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...
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'I want something that will pick me up and f*ck me up,' Kate Moss asked famed cocktail maestro Dick Bradsell in the early eighties. And thus, the espresso martini was born, as the mixologist only had a coffee maker and some vodka to hand. We headed to the Bluebird in Chelsea to get a mixology masterclass from the restaurant's top bartending team. The espresso martini is one of the venue's most popular cocktails. The head bartender, Egzon Kastrati, revealed that the bar uses more coffee than the main restaurant for making the heady libations. In a month, they roughly rustle up 3,000 espres...
Read more →There are evenings in London where everything seems to fall perfectly into place and you realize why we pay sky-high rents and negotiate the network of the London underground every day to live in this gracious city. The evening we dined at the Imperial was one of these; it was the first day of 2016 where we felt summer was truly arriving and we were ready to welcome it with open arms.
Read more →The recently launched Joe’s Oriental Diner adds a much needed edge to the King’s Road. Aussie chef Scott Hallsworth brings his version of Pan Asian food to London, staying honest to the bare bone, gritty roots of recipes consumed in the ports of Asia. Joe's has taken permanent residency in what was once the original Kurobuta Chelsea pop-up, (Scott's award winning Kurobuta Chelsea is now also a permanent fixture on the Kings Road no.312). Joe’s evokes the dive bar subculture of the Orient, where all walks of life meet to enjoy music and good times.
Read more →Proud Galleries in Chelsea is set to launch a new exhibition of the works of Dorothy Bohm. One of the most respected photographers of our time, Bohm was born in Germany in 1924, but she resided in the UK most of her life after emigrating here at the start of World War II. The works in the show, many of them never seen by the public before, have been selected by Bohm's daughter Monica Bohm-Duncan in consultation with her mother. The exhibition mainly focuses on Bohm's view of the swinging 60s in London. Her eyes, both that of a young girl and that of a foreigner, saw this thrilling city at i...
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