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 [...]
The times when I seem to find the best places are when I’m killing time waiting for Rafael. This time we’re going to see a band. I rarely if ever go and see bands. My days of that are long gone unless I know someone in the band. These days I prefer to sit and [...]
Episode is one of the few remaining vintage shops in Camden, which not so long ago used to be little but vintage shops and grungy bars. These days however Camden seems to be going up in flames to make room for lots of glossy new businesses which you would think would kill off the hippies [...]
Pop Boutique has been around for a long time, it was one of the first vintage shops I discovered when I moved to London. I went to Central Saint Martins (school of art) in nearby Soho where I had a lot of free time and more money than I have ever had since, (student loan, [...]
The Daunt Books flagship store is one of the most glorious bookshops you will ever see. It mimics a beautiful old library from one of England’s palaces and reminds me of Lord Groan’s personal library in Gormenghast. Here they don’t arrange books by alphabetical order but by country as it’s primarily a travel bookshop, so [...]
Jambala is a most welcoming little shop, chockablock full of books with shelves crammed to bursting and piles stacked up in every spare corner I can never walk by without sticking my head in and having a look around, no doubt finding a well loved JD Salinger or such like. It’s run by the London [...]
Don’t expect to be greeted warmly. No no, you’ll get a sneer that’s for sure – “don’t knick anything as I can’t be bothered to keep an eye you” from the store assistant (no doubt called India….Indiyaaaah um… seriously, someone named you that? I don’t think so). Obviously The Retro Exchange is used to people [...]
Now this is one hell of a jam-packed junk shop, things piled to the ceiling, be careful, don’t touch anything, it’s likely to come crashing down ontop of you. This is where you will find a crazed old local buying used towels or some such oddity, I found a big lightbulb with the word LOVE [...]
Situated on a quiet residential street, The Florist Arms isn’t the kind of place I would suggest you should go out of your way for but it’s definitely worth knowing about if you live or you’re staying in the area. It’s a friendly little place with red boudoir style wallpaper, velvet stools and big leather [...]
Oh the Palm Tree, what a beauty. It’s a fitting name as the Palm Tree is stuck on a desolate patch of nothing. It’s got the canal to oneside and then well, nothing to the other. This is an establishment that harks back to another time that’s for sure. Alfie the owner is as authentic [...]
I can tell you this, there aren’t many places like this left in Soho, talk about out of place! It’s like the Loreli in the sense I have walked past it a million times amazingly failing to notice how special it is. It’s so easy to get caught up going to places like Busaba bloody [...]
This little Italian caff has been around forever and it was one of Sebastian Horsley’s favourites, despite the fact he would say that the food looked like someone had already eaten it. The food is more or less what you would expect from a greasy spoon. However this one’s a beauty, wood paneled walls and [...]
It’s 10.15pm on Sunday night, my phone rings, a high pitched voice on the other end of the line, “Are you working this week? I need someone to cover, our receptionist has made it through to the final of Britain’s Next Top Model”, uh really, yes I suppose so. The life of a receptionist, I’ve [...]
So I have this friend, Alexa, she’s got fancy taste, especially when it comes to restaurants. If you ask her her favourite restaurant, no doubt she’ll reply Arbutus or Wild Honey. Nonetheless her likes are varied and she knows a good restaurant when she sees one, whether it’s Rocca or the Stockpot she’s no snob, [...]
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