"An arbitrary corner of the larger QEH lobby. Seems to be a roughly 70/20/10 chance of empty, peaceful silence, a milling pre-show audience or deafening live jazz."
"The tunnel was created in 1855 to allow horsedrawn carriages to reach the Park Estate from Derby Road. Designed to have a 1:14 gradient but dug with a 1:12, it proved too steep for its purpose."
"All the coffee and furniture feels a bit generic and temporary, but there are some decent Japanese pastries, and it's easily the quietest place for a coffee on the South Bank."
"Installed in 1980, and thought by the Museum of London to have been recovered from a scrapyard in the 1920s, with a head that doesn't match its body."
"Cafe isn't up to much, and the dot-matrix wooden blocks on the side of the building were good until some kid had the unstoppably replicating idea to write on them in pen."
"The spiderwebs across the coloured-LED lamps in the tunnel are a great piece of tiny arachnid architecture."