Fortnum and Mason is a palace of food, it’s also a one-stop-tourist hole from hell. What was once the grocer to Queen Victoria’s court is now a giant food themed gift shop (unless you buy all your food in pretty tins). But what a gift shop it is. The window displays are worth a visit [...]

Selfridges always serves to remind me that money does not buy happiness. Yet it’s not happiness I want it’s money. On every visit I mentally spend hundreds of pounds. This department store (for want of a better term) is the best in the world. Forget dowdy and dated can’t move for the fat tourists Harrods [...]

Okay so perhaps Liberty is the most perfect shop in London. It’s like Selfridges just smaller and more edited. They sell the most beautiful stuff, Diptyque perfume, Prestat chocolate, Aesop cosmetics all housed in an amazing Tudor building. It should have “Dreams are the only luxury of the poor” as its motto. I adore [...]

BFI Southbank is kind of a one-stop shop for going out, you can get dinner here, drinks and go to the cinema. It’s the best thing on the Southbank and I thought an appropriate place to go with my Mother as I thought it would be minimal stress as everything was in one place. Well [...]

So once a year I turn a year older and my darling sister softens the blow by taking me to the restaurant of my choice. This year it was Sketch Gallery. I’m already a huge fan of Sketch, it can do no wrong in my book despite the fact that people think it’s ridiculous and [...]

It didn’t need Kate Moss to make this the most popular clothes shopping spot in London and I doubt I even need to mention it, even to those not from here but to anyone who stumbles across my little guide it would be a shame for you to miss it. I can’t lie, at least [...]

The place to come if you like burgers and chips or greasy fry-ups. It’s a one stop biker rock n’ roll heaven with a classic silver diner style bar, jukebox and a chequered theme throughout. It’s been here since 1938 and being located on the north circular road it’s still the real deal concerning a [...]

As Hunter S Thompson said “ I am down to 10 US dollars but have developed a theory which will go down as Thompson’s law of travel economics. To wit: full speed ahead and damn the cost; it will all come out in the wash”. I’ve got £40 left in my bank account and what [...]

Not so much a market as five floors of unadulterated gorgeousness. 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 of my price range. I like to think of [...]

Far too good for most of the people who come here. Although it’s taken a lot of creative input to put together, sadly it’s too expensive to attract a particularly creative clientele as each cocktail costs at least £10, it’s better to be with someone who is paying and trying to impress you. I [...]