5 Stories with Porter’s Gin – 11 & 12th March 2019: Gin has become chic again. Hurrah! Which is good news for those of us who never stopped loving it. But as much as I enjoy a G&T or a gin-based cocktail, it’s a spirit that I associate as an aperitive rather than as an […]
Great Guns Social – Review
A Convivial Evening at Great Guns Social: Just a hop and a skip from Borough tube is Great Guns Social, a self-styled ‘creative hub and restaurant’. Located in a stylishly converted pub on the Southwark Bridge Road, Great Guns Social is renown for hosting a rolling programme of restaurant pop-up residencies curated by chef Maria Elia. If like […]
The fun starts behind The Little Blue Door
A great night out flatshare style in Chelsea: For those of you in the know and who may have already enjoyed an infamous night out behind The Little Yellow Door in Notting Hill Gate, it will come as no surprise that A Little Blue Door has popped up in Fulham. However I was a complete […]
Smoke & Salt at Sawyer and Gray
Smoke &t Valentine’s Day dinner: This February 14th was the first Valentine’s Day since my wife and I got married. After just over six years together, last October my wife and I finally got around to getting married. We had a wonderful Autumnal wedding and then a fantastic honeymoon on the Italian Riviera. We have […]
Fika – Crayfish and More in Brick Lane
Crayfish Festival at Fika, Brick Lane: Walk into Fika the other night and you minght imagine yourself in the depths of a Scandinavian forest. The walls garlanded with ivy, mossy stumps on the tables holding candles, even the staff were wearing floral crowns. All in aid of something that one of the other guests prosaically […]
Singha Beer at Som Saa, London Fields
Som Saa – Review of the Thai Pop-Up: Anyone who has travelled to Thailand or been to a Thai restaurant will have tried Singha beer. It’s the perfect choice to accompany the hot, sweet, salty, bitter and sour flavours that define Thai food. To mark its summer residency at Climpson’s Arch in trendy London Fields, Som […]