Drayton and Mackenzie Quotes

“One evening, he was in the modernist white restaurant above the National Portrait Gallery. Through the bank of windows was a night-time cityscape of domes and belfries. Big Ben was in the middle distance. Poking up in the foreground was Nelson on his column. James could see the back of his stone tricorn hat and his stone epaulettes. He went closer and peered down into the bright canyon of Whitehall, where he could see the entrance to DFID. A formula offered itself: I’ve made it from down there to up here. But actually, anyone could come to this restaurant. It wasn’t even very good.”
― Alexander Starritt, Drayton and Mackenzie