TERMINUS
Andaz Hotel, 40 Liverpool Street, EC2M 7QN http://london.greateastern.hyatt.com

When anyone over the age of 30 hears 'Easy' by The Commodores, it’s impossible not to think of a 1988 TV ad for the Halifax Building Society. It featured a couple waking up in a loft apartment, smiling and looking impossible beautiful in an impossibly white bed; then he goes out to get the papers – without complaining! Even if you’re in a relationship, Sunday mornings are not “easy” like that. If you’ve pulled on Saturday night – well, let’s just say that they can be “difficult”.

Terminus at the Andaz Hotel (formerly The Great Eastern) offer a solution in the form of brunch (12.00 noon til 4.00pm every Sunday). For a flat fee of £16, you get unlimited hair of the dog, while the menu features such brunch-y items as pancakes and maple syrup and eggs Benedict / Florentine, plus more lunch-y dishes such as Caesar salad, all served with the kind of slick sophistication you’d expect from somewhere with a black granite bar running the entire length of the room.

And if Sunday morning proves to be even less “easy” than normal you’re right next door to a Tube station so you can make a sharp exit.

Dish of the Day
Chris Cottingham writes on everything foodie.

 You shouldn’t make too much effort on a first date. Once, I took a girl out for dinner and when I picked her up she answered the door wearing a cocktail dress and a tiara. (If I’d know she owned a tiara I wouldn’t have asked her out, but that’s another story.) However, slumming it is no easy matter either: no one wants to look cheap.

Tom Conran (son of design magnet Sir Terence) has skillfully straddled the too-much-not enough divide with West London hamburger joint, Lucky 7. The interior is like a hyper real version of ’50s America diners – booth seating, period advertisements, a menu spelled out in stick-on white lettering. The food is similarly authentic, or, at least, as authentic as you’re going to get in London.

Forget healthy salad options: the burgers are the reason you’ll have to queue for 15 minutes or so – they don’t take reservations – or have a drink in the Mexican bar next door while you wait. All the men seem to go for the towering Kalifornian (complete with guacamole!), while porridge-thick milkshakes, served in the steel blending jug, have the ladies cooing, ‘I shouldn’t, but…’ Lucky 7 is fun, it doesn’t take too long and it’s not too expensive - Unlike girls in tiaras.

Lucky 7, 127 Westbourne Park Road, W2 5QL, 020 7727 6771, www.lucky7london.co.uk