Archive for July, 2008
Viva Verdi - A Symphony of Flavours on the Southbank
Set on Canvey Street, (which I see fast becoming everyone’s new favourite alfresco dining destination), just behind the Tate Modern, is Viva Verdi Prosciutto and Wine Bar. With its dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows, expansive glass deli and hanging hunks of cured and dry meats, to look at the place, you could almost mistake it for a [...]
The Garden State - London’s Best Beer Gardens
These days, given the chance, Londoners are an outdoorsy lot. Gone are the slick, faceless style bars of old where Prada-clad darlings bathed in the ‘mood lighting’, sipping Absolut vodka. Instead, we seem to want to forget we’re in a city at all and drink Magners whilst sitting at a three-legged picnic table round the [...]
CyberCandy’s Nostalgia Sweets
The average adult mouth is home to 32 teeth, and for some people these are all sweet. So if your gob is full of sugar-lovin’ pearly whites, and you have exhausted all that London has to offer, go around the world in eighty treats - minus the carbon-guilt - at CyberCandy in Covent Garden.
The Lovebox Weekender
The clouds looked ominous as we joined the swathes of people queuing in Victoria Park, and the hoards of girls in little dresses and gladiator sandals started to look rather silly, but luckily the rain held off for the first day of the Lovebox Weekender.
Cadenhead’s Covent Garden Whisky Shop
Cadenhead’s Covent Garden Whisky Shop is so much like a naturalistic set piece that you would expect the bottles to be filled with brown water and the Scottie dog chained to the front desk to be stuffed. It is so effortlessly authentic inside and out, from the painted sign to the threadbare tartan rug, and the [...]
Gettin’ a Sweet Fix at Candy Cakes
With the summer’s diet resolve now limper than a tea-drenched digestive it’s time to submit to the sugar rush, and Candy Cakes makes falling off the diet wagon tantamount to an artistic pursuit. Witnessing the epilepsy-inducing camera flashing that surrounds the shop front it could be assumed that the Beckhams are inside stark naked. The [...]
Beyond Retro Kits Out Soho
The retro clothing market is becoming increasingly cluttered, hence the epidemic of lacklustre stock sweeping London. One time exemplar traders are now attempting to pass off last season’s retro pastiches from the ubiquitous Gap and H&M as original vintage wear; a somewhat radical interpretation of original stockists.
Enter stage West: Beyond Retro has long been supplying [...]
Stage of the Art 2 – The Final Rendezvous
Friday night saw the close of Stage of the Art, a series of gigs staged in Paris and London as a kind of ‘bands exchange’ project that featured Carl Barat, Sebastien Tellier, Gonzales, Sierra Casady (Cocorosie), Black Affair, Poney Poney, Aidan J. Moffat, Laura Marling, Har Mar Superstar The Kills, Zombie Zombie and These New [...]
Glamming it Up at London’s Palm Beach
Gambling has always been a glamorous game; at least to those of us who have only experienced it on the silver screen.
Fighting Fat at the Wimpole Aesthetic Centre
In a society where we want it all and we want it now, gradual weight loss, healthy eating and exercise is tedious and time consuming. When I rock home from work at nine in the evening I stuff my exhausted face with more sugar than a piñata at a fat American children’s party.
I have never [...]
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