Lightship Ten

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Lightship Ten restaurant
St Katharine Docks
Tower Hamlets
London, September 2003

“I will admit I am not usually a fan of concept restaurants, the attempt to squeeze a 'dining experience' into a setting that is ill-suited to it. But in the case of Lightship Ten, I am more than willing to make an exception. It is exactly what its name suggests: an antique lightship, built in Copenhagen in 1877, which saw service in the chill waters around Denmark at places such as Gedser Reef and Aalborg Bay. In 1943, it was seized by the Germans who positioned it just south of Anholt Knob (stop sniggering back there in the cheap seats) where it was the victim of unsuccessful British air raids. It remained in service until 1972. It has now been bought up and turned into a rather fine restaurant which is moored alongside the sleekly phallic yachts at St Katherine's Dock next to Tower Bridge. Presumably this means that if business doesn't work out here they can lift anchor, or whatever it is lightships do, and sale off to somewhere else.” (Lightship Ten, The Guardian)