Belle Epoque is an authentic french patisserie selling the most exquisite little french cakes. It’s also a great spot for breakfast if you’re after something light that will prepare you for the day, such as lightly toasted french bread with real President butter and my favourite Bonne Maman raspberry jam. They also have delicious pastries [...]

Lemon Monkey is a cafe/deli stocking high end food and good wine most of which is Italian, fairtrade or organic, they sell the kind of stuff that comes in really great packaging where you can buy a box of crackers and pass it off as a present as the box will have some kind of [...]

So today I went for a ride around Stamford Hill looking for Jewish bakeries (it’s a Jewish area). I love to ride my bike and I love Jewish bakeries. I was totally unsuccessful however, there don’t seem to be any really authentic ones or at least I haven’t found any apart from perhaps Sharon’s. I [...]

The Enterprise is something of a Camden institution. I came here quite a bit in my art college days, that’s the type it attracts. The Enterprise has a spacious downstairs with an upstairs offering an intimate gig venue for aspiring bands and musicians. I’ve seen many bands here that now either work for the council [...]

Episode is one of the few remaining vintage shops in Camden, which not so long ago used to be little but vintage shops and grungy bars. These days however Camden seems to be going up in flames to make room for lots of glossy new businesses which you would think would kill off the hippies [...]

The Elk in the Woods has to be mentioned because it’s a beauty. Located on a great little backstreet behind Upper Street, home to lots of boutiques, cafes and antique shops, it’s a great place to come for any meal or just a drink although breakfast is my favourite, how can you beat pancakes with [...]

You can truly find the best shops in the most random places and Howie and Bell is one. I’m not quite sure whether to put it in Antique Shops or Vintage clothes as it has probably the best and most nicely edited selection of pieces I’ve yet to see but then again it has even [...]

A tiny little place but with just wonderful food. It’s cliched to say, I know, but it’s like eating in someone’s kitchen, in a good way though, what I’m saying is that the food has been cooked with love. There is a plentiful selection of African masks and trinkets convincing arranged to help you forget [...]

St. John way surpasses any Gastropub I have been to so far. It looks gorgeous and the food is delectable. The cavernous dining room is romantically lit with a huge fireplace, grand chandeliers and a charming collection of peculiar portraits adorning the back wall, creating quite a resplendent effect. The menu is extensive and the [...]

My favourite place in Los Angeles is a Jewish restaurant called Canters. It’s a staple in old Hollywood, full of screenwriters in big white trainers and khaki shorts writing C-list scripts about zombies (there’s a huge market for zombie films in LA). It’s bright and full of booths and the staff are older than most [...]

Depending on whose reading this I’m probably not the best qualified person to write up pubs mainly because I know absolutely nothing about beer. I’m told the choice of beer at the Island Queen is second to none with a huge selection on tap, not that this is something I would notice. However you don’t [...]

This is the kind of place I’d recommend if you were looking for something random like say, a dressmakers dummy or an antique mousetrap. It’s effectively a junk shop but really well organised and edited to only the best stuff without charging a fortune for it. Needless to say they always have vast amounts of [...]

Tucked behind Upper Street, Pierrepont Arcade is a collection of little shoebox-sized antique and vintage shops. Tiny but stocked to the rafters. I always come across something to take up space in my closet that I will never actually wear, be it a Barbie themed charm bracelet or a mirrored waistcoat to go with my [...]

Now I know I said I wouldn’t mention parks and the only reason I mention Hampstead Heath is because I got lost there the other day trying to find Kenwood House with Drage who wouldn’t admit he had no idea where he was going. Well I decided that on a sunny day it’s worth getting [...]

Let it be known in no uncertain terms that I will never under any circumstances go anywhere near a multiplex cinema. I would rather trek to north London to a little gem known as the Phoenix Cinema. Built in 1910 and surviving two world wars, it’s believed to be the oldest purpose built cinema in [...]