Our Own Disneylands

A sort-of review of the St John pop-up at Fortnums

I work around the corner from Fortnums and I’ll often walk through it on my lunchtime stroll: around St James Square, up onto Piccadilly to buy a Red Bull, through Fortnums and back to the library. I like the conversations I overhear as I pass through – tourists from the UK talk with rushed obsequience to the staff, as if embarrassed to be trespassing o…