Exploring London since 2007
Last September the art deco Odeon cinema at Swiss Cottage got an impressive top-to-toe refurbishment and something else into the bargain – a swish cocktail bar, which I visited last night! The new Ambar offers very comfortable surroundings for a tipple before you’re ready for your movie, and is conveniently located right behind the cinema’s [...]
Courtesy of my friends at London Living, last night I was invited to an evening at the short-run Stew House restaurant near the centre of Hackney, organised by the Dead Dolls Club. Pop-up restaurants have gained a cult following amongst trendy Londoners in recent years, [...]
Earlier this week I was invited along to an evening at Shaker & Company, the new cocktail bar devised by the guys who train many of the world’s top ‘mixologists’, which you’ll find in a rather ordinary row of retail outlets down towards the bottom of Hampstead Road near Warren St. If you’re a regular [...]
Towards the end of the week I was invited along to a reception to mark the relaunch of the Great British Chefs website and the introduction of their new iPad app, over at TechHub – the popular technology start-up workspace just off ‘Silicon Roundabout‘.Great British Chefs is a website aimed at helping the gourmet in [...]
There are two food-related events coming up that I thought readers might be interested in. First is the annual Ben & Jerry’s Double Scoop Sundae Festival, which takes place on Clapham Common on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th July. 15,000 tickets are available on each day and this year’s festival is being headlined [...]
I had a rather strange experience last night. I was asked to go a fairly non-descript 19th century building near Barbican to take part in a preview event for something that’s happening next month… To start at the beginning, when I arrived I was directed downstairs to a basement door where I was met by a [...]
For the last few days I’ve been looking over ‘TasterLab‘, a site that gathers together interesting experiences that you can have in London for the first time to see whether they might become part of your regular lifestyle… Most of the taster sessions on offer are free (or at least heavily discounted) and don’t carry [...]
