Carolina

Carolina

I'm an Italian Londoner, writer, pole dancer and fitness, food, travel and lifestyle blogger.

Turkish tapas heaven at Arabica

Arabica Bar & Kitchen is a heavenly restaurant under a railway arch in Borough Market. A Turkish tapas place like no other, you will want to come back for its incredible grilled meat and for its mouth-watering pides.  When we went in,…

Curing the Cuban blues: Asia De Cuba brunch

I had the Cuban blues, so I went to cure them at St Martin’s Lane Hotel’s slick Asia De Cuba. Spoiler alert: it worked. Launched last September, Asia De Cuba’s signature Chino-Latino brunch gives diners the hard choice to pick either…

Mediterranean tapas at Ember Yard

What do you do when you miss the warmth of the Mediterranean life? Simple. You have dinner at Ember Yard. Part of the Salt Yard Group, Ember Yard is a slick tapas place in Soho’s busy Berwick Street. It has everything…

Flesh and Buns bottomless brunch

Every London restaurant does a bottomless brunch nowadays. All it takes is Prosecco, pancakes and eggs to make up a respectable bottomless brunch menu. But Flesh & Buns in Covent Garden goes one step further, giving you one of the…

A corner of New Orleans in St. Paul’s: The Fat Bear

Since my brief stay in New Orleans, Lousiana, I still can’t get over the Deep South’s atmosphere, food, drinks and magic. It’s only natural then that I had to try London’s The Fat Bear, a corner of New Orleans in…

Press launch week: Cocktails in the City and Native

This week was all about press launches: between the slick press preview of Cocktails In The City at the Hoxton Hotel and Native’s launch night, here’s why you shouldn’t miss either. Cocktails in the City  Following the huge success of its…

Things to see in Havana

It takes less than a few hours to fall in love with Havana. Its colourful, decadent buildings are as beautiful as much as they are in shambles. Its chaos is almost relaxing. Its sounds will get you to dance from dusk…

Bellini brunch at the South Place Hotel

Turns out January was a month of firsts. So after my first Eggs Benedict in five years spent in London, I went to the South Place Hotel for my first Bangers and Mash. I’ve been walking past 3 South Place on…

The HotBox meat feast

January is over. Say goodbye to dry dinners and clean-eating at Spitalfields’ own corner of the Deep South: grilled meat heaven HotBox. HotBox matches innovative takes on barbecue classics with cleverly named house cocktails and great craft beers. Take the inevitable Bruce Springsteam…

Chinese New Year dinner at HKK

I was born in the year of the Monkey, so what better way to celebrate this Chinese New Year than enjoying an eight-course meal in the City’s HKK? In between the City of London and Shoreditch, HKK is an incredibly classy Chinese…

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