When it comes to finding a bottomless brunch with great food there are plenty of choices out there. Especially in London . However, I went to Rake’s Café Bar offers guests an escape from the hustle and bustle of the outside world.
Located in London's Liverpool Street, Rake’s is one of five bars and restaurants within Andaz London Liverpool Street and also serves as a five-star luxury lifestyle hotel. The Café Bar was inspired by the 1733 fictional story of Tom Rakewell, told in a series of eight paintings by English artist William Hogarth called ‘A Rake’s Progress’. Tom inherits a fortune from his miserly father – but then follows a path to vice and destruction.
These paintings can be seen at the nearby Sir John Soane’s Museum. The final painting in the series of eight, ‘The Mad House’, takes place in Bethlem Hospital or ‘Bedlam’, which is the location now occupied by Rake’s and Andaz London. The term Rake dates back to the 18th Century and refers to a man most commonly interested in wine, women, gambling, sports and whatever else strikes their fancy.
A Rake is, above all else, charming—and a little dangerous...
you’ll know him when you meet him. By Oxford English definition, “a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits”. But that's enough about the history of the place.
As a café by day and bar by night, Rake’s offers a wide range of food and drink options including breakfast, brunch and all-day dining in three separat.