A staycation with a difference in the City Coming out of lockdown I am keen for an adventure again, to go somewhere new and do something different; with travel abroad still posing problems, a staycation is a perfect solution. Docklands is a forever changing landscape, with plenty of places to explore and amazing views along […]
Borough Market e-Bike Delivery and Click & Collect
Covid-19 Shopping and more with Borough Market Did you know that Borough Market has a really quite unique home delivery service? A number of the stall-holders work together to provide a shopping service through Good Sixty that’s available online either for home delivery by zero-emission electric cargo bike within a 3.5-mile radius or Click & […]
Missing your regular pub quiz fix? Inquizition has the answer!
Defeat lockdown lethargy with a weekly Virtual Pub Quiz from Inquizition. Two weeks into lockdown and a lot of us are really missing our pubs. With me, it’s not the beer (honestly!), it’s the regular weekly quiz down at The Earl Spencer on Merton Road. Their Wednesday pub quiz is one of the many around […]
Chateau Tooting – wine from south London? C’est bien vrai!
Ten years on The Urban Wine Company has a proud tradition of making wine in the capital Owning a vineyard and drinking wine made from your own grapes must be the ultimate middle-class fantasy. Although we can’t all be like Sting with our own Tuscan vineyard, many South Londoners with a back garden grapevine have […]
Good-time Gal goes to Goodman
Goodman NY Steak in London via Russia: OK…my birthday, but a working lunch. So, not worth going to one of those white linen places where you sit watching and then eating perfect works of art. We were going to be talking business…and really what we needed was a restaurant where we could eat something hearty […]
Nikkei Food Trends in London – Chotto Matte, Soho Review
Chotto Matte Soho – Nikkei Cuisine for the Made in Chelsea set. If Nikkei cuisine has one potentially flaw it may be that the menu options are not simple. Most Brits have at best a vague understanding of Japanese food and might not generally wander further into the realms of Peruvian dishes than ceviche and […]
Romantic Spots in London
3 most romantic spots in London London has plenty of options when it comes to choosing where to go for a date, but finding places which offer a real sense of romance isn’t always easy. If you’re looking for some truly romantic spots in the city, look no further. Here are three great suggestions for […]
The Seymour Place Restaurant Hop
Hop ’til you drop in Seymour Place. I was very concerned when invited to the Seymour Place Hop. Would it be an all-night danceathon with posh locals cheering on us weary participants as we frugged and gavotted our way up and down this chic W1 enclave? Or even worse a blindfold one-legged slalom run to the […]
Eating London – Spitalfields and East London
Eating My Way around East London. We all have our passions and enthusiasms. As may be evident, I love food. And I love heritage. So, what could be better than an opportunity to join an Eating London Food Tour, learning more about East London and enjoying some of the old and (relatively) new food destinations […]
Casa Malevo – Diego Jaquet’s Cocina Argentina
Casa Malevo London and a taste of Fernet Branca: Casa Malevo is the older brother of Zoilo – a fabulous Argentinian restaurant in Marylebone I reviewed when it first opened last year. I was told that the style of cookery at Casa Malevo was quite different – Zoilo is a modern take on Argentinian food […]