Taking The Amber Road to Aldgate If you’ve driven through the Aldgate/Whitechapel area over the last few years you will have noticed the huge amount of construction work that’s been going on. So when I was invited to review Amber, a new all-day Middle-Eastern restaurant in Aldgate East, I was expecting the usual forest of cranes, construction […]
Pre-Theatre Dining at Le Restaurant de PAUL
Perfect Pre-Opera Dining at Paul, Covent Garden Many years ago I was strolling through the elegant streets of Lille and come across a PAUL bakery. It was clearly a local business and there was nothing like it in the UK at the time; that mix of the rustic and the sophisticated that the French do […]
Omar’s Place – Review
Passport to Pimlico Occasionally something takes you by surprise. When asked to review Omar’s Place, a Pimlico restaurant, I didn’t have any real sense of what it would be like. I knew that Mallorcan born chef Vicente Fortea had an impressive CV that includes three Michelin-Starred Arzak in San Sebastian and one Michelin-Starred Plat D’Or in Mallorca; […]
Secrets Of The Empire at The VOID – Westfield Stratford City
The Empire Gets Interactive! I was on a mission! My 16-year-old son and I jumped on the Jubilee Line, zipped across to Stratford tube station for our first visit to Westfield Stratford City. the pioneering shopping and leisure destination. It’s right next to the Olympic Park and has more than 300 stores as well as being famous for […]
DC Exhibition: Dawn of Super Heroes at the O2
Super Heroes at the O2: The DC Super Heroes exhibition offers us a glimpse into a fantasy world where impregnable but often flawed do-gooders take on the forces of evil and win! With 80 years of history, characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman have become mythological figures embedded in our popular culture and reinvented […]
Prophecy – Scottish Ensemble with Karen Cargill and Matthew Truscott at Kings Place
Prophecy Tour – Kings’s Place After dates at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh and Wellington Church, Glasgow the Scottish Ensemble’s Prophecy tour moved on to King’s Place, the stunning new arts and conference centre that features music, the spoken word, comedy and visual arts. I love the building’s clean modernist lines and the intimate chamber acoustic of shoebox-shaped […]
The Ampersand boutique hotel in South Kensington – Review
Boutique Hotel in South Kensington – The Ampersand When you visit a city like London you want to be close to the action – to the culture, the shopping, the restaurants – all the things that make a city’s heart beat… Invited to review The Ampersand, I was aware of the typographically influenced name but no […]
The Ferryman at The Gielgud Theatre
London, West-End Theatre – The Ferryman: Writer Jez Butterworth has made a career out of the darker side of Britishness – from 2009’s Royal Court hit ‘Jerusalem’, a coke-fuelled romp through a village fete, to ‘Britannia’ – a new Sky TV show featuring mud-covered Celts chanting and wearing interesting wigs. Throw in a couple of […]
Gant Man’s Shirt Review
New arrivals from Gant for 2018: I’ve never bought clothes over the internet …maybe it’s my gender or my age! So I was a bit apprehensive when asked to order and review a shirt from the GANT men’s shirts web page. But the process was really straightforward and the hardest thing was choosing just one […]
Pufferfish at Mahiki Kensington – Review
A fish called Puffer The people behind Mahiki, The Dover St nightclub loved by the jeunesse dorée, have teamed up with the creators of South Kensington private members’ club Albert’s, to create a new ‘Tiki paradise’ in Kensington, Pufferfish. And, I am completely seduced by the Tiki concept. In the cold grey of a London winter, […]