I had been noticing recently that quite a few new places had popped up on Redchurch street and that I was totally out of touch. So I decided to cycle down and see what was new and while I was at it tell you about a few of my already existing favourite spots around there. [...]

Things are changing around here. Not so long ago I would with true devotion avoid going south of the river at all costs. However, slowly but surely I’m beginning to realise that all the good stuff really is cropping up way down…there, south of the river. I like to think that north of the river [...]

It’s 10am and I sit down ready to write up a bunch of new places. Not without making a cup of tea first though. Ok now I’m ready, I’ll look up Tom Wolfe for a little inspiration just to get me going. I can’t think though, the person sitting next to me, he’s distracting, his [...]

Vegan restaurants always excite me because being a vegetarian there is just so much to choose from. Vitao is a great little place in Soho where they have a buffet and you pay by the plate load so assuming you can fit it all on you can feel free to pile it as high as [...]

Now Giovanni’s is a romantic little spot. A small traditional Italian restaurant with candlelit tables makes it dark and atmospheric, perfect for a date. Red walls are covered in pictures of celebrities that have dined here over the years including Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars (the proof is written on a framed napkin). It may [...]

Although grungy and easily ignored, 12 Bar is a great little spot located at the heart of the legendary Tin Pan Alley. With a history that can stake claim to being the place where NME started, the Rolling Stones and Cat Stevens created their first album and where Elton John had his first job, not [...]

I’m not sure I really want to tell anyone about Railroad, the reason being that it’s just so perfect (and near my house). It’s a small and unassuming little place, where they make perfect coffee, Antipodean style coffee, in small cups, thick and creamy and their hot chocolate is the best I have ever had. [...]

If they gave out ‘Buyer’ awards then Tomo (the buyer here) would win it. God they have so much great, great stuff, it’s expensive but so worth it. They were the first stockists in London of Cheap Monday jeans, or so I hear from The Captain. Now The Captain is NOT one of the beautiful [...]

Now Pogo Café is a full on no frills vegan cafe and is where I come when I don’t want to feel like I’m in London. It’s a bit ghetto with an anarchist bent which I find charming. On the other hand you could find it extremely irritating if you were the type to take [...]

On a narrow cobbled street in the heart of Soho lies a row of rickety old Georgian houses, each one a testimony to what Soho once was, ugly, dangerous and debauched, not the shiny glass box it is today. Having walked up and down this street a million times over the past 10 years, it [...]

Raisa and Frida are Scandinavian illustrators, puppeteers and the creators of the Little Theatre of dolls a travelling puppet show. What is your favourite restaurant in London? We can never remember the names of the places we go. This morning we looked up a place that we like in Soho, we looked it up for [...]

So Walthamstow is not somewhere you would usually find me, it’s ‘hold on to your bag country’ as my friend would put it, but I was lured over by the promise of popcorn, a 110″ ‘home cinema’ and the ‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly’ (we ended up watching Sex in the City the [...]

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, the current climate and by climate I mean the eco-bender we’re all on not the recession (I don’t have any money now but I didn’t have any before either) means I feel not on justified but holier than thou buying one-off creations from London and Tokyo’s [...]

I think I would have to say that LMNT is my favourite restaurant in London. On approach it looks like your usual skanky Dalston pub. However on closer inspection I begin to realise this is not your standard pub. In fact I realise it’s NOT a pub at all. The sphinxes adorning the exterior are [...]

Broadway Market is my favourite market as it combines vintage clothes, amazing food and ingredients like what you would find at borough market (27 varieties of sweet balsamic vinegar and little testers on everything), flowers, organic shampoo, cupcakes, olives etc.. all set on one of my favourite streets in Bethnal Green and being in Bethnal [...]