Staying on the Dock of the Bay New restaurant concepts turn up on a regular basis but innovation in the traditionally more conservative hotel sector is harder to find. The idea of the ‘hometel’ as introduced by room2, a new hospitality brand, is to bring together the ‘best bits of hotels’ with the ‘comfort and […]
THE SECRET RIVER at the Olivier Theatre – Review
Kate Grenville’s ‘The Secret River’ opens at The National Theatre. The Sydney Theatre Company multi-award-winning production of Kate Grenville’s The Secret River has just opened at the National’s Olivier Theatre. It’s a drama that exposes the tensions between the original convict settlers in Australia and the indigenous First Nations population. Just before the play began director Neil Armfield came to the […]
QUEENS Skate, Dine and Bowl – Review
Dead hippies, bowling and skating on thin ice in Queensway I wasn’t allowed to go bowling when I was a kid. It was something viewed with suspicion by the fun police in my family along with ITV, comics and fizzy drinks. I did manage to sneak out and go ice-skating a couple of times as […]
The National Theatre Autumn/Winter 2019 Season Preview
Southbank London – What’s on at the National Theatre Here at London Unattached, we love the National Theatre and the contribution it makes to London being acknowledged as the global centre for performing arts. This year for its autumn/winter season the NT has announced a hugely diverse and exciting programme of 15 productions of new […]
Arros QD – Review
Spanish Tradition and Innovation in Fitzrovia Quique Dacosta is a 3 Michelin gastronomic star in his native Spain. Lucky for us in this wet August with his new London restaurant Arros QD he has promised to bring ‘the warmth and theatricality of Valencian gastronomy’ to London. Sitting just behind Oxford St in Fitzrovia’s Eastcastle St, the restaurant […]
Chilean Wine Tasting – Summer 2019
Chilean Wines – Cabernet Sauvignon and beyond! Chile has one of the most extraordinary geographies of any country on our planet. it stretches like a razor clam 4000 kilometres southwards on a coastal strip running from the dry northern climes of the Atacama desert down to the icy landscapes of Antarctica, sandwiched between the Andes […]
Bob Bob Cité – Review
Bob Bob Ricard and Press for Champagne reaches the City. Bob Bob Ricard has long been a staple of the Soho restaurant scene. Renowned for its glamorous interior, encouragement of louche behaviour and its infamous “Champagne Button”, it’s the go-to place for a grown-up good time. Russian owner Leonid Shutov has now created a sister […]
Galvin at Windows – Review
Scaling the Heights in Park Lane – Galvin at Windows. Here at London-Unattached, we love the Galvin Brothers’ restaurants and this June to coincide with the 2019 London Pride celebrations they came up with something rather special. Honouring the 50-year mark since the modern LGBT + rights movement were born, this year’s Pride is being […]
English Summer Wine Tasting
Crab Pie and an English Wine Week Preview. On a perfect English Easter weekend what could be better than having a tasting of some of the new crop of English wines for the summer. Whilst we languish in the dog days of Brexit there is an energy and excitement about English wine that would have […]
Asturian Month at Iberica Restaurants
Ibérica Restaurants Regional Spanish Cuisine – Asturias It’s difficult to overstate the influence of Spanish cuisine on British food culture; Ferran Adria’s El Bulli restaurant completely reinvented our conception of what fine dining could be, and at a less esoteric level the small sharing plate ‘tapas’ revolution that swept through Soho a few years is […]