When you’re looking for destinations for a city break, Mainz, a university town on the Rhine, might not be the first place that comes to mind. It most certainly didn’t come to mine. However, after discovering it while visiting a…
Forget the London Dungeon: some of London’s goriest and most interesting museums exhibit real dead things: St. Bart’s Museum of Pathology and the Hunterian Museum of Surgery. And they’re both free-entry. If, like me, you’re a creep who loves seeing dead things,…
What better way to spend your Saturdays than queuing for London’s hottest exhibitions right now? The Wellcome Collection caters for the morbid and the kinky with the over-reviewed, highly anticipated and – sigh – incredibly queued-for displays on violent death (Forensics) and…
Last weekend was all about London’s obsession with France: read my reviews of Bistrot Bruno Loubet and the cocktail bar Baranis. After working in front of it for nearly three months, I managed to have lunch at Bistrot Bruno Loubet before…
The Dead Dolls House‘s just-launched venue in Islington has a new menu and I had to try it. Sunday at the new Dead Dolls House means jazz with Peter Horsfall and a lush, massive plate of Sunday Roast. The options…
Last Saturday, Shoreditch’s McQueen bar hosted Wasted Chic, a pop-up sample sale where up and coming designers sold funky clothes under £100. Cocktails and money were flowing. The sample sale was one of the greatest people-watching occasions I had been to in…
Entering Somerset House last weekend was surreal. It was almost as though the entire male population of East London had decided to venture West to celebrate itself and one of its most recognisable trade-marks: the beard. Somerset House’s Beard exhibition displays over 80 images shot…
Have you ever wondered what your favourite artists do in their free time? Well, some of them collect weird stuff. London’s Barbican Centre has put some of that weird stuff on show for its Magnificent Obsessions – The Artist as a…
The Tate Modern Gallery in South Bank is now hosting one of London’s most talked-about exhibitions, Marlene Dumas‘s The Image As Burden.  Focusing mainly on sex, love, death and shame, her paintings explore popular culture and women through an intense and…
Last weekend, I tried to show my American Couchsurfer some good time – which obviously means I took him out to eat London style: in markets and pop-ups. Here’s some Hawker House and Boss Hoss goodness for you. Saturday morning meant making our…
