Rosie Birkett
The Phoenix Chelsea: Quality Pub Fare
The Phoenix is a very nice pub, down a very nice street in Chelsea. On the night we visit, it seems like it’s doing very well, as various festive gatherings crack open the fizz and start bar tabs. There’s a lot of good cheer in the cosy, softly lit bar area, and a lot of [...]
The Underground Rebel Bingo Club
We had some trouble finding the Underground Rebel Bingo Club. ‘What the bejesus is Rebel Underground Bingo?’ I hear you squawk. Well read on my friends, and prepare to discover one of London’s best kept secrets.
Avalon in Clapham South
The Avalon is exactly what Clapham South has been waiting for: a huge, sprawling gastropub with unabashedly bourgeois intentions. A place where afternoon and evening drinking in the pub’s sizeable, Victorian-styled bar will undoubtedly spill over into the Bibendum-esque dining room for food. Step inside the new venture from Renaissance pubs, and you enter a [...]
Mahiki Misses the Point
A childhood spent flitting from palace to stately home, followed by a few years at Eton and a stint in the army; the Royal boys don’t exactly get out much, and when they do, they go to Mahiki. Why? Because it’s exactly the kind of place someone with very little understanding of what’s actually new, [...]
The Eagle Has Landed…in Shepherds Bush
It hasn’t been a good year for pubs. Soaring food and fuel prices and the increasing number of folks drinking at home to save money during the financial meltdown have all been enough to ensure that on average, five pubs are closing a day. It’s a bleak statistic, but one that I don’t think Geronimo [...]
Inamo Soho: Futuristic Dining
Entering Inamo, tucked away as it is on a side street in Soho, is like stepping into a futuristic dining portal – a vision of what eating out will be like in the year 3000, when (if you’ll humour my crude technological predictions) our children’s children’s children’s children will be using microchip mobile phones and [...]
Field Day 2008 - Victoria Park
Field Day was a wet, but nonetheless joyous affair. Before I begin with my report on the day, and my praise for what proved to be some excellent musical moments, I first need to get a couple of things off my chest…
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 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.
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