Jamie Dornan's guide to London: River Cafe feasts with Stanley Tucci and his favourite spot in Richmond

I unrecorded successful Richmond with my woman and 3 kids — we’ve lived determination for astir 2 and a fractional years and were successful the Cotswolds for 7 years earlier that. It’s a large change. Richmond’s not chill but that’s what I similar astir it. I lived successful Ladbroke Grove for years and it’s quicker for maine to get to Soho from Richmond than it is from Ladbroke Grove.

If I request to enactment successful municipality and idiosyncratic other is paying, I’ll spell for Claridge’s — I emotion the nutrient there. It’s truthful decadent and implicit the apical to person meal successful furniture determination and I emotion it. It’s aged schoolhouse but they’re not stuffy. Plus the unit are beauteous sound.

I lived successful a bedsit astir the size of a array connected Hackney Road, which had a communal toilet 2 flights of stairs up. I lived determination with 5 strangers and was meant to beryllium determination for a twelvemonth — I lasted 8 months earlier I moved into an arguably worse spot successful Shadwell wherever the landlord held a rusty weapon to my cervix implicit a misunderstanding astir rent.

I had a landlord who held a rusty weapon to my cervix implicit a misunderstanding astir rent

I worked successful a pub called Tattersalls Tavern successful Knightsbridge, until I recovered occurrence modelling.

Activity dates are precise revealing, truthful I deliberation tenpin bowling.

Curated Man successful Richmond is precise small, but has precise chill stuff. I utilized to similar going to Dover Street Market but I consciousness everything is simply a small retired determination and excessively colourful for maine present — I’m excessively overmuch of a dad. I emotion the large section stores similar Selfridges astatine Christmas, too.

We spell to the River Café a batch due to the fact that it’s connected the close broadside of municipality for us, though we bash request to remortgage the location for the meal. Last week we went with Stanley [Tucci] and his woman Fi, who are precise bully friends of ours. We ever fto them bid due to the fact that they’re specified foodies. That weird cheesy, garlicky pizza happening they bring retired is unreal, and I had veal the different nighttime and it was 1 of the champion things I’ve ever eaten.

I’d bring backmost the old-school Routemaster buses that you could leap connected and off. They were my favourite happening astir the metropolis erstwhile I archetypal moved to London. I can’t grip however dilatory the postulation is truthful I locomotion everyplace now.

I deliberation Kate Moss needs an honourable mention, arsenic I’m taking implicit the Diet Coke reign. She’s arsenic iconic arsenic it gets. Or Bill Nighy — I deliberation of Bill erstwhile I deliberation of London.

It’s the other — I’ve jumped retired of 2 achromatic cabs for them being racist. And weirdly I was with the aforesaid person some times, who I utilized to unrecorded with. I was appalled.

No. I’m ever connected the close broadside of the law.

Back successful the time it would person been Fabric. Now I person a 100 kids I don’t fto my hairsbreadth down, ever.

Two of my oldest friends — Andrew Murray (not the tennis player) and Mark Jones. We had a nighttime precocious wherever we went to Dukes for a martini — they lone let you to person 2 due to the fact that they’re truthful strong.

Walking implicit the span from Waterloo to Embankment is precise peculiar due to the fact that of the presumption — the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, it’s magical.

I’m the caller look of Diet Coke, and I’m besides doing a bid for Netflix called The Undertow, which volition travel retired adjacent year.

There’s nary amended spot than London for individualism, diversity, uniqueness and self-expression. You tin beryllium who you privation to be. That’s wherefore I wanted to bash the Diet Coke ‘This is my taste’ run due to the fact that that’s what it’s about.

My dada was my hero. I mislaid him a fewer years agone but my dada was the coolest and smartest idiosyncratic I’ve ever met. [I learnt] to beryllium courteous and bully to people, and dainty everyone the same, and conscionable beryllium benignant and decent, which I’m trying to walk onto our kids. I deliberation Eric Cantona is astir apt my sporting hero.

I utilized to cod rocks that look similar potatoes. I was connected a formation filming a movie successful Norfolk 18 years agone and I recovered a stone that looked similar a potato. Over the years I’ve recovered rather a fewer — Maris Piper size mostly. I person astir 7 — from a region you would say, “Oh look astatine each those potatoes”.

There’s a small café nether the span successful Richmond called Tide Tables that feels similar you’re successful Paris. You beryllium overlooking the stream there. Lovely spot to beryllium and person a Diet Coke.