The thing I find with pizza is, I can never find exactly the one I want on the menu. I usually buy a frozen pizza from the store, a nice thin crust margarita pizza and pile on all sorts of ingredients, peppers, onions, mushrooms maybe extra cheese, that’s how I like my pizza. Pizza East [...]
Discovered totally by accident as the front part of the shop sells some pretty interesting looking clothes, I wandered in to discover a brilliant café right at the back with a stylish Japanese woman talking animatedly on her phone. It has all the things I love, space, quiet, framed portraits of Victorians, antique furniture, a [...]
This is a really cute little cinema with big comfy chairs, just like how you might have a cinema in your house if you could and the lounge area is very stylish too. Be careful to get there early though as they have rammed in one row too many so the front row will make [...]
Run by the same people who own Lounge Lover, Les Trois Garcons is equally impressive, serving very good, very sophisticated French food, with lovely attentive service. As a refurbished old Victorian pub it has most of the original features, an old heavy wooden bar, painted glass mirrors and tall ceilings, several stuffed birds and [...]
Boxpark is a pretty weird set up. Having taken over a disused space next to the fairly new Shoreditch station, it’s made up of a series of shipping containers. Pretty ingenious I think. That area used to be nothing and could have been turned into another glass skyscraper. The container units are all painted gloss [...]
Lounge Lover is the sort of place you might wander into thinking what the hell is this? You probably wouldn’t nip in here to get a quiet drink, it’s too spectacular for that. It’s a menagerie of stuff, taxidermy, giant champagne glasses holding exotic flowers, weird and wonderful furniture, strange paintings and mirrors covering every [...]
Let me start by saying that I generally hate museums. I find things in glass cases painfully dull. Whenever I visit a new city I’m honestly more inclined to check out the supermarkets. On a recent trip to Washington DC, from the wealth of museums on offer I only went to the Smithsonian to see [...]
It looks like a page out of Vogue, old mirrors piled against the wall are covered in torn out pages of photographs from fashion magazines, white painted floor boards, enormous country wooden tables and reinforced cardboard stools show how little it can take to make a place look great, it’s a wonder why so many [...]
What was once a really good little antique shop is now an even better café. Full stop has gone right to the top of my list of favourites. I like it because it’s been designed to look like a sitting room from another decade, complete with 1960’s kitchen cupboards, blue Formica table tops, couches, wall [...]
Allpress is very very busy. I don’t think I have ever seen it not busy, it must come down to the fact that this really is a no fuss no frills coffee shop. There are no old mirrors or framed pictures of Victorian people or anything whatsoever that doesn’t need to be here. One of [...]
The Wapping Project is a restaurant and exhibition space in a converted hydraulic power station of which you’re unlikely to find a more magnificent setting for a restaurant if you tried. It’s somewhere I had been meaning to go for ages as it’s definitely on the ‘places to a have a coffee list’ but it’s [...]
I was the ‘maid of honour’ at my friends wedding the other day. It was the best wedding I’ve ever been to. No unnecessary fuss or ugly floral decorations. There were 3 guests in total, one of which was the photographer. It was at Hackney Town hall and on entering we were ushered into the [...]
It’s truly hard to keep up with East London. Something creative and brilliant pops up everyday it seems. Cafeand is one of my best finds, it looks like an expensive and minimalist furniture shop from the outside looking in but don’t be deterred if this kind of thing intimidates you as it’s actually just a [...]
From enamel colanders and bread bins to horsehair brooms, linen dishtowels, stainless steel kettles and old-fashioned school notebooks, buying the most boring household items had never been so fun. Labour and Wait specialise in all things timeless, traditional and simple right down to the tin lampshades, buying a dustpan and brush has taken on [...]
On one of London’s more authentic East End streets, a stone’s throw from Shoreditch and nestled between a chicken shop and a newsagents, is the most stylish florist cum café you will ever hope to find. With a background of 10 years working with the likes of Alexander McQueen and Christian Louboutin, the Willow’s owner [...]
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