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...
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'Pace yourself!' was the instruction we originally received before tucking into a multi-course James Bond food and drink extravaganza. ‘That’s not very in the style of James Bond,’ I thought to myself, as I imagined the infamous spy having little restraint in many aspects of life, especially on the subject of pleasure. The event was taking place at one of my favourite venues in London, The Distillery on Portobello Road, and I was sat in the upstairs private dining room with 20 other guests. There was a group of Americans, a man from Norway and Londoners, all brought together by one thing - ...
Read more →All aboard! It’s time for brave Londoners to head down to Pedley Street Station and sell their souls for a Journey To The Underworld. Immersive theatre and dining experts Funicular have prepared a luxury train carriage and are now ready to depart on the greatest love story never told, where fear, fantasy, danger and lust intertwine in a dark and romantic fairytale. The best part? Down in the Underworld, travellers dine in style. Passengers will be treated to a delicious four-course menu curated by 2017 MasterChef The Professionals finalist Louisa Ellis. The culinary maestro has designed a...
Read more →From the team behind the sell-out BYOB bar concept, Alcotraz, comes Moonshine Saloon, a one-of- a-kind immersive cocktail bar experience which is set to transport guests from the streets of West London to the streets of the Wild West. Moonshine Saloon is now open for bookings for a limited four month run. Located on the King’s Road, Moonshine Saloon is the centre of an undercover moonshine empire, a mysterious underworld where everyone looks out for themselves and nothing is quite as it seems. Inspired by the captivating tales of the WildWest and its covert operations, Moonshine Saloon invite...
Read more →Set onboard a glamorous train with lavish furnishings, The Murdér Express by Funicular productions transports guests back in time to the grandeur of the 19th century for a moving game of Cluedo. Travelling by train for pleasure is in its infancy and with it comes a special kind of thrill. Departing from ‘Pedley Street Station’ in East London, passengers are invited to experience 'The Murdér Express' as it snakes its way from London to the fictional town of Murdér in France. Entering via the Pedley Street Station ‘Seven Sins’ Bar, passengers of 'The Murdér Express' wet their whistles whilst l...
Read more →If you’re looking to spice up dinner time with a dash of sensuality, book tickets to An Evening of Meat. This new provocative dinner installation promises to serve up ‘a feast of femininity where expressive dance and indulgent food meet to thoroughly inundate all the senses’. And after checking out the experience, I can promise it delivers! Heading down to one of my favourite London venues – The Vaults in Waterloo – I checked out An Evening of Meat on a Thursday night with a girlfriend. The production has transformed an area of The Vaults into a dimly-lit space to create an urban cabaret-s...
Read more →The House of Peroni never fails to impress and this year is no exception. This time the Residency returns to east London and brings the most immersive and multi-sensory residency to date with a month long event entitled ‘Vita all’Interno’ - meaning ‘a life lived inside'.
Read more →Authentic world cuisine, in this case Spanish, served on board an imaginary flight from the 1960s, complete with glamorous air hostesses, dashing captains and well-shaken cocktails plus the promise of being whisked back to the glory days of air travel – aah those were the days!
Read more →Based on the BAFTA award series Faulty Towers, The Faulty Towers Dining Experience (in the beautiful Charing Cross Hotel) is a very, very wacky dining concept and exactly what fans of the show can expect. You’ll be in for an interesting surprise which will have you in stitches and make your sides split. Maybe it’s due to my young age or the fact that I don’t watch TV but I have never watched a single episode of Faulty Towers. However, I was never ignorant to the show’s plot, which is basically about a hotel owner called Basil, (a man of infinite rudeness with a rabid dislike for almost all ...
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