A luxury asylum. A watch tower over all what’s hustle and bustle in central, Aqua promises sophisticated evenings with haute couture edibles and bespoke cocktails. Past the big bloke on the door and take the lift to Aqua Kyto, where the epicurean conductor Paul Greening has conjured up The Experience Menu, which takes the tradition of kaiseki and serves it up in a fun way for a contemporary audience. The kaiseki AKA banquet menu is the highest art-form that will ever pass your lips. Using the several courses to show off the chef’s pizzazz, flavour combos and personal technique. Greeni...
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It’s that stomach turning time of year for kids, with “back to school” plastered all over the place, however lucky worker type can relish within the perils of education with the Gin School holding some extracurricular lessons every Monday at Charlottes Bistro in Chiswick. Every Monday (commencing at 6.30) the neighbourhood venue hosts free gin tastings, with different producers coming down to teach the locals of Chiswick, how their sip is sampled best. As well as being a great spot to taste some Vera Lynn (gin), Charlottes Bistro is a bookworm haven, with the restaurant having just been ...
Read more →Apples and Pears – situated at the not-so-vintage end of Brick Lane – is the sort of bar you wish you’d known about ages ago. To mark the launch of their summer cocktail menu, we went along to try out their freshly-curated concoctions, expertly designed by their wonderfully knowledgeable head barman, Carlos.
Read more →Looking back to look forward; it seems that entrepreneurial team behind MODE are really propelling this venue into every discerning deviants radar. The grey matter brawn in question is the joint effort of five local entrepreneurs; Stevie Thomas, Jono Remington-Hobbs, brothers Oliver and Benjamin Bolton and Jolyon Klean, who have worked tirelessly to develop the next level in nightlife experiences. Friday saw the official launch of the venue which classes it’s self as a club, bar, art space, music venue, restaurant hybrid. Launching with its first chapter ‘Future Vintage’, guests were imm...
Read more →As the Swiss Army Knife in Notting Hill's nightlife scene; MODE is a restaurant, cocktail bar and late night destination venue which promises to remove any question marks from your debauchery schedule. Morphing every 6 months MODE will be creating highly immersive, limited edition chapters of pop-up inspired experiences. With each phase inspired by a specific concept, MODE will carry the thematic through food and drink offerings and curated installations, which will be set to the beat of an eclectic live music schedule. Signature dishes include a W11 set beckoning bait of: Blood orange a...
Read more →Traditionally West End shows employ a backstage crew, clad in black to seamlessly change the set from one environment to the next. Mamounia Lounge is no exception. Men dressed in black sit around the outside of the venue puffing shisha smoke into the night whilst concurrently concealing the venue from the road scene. Step inside the next set and the dull greys and dusky tones of the street are transformed into a luxurious landscape of chic Middle Eastern drinking, dining and entertainment. Excess is limitless and extravagance is abundant. Opulent gold and bronze leafing swirls the room ...
Read more →“Brunch” a word commonly used by us Londonites to describe a breakfast meal that’s eaten after a very long lie in. A jolly little convergence of all the best bits of breakfast, served at the civilised hour that you’d normally eat lunch. Hitting the same harmonious mark that purple does, when you mix a cold blue with a feisty red - brunch is that middle meal panacea. The blackboard placed 50 meters or so away proclaimed they serve “The best brunch in East London”, as we just so happen to be in East London and of course blackboards being the original source of all factual information - li...
Read more →Pitching up in their new home on Upper Street, the award winningly succulent Brasilian restaurant CABANA, will be bringing a little bit of their Latin spirit to Islington. Welcoming in the restaurant ramblers of Upper Street from the 30th of November, they plan to introduce the carnivorous neighborhood to their infamous Spicy Malagueta Chicken and prized sticky barbecue Ribs, alongside a ton of other freshly grilled meats. As well as the meat treats you can expect some spot hitting and itch scratching street food dishes in the form of Coxinhas (croquettes of shredded chicken and spices) ...
Read more →Things are getting a bit hairy at Bubbledogs during November. In support of Movember and raising awareness about prostate and other male cancers Bubbledogs have created a couple of unique, mouth watering treats. “Hair of the Dog” is a scrumptious Chicago style hotdog based on a Bloody Mary with celery salt, horseradish, tomatoes and black pepper mayo and a traditional frankfurter sausage...yum! It is available during November and only at lunch times from 11.30am – 4pm. Along with “Hair of the Dog” is the creation of “La Tâche”, a drink designed to put the hair back on your face, let alone y...
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