Half speakeasy half colonial clubhouse, this little art deco bar takes you back to 1930’s New York during the prohibition. It also reeks of British colonialism with leaf-shaped fans attached to the ceiling. The intimate atmosphere, flickering tea lights, subtle seediness and decadence remind me a bit of the kind of place you would find [...]
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 [...]
I love this little shop, it’s full of weird, colourful stuff, it could be the official outfitters for Central Saint Martins fashion students as most of the stock is totally over the top but makes the shop look good. Of course the only way to atone for being a little overdressed is by being always [...]
“To be well dressed is not to have expensive clothes or the right clothes. You can wear rags, so long as they suit you. Style is not elegance but consistency” this comes to mind every time a see a Japanese person, you know what I’m talking about. They are the only people that can wear [...]
Oh good Lord, I’m having another total freakin’ break down, I just spent £100 on a t-shirt. Okay so the cotton feels like silk and the heavy studding weighs down like chainmail, actually no this is a bargain it’s so beautiful. I tried it on thinking I CAN NOT spend £100 on a t-shirt, I [...]
Named after Princess Margaret, who, when she got married, became Margaret Armstrong-Jones, they used to come here for dinner a lot. You wouldn’t know it from the name but Maggie Jones is so so French in appearance anyway, and if you’ve read many of my reviews you may have picked up that I have [...]
Bumpkin is a relaxed restaurant attracting two types of clientele, both predominantly women: 1. Notting Hill locals who if they don’t begin life as one breed (privileged) end up one breed when they get married, give up their jobs and move to Notting Hill. You will see them in pairs excitedly leaning towards each other [...]
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 [...]
So it’s been said that it’s a contender for the loveliest gastro pub in London, however gastro pub? It’s nothing of the sort, it doesn’t resemble a pub in any way. It is lovely though, with worn wooden tables and mismatched regency chairs, quirky odd antiquities under twinkly lights creating a genuinely fake vintage environment, [...]
I’d read many a review of the Grocery café all of which condemned the service but enthused about the food. They weren’t wrong about the food, it’s amazing. And I didn’t have a problem with the service – it was fine plus I was served by a guy who looked like the freakish blond choir [...]
163-167 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW
020 7423 1525
Monday – Sunday 7am – 8pm
On account of its all glass frontage providing an unobscured view of the slick interior, this big glass cube of a restaurant is decidedly minimalist yet classy and in serving up some delicious British cuisine which slightly pushes the boundaries, it’s the British equivalent of high quality soul food. With everything from mac and cheese [...]
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