Finally Easter is approaching and there’s once again a brilliant excuse to eat lots and lots of chocolate. Celebrate with me when I say that the chocolate festival lands at the Southbank Centre this weekend! Imagine rows of truffles, bonbons and bars next to mountains of cakes and pastries all made from chocolate. There’ll be [...]
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
British Pie Week
Posted in Beer, Drinks, Food, tagged British Pie Week, Clifton Hotel, Defector's Refectory, gastropub, pies, pints on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hurrah for British Pie Week! It’s a time when we can eat pies without feeling guilty. A time when we can cherish the wholesome goodness while we gorge on chicken and apricot or mushroom and ham hock pies. To celebrate this momentous event head to your nearest gastropub to ask if they’re running the pie [...]
Bea’s Of Bloomsbury
Posted in Dating, Drinks, Food, Romance, tagged afternoon tea, Bea's of Bloomsbury, cake shop, cakes, English tea, healthy food, lunch, roast lunch, tea room on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an address for your little black book. Bea’s of Bloomsbury is a wonderfully intimate tea room complete with open plan kitchen so that can you practically taste the cakes as you work through the door. The cakes are all laid on the black stone counter and the choice is incredibly mouth-watering. For about a [...]
Have A Love A-Fayre
Posted in Art, Dating, Drinks, Fashion, Food, Live Music, Photography, Romance, Shopping, tagged Bethnal Green, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, burlesque, Buxom Bangs, Chris Ratcliffe, fair, Garudio Studiage, Lady Luck Rules OK, Laura Cave, sexy underwear, Storm in a Teacup, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Love A Fayre on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Forget spoiling your loved one, this weekend you can focus on you. This Sunday the Valentine’s Fair arrives in East London. A vintage collection of novelty bits and bobs and sexy underwear awaits. That may seem like an odd combination but the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club pulls it off with flying poms poms. Browse [...]
Beautiful Daphne
Posted in Dating, Food, Romance, tagged Daphne's restaurant, Kensington on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is no better way to talk about Daphne. Everything about this restaurant is fabulous. The modern Italian cuisine is sumptuous, the decor is exquisitely royal and the service is brilliant. Daphne’s in Kensington is hard to fault. It’s a big traditional restaurant with lots of older wealthy couples as well as young trendy teenagers. The hustle and bustle [...]
Do you brunch?
Posted in Dating, Food, Jazz, Live Music, Music, Romance, tagged bellini, bloody mary, eggs florentine, eggs royale, Fortnum & Mason, French toast, live jazz, scotch woodcock, Sunday brunch, The Fountain restaurant, welsh rarebit on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Not as early as breakfast and not as late as lunch, brunch is the most stylish meal of the day. Perfect after a night out and early enough to fit shopping around it, there’s nothing like a bloody mary to toast in the last day of the week- Sunday. And if you fancy a posh [...]
Happy New Year!
Posted in Art, Ballet, Beauty, Dance, Drinks, Fashion, Film, Food, Live Music, Music, Nightlife, Opera, Photography, Politics, Romance, Shopping, Sport, Theatre, Travel, tagged London, new year on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hello and welcome back to my blog after my little hiatus Expect all the latest details on the coolest to-be-seen-in places- let’s have a brilliant and fun 2010!
