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 [...]

This part of Clapham has fond memories for me. Memories of the time I was sitting in my friend’s living room having a cup of tea and some whacked out junkie kicked the front door down and chased us out of the house with a giant German Shepherd and a heavy roll of recycling bags [...]

You can trust me when I say that J+A cafe is one of my more, shall we say conservative choices, suffice to say there is nothing ‘nostalgic’, ‘weird’ or ‘themed’ about it, it’s just a nice cafe with nice decoration in a nice building with nice food and cakes that make the fat girl inside [...]

I thought it about time I should pay a visit to the Greenwich Meridian. Well I can tell you there isn’t much to look at. It would have been far more exciting if there was a one hour time difference depending on what side of the line you were standing on, but no, it’s just [...]

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 [...]

A quirky little Moroccan cafe (or maybe it’s Turkish? or Lebanese perhaps? I never know the difference) on Brick Lane with tiny ornate tables, beautiful and well thought out wall hangings and elaborate chairs with hookah pipes taking up every corner. Sometimes I get a craving for that ultra sweet Turkish tea and on this [...]

La Bouche is great when it’s not busy but these times are rare. The fact that it’s a deli as well as a café increases its popularity and it’s invariably overrun by pushchairs taking up what little space there is, but that is a recurring problem with Broadway Market as a whole. Problem is I [...]

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 [...]

Not so much a market as five floors of unadulterated gorgeousness. London’s answer to Opening Ceremony if you ask me. I take people here when I want to impress them with my good taste. I also like people to think I shop here. The reality is with a tshirt averaging about £400 it’s somewhat out [...]

La Fromagerie is so much more than just a cheese shop although what a cheese shop it is. It only has one long large wooden communal table as every other spare inch is taken up by all kinds of delicious food. They serve everything from (proper) wine to tea and coffee. It’s one of the [...]

Beyond the gridlock of baby buggies and over-gentrification, Stoke Newington Church Street has many positive points, one in particular being the Blue Legume. It’s comforting to think that if it weren’t for the bourgeoisie a place like this probably wouldn’t exist. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love this place. Their menu consists of all [...]