Ali Alvarez is a Mexican-American documentary filmmaker and creative director who has worked with brands such as Nike, Google, and BBC.

London

"There’s an old cinema where you can catch movies, get a bite to eat, get a cocktail. The Castle Cinema is the hidden gem of this neighborhood."

The Castle Cinema

"We’d walk up to Hackney Marshes and have a look around, because anyone would be amazed that a green space like that exists in London."

Hackney Marshes

"On Sundays, right at the end of my road is a coffee stand, street food, fashion, people creating, setting up stalls and doing their thing. They’re called the Chatsworth Road Market."

Chatsworth Road Market

"We can have dinner at Morito, which is in London Fields. It’s the east London outpost of the original Clerkenwell restaurant."

Morito

"The RIBA Library [Royal Institute of British Architects] is so posh and a very beautiful building. They have this gorgeous library full of all these architecture books. I remember going in there to think, and to come up with ideas. I would absolutely recommend any person to go there."

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Library

"We could totally splash out and go to The Wolseley. It’s bang in the center of London, it’s quite posh and expensive. It’s a beautiful restaurant, you walk in and there's this amazing staircase and it's just really a proper English kind of beautiful."

The Wolseley

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