Fake 25

Yesterday saw my introduction to a restaurant called 'Fischer's' in Marylebone High Street, a restaurant which describes itself as an 'informal neighbourhood café and konditorei, warmly evocative of Vienna in the early years of the twentieth century'. It was very good and I shall be noticing it properly in due course.

Suffice it to say for the present that it is part of a small chain owned by Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, who first met whilst working at restaurants in London in the late 1970's. Nothing to do with Austria at all, rather an upmarket, retro scene. Not to be confused with reference 2 which leverages the same fancy word for cake. Not to be confused with the leader of the Labour Party, from a quite different, teetotal, branch of the family.

Reference 1: https://www.corbinandking.com/.

Reference 2: https://konditorandcook.com/.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konditorei. According to which it is all down to the invention of cheap sugar from sugar beet in the 19th century. Not terribly traditional after all.

Reference 4: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/fake-24.html. The last fake in our occasional series of notable public fakes of one sort or another.