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Beautiful Belgravia: a walking and eating tour!

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Peggy Porschen Bakery Belgravia, with its cream colored mansions, gentile garden squares and graceful streets is one of the most expensive and chic areas in London. It is home to embassies, upscale shops, impeccable hotels and at least six Michelin-starred restaurants. But the real reason I wanted to come here was to visit Peggy Porschen Cakes, a bakery so beautiful that it has almost 400,000 instagram followers. So,  I'm really lucky that my friend Beth, who lives here, has offered to show me around her haunts! We start at Victoria Station and head toward Elizabeth Street. (you can also arrive in Belgravia by tube to Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge or Sloane Square) .  Belgravia is a fashionable district that is shared by both the City of Westminster and the Borough of Chelsea. Its borders are Buckingham Palace on the East, Hyde Park on the North, Pimlico Road on the South, and Sloane Street (Chelsea) on the West. On the corner of Elizab...