If the thought of a standard Christmas dinner bores you slightly, then head on down to London's Pedley Street Station. There, thanks to Funicular Productions' latest offering The Greatest Snowman, you'll board a train and get whisked away on a festive journey to remember. The production company is pioneering a new form of immersive dining in the city, and like the other productions I've seen, its newest number promises to please. I don't want to give too much away, but on board the Arctic Express you'll embark on a ride peppered with laughter, lots of Christmas spirit and a range of high ji...
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The team behind, Zuaya restaurant and cocktail bar have brought the wilds of the jungle to their new London opening in High Street Kensington. The wild plant walled interior, eccentric dishes and conceptual presentation of plates and cocktails all combine to form a rich sensory journey. The restaurant & bar itself are split into a different mood zones. You enter through outdoor seating and a cocktail bar, perfect for hot summer evenings. Immediately as you enter there is a suspended DJ booth above steep dramatic stairway, which follows on to formal and cosy dining booths downstairs. Each ...
Read more →The Vaults, housed under Waterloo station, is one of my favourite spaces in London and it’s always producing surprises. The venue, which is known for its wacky immersive productions, is currently hosting a brilliant show titled Divine Proportions. It instructs guests to ‘wine, dine and celebrate life’ and the steamy atmosphere of the place certainly enables this. I popped to a showing on a Friday night and everyone nervously waited in the bar area for the show to unfold. To ease the nerves, I delved into the fabulously themed cocktail list. A smokey rum twist on an old fashioned and a whi...
Read more →I've walked around this little nook of Soho a few times and never stumbled across this gem. But if you get a chance, I can't recommend Sophie's Soho enough. Housed inside a former sex cinema and nightclub, the venue is pretty spectacular. Think high ceilings, raw red brick, pipes showing and a buzzing atmosphere. This is the kind of place you could base yourself for the day, hanging out to do work, seeing friends grabbing dinner and dancing in the speakeasy club downstairs come nightfall. On walking into the venue, there is a cosy conservatory area at the front, and then you immediately g...
Read more →If you love a bit of classical music and delicious food, then tune into The Ivy Kensington Brassiere for its latest offering. The perfectly appointed restaurant has crafted a special menu around this year’s BBC Proms. We checked into the eatery on a Sunday evening at 6pm before an 8pm concert at the Royal Albert Hall. With it being a warm evening, we decided to take a table in the tucked-away terrace area. To kick things off, we decided to try the two musical inspired cocktails. The Strawberry Symphony features a delicious mix of Chase vodka, strawberry syrup, lemon juice, watermelon cube...
Read more →Eaton square bar and restaurant have recently launched a new gluten free menu offering up a menu that is still delicious but much more accessible. With now 95% of their menu gluten free, coeliacs can rejoice as they are now able to enjoy dishes such as chocolate fondant and beetroot ‘ravioli’.
Read more →I’m already plotting my return to Black Roe. I felt pretty deflated when I went, not because of the fodder, but because I didn’t leave room for dessert. It was only when I saw the enormous sundae glide by that I realised my dining error. Simply described as a ‘Shake and Bake’ on the menu the Black Roe pudding doesn’t give too much away. But from the 'oohs and ahhs' sounding from the diners over the way it is clearly pretty tasty. As are the savoury dishes at Black Roe - not to mention the interiors. The eatery, tucked away in a nook of Mayfair, oozes sexiness without parading it too much....
Read more →Alfred Cointreau is currently the sixth generation scion of the Cointreau family, spearheading a much loved 150-year-old heritage brand which started all the way back in 1849. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Margarita cocktail, Cointreau invited us to meet Alfred in East London for a colourful margarita masterclass and an in person interview. Discover their classic margarita recipe and read our interview with Alfred Cointreau below... A margarita without cointreau is not worth it's salt - Margaret 'Margarita' Same (1948) INTERVIEW When and where did you try your first margari...
Read more →As British Summer time beckons and the sun descends over London tonight it is finally time escape the conventional B.S.T. and embrace the delectable ‘A.N.T.’ - also known as - 'Alternative Notion of Time'. Tonight in London’s Kings Cross the peculiar team of poets, alchemists and nonsense-mongers at Hendrick’s Gin have unveiled a spectacular contraption that flips the nation’s notion of time on its head. Bang on the forecourt of King’s Cross Station, the Time Inversion Instrument invites curious Londoners to break free from our usual time constraints and open their eyes to an Alternative Noti...
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