Naturally as England was out of the running for the cup, I switched to supporting ze Germans with my husband. What a good trade! Watching all the games until the final (Algeria’s madness, France’s blasé style) what a show, I was almost as stressed out as the Germans I was watching with! For the world cup final, we went to… Read more →
July 2014: London town is sizzling and so is Spice Market‘s tasting menu! Having fallen in love with the salmon sashimi on warm crunchy rice with chipotle emulsion at Taste London last month, 816 and I had to come and test out the rest of the menu to see if it could all possibly be equally as delicious as that… Read more →
Last night we were in the wonderful Kew Gardens seeing a live open air concert, where Elvis Costello belted out his greatest hits like a boss. The annual Kew Summer Festival has been running for a few years now and this is the first time I have managed to join in the fun. Arriving at Kew by District Line, the air… Read more →
For any of you that may have grown up in the 90’s or suffered the later revival era, you will know that NKOTB refers to ‘New Kids on the Block’. I am not writing here about the dreamy boy band from when I was 12, but rather the new opening next week of L’Anima’s cafe and deli in the City of… Read more →
So last Sunday, thanks to the rafts of messages on Twitter (well done on the marketing folks), ze German and I decided to head over to that quiet pretty part of docklands called Wapping, to check out this amazing new market with local farmers’ produce and trEats to be had. I had been to the gym for the first time… Read more →
After all this time, we might still not be pleased that America once declared its independence from the wonderful United Kingdom, however we seem to have come to terms with the fact that it has. And we celebrate this fact. Ok, no we don’t, but at least in London there are enough ex-pats and tourists so that we throw caution… Read more →
For the last of my birthday festivities, I took a trip to HKK with Mr Old Fashioned. I have been wanting to go here for quite a while and was sure that it must live up to the original Hakkasan in Hanway Place that I had been to some years ago now. As always, there is the risk that the… Read more →
As my ‘birthday month’ continued, I was lucky enough to have yet another trEat at the newly opened Bilbao Berria in London. Ze German was lovely enough to pick this fantastic new home of the authentic Pintxo (pronounced ‘pincho’) from a shortlist of restaurants I had provided so that he didnt have to stress about where to go (he loves… Read more →
So there is quite obviously this craze right now about burgers. Burgers burgers everywhere. Not that I have a problem with it, I think they are delicious! But as my efficient German husband pointed out… there are new burger places opening all over the place at a ridiculous rate and not all of them are so amazing. First of all,… Read more →
I have been meaning to go along and check out Taste London for many years, and this time finally, I managed to book tickets and not find something had to take priority! So, finding my perfect partner in crime to sample all the food and drink on offer, off we skipped to Regent’s Park this sunny evening on June 19th!… Read more →
