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I rarely have anything nice to say about Birmingham. It’s where we first landed from Texas in 1993 (cue culture shock and many years of trauma), and in the six unfortunate years I lived there, the food, culture and nightlife scenes simply couldn’t live up to what was happening in…
A casual mid-market Japanese restro arrives in style in the heart of Covent Garden. The USP: Murakami wants you to enjoy Grade-A Japanese food without the Nobu price tag, yet as my dinner partner put it, this ain’t no Yo Sushi either. A fine dining philosophy is at the core of every last…
Sooner or later, the Africa Centre’s summer festival will have to find a new home that’s alot more spacious than its current residence in Covent Garden, judging by the hoards that flocked to the free annual this year. With a stellar line-up of musical acts, exhibitions and fashion shows, the 2015 outing…
Pop-ups, sparse menus, theatrical dining clubs… all wonderfully on trend experiences in the city, but after a while you’ve got to spare a thought to those ever dependable restaurants which still take reservations and will most certainly be there when the fanatical hype has settled. At least, that seems to be…
It starts in the first few weeks of September when you begin to notice a slight change in London; coffee shops and nail bars are busier, there’s more private cars with blacked out windows on the roads and go to any bar near Somerset House and you’ll notice the outfits…
For all the fanfare that surrounded the launch of this US import last month, we wanted the dust to settle before we got a whiff of the burgers, dogs and fries at Shake Shack, which has seen endless queues since opening on July 5th. So what’s the fuss? Well,…