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Hitting the Andaz Summer Garden Might Get You a Love Match

Where: 40 Liverpool Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2M 7QA

Calling all outdoor-phobic/allergy-ridden/lazy people! London may have just officially entered a heatwave this week, but you don’t need to go outside to enjoy the, um, outside. Because the Andaz opened its “Summer Garden” on Friday.

The Summer Garden is just that – a garden for summer. They’ve taken the huge atrium in the hotel (rising from the first floor up (or second, to Americans), and added fake grass, fake flowers and silk butterflies to all that natural sunlight flooding in. Even more importantly, they’ve thrown in a huge TV and a bar. Which means you can drink al fresco while watching Wimbledon/the Ashes/your favourite TV soap without having your style cramped by grass stains and toilet rushes, all summer long. Perfect.

The Garden opened Friday night with screenings of Wimbledon and a singles night. We were there (as the jerky video will show you, the drinks were free-flowing).

As for ourselves, we were too busy grappling with the Pimm’s to attempt making any singles moves, but of those that did (150 of them turned up, plus 100 hangers on), five couples declared a love match and were promptly swept downstairs for dinner/drinks on the house. Rumour even has it that one couple were so blown away by the garden/Pimm’s/each other that they decided to take a room then and there. Modern romance eh? Next time we have a hot date, we’re so going to take them to the Summer Garden.

[Front Door Photo: Marianne Taylor]