The Lighterman reopens – A Pre-Covid Review. We were invited to review The Lighterman just before lockdown. Rather than tempt everyone with something that wasn’t opened, we put the review on ice till now – the reopening of The Lighterman on the 4th July for both dinner and drinks The Lighterman has a wonderful location […]
Vermuteria, Coal Drops Yard
Anthony Demetre’s Casual Dining at Vermuteria, King’s Cross. If you review restaurants where do you go with friends when you are not officially reviewing? In my case, often my favourite of the places I’ve reviewed. Or, a restaurant or bar from the same family. Vermuteria in the achingly popular Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross falls […]
Rotunda Restaurant at Kings Place
Rotunda Restaurant – King’s Cross at its best: What was once the wasteland sprawl of an overgrown railway station around King’s Cross is now a complex of shops, offices and restaurants . Kings Place turned out to be somewhere I’m actually embarrassed I hadn’t found before – a new privately funded arts centre, complete with the […]
The German Gymnasium
German Traditional Events in London For the perfect meeting place for friends and family travelling through London via Kings Cross or St Pancras, don’t miss The German Gymnasium. Built by the local German community for its Gymnastics Society, back in 1866 the Gymnasium was the venue for the indoor events of London’s first Olympic Games. […]
London-Unattached goes gluten-free at Beyond Bread
Beyond Bread – Gluten-Free Gourmet Cafe: By Deborah Tarrant If you are a coeliac or have an intolerance to wheat/gluten you get used to having to check everything or saying ‘no thanks’ when you’re offered food you can’t eat. So, it was such a pleasure to try everything that was offered when I went to […]
The Lighterman – Kings Cross – Review
Kings Cross Dining – The Lighterman In the 16th and 17th Centuries, a lighterman was the person who steered the flat-bottomed barges used to transfer goods. An important part of the Port of London, lightermen would transfer goods from the lighters, on or off the lighters and then to the quay-side. Their role is now […]
Grown-up Dining at Plum & Spilt Milk
Plum & Spilt Milk – The Best of British at London’s Gateway: As a teenager, well before the Eurostar existed, I much preferred travelling by train. The French family who used to host me every year were kind enough to help me travel from Norfolk to Chambery in Savoie that way. My own parents would […]