The admission comes after the 30-year-old was spotted having a cosy lunch with Lampard and a friend on Monday afternoon at the Hollywood Arms, a short walk from the footballer's home in Chelsea.
The interior is stained glass, tiles and woodwork from the Victorian era and there are wooden booths seating eight, perfect for a cosy lunch, tea, pint or relaxing few hours.
Along the way, pretty villages beckon with pubs for cosy lunches and even cosier nights.
Open Mon, Wed-Sun noon-6pm, closed Tuesdays The Joyce Layland LGBT Centre's low-key cafe is a cosy spot for lunch in the city's busy university district.
For a celebratory lunch or cosy dinner in the heart of Buckhead, try King + Duke, located next to the St Regis hotel.
Here's Schmidt himself, enjoying a cosy patio chat during the lunch break with his fellow tech-head Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, the data analysis and surveillance software company (which was co-funded by Thiel and the CIA).
We're particularly pleased to be able to invite our customers to book their Christmas lunch in the cosy, peaceful surroundings of the Restaurant at St Paul's – a very special and popular festive experience that we were in danger of having to withdraw".
And yet, all around me, perky young folk are flirting heroically and cracking open pre-lunch beers, couples cosy up on beach towels, and hamper-toting groups of friends stake out picnic spots.
Surrounded by hunting trophies and enticed by the spicy scent of goulash, I make a dash for a lunch table in the cosy slope-side restaurant of Chata Zahradky.
It's a good idea to reserve ahead for Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch, and there are cosy rooms in its hotel (10 Quai de la Quarantaine; three-course menus from £28).
These lunches are the kind of cosy encounters that, critics say, pollute the relationship between journalists and politicians.
