Exploring London since 2007
Adding to the regular round of beer festivals and chocolate extravaganzas in London, coffee is taking centre stage later this month when the London Coffee Festival comes to town from 25 to 28 April, forming the centrepiece of UK Coffee Week. Taking place at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, there’ll be lots of [...]
The Foragers, who run the Verulam Arms ‘wild food’ pub in St Albans and provide the menu at the Dead Dolls Club’s trendy pop-up venue in Dalston, are mixing it up in medieval style at the beginning of next month with a pop-up night also featuring theatre and live music, ‘The Banquet’. Taking place at [...]
I should confess straight out I am a big fan of Hard Rock Cafe, so I was excited to be invited down to their London restaurant last week to sample one of their new range of ‘Legendary’ burgers. Despite the fact that they’ve expanded well beyond their their humble beginnings on Park Lane, the original [...]
In Thailand, the New Year is celebrated during a festival called Songkran, which this year falls between 13 and 16 April. The traditions associated with the event include parades and religious ceremonies with a finale that involves water-throwing fights where the aim is to drench your friends and family, signifying the washing away of the [...]
For centuries London was a prodigious producer of gin – Nicholson’s operated their huge facility at Three Mills, Bromley by Bow until bombing caused their production to cease in 1941, and Gordons and Tanqueray continued to be made in Islington until the early 1980s. Of the big distillers, only Beefeater remains – their gin is [...]
Reading the tea leaves, things have obviously had a radical overhaul at Hackney Wick’s CRE8 Lfestyle Centre in the recent past, because on 20 March it had an official opening party (including the unveiling of a plaque) which was attended by Jonathan Edwards CBE and the Speaker of Hackney. The building that the CRE8 Centre [...]
Early last week, during what is likely to be the coldest March in living memory, we were invited by lastminute.com to participate in a ‘restaurant safari’, visiting three different restaurants in Mayfair to sample three different courses as part of their London Restaurant Fortnight, which is offering discounted deals to some of London’s most exclusive [...]
