Art Gallery Find: Hayward Gallery London
Architectural love or loathing towards the Hayward Gallery’s concrete façade aside, it is what’s inside this Sixties landmark on London’s Southbank complex that attracts the culture crowd into its brutalist core. Hayward Gallery presents several temporary exhibitions a year across two levels that broadly range from the classics through to the contemporary as well as […]
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Design Hotspot: Geffrye Museum London
If you’re into keeping up with the Joneses, you’ll want to keep up with the Geffrye: the Geffrye Museum that is. Located in Shoreditch, East London, the museum is a must for lovers of the home and interior design. Visitors can time travel across a sequence of eleven domestic environments that span from the 1600 […]
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Cocktail Bar Find: Cahoots London
Kingly Court is like Soho’s food court, with every type of restaurant you could wish for. The latest addition – a bar – is doing something a little different however: an evening at Cahoots is a mind-blowingly well-executed immersive experience. Descend into the “Underground” to the sound of an old fashioned London Transport tannoy, drop […]
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Restaurant Find: Bob Bob Ricard London
Likened by one food critic to “dining inside a Fabergé egg”, Russian-owned Bob Bob Ricard is a Soho restaurant choice for when you want to make a statement. The interior (designed by the late and great David Collins, of The Ivy and The Wolseley fame) is gilded and brightly-hued but is subtly lit so as […]
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Design Hotel Find: London EDITION Hotel
Each London Fashion Week, there’s a well-heeled stampede from the front row of the shows back to Fitzrovia’s Berners Street. It Girls, fashion bloggers and magazine editors all head for the London EDITION hotel, to dine in the glamorous Berners Tavern, sip punch in the well-hidden reservations only bar, and then cozy up under fur […]
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Restaurant Find: Merchants Tavern London
Located just off Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch, Merchants Tavern is housed in a Victorian warehouse and former apothecary, and comprises a large restaurant, buzzing bar and private dining room. Merchants Tavern serves a Modern European menu, directed by seasonality. Upon arrival, I stood in the middle of the buzzing bar and drunk in the […]
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Restaurant Find: The Palomar London
It’s so refreshing when a restaurant breaks the mould to create something novel and spectacular. The Palomar opened last year on a nondescript street in London’s West End, and ticked all the boxes so completely that it was seemingly all anyone could talk about! The Palomar does have a smart restaurant area at the back, […]
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Cocktail Bar Find: The Sun Tavern London
With the success of Spitalfields speakeasy Discount Suit Co in mind, it was with great excitement that I watched the same team of drink aficionados unveil The Sun Tavern in Bethnal Green. The refurbishment has maintained the East End boozer’s historic charm – bare brickwork, original 19th century tiling and a copper bar come together […]
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Restaurant Find: Corner Room London
Corner Room is tucked away inside Bethnal Green’s Town Hall Hotel, so you have to know about it to find it (you can thank me later!). And it certainly is one to add to your little black book. The interior is dominated by reclaimed pendant lights, no two the same; furniture is homely and the […]
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Cocktail Bar Find: Old Tom & English London
1 / 1 ( 2 votes ) I can’t quite believe it myself, but I think I may have found the perfect London date spot… Old Tom & English is a new reservations-only food and drink destination in Soho. It features convivial sharing plates, potent cocktails and a striking interior by one of the UK’s […]
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