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Perilous Fun at Vauxhall Roller Disco
“I’m going to a roller disco tonight!” I announced excitedly to the office on Friday morning. Almost everyone stopped what they were doing to congratulate me on my excellent choice of Friday night...
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Spirited Sermons at Reverend J.W. Simpson
There seems to be some sort of rule these days that says that the harder a bar is to find, the better it is. No watering hole is worth visiting, apparently, unless you must first tramp up and down the...
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Shoryu Ramen: proving not everything in tourist central is absolute balls
Shoryu Ramen on Kingly Street is so new Google Maps hasn’t even got it yet, which is how I accidentally ended up at their branch on Regent Street. Luckily, the noodly micro-chain’s latest addition was...
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£10 steaks at Flat Iron
“Have you guys decided what you want to order yet?” asked the waiter. “Yes,” I said. “Steak please.” And laughed myself senseless. The waiter, who must have heard the joke about 50,000 times before,...
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Juicy birds and local beers at Clockjack Oven
“This,” I announced to the Robert, the head chef of Clockjack Oven, Soho, after two glasses of wine and a faceful of its signature rotisserie chicken, “is the wettest bird I’ve ever had.” By ‘wet’, of...
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Bleecker Burger Vs. Dip ‘n Flip at @BurgerMonday
What if I told you there was something going on in East London sort of like the World Cup, but not shit? There’s booze involved, certainly, but patties instead of players, buns instead of balls and,...
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Tea tasting & noodly nibbles with Whittington’s Tea Emporium
I want to start by saying I am normally the kind of person who throws any old teabag into a mug, pours hot water on it and then lets it stew for ages, like a good grudge. Because I am very lazy, I...
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Movie magic with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Every year the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra holds their Film Gala at the Royal Albert Hall and plays an enraptured audience a few hours of the world’s most famous movie tunes. I’ve been meaning to go...
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Sunday: quite possibly North London’s most perfect brunch
Five minutes’ walk to the west of Highbury & Islington station you’ll find Sunday on Hemingford Road, which – misleadingly – is actually not only open on Sundays. And, regardless of its founders...
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Speedboating down the Thames with Balblair Whisky
I have always secretly fancied taking a RIB ride down the Thames, even though it does seem like a bit of a touristy thing to do. After all, speedboats are fun. Especially when the chap at the wheel...
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Vapiano’s ultra-fresh pasta and pizzas are figgin’ magic
I am currently writing this from my bed of shame and guilt after an epic episode of what my fun and fruity workmate would describe as ‘carbicide’. I’d gone along to the new branch of Vapiano in Soho...
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Balls of Plenty at Breakfast Club Bingo
I’m going to come right out and say it: Breakfast Club Bingo is by a million miles the most fun you can have in London for a fiver. Or £5.75, I suppose, once you’ve added the DesignMyNight booking fee....
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Burlesque, Magic & Muscles at Café de Paris’ cabaret
There are many cabaret clubs in London,but Café de Paris off Piccadilly Circus is one of the oldest. It’s celebrating its ninetieth anniversary this year, which by London standards – whereby it isn’t...
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Sass, ass & class with The Cheek Of It! burlesque school
Anyone who has ever known me – or indeed, stood within 20 feet of me in a nightclub – will know that I cannot dance. My inability to co-ordinate any two parts of my body at the same time gives me, in...
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Tea and cheese might well be the world’s best-kept secret love story
I have written before about tea entrepreneur Kyle Whittington’s tea and noodle tasting events, which at £15 are some of the best-value evenings in London. Kyle, who runs an online one-stop-shop for...
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The Magic Hour is London’s most enchanting Friday night
I love magic. Or, more accurately, I love to see a good trick done well. I like to see someone with balls the size of a rhinoceros perform something very difficult, but so subtly nobody notices, and in...
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The Wellcome Collection is London’s weirdest and most wonderful museum (and...
Aah, the Wellcome Collection, my favourite museum in London. I like it so much, in fact, that I named my other blog after their tagline: “the free destination for the incurably curious”. It’s within...
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Taking on the #EarlyBirdChallenge at Duck & Waffle
I am a horrible morning person. I am actually writing this from the edge of my bed at the crack of dawn just so I could really capture things in medias res, and the upshot is that I am deeply...
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Hotel Chocolat’s School of Chocolate is both fascinating and delicious
My tongue is having the best time lately. I’ve been rolling it in cheese, bathing it in tea and dousing it in wine, and now it’s been tickled senseless by the glorious cocoa bean at Hotel Chocolat’s...
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Visiting Dalston’s Secret Garden
On Sunday I ran down to Columbia Road’s famous flower market, but on the way home I went a different way. I have a very, very short attention span, and if I don’t switch routes up I get bored and start...
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