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The Fable would do better as an American Psycho theme bar

It’s three floors high, two days old, and full of young lawyers dressed as Patrick Bateman

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

22 February 2014

9:00 AM

The Fable is three floors high and two days old, a monster newly hatched on the Holborn Viaduct; deep below is the valley of the River Fleet, which is genuinely fabulous, but absent from sight.

The Fable has the following interesting schtick — fairytales. The question, of course, is whose? Here, cries the PR nonsense, lie the breadstick fairies, who I thought were all dead and lying at the bottom of the Thames, poisoned or just killed by ennui.

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