Tucked away at the back of a camera repair shop next to the British Museum is Camera Cafe a quiet and discreet little place with a few tables and Simon and Garfunkel playing in the background (the soundtrack says alot). The few customers here are total anoraks, wearing hiking gear including the boots despite the [...]

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 [...]

I’m not too well equipped really to go into too much depth about Ombra as I didn’t actually have any food here, I just got a drink and the reviews don’t tend to be too good, although for what it’s worth I did think the dishes looked and smelled good. Inspired by a Venetian bacaro [...]

Ok it’s true there is nothing so special anymore about salvaged china tea cups and cakes on pretty cake stands but you have to trust me when I say that Mouse & de Lotz is special. If you were to wander around East London these days, taking in the wonderful array of cafes, there are [...]

Tucked away behind St. James’ Street in a quaint little hotel called Dukes is an old worldly little bar with old portraits on the walls and where they make your cocktail (the Martini anyway) on a trolley in front of you, it’s a great experience and a wonderful atmosphere. I have a tradition with Rafael [...]

Blacks is definitely my favourite of all the members clubs I’ve been to in London. Shoreditch house is no doubt beautiful and comfortably modern but it’s like the after work club for TV presenters, ‘media types’ is the term that springs to mind. I do appreciate the fact that they have a ‘No Bankers’ policy [...]

My absolute favourite places are the ones that pop up in the middle of nowhere, little places dreamed up by people who have for years fantasised about owning a café and then manage to far outshine the bigger budget more centrally located ones. Violet is one of these places, a simple little cafe with a [...]

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 [...]

Before Andor Bureau came about this spot was a series of greasy spoons ranging from great to awful, it was only a matter of time before it became somewhere that sold Victoria sponge cake rather than fry-up’s though with the art gallery infested Vyner street opposite and The Last Tuesday Society shop of weirdness next [...]

A peaceful little spot with not too much coming and going and Spanish music playing in the background, it’s not your typical ‘overindulged girl who loves to bake cakes’ kind of place although it does seem to be very buggy friendly and my tranquility has been disturbed by Rainbow, a vile 5 year old who’s [...]

There is something about this café which feels different for Hackney, there are no push chairs which is weird, every nice café in Hackney is rammed with push chairs and the decoration is a bit eccentric. On top of that it feels exceptionally laid back, no immaculate piles of fancy cupcakes or cakes on glass [...]

So I’ve recently moved house, my flatmate got a cat that peed on everything, I couldn’t handle it so it was a ‘me or the cat’ situation. The cat won, I moved out. Oh well it worked out better in the end as now I’m nearer to good places to go for breakfast, a couple [...]

The best places always tend to be the secret places I think, the ones that only attract the same sort of people and friends of those people. I’ve got to be honest, I’m not a fan of diversity. I like what I like and who I like and that’s that. Anyway, one day a friend [...]

The Tooting Social Club gets full marks for decoration I can tell you that. The location is another story though. On the one hand it’s in such a far-flung and how do I say diplomatically, ‘vibrant’ area (translation hellhole) that it can’t help but have a “we’re not joining the Shoreditch bandwagon” vibe about it, [...]

I give Tamsin credit for this one, it was she who told me about Brixton Village, my greatest find to date, an amazing warren of cafes, shops and restaurants all housed in an old covered market. We kept meaning to go along to ‘Pudding Club’ which happens usually every Thursday at the Relay Tea Room [...]