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Emma Mills

Emma Mills has written 11 posts for The London Word
Emma quit her full-time, safety-net salaried job as a magazine editor in February of this year to take a terrifying leap in freelance journalism and actually write about something she was interested in. Bored of 9-5 and doing the same old thing every day, she wanted to live to work, not work to live. It was a risky move, but one that paid off and she now works for a number of national and London-based magazines, writing about food, travel, culture, theatre, women's health and education. She can usually be found in North London, because it's way better than 'sarf' London, either working from home or pottering about looking for a cafe with wireless (why aren't there more?). Work distractions include tinkering with her fantasy football team, making banana cake and watching re-runs of The OC.

Divine Detox at Espa Heathrow

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.

Blackfoot Butchers Brings Home the Bacon

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.

Bumpkin on Old Brompton…Nice

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.

Dehesa: No Longer Soho’s Best Kept Secret

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 Launches in Knightsbridge

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.

Shoreditch’s Tabernacle Introduces Cube Club

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.

Philip Seymour Hoffman Directs Riflemind

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 [...]

Tamarai Restaurant: Black and Shining

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.

All About Her Mother: ‘Well’ at Trafalgar Studios

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 [...]

One Minute at Hoxton’s Courtyard Theatre

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.