Authentic Kurdish Flavours At London’s Nandine
Like most Londoners, I’m on a constant mission to get my taste buds excited. London spoils us ridiculously with never-ending options. Cue my delight at the opportunity to sample Kurdish cuisine in Camberwell.
A Masterclass In Amaretto Cocktails at Eataly
‘Mi piaci, aah-haaah, mi piaci, aah-haah, tanto, tanto….’ Raffaella Carrà’s sultry, singing voice was filling my ears while I was filling up my cocktail shaker with all the ingredients to make ADRIATICO Bianco Almond Margarita.
Delicious Pho Launches in London
From Canada to Spitalfields, a successful Vietnamese restaurant finds its newest home in East London’s lively hub of food, art, music, and events.
Its founder, Chau Tran, with her natural talent for Vietnamese cooking and flavours, opened the very first Delicious Pho in Canada in 2003 and it became an instant success.
Jamaican British Fusion at Wood & Water
Where can you go right now that is cosy and cool to experience a fresh spin on a familiar and contemporary British menu? Wood & Water is the brainchild of former Miss Jamaica April Jackson who, having grown up in Jamaica and resided in France and New York, has created dishes packed with unique flavours and textures.
Sticky Mango, Bourdain Day, & The Burnt Chef Project
‘If it’s good enough for Barack Obama, it’s good enough for me’, said I under my breath as I attacked my Bon Cha with chopsticks.
It was the second dish from a sharing tribute menu designed by the chef Peter Lloyd and his Sticky Mango team to honour and celebrate the late chef Anthony Bourdain on ‘Bourdain Day’.
Pizza & Tequila Cocktails On Sloane Square
What do George Clooney, Sloane Square and pizza have in common? The newest exciting alfresco dining terrace pop-up, Pizza On The Square, brought to you by Sloane Square’s The Botanist and Casamigos Tequila and Mezcal.
A Countryside Escape to The Pointer at Brill
If you’re a die-hard summer worshipper, like me, you are now in mourning, like me. However, I temporarily forget my seasonal dismay when autumnal explosion of colours happens all around me. It is a perfect time to seek cosy, countryside escape, preferably with the staying-the-night option but only after devouring some ‘full-fat’ pub food and washing it down with some full-bodied wine...
Seductive Female Spirit At Brixton’s Courtesan
As soon as London nights turn frosty, it takes a special kind of talented charmer to lure me out from under my electric blanket and put my party boots on.However, the recently relaunched Courtesan, discreetly tucked away from Brixton’s main road hubbub, managed to charm the curious side of me. Boasting ‘the world’s first truly female wine and spirit list’ from the cocktail bar it also includes a dim sum restaurant, a tea room and a subterranean late-night entertainment space. It certainly has multiple layers of intrigue...
Light Up Your January At Boisdale
‘There aren’t a great deal of things to look forward to in January, but we always have Burns Night’, mused aloud our dinner host, Ranald Macdonald, while welcoming us into the cosy, lower ground interiors of the Old Fashioned Bar at Boisdale of Mayfair the latest addition to his successful restaurant brand...
Grand Hotel in Eastbourne: Seafront Luxury With A Heart
Autumn is like the grand finale scene of a summer love story’. This I mused in the car, while drinking in the explosion of golden, amber and scarlet hues along the East Sussex coastline, quite smug that our wedding anniversary falls on just such a day...
The Alternative Handset For A Modern Belle
If you’re like me, one of your hands looks permanently like a smartphone and you don’t even know what your palm looks like. It’s not my fault that smartphones these days have become the perfect virtual, personal assistant and thanks to the only ever-improving applications for iPhones and Androids, it is now a compass (literally, if I need to head north), a book, a magazine, the newspapers, a yoga teacher, a guitar teacher, a foreign language teacher, a navigator, a DJ and a shopping assistant...
Farringdon’s Barsmith Goes Tiki For The Summer
What do Hollywood, Zombie and London’s Barsmith have in common this summer? One word: Tiki. Since 1930’s the Hollywood’s elite made ‘Don The Beachcomber’, a Polynesian-themed bar and restaurant in California their hotspot, the Tiki culture vibe was firmly established...
Premier Bubbly At Icetank
The fever of the Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Week marathon may have slowly fizzled out in the four biggest trend-setting capitals but that’s no reason to put a cork back into the bottle just yet. In fact, I am convinced the celebratory cork popping is still echoing through Paris where the fashion elite gathered last, to swoon over what we’ll be wearing the next season. So with FOMO in mind, I headed to Icetank in Covent Garden for a premier sparkling evening of my own...
Get Into The Spirit Of Tasting
You think you know all about the spirit of your choice at your local hang-out venue until Spirits Educator and Master Distiller Will Lowe makes you aware you’ve been merely scratching a surface of a bottle...