Tempo Mayfair – restaurant review
[This venue is now closed] There has been an Italian restaurant on this site in Curzon Street since the 1930s. Tempo is its latest reincarnation...
Atlantico at The Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel – review
The Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel is a 4-star hotel in one of London’s most iconic of locations. It’s conveniently placed just a few yards from...
Zenna Bar, Soho – review
Dean Street is a famed Soho thoroughfare. It runs between the retail hub of Oxford Street to the north and Shaftesbury Avenue to the south....
Bavarian Beerhouse, City Road – restaurant review
Yes, your intrepid restaurant reviewer has sought out another interesting eatery for my dear reader to try. This one is truly a bit different and...
Bavarian Beerhouse – Tower Hill – restaurant review
What can be more iconic than the Tower of London? Its imposing stones and gilded embellishments still have that wow factor. The building must have...
Café Spice Namasté: Khaadras Club Night – review
In the seventh century, Arab armies conquered Persia (now Iran). Some Zoroastrians were converted to Islam whilst others fled to India. They settled in the...
Perrier-Jouët Champagne Lounge at Dukes Hotel – review
Dukes Hotel is found unobtrusively tucked away in one of London’s most prestigious neighbourhoods. The stunning building graces a quiet corner of St. James’s and...
108 Marylebone Lane – restaurant review
Oxford Street has its chain retail outlets and stalls stocked with goods that no self-respecting adolescent tourist would want to live without: plenty of plastic...
Tuttons for Tea – restaurant review
Henry VIII dissolved all of England’s monastic properties in 1540, because he couldn’t get his way with the Catholic church and the ‘Bishop of Rome’...
ORA Thai Food and Jazz – restaurant review
There is a world of tranquillity just behind the buzz and throng of Oxford Street. That celebrated retail hub is a river of bag-burdened humanity...
The Phoenix – Geronimo Kitchen – restaurant review
The Phoenix is an attractive and traditional pub. Just the sort that tourists long to find and locals want to have as their local. These...
Triphal Indian Restaurant – Southfields – review
Sarkhel’s was a celebrated Indian restaurant in Southfields, between Wandsworth and Wimbledon. That restaurant has now closed but it’s a strange irony that some of...
Opera Tavern, Covent Garden – restaurant review
Opera Tavern was built in 1879 by the then celebrated public house architect George Treacher. Those were the days when there was a traditional pub...
Inamo Techno Restaurant, Soho – review
Wardour Street is celebrated as one of London’s night-owl alleys. Its selection of clubs and eateries is legendary so it’s no surprise that it also...
Namaasté Kitchen, Camden – restaurant review
Namaasté Kitchen is the new restaurant concept from The Salaam Namaste Group. This latest venture is just a few yards from Camden Town Underground station...
Portal Portuguese Restaurant, Clerkenwell – review
Portal is a Portuguese restaurant but it’s far from the sunny climes of Iberia. The nearest Underground station is Farringdon which means ‘fern-covered hill’, and...
Whisky & Cheese Matching at the Athenaeum – bar review
This was our first visit to this most charming of central London hotels. Its location is hard to beat, being on Piccadilly and between Green...
The Commonwealth Kitchen at the Commonwealth Club – restaurant review
There is something rather appealing in the prospect of being a member of a prestigious club. Many of us are members of fitness clubs but...
Café Spice Namasté: Cookbook by Cyrus Todiwala – review
There is an Indian restaurant just a stone’s throw from Tower Bridge. A red brick building, imposing steps to self-important doors, stained glass, high ceilings...
Sofra Mayfair for Dinner – restaurant review
One always expects something a bit special in Mayfair. Some of the best and most iconic of restaurants can be found in that neighbourhood. There...