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London Things To Look Forward To In 2018

Ready to wave goodbye to 2017 but not sure what to expect from the new year? Here’s my list of London/UK things to look forward to in 2018. IT’S GONNA BE OUR YEAR GUYS I FEEL IT. New Restaurant Openings …

Drinks behind bars at Alcotraz London

Guard: “Lady, what are you trying to do? GET INTO THAT JUMPSUIT!” Me [wearing an awfully impractical tight pink dress]: “Sorry sir, just trying not show too much here!” My friend Mariola, who knows my pole dancer Insta feed all…

Back to London: first impressions

Want a life update you didn’t ask for? There you are. So I now I’m 100% back to London, having come initially for three days in August to look for flats. It’s my first time in The Big Smoke since…

Swedish Christmas at Fika Brick Lane

Can you ever get enough of Christmas? In London, very often the answer is yes. Packed Christmas markets with over-priced, lukewarm mulled wine and tourists shoving you away to get a picture in front of pretend picturesque chalets make you wish…

Back in 5 minutes: worst kept secret, best restaurant ever

Who are we kidding: we all love hidden, secret restaurants. But Brick Lane’s Back in 5 Minutes, a bloody brilliant restaurant in the back of a shop with out-of-this-world-food, is so much more than that: it’s an incredibly thought-through dining…

The Power of Poison exhibition at the Old Truman Brewery

For a girl with the word ‘Poison’ tattooed on her wrist and a black widow spider on her ankle, I took an awful lot of time to head down to the Old Truman Brewery’s The Power of Poison exhibition, running until…

Cereal Killer Café: have we lost the ability to like anything?

The Cereal café in Brick Lane divided audiences between fans and haters. But are we right to feel so strongly about it or have we just become cynical bastards? The long-awaited Cereal Killer Café opened in Brick Lane on December 10th,…

Are you a Cereal fan? A café in London’s Brick Lane might be your dream come true

Cereal fans in London will now have a new home: Brick Lane’s Cereal Killer Café, a rainbow of affordable cereal from all over the world packed with quirky breakfast memorabilia. A creation of Northern Irish twins Alan and Gary Keery,…

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