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. [...]
Gaby’s Deli generally gets pretty mixed reviews. Some people love it, some don’t get what all the fuss is about. I’d say I was something of a Jewphile. I love everything Jewish, I’m planning on converting just because I think it will help my chances of being buried in Hollywood forever cemetery. A friend gave [...]
Yey another bike shop cafe! Look Mum No Hands, certainly brightens up this boring stretch of Old Street. This ambitous project is both bike workshop and cafe/casual restaurant of sorts. It’s definitely less of a hipster fixed wheel hangout and more of a family oriented place, hosting fun events from brownie baking competitions to film [...]
Wilton Way Cafe is perhaps more of a coffee on the run or quick breakfast kind of place as it doesn’t have much in the way of comfortable seating but what it lacks in comfort it makes up for in quality. They like to make coffee the right way here, the antipodean way, so it’s [...]
I’m well known for my ‘fads’, they go way back, ranging from synchronized swimming to carpentry but of late I’m into bikes. I haven’t gone as far as getting a fixed wheel though. Looking cool on a fixed wheel bike is really not such a fine line. You can only pull it off if you [...]
In a city which is full to the brim with vintage and second hand shops it takes something to stand out. I have nearly gotten myself killed on numerous occasions cycling past Rospo craning my neck to see what exciting things they have piled up outside on the pavement. They usually have all kinds of [...]
Casita is a (I want to say Mexican themed) tiny little bar where they serve delicious (if somewhat pricey) cocktails but it’s the tequila shot I would recommend. It’s made from a special brand of Tequila, mint and lime I think but it’s thick and just a little bit sweet, I can’t remember what it’s [...]
On discovering 19 Numara Bos Cirrik I came back seven times in two weeks. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. What can I say? just that the food here is unbelievably good. It’s so fresh and tasty, they bring an incredible onion salad doused with a sweet pomegranate syrup and warm chewy Turkish [...]
It’s been said that Gourmet San is the best Chinese food outside of China. However as Chinese food varies massively from region to region it is probably more apt to say that it’s the best Szechuan food outside of China. It’s authentic in more ways that one. It’s minimalist and back to basics by way [...]
I thought it about time I should pay a visit to the Greenwich Meridian. Well I can tell you there isn’t much to look at. It would have been far more exciting if there was a one hour time difference depending on what side of the line you were standing on, but no, it’s just [...]
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 [...]
Now here is a collection of weird shit. So taxidermy and monkey skulls I get, but Labrador’s testicles in jars? It’s hard not to like it here, I mean there aren’t many places where you hear the staff shout, “the ocelot fur coats are in the kid’s coffin under the mortuary table in the back [...]
Le Grenier appears to be the official retailer of 70’s Crockery. Full sets of brown and orange tea cups, sugar pots and tea jars interspersed with eclectic jewellery, retro furniture, exciting knick knacks and old record players in suitcases which are pretty useless but look cool. This shop probably survives in large part to people [...]
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