I’m standing outside Rokit in Covent Garden, pacing back and forth deciding whether or not to go in, I could just have a quick look, I doubt there will be anything I want, well what’s the point of going in then? Well there might be something I want, something that would infinitely improve my life [...]

Buying the most boring household items had never been so fun. From enamel colanders and bread tins to horsehair brooms to linen dishtowels to stainless steel kettles and old-fashioned school notebooks. Labour and Wait specialise in all things timeless, traditional and simple right down to the tin lampshades, buying a dustpan and brush has taken [...]

It’s great when it’s not busy but these times are rare. I suppose the fact that it’s a deli as well as a café increases its popularity. This makes it a good spot for inspiration though, so I quite like to come here to write this blog, despite it being overrun with push chairs, jesus [...]

If it wasn’t for the location this is the sort of place where old ladies would go. It’s traditional and unpretentious, spacious and it serves scones. Despite being in Spitalfields, it feels remarkably untrendy. Located on a busy thoroughfare to Brick Lane or Spitalfields Market, it doesn’t attract any particular crowd just a lot of [...]

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 the supermarkets and cafes. On a recent trip to Washington DC, of all the wealth of museums on offer I only went to [...]

As a rule I hate all sports and bowling is no exception. Like karaoke people always seem to think that bowling will bit ‘rilly rilly fun’ so I’ve been dragged out more times than I’d like to mention. Every time I’ve been here it’s for someone’s birthday but despite the fact it’s such a cheesy [...]

….is my favourite of all markets as it combines vintage clothes, amazing food and ingredients like what you would find at borough market ( 27 varieties of sweet balsamic vinegar and little testers on everything), flowers, organic shampoo, cupcakes, olives etc.. all set on one of my favourite streets in Bethnal Green and being in [...]

“To be well dressed is not to have expensive clothes or the right clothes. You can wear rags, so long as they suit you. Style is not elegance but consistency” this comes to mind every time a see a Japanese person, you know what I’m talking about. They are the only people that can wear [...]

I’d read many a review of the Grocery café all of which condemned the service but enthused about the food. They weren’t wrong about the food, it’s amazing. And I didn’t have a problem with the service – it was fine plus I was served by a guy who looked like the freakish blond choir [...]

On account of its all glass frontage providing an unobscured view of the slick interior, this big glass cube of a restaurant is decidedly minimalist yet classy and in serving up some delicious British cuisine which slightly pushes the boundaries, it’s the British equivalent of high quality soul food. With everything from mac and cheese [...]

If it wasn’t for the type of people who come here, the suit-wearing, boring and loud, let’s-get-a-drink-after-work type, The Jerusalem would be perfect. You’ll come across a lot of people who work in Clerkenwell, which has an abundance of media offices and architecture offices, that kind of thing and people dressed on the wrong side [...]

The way things are going these days, no trendy bar or café will be complete without the odd piece of taxidermy it seems. The venue is large and quite pretentious which attracts a local crowd. A bit like an old fashioned English pub but with 70’s-style hippie-chic wallpaper. “ ….it’s popular with an uber [...]

On a sunny Sunday be warned that you will barely be able to move due to the sheer volume of people. Every Sunday street vendors come and lay out stuff all along the street whether it be vintage clothes, general carboot sale clutter, hand printed t-shirts or food ranging from falafel to the most amazing [...]

It’s often hard to get a seat here as it’s always heaving. The types who come here are the kind who move to Brick Lane because it’s cool not because they’re cool. I bet everyone here has a job in something related to advertising but they hang out on Brick Lane at Coffee @ on [...]

On my initial discovery it was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I decided to walk up Cambridge Heath Road to avoid waiting for a bus as it was a rare sunny day when I came across what looked like a garden centre or children’s crèche with an abundance of garden gnomes, miniature chairs [...]