Drina is going to America for the first time and in order to get her into the true spirit of American eating I paid a visit to Cyber Candy, the Holy Grail of sugar in every colour, shape and form. It’s the place to come for your Lucky Charms, Junior Mints, Root Beer, Cream Soda, [...]

H&G is one of those beautiful ‘nostalgia shops’ that manages to stay in business god knows how as all it sells is sweets and confectionery in beautiful old-fashioned jars and tins lovingly displayed with candy-striped wallpaper and an old-fashioned till. It is for this reason that I love it. It takes me back to [...]

It used to be not so long ago, that if going to the cinema around Notting Hill Gate and arriving a little early, there was absolutely nowhere to go apart from Arancina. This is still pretty much the case. A bizarre little place, it could only be run by Italians with its bright lighting and [...]

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 [...]

I came to love Marine Ices due to a brief spell of unemployment one summer when me and Drina would get ice cream then wander around Camden at a want of something better or more productive to do, it was a good summer*. You will likely find a queue of people outside this retro Italian [...]

Carmen calls: “I stopped off at the beigel shop and got a salt beef bagel, I also bought enough bagels to keep me going for the week. Penny, I just ate them all, got into bed and fell asleep with a mouthful unchewed.” I can understand this the bagels here are so good, so [...]

The fact that there aren’t any old people or that noone ever walks on the pavements or that they build wooden houses in heavily wooded (Eucalyptus, which emits a highly flammable vapour) areas which catch fire every summer are just a few of the strange things about LA. However the weirdest thing of all was [...]

Did you know that you can actually get falafel in kebab shops? I would never go near a kebab shop. It’s less about the disgusting slab of god knows what dead animal on a stick and more about the disgusting god knows which interior designer threw all over this pathetic excuse for a restaurant. [...]

I work in Fitzrovia and I’m loathe to spend my lunch break doing any of the things I should be doing in my lunch break. This includes eating lunch or running errands. It is therefore desirable to nip out at frequent intervals and do the things I need to do in five minutes (so my [...]

It should be made a rule that you cannot be stupid and slow, you must chose one or the other. I’m thinking this out loud as I stand in a long queue for gelato at Gelato Mio and a family of four kids in front is taking forever to choose. Why don’t parents realise that [...]