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. The Ritzy has a lovely cafe and bar and is the kind of cinema where you can have dinner or coffee before a [...]

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. Not on canvases cluttering gallery walls. There isn’t much left now but it’s worth a look, or maybe not, [...]

I consider Clapham a bit of a desert of good places to go. It’s where Australians on their two year visa and people from Edinburgh live, staying only a couple of years before they move on. There appears to be countless classless bars where people can get so drunk that their surroundings are irrelevant. Gastro [...]

I used to consider Putney sort of a home away from home. My best friend’s parents live here so when she was living at home I used to visit all the time to the point of just living there really. Staying at Jane’s meant homemade bread, home made ice cream and your laundry done when [...]