Gaby’s Deli generally gets pretty mixed reviews. Some people love it, some don’t get what all the fuss is about. I’d say I was something of a Jewphile. I love everything Jewish, I’m planning on converting just because I think it will help my chances of being buried in Hollywood forever cemetery. A friend gave [...]

Koenig books hosts a collection of joyfully pretentious art books with beautiful covers and artistically out of focus photographs. It does have a huge selection though so if you do have £50 to burn on a book you will look through once then leave around to use as a coaster you will no doubt find [...]

It was after talking to the King of Soho, Sebastian Horsley that I decided to try out the Lorelei as it’s one of Sebastian’s favourites. I’d walked past it countless times without it registering, mainly because it always looked closed and I never trust places in Soho that aren’t widely known. Well the Lorelei as [...]

Magma is one of those lovely bookshops which sells all those fatuous yet inspiring graphics books and expensive documentary dvd’s about fashion designers, plus every arty magazine in circulation, literally floor to ceiling, with guys who dress like members of Blur standing around with an open book looking into space, mouth slightly open as they’ve [...]

Tucked away up a narrow flight of stairs above the Soho bookshop on Charing Cross road is a little designer bookshop specialising in fashion and art books, many of which are hard to find. It’s also home to a vast collection of glossy magazines that, let’s be honest no one ever really reads but our [...]

Often, I find the best way to ease into a conversation with someone you have just met is to talk about things you both hate – talking about something you both love inevitably can lead to who likes it more or who liked it first. With Sketch love and hate swing dramatically depending on whom [...]

The Curzon specialises in independent films, including a lot of British and European ones and is perfectly located on the edge of Soho and Chinatown. It has a street level café selling cakes and cookies from my favourite bakery, Konditor & Cook and a dark relaxing lower ground floor café and bar with a number [...]

In an old Soho townhouse, a throwback to Dickensian London, is Andrew Edmunds, a Parisian café meets English country house. For years I walked past it not even knowing it was here. It’s elegant with an intimate and romantic atmosphere with small tables and rustic old church pews illuminated by tapered candles. Widely known as [...]

Not so much a market as five floors of unadulterated gorgeousness. London’s answer to Opening Ceremony if you ask me. I take people here when I want to impress them with my good taste. I also like people to think I shop here. The reality is with a tshirt averaging about £400 it’s somewhat out [...]

Certain experiences can severely taint a place for me (negative association) like suffering that claustrophobic pang when watching a film that sickens you but is hard to walk out of, in this case “The heart is deceitful above all things” an utterly depressing film directed by and starring Asia Argento about a junky degenerate mother [...]

Mildreds is excellent despite being vegetarian there isn’t a Hari Krishna in sight and it’s not all beans and mushroom risotto either. They are very inventive and I know lots of hardcore carnivores that love it. Around dinner time there will be a queue out the door so don’t even think about turning up after [...]

Beyond the Valley is sooooo Central Saint Martins, as anyone who has been there will know. Needless to say it has been set up and run by a group of alumni and it’s full of lovely stuff for creative people with a big budget, stuff that you don’t need but really really want. It’s expensive [...]

I can’t afford any of the clothes or actually anything here for that matter but I always end up buying something to fill a silence with the beautiful boy (but doesn’t he know it – oh bore!) that works here. When we run out of things to say and I can’t think of another compliment [...]

I use Foyle’s as my own personal lending library, buy and take back later and it has a great cafe too. Far and away the best bookshop in London, it’s an independent version of what Borders used to be. I think it’s accurate to say that Ray’s cafe is the central meeting point for anyone [...]

Situated inside the Heals store, Meals at Heals is so wrong yet so right with a description that can only start with “Once upon a time…”. It resembles something out of a fairytale. It has a pastel colour scheme and tables that look like they have icing dripping off them. It’s very Scandinavian, a fact [...]