Archive for April, 2009
Dub Pistols Prepare to Play Camden’s KOKO
London-based big beaters Dub Pistols headline Camden’s KOKO this Saturday as they unveil their new album, Rum & Coke, through Sunday Best.
Grand Designs LIVE at the ExCel Centre
In a world where language is often used carelessly and inaccurately, Grand Designs LIVE, running at the ExCeL Centre until May 4, delivers on the promise of every word.
Mythologies at Haunch of Venison
The Haunch of Venison is located just off New Bond Street. Here, it’s as if the legacy of Coco Chanel curled up into a tight ball and exploded into a postcode-wide tribute to overpriced consumerism. It’s where fur-swathed upper-class wives come to spend their husbands’ money and where tourists gaze open-mouthed at the luxurious designer [...]
The Crown: Royal Dining in Victoria Park
The Crown pub has a felicitous location, overlooking the fountains and wrought iron gates of Victoria Park in London’s East End. The upstairs has been transformed into a gastropub-style dining room, painted in French grey, with a dresser, vintage china, a shabby-chic mix of scrubbed pine tables and black and white photographs on the wall.
The Underground Restaurant
The night before Easter my girlfriend and I ventured to the deviant sounding ‘Ms Marmite Lover’s Underground Restaurant’. Emailed instructions guided us to a surprisingly suburban, stained glass front door.
Madness and Modernity at Wellcome Collection
The exhibition, coiling like a snake around rough wooden barriers and cardboard walls inside the Wellcome Collection, has the pretentious topical specificity of a university dissertation. Madness and Modernity explores topics of mental health and psychological treatment in 1900s Vienna.
Going Japanese at Soho’s Bincho
I have to admit that for a long time my understanding of Japanese food centered around overpriced sushi from Pret, and samey noodles from Wagamama. Oh, how wrong I was. I had no idea that Japanese cuisine could be so inventive and delicious - and often as simple and tasty as some expertly grilled fish or [...]
Covent Garden Hosts Crime and the City
Even in our broad and beautiful capital there’s a distinct lack of events that combine live music, readings from novels and the London Transport Museum. Crime and the City, one of a run of themed Friday Lates, also topped up the vibe by running black and white films alongside a Fifties-inspired soundtrack .
Me Love Sushi in Swiss Cottage
Me Love Sushi started out as a takeaway joint but recently opened a sit down restaurant/bar in Swiss Cottage, next door to Hampstead Theatre. It is one of six London restaurants taking part in the Cherry Blossom Festival sponsored by sake brewers Akashi-Tai.
Soho’s Third Space
Trendy. Hip. Buzzing. Fit women. Everything you want when you find a new bar to frequent in the capital. Yes, everything. But a gym? Or premier health and fitness club I should say. A tad unnecessary, no?
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