Carolina

Carolina

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

Picturehouse Central: the ultimate cinema and dining experience

Is it a cinema, a café, a bar or a restaurant? All of them together. The Picturehouse Central is a brand-new movie-watching experience, an oasis of tranquility amidst the Piccadilly chaos. Recalling the glamour and opulence of the original Leicester Square Trocadero…

The Manhattan Project at POND Dalston: weird cocktails and Hawaiian food pairings made in heaven

The launch of The Manhattan Project‘s residency at POND Dalston saw a dream team of tasty and crafty cocktails matched with Hawaiian food. The weirder the better. The Manhattan Project’s odd twist on retro cocktails - all consisting of four main ingredients focusing…

Dining at the Mondrian’s Sea Containers with Damian Barr’s Literary Salon

On Monday I had the pleasure to try a marvellous two-course meal at the London Mondrian Hotel’s Sea Containers restaurant as part of my ticket for Damian Barr’s Literary Salon‘s seventh birthday, one of my favourite nights of the year…

Bootleg fun at Bourne & Hollingsworth’s Prohibition Party

A warehouse in London Fields became a 1920s speakeasy for a night last weekend, throwing the best dance night I’ve been to in a while: none other than Bourne & Hollingsworth‘s glamorous Prohibition Party. Here’s what you can expect from a…

3 London healthy-eating spots

I’m just about surviving the back-from-holiday blues – and I need to shed extra kilos courtesy of gelato off my legs. This doesn’t mean I can’t have fun: here are three great London healthy spots that won’t make you feel too…

London’s Twin Peaks bar is damn fine

“Diane, 6:30 p.m., August Twenty-eight. Entering the Twin Peaks pop-up, in a secret location in Farringdon. I have seen it before, but now it’s all different.” If you’re a Twin Peaks fan, the words: “The owls are not what they seem”…

A (not so serious) review of Cumberbatch’s Hamlet for the average Joe

Disclaimer: I’m no theatre expert. I haven’t even studied Hamlet – it wasn’t part of my school curricula. I just read it on my own, with the Italian translation next to it, because I can understand Latin better than Shakespearean…

Druid Street Market is where it’s at

There’s a new market in town, and it’s as hip as its East London ‘rivals’: here’s what goes down at Druid Street Market, South East London’s freshest street food spot. Open every Saturday from 9am to 4pm, Druid Street Market…

Fine vegan food at The Gate Islington

I do love my meat, but… I mean, who am I kidding: I just love everything edible. Especially if it’s a bloody good vegetarian restaurant like The Gate in Islington. Launched in 1989 by Adrian and Michael Daniel, brothers of Indo-Iraqi Jewish heritage,…

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