Although grungy and easily ignored, 12 Bar is a great little spot located at the heart of the legendary Tin Pan Alley. With a history that can stake claim to being the place where NME started, the Rolling Stones and Cat Stevens created their first album and where Elton John had his first job, not [...]

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 [...]