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 [...]

When anyone asks me a good place to eat out in west London, without exception I will suggest Osteria Basilico. The reasons are threefold: 1. the food is Italian, delicious, varied and well priced; 2. the upstairs has the great advantage that in summer they open the huge windows giving the impression of al fresco [...]

In an old Soho townhouse, a throwback to Dickensian London, is Andrew Edmunds, a Parisian café meets English country house. For years I walked past it not even knowing it was here. It’s elegant with an intimate and romantic atmosphere with small tables and rustic old church pews illuminated by tapered candles. Widely known as [...]

On a sunny Sunday be warned that you will barely be able to move due to the sheer volume of people on Brick Lane Market. Every Sunday street vendors come and lay out stuff all along the street whether it be vintage clothes, general carboot sale clutter, hand printed t-shirts or food ranging from falafel [...]

A home away from home with big comfy chairs, Candid Arts Cafe is hidden in the Candid Arts Trust and you wouldn’t know it was there unless you knew it was there, which is its main attraction. It’s fairly hippy-looking with some hilariously hideous paintings but still a great place to go by yourself to [...]