If it wasn’t for the type of people who come here, the suit-wearing, boring and loud, let’s-get-a-drink-after-work type, The Jerusalem would be perfect. You’ll come across a lot of people who work in Clerkenwell, which has an abundance of media offices and architecture offices, that kind of thing and people dressed on the wrong side [...]
Specialising in independent films, including a lot of British and European ones and perfectly located on the edge of Soho and Chinatown. It has a street level café selling cakes and cookies from my favourite bakery, Konditor & Cook and a dark relaxing lower ground floor café and bar with a number of cushy leather [...]
Someone told me once that there was an island in the Thames down by Twickenham only accessible by footbridge where there were art studios to rent. I soon discovered that many of these ‘art studios’ were in fact dilapidated old boats hauled up onto dry land and abandoned left sitting at a jaunty angle, it’s [...]
The way things are going these days, no trendy bar or café will be complete without the odd piece of taxidermy it seems. The venue is large and quite pretentious which attracts a local crowd. A bit like an old fashioned English pub but with 70’s-style hippie-chic wallpaper. “ ….it’s popular with an uber [...]
Drina is going to America for the first time and in order to get her into the true spirit of American eating I paid a visit to Cyber Candy, the Holy Grail of sugar in every colour, shape and form. It’s the place to come for your Lucky Charms, Junior Mints, Root Beer, Cream Soda, [...]
It didn’t need Kate Moss to make this the most popular clothes shopping spot in London and I doubt I even need to mention it, even to those not from here but to anyone who stumbles across my little guide it would be a shame for you to miss it. I can’t lie, at least [...]
The place to come if you like burgers and chips or greasy fry-ups. It’s a one stop biker rock n’ roll heaven with a classic silver diner style bar, jukebox and a chequered theme throughout. It’s been here since 1938 and being located on the north circular road it’s still the real deal concerning a [...]
In an old Soho townhouse, a throwback to Dickensian London, is Parisian café meets English country house. For years I walked past it not even knowing it was here. Andrew Edmunds is without question my favourite restaurant in London. It’s elegant with an intimate and romantic atmosphere with small tables and rustic old church pews [...]
Ok so I take it back, Brixton does have a few places of merit other than the Ritzy and Rosie’s Café, and one would be Franco Manca. A little pizza place only open for lunch in Brixton Market, it looks a bit like a posh fish and chip shop with a giant mosaic pizza oven [...]
On a sunny Sunday be warned that you will barely be able to move due to the sheer volume of people. 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 to the most amazing [...]
Dear Tourist,
We are not known for being welcoming to tourists here in London. We have no patience when they try to scan their paper tube ticket on the oyster card reader, or when they insist on holding hands so they don’t get separated or when they stand on the left of the escalator when [...]
It’s often hard to get a seat here as it’s always heaving. The types who come here are the kind who move to Brick Lane because it’s cool not because they’re cool. I bet everyone here has a job in something related to advertising but they hang out on Brick Lane at Coffee @ on [...]
On my initial discovery it was like an episode of the Twilight Zone. I decided to walk up Cambridge Heath Road to avoid waiting for a bus as it was a rare sunny day when I came across what looked like a garden centre or children’s crèche with an abundance of garden gnomes, miniature chairs [...]
A home away from home with big comfy chairs (which they probably salvaged from the street thrown away by some landlord who couldn’t use them due to the fire hazard). It’s 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. [...]
When I asked if I could take a photograph I got a grunted reply of “urgh people are always asking us that” , the main reason anyone comes here is for the “super elevated gillie” platforms with 9-inch heels and 4-inch platforms from Vivienne Westwood’s 1993 fall-winter Anglomania collection that Naomi Campbell fell over in, [...]
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