The thing I find with pizza is, I can never find exactly the one I want on the menu. I usually buy a frozen pizza from the store, a nice thin crust margarita pizza and pile on all sorts of ingredients, peppers, onions, mushrooms maybe extra cheese, that’s how I like my pizza. Pizza East [...]

Discovered totally by accident as the front part of the shop sells some pretty interesting looking clothes, I wandered in to discover a brilliant café right at the back with a stylish Japanese woman talking animatedly on her phone. It has all the things I love, space, quiet, framed portraits of Victorians, antique furniture, a [...]

Run by the same people who own Lounge Lover, Les Trois Garcons is equally impressive, serving very good, very sophisticated French food, with lovely attentive service. As a refurbished old Victorian pub it has most of the original features, an old heavy wooden bar, painted glass mirrors and tall ceilings, several stuffed birds and other [...]

Lounge Lover is the sort of place you might wander into thinking what the hell is this? You probably wouldn’t nip in here to get a quiet drink, it’s too spectacular for that. It’s a menagerie of stuff, taxidermy, giant champagne glasses holding exotic flowers, weird and wonderful furniture, strange paintings and mirrors covering every [...]

It looks like a page out of Vogue, old mirrors piled against the wall are covered in torn out pages of photographs from fashion magazines, white painted floor boards, enormous country wooden tables and reinforced cardboard stools show how little it can take to make a place look great, it’s a wonder why so many [...]

What was once a really good little antique shop is now an even better café. Full stop has gone right to the top of my list of favourites. I like it because it’s been designed to look like a sitting room from another decade, complete with 1960’s kitchen cupboards, blue Formica table tops, couches, wall [...]

Allpress is very very busy. I don’t think I have ever seen it not busy, it must come down to the fact that this really is a no fuss no frills coffee shop. There are no old mirrors or framed pictures of Victorian people or anything whatsoever that doesn’t need to be here. One of [...]

The Wapping Project is a restaurant and exhibition space in a converted hydraulic power station of which you’re unlikely to find a more magnificent setting for a restaurant if you tried. It’s somewhere I had been meaning to go for ages as it’s definitely on the ‘places to a have a coffee list’ but it’s [...]

I was the ‘maid of honour’ at my friends wedding the other day. It was the best wedding I’ve ever been to. No unnecessary fuss or ugly floral decorations. There were 3 guests in total, one of which was the photographer. It was at Hackney Town hall and on entering we were ushered into the [...]

It’s truly hard to keep up with East London. Something creative and brilliant pops up everyday it seems. Cafeand is one of my best finds, it looks like an expensive and minimalist furniture shop from the outside looking in but don’t be deterred if this kind of thing intimidates you as it’s actually just a [...]

On one of London’s more authentic East End streets, a stone’s throw from Shoreditch and nestled between a chicken shop and a newsagents, is the most stylish florist cum café you will ever hope to find. With a background of 10 years working with the likes of Alexander McQueen and Christian Louboutin, the Willow’s owner [...]

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 [...]

Fighting your way through Harrods is a depressing experience. It’s full of WAGS, people who think Harrods is the height of class, rich Muslims laden down with bags of makeup and tourists, there are shit loads of tourists, so make sure you find the direct entrance around the corner. Harrods is special I’ll agree to [...]

Up to a point I would have to say this was one of my favourite restaurants for the sheer comedy value alone. The place is absurd. It’s Austrian for a start and I think that explains a lot*. It’s down in the basement accessed by a doorway and some steep stairs, you’d totally miss it [...]

The reason I’m here is by pure chance. I’m looking for a church and it’s supposed to be on this street. Some vile socialite is having a party there and she wants it decorated with taxidermy and I’m supposed to be finding the taxidermy, but first I have to see the location. I’m already late [...]