I like to show my couchsurfers a good time, so this weekend I took advantage the most talked-about new openings – Summer Tales in Old Street and the coolest new speakeasy in town, Kansas Smitty’s Bar on Broadway Market –…
If you’re a Londoner pretending to know his/her shit about nightlife, you’ve probably heard of Street Feast , the “International Capital of Night Markets” that started in Dalston and is now popping up all over London, from Battersea to Lewisham…
Everything I knew about Wapping was that it’s where Rupert Murdoch’s News International is based, the result of pages and pages of essays on the history of British journalism during my BA at City. Turns out it’s a lovely place…
My idea of fashion consists in putting on something that doesn’t make me look like a walking sausage, so I thought that going to the Seven Dials Shopping Event last Saturday to listen to style talks from Elle and Esquire…
What an exciting week this has been! Here's a short overview of the wonderful events I've had the pleasure to be part of this week: first, the incredibly insightful #LLBlogEvent by blogger JJ Miller from Love London and then a full-on foodie five-course meal with the London Foodies Collective.
I guess nearly four years in the United Kingdom are starting to take a toll on my sense of humour. Which is why, when I learnt my dad was going to be in town, I found it perfectly acceptable to…
A new Oriental eatery has set up shop on Shoreditch High Street, promising to pair up black charcoal Chicken burgers with Japanese whiskey. Here's my review of Bull In A China Shop after its opening weekend.
Ah, London’s Chinatown. At first glance, its loud rickshaws, the waiters begging you to eat at their restaurants and the hordes of tourists might make it look like the last place on Earth where you would want to spend your Friday night.…
The Hackney Picturehouse showed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me to celebrate the series’ 25th birthday – and it was a “damn fine” celebration worthy of East London. After the news that director David Lynch might not be directing Twin Peaks‘…
During weekends I like to switch everything off and spend time exploring what London has to offer. Here’s my review of the Mac Conner exhibition at the House of Illustration and #FiftyChefs in Redchurch Street. Mac Conner After slowly settling down in…
