It may be way down south, miles from anywhere but the Balham Bowling Club is the best pub ever. It’s pouring with rain and I had to cut an epic breakfast at Little Georgia with Morgs short as the night before I had the stupid idea that Sunday lunch at the B.B.C was a good [...]

When it comes to vintage I think London trumps any other city. Well yes every vintage store sells the same stuff like it’s all sourced from some giant warehouse in the sky but at least it’s all somewhat affordable. LA used to be cheap, not any more, New York is so expensive you’d be better [...]

I honestly can’t think of a better way to waste time than going to an art gallery and sometimes I feel like wasting time and on these occasions I come to the Tate Modern. Having said that the crap of the walls is too painful to bear so I generally bypass it entirely (after [...]

BFI Southbank is kind of a one-stop shop for going out, you can get dinner here, drinks and go to the cinema. It’s the best thing on the Southbank and I thought an appropriate place to go with my Mother as I thought it would be minimal stress as everything was in one place. Well [...]

So it’s been said that it’s a contender for the loveliest gastro pub in London, however gastro pub? It’s nothing of the sort, it doesn’t resemble a pub in any way. It is lovely though, with worn wooden tables and mismatched regency chairs, quirky odd antiquities under twinkly lights creating a genuinely fake vintage environment, [...]

163-167 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW
020 7423 1525
Monday – Sunday 7am – 8pm

Ok so I take it back, Brixton does have a few places of merit other than the Ritzy and Rosie’s Café, and one would be Franco Manca. A little pizza place only open for lunch in Brixton Market, it looks a bit like a posh fish and chip shop with a giant mosaic pizza oven [...]

I find it easy to get lost around Waterloo – it’s difficult to navigate due to the enormous railway station slap-bang in the middle. So on an excursion to check out The Anchor and Hope, a highly regarded gastro pub on The Cut (the food may be great but the place itself is a little [...]

It’s a food market and an expensive one at that. This is where all the local farmers from around London and stretching as far as Devon and Cornwall come to sell their goods on a Friday and Saturday. You can find every conceivable foodstuff here and it goes without saying that it’s pretty much mostly [...]

I think I’ve mentioned before that Clapham is an area of London generally to be avoided with one of a few exceptions, The Clapham Picture House. Tucked away down a back street this busy little cinema has a bar, comfortable seating area serving food, hosts a film night every Tuesday where those who know the [...]

Once you manage to negotiate your way from Brixton station through the tramps and junkies scrounging to pick up cigarette butts from under your feet, you’ll find yourself in a little haven in an otherwise 3rd world ghetto know as Brixton. The Ritzy has a lovely cafe and bar and is the kind of cinema [...]

The best way to get here is to approach through the Leake Street Tunnel which is a Banksy-created installation of stencil graffiti by artists such as the NYC collective Faile.  It’s where graffiti should be: outside. There isn’t much left now but it’s worth a look, or maybe not, anyway. When you emerge out the [...]

Rosie’s is owned by Rosie, a late 20-something, and her cafe is lovely.  It has a lot of charm and feels like it is a huge labour of love for her. It doesn’t fit in at all with it’s surroundings (which is a good thing – see review of Franco Manca). I made the first [...]

I know I said I wouldn’t give staff a hard time but this place is so badly run, it’s like work in progress. It could potentially be really great. The idea is that for £2.50 you can have as much bread as you like and toast it at your table where industrial Dualit toasters are [...]

For no good reason Clapham is a wasteland for anywhere good to go. It’s where people who studied at places like Newcastle and Durham move to before they leave London again after a couple of years or so to go back to wherever they came from, or to move to Australia able now to say [...]