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, [...]

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 [...]

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 that could only be run by Italians due to bright lighting and [...]

I find it easy to get lost around Waterloo, it’s difficult to negotiate around 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 [...]

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, I 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 (Eucalyptus, which emits a highly flammable vapour) wooded 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 what interior designer threw up 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 [...]