Archive for March, 2009
Rise Above it With a Helicopter Flight Over London
Living in any city, it can be hard to get a sense of perspective or objectivity. Especially in London, which is pretty flat in the middle – unlike Paris, for example, where you can get up on a hill quite easily – you have to work hard to find the views here. So what’s it [...]
Food With a Side of Art in Wapping
A question banded around by those in gastronomy is: ‘can food be considered art?’ It is, I think, basically rhetorical, although with a mouthful of main course and a bellyful of grog, I enjoy the debate. Whether or not the restaurant at the Wapping Project, a barely converted hydraulic power station overlooking the infamous Prospect [...]
Charlotte Dutton: Model Multi-Tasker
Charlotte Dutton doesn’t look like your typical fashion model. She’s slim, but not emaciated; cute, but not stunning - and there’s a glint in her charcoaled eyes that reveals more than a pretty face. But then you’d have to have your head screwed on to run your own clothing label; and you can’t be a scrawny [...]
Cooking Class at Leiths in Hammersmith
The idea of spending a morning picking up some culinary expertise at Leiths, one of the capital’s big name cookery schools, was a very attractive one. In reality, however, the experience fell far short of my expectations. Was I hoping for too much?
The Macbeth in Hoxton
There are a number of ways to escape the real world. At the hard core end of the scale there’s acid and mushrooms. At the tepid, watered-down end there are odd, one-éclair-too-many dreams and getting lost in a sci-fi fiction series. Right in the middle of the spectrum is the door leading inside The Macbeth, [...]
Loneliness of the Inner City Cyclist
Cycle-loving Mayor of London Boris Johnson has commented: ‘With no other means of transport, except possibly skiing, can you determine so exactly the path you intend to follow and arrive there so quickly.’ Well, all I can say is that he’s never tried to cycle across Wandsworth Common – or indeed any of the other [...]
Mystery Animal of Kent…London and Sussex
‘Lions, and tigers, and bears oh my!’ gasped Dorothy as she and her companions tiptoed through the dark forest in The Wizard of Oz. She’d never exclaimed a truer sentence.
Happy Mondays (and Sundays) at The Forge
Another restaurant, another meal deal. I mean seriously, if this credit crunch goes on any longer we’re all going to end up like Gavin and Stacey’s James Cordon. And I don’t mean hilarious. So what did The Forge in Covent Garden offer to set it above other restaurants alike?
Floris Perfumes in Westminster
Bespoke is the last word in luxury. Something can only be really special if it is rare or, better still, unique; designed for one individual, and one only. With this in mind, Floris Perfumes is offering one of the most personal and romantic services imaginable, a bespoke fragrance service – quite an extraordinary experience.
Wine and Sushi at Tsuru
Nestled behind the Tate Modern on South Bank is Tsuru, a Japanese restaurant where last week the first of a series of wine and sushi tasting evenings took place. Sushi has a reputation amongst learned wine folk of being notoriously difficult to match; its subtle flavour can be easily overpowered by brawny, bully wines yet [...]
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