It did seem a bit bizarre to go all the way to Heathrow when I wasn’t going on holiday just to get a facial. But it was worth it, in the end.
Having already been a massive fan of The Salt Yard and Dehesa I was very excited to see the opening of Blackfoot Butchers, a foray into retail by the team behind, quite possibly, the best two tapas restaurants in London.
Sometimes the London smog just gets a bit much. Do you know what I mean? And country living is like, wholesome and healthy, and gives you red cheeks, and a hearty laugh. Bumpkin promises a restaurant for city folk who like a bit of country living. So bring it on.
I have ummed and ahhed about telling anyone about this place. It’s small, with limited seating and is always busy. If I tell more people I’ll never get a seat. But that seems cruel, when it is without a doubt one of best places I’ve eaten in London.
Kumo means both ‘spider’, and ‘cloud’ in Japanese. This has something to do with an old Japanese story about a spider, a snake, the sun and some clouds. It’s rather a good yarn actually, but somewhat complicated if you’ve had more than one of Kumo’s heady cocktails.
Tabernacle in Shoreditch has been around for a while, in some form or another. Part bar, part swanky restaurant, part hard club. It has always been ok, perhaps a bit overpriced and rigid, but ok. Now it has had a makeover and something rather special is emerging from the ashes.
I really wanted to love Riflemind. It sounded excellent anyway, with a good dose of celebrity to carry it along. Directed by Oscar-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, written by Cate Blanchett’s husband, Andrew Upton, and staring Ruth Gemmell and John Hannah – the latter on whom I used to have an unnaturally large crush – the [...]
Described as London’s best Pan Asian fusion restaurant, as well as a nightclub and cocktail bar, Tamarai is definitely a fusion of something; it’s just not sure what.
I’m not going to beat about the bush, because there simply isn’t a need to pad out this review with clever sentences and a waffling intro. Well is quite simply outstanding; a revelation of innovative, delicious theatre. I honestly don’t think that I have seen something so funny, and so touching for a very long [...]
The unexplained disappearance of a young girl is a topic that carries a lot more weight than it might have done several years ago. With Madeleine McCann still missing, and high profile kidnap cases dominating the news in recent years, the world seems a frightening place for our children.
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