I haven't really seen many blue plaques oh it's really nice and peaceful around here this would be so nice if the Sun was shining even nicer you could definitely get lost in all of these side streets let's let's go on down here this reminds me a bit of Hampstead let's go through this little whole in the wall what's going on down here oh yeah very sweet little walkway it's a funny looking building and up Rutland gate oh wow look at those beautiful buildings up there also look at this window detail look at these little people above these heads above each of the windows oh it's called The Clock house that building how quirky I love the windows oh wow these are so nice these are remind me of um paddington's got quite a lot of homes like this the cream stucco fronted what's this Square called don't even look it up honey you can't afford it square again private Garden in the middle very medieval Vibe some of this but we've got Rutland Mews South I'll just show you a couple of little streets because I don't know if I'm really allowed to go down them I think I am this one doesn't say private look at this this imagine how sweet would this be to live no you don't get a garden I think a lot of them yeah they've got a little bit of a Terrace light appreciation to get there oh wow look at that with the little Gates I don't know if you're ready for this one wait for it oh my gosh the sun's come out oh wow what a nice little rose up there you have got Hyde Park which will be my journey home soon but again another beautiful stucco fronted building Road I swear all Land Rovers have some kind of branding on them but look at this Archway let's head through here and another beautiful cobbled Street you can imagine lots of people doing photo shoots along here I never knew this was even here oh my gosh finally this is a public garden that is very rare in this neck of the woods I love this street so much I think I prefer the blue one and as I walk around I try not to travel up on all these cobbles if you're enjoying this video give it a thumbs up I really really appreciate it oh these ones look right for development don't they what color would you paint your house I think I'd pick a pastel color ah see here you've kind of got three rows of muse houses we are really really near to the science and history museum let's quickly go down Prince gate Muse the princess gate Muse I'm not pronouncing that right and why oh whoa look at that loads of cute little houses but would you want to lift this Central for the price I don't know wouldn't say well I wouldn't say no to it but I think I think I'd rather live a little further out people always ask if I could live anywhere in London I think it's the would we Hampstead and that pretty much concludes what I think is the main points to show you of Knightsbridge because we are by the science museum yes this is the exhibition Road you've got Imperial College up there nice ice cream van which is very very tempting because it's got a little bit warm actually and all of the museums yes you have got the Science Museum and then the Vand A on the left which maybe I'll show you at some point [Music] to Vlog in and I don't want to bother anyone but yes I think it's time for me to finish this video but anyway I will see you next Friday at 6 p.m have a good one guys make sure you're subscribed for more I can do a few more tours over the next few weeks and then we will start to do some autumnal Halloweeny fall I know it's American see what London's like when all the leaves change but anyway have a good weekend or week bye guys
2023-09-07 09:30
