Mahiki has recently opened an outdoor tea room in partnership with Harvey Nichols. While it’s billed as a top floor slice of paradise you’re more likely to find it as relaxing and decadent as a sloshy hell. Located on the terrace of the Fifth Floor Restaurant, nine tables with tiki chairs stand huddled in the [...]
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Mahiki’s Winter Hell
Posted in Cocktails, Drinks, tagged chocolate, cocktails, Cognac Aged Mahiki Rum, Fifth Floor Restaurant, Harvey Nichols, hell, hot chocolate, Knightsbridge, Mahiki, paradise, rooftop, tea room, winter on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Whiskey Mist
Posted in Cocktails, Dance, Drinks, Music, Nightlife, tagged Carmina Burana, champagne, Green Park, Mayfair, Park Lane, vodka cocktails, Whiskey Mist on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Located in Mayfair just off Park Lane, Whiskey Mist is a trendy but sophisticated club. With its black walls, random mooses and lightbox stage it’s a fun place to party. But when it gets crowded, it’s time to head into the adjacent private lounge… Here you’ll find big U-shaped leather sofas complete with mini lightboxes [...]
Club Kanaloa
Posted in Cocktails, Drinks, Music, Nightlife, tagged Caribbean, Club Kanaloa, Girls Aloud, Mahiki, Nightlife, Sarah Harding on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Club Kanaloa is a strange club to describe. Developed by Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding for the Mahiki group, it is in principle a beautiful club. The wooden floors, the lights decorated with sea shells and the woven chairs make you feel like you’re aboard a posh pirate ship in the middle of the Caribbean. There [...]
Asian Dessert Heaven
Posted in Cocktails, Dating, Drinks, Food, Romance, tagged Asian, chocolate fondant, dessert, E&O, Heaven, Nobu, Ping-Pong, Sumosan on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s nothing better than ending (or continuing!) a delightful evening with a fabulously decadent dessert. Don’t say you don’t have room, you can diet later. Plus we always have room for dessert! Here are some examples of dessert heaven in London: Sumosan’s milk and white chocolate fondant (see above). This may sound like a boring [...]
Notting Hill Secret
Posted in Cocktails, Dating, Drinks, Food, Romance, tagged E&O, Notting Hill, Ricker Restaurants, XO on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every night should be an E&O night. It’s a star-studded restaurant where everyone who’s anyone goes for chili salt squid and scrumptious Appleton Rum daiquiris. Part of Ricker Restaurants group and big sister to XO, E&O is always crowded with cosmopolitan people, couples on dates in the bar and celebrity diners in the restaurant. There’s [...]
Luxury Cinema Club
Posted in Beer, Cocktails, Dating, Drinks, Film, Food, Romance, tagged Belsize Park, cinema, Everyman, Hampstead, luxury, Screen On The Hill on September 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For the most decadent cinema experience, Everyman is waiting for you. With its inviting sofas decorated with comfortable cushions and its helpful waiters delivering the most delicious cakes and croissants there is no other cinema like it. Having bought the Screen On The Hill chain, Everyman is now the market leader of the luxury independent [...]
