Chuck out the salads. Judging by the scrum for the macaroni cheese at yesterday's Top Shop party in Marylebone there's nothing wrong with the appetites of the fashion crowd in London.

Three models might have been banned from Madrid's catwalks for being too thin this week but this year's in-house nosherie at the London Fashion Week marquee in South Kensington is a good old-fashioned boozer serving pie and mash.

Top that with the fact that it-eaterie for the fashionistas is a burger flipping diner in the backstreets of Mayfair and you begin to realise that food plays a bigger part in LFW than the size zeros would have you believe.

AUTOMAT

It's carb central at this US-style diner in Dover Street where the steaks have more flesh on them than some of the models, but it's definitely the joint du jour.

PRÊT-À-PORTEA

A fashionista’s afternoon tea party served at The Berkeley, in Knightsbridge, with a delicate collection of cakes and fancies, in the colours of the fashion season and the style of the world’s finest designers.

THE NEW GEN ARMS

South Ken's a bit of a barren culinary landscape so this year the London Fashion Week's main venue has installed its own pub dishing up pie and mash.

LOCANDA LOCATELLI

The stylish, darkened interior of Giorgio's Marylebone restaurant suits the late-night mood at this perennial fashion week fav.

LADUREE

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