Christmas means stress, frantic shopping, indulgence and general craziness. All of which, apart from the indulgence part, can be super stressful. There is one foolproof way to ease all the festive season madness and that’s with gin! That’s why I wanted to share a few Christmas themed ways to enjoy gin! Easy, simple but warm…
Author: Steven Shakeshaft
Steve is originally from Birmingham but moved to The Big Smoke 10 years ago. Living in Kentish Town for 2 years, he now lives in South East London near Lewisham with his wife and son.
He enjoys eating out and drinking with friends when he has the chance and cooking at home. He documents his dinning and cooking adventures on https://www.shakeyeats.co.uk/
Bone Daddies
Fancying somewhere a little bit more low-key than our usual spots, Bone Daddies was the obvious choice for my friends and I to have a catch up. Bone Daddies is a chain of ramen/Japanese/Korean places around London. The one we picked was at the newish Nova complex in Victoria. The place is packed with restaurants,…
Set Lunching at Tredwell's
The venue for lunch was to be Tredwell’s, one of Marcus Wareing’s fine restaurants. Tredwell’s offers “relaxed fine dining” and was the winner of the AA Restaurant of the Year Award 2015. It’s now under chef-patron Chantelle Nicholson, who has been working with Marcus Wareing since 2006. By the way, Chantelle recently released a fantastic…
Bodean’s
I’ve been eating at various Bodean’s BBQ restaurants for years, and they have just introduced a deal between 12-5pm, for a whole rack of ribs, chips and coleslaw for £10. I was going to see my friends screening of her music documentary, Bunch of Kunst, at Rough Trade East, so decided to take advantage of…
We look back at - The Worst Food Festival EVER (possibly)!
I, my better half, and a few friends recently attended an event called “Shake Your Patty Burger and Milkshake” food festival. It was to be ‘the best burger joints and shake-makers in London’ with guest DJs and booze to make it a proper adult day out. Run by FatBoiz Dinner Club, the venue for this…
Big Easy
Big Easy’s Covent Garden location (there’s also one on Kings Road and another in Canary Wharf) is nicely located and always busy, but you can turn up on spec and put your name on a waiting list for a table later. Spread over two large floors, we were seated downstairs near the stage (did I…