Sustainable Seafood at Bucket Notting Hill: I’m a seafood fanatic so when invited to review Bucket, a brand new sustainable seafood restaurant and bar in Notting Hill it would have been impossible to refuse. The Bucket team are also launching ‘Oyster Hour’, offering £1 oysters every day from 4-7pm on weekdays and 4-6pm on weekends with any bottle, jug, cocktail or bucket of beers and […]
CERU Soho – Review
Levantine Delights in Soho at CERU I originally came across CERU a few years back as a 20 seater three-month pop up in Fitzrovia serving Executive Chef Tom Kime’s delicious small plates of Levantine food. But CERU has stopped popping up and has started putting down roots, with the first permanent CERU restaurant in South Kensington CERU […]
Camillo Benso Mayfair Restaurant – Review
Mayfair Italian Dining – Camillo Benso: Milan, the Italian centre of fashion and design has a distinct sense of style and elegance. And the food is excellent. I have just spent a day there en-route back from the Italian Lakes. So when I was asked to review Camillo Benso, the new Mayfair outpost of a […]
EFG London Jazz Festival 2018 Preview – 16 -25 November
Jazz in London – EFG London Jazz Festival For any jazz fan or musician like me, the EFG London Jazz Festival is a highlight within the year. Produced by Serious, one of the UK’s leading producers and curators of live jazz, it is the capital’s biggest pan-city music festival, bringing the best and freshest music […]
Tonica By The Distillery – Review
Exploring Tonica by the Distillery – a new concept from Portobello Road Gin: What could be more summery than a gin and tonic? The days of a simple Gordon’s and Schweppes are long gone and these days the humble G&T is at the forefront of cocktail development and experimentation. So in the spirit of progress, […]
Lahpet – Review
Authentic Burmese Restaurant in London at Lahpet: Burmese cuisine is one of the most under-represented of the various South-East Asian food cultures in the London food scene. Lahpet Burmese restaurant on bustling Bethnal Green Road in the heart of Shoreditch is trying to put that right. After a successful year-long pop-up in Hackney, founders Dan Anton and Head […]
The Jockey Club Live – Live Music and Racing – Preview
The Jockey Club Live! Open-air concerts from The Jockey Club Live offer a live music experience unlike any other. Alongside show-stopping headlining performances in the informal, relaxed and historic open-air settings of the courses, the action kicks off earlier in the day with a six-race card – giving fans the chance to witness powerful equine […]
IMPERIUM at The Gielgud Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Production of Imperium: Based on Robert Harris’ Cicero Trilogy and adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton (Wolf Hall) as two three-part plays, IMPERIUM is newly transferred to London following a sold-out run at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon. The play is really The West Wing in togas telling the story […]
Rooftop Film Club
Al Fresco Film in Fine Locations – The Rooftop Film Club: I had heard about the Rooftop Film Club through my kids, hip urban twenty-somethings who had given me excited accounts of hanging out on city rooftops watching movies with a young crowd. Something about the experience seemed to add to the process of getting immersed into the world […]
Sarona Restaurant Review
A Corner of Tel Aviv in Clerkenwell: One of the biggest successes in the London restaurant scene of the last few years has been a restaurant called Palomar in Soho that showcases the vibrancy of Jerusalem’s food scene. Now it’s the turn of Tel Aviv – Israel’s second most populated city – to have its food […]