The Yellow Bittern – a rare bird among new London restaurants

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It isn’t wrong to say The Yellow Bittern is a bookshop. Located a short walk from London’s St Pancras Station on Caledonian Road, it looks from the outside like a second-hand bookseller. The windows display two dozen volumes on art, photography, politics, poetry and food including, on my visit, a copy of 1949’s Sizzling Platter by American cartoonist Peter Arno….