Ask any native Londoner which side of the river is better and you’ll instantly get a definitive answer (as well as the obligatory slagging off of the other side). I am a south Londoner born and bred, so naturally I think it’s best. But generally speaking it doesn’t have the best rep – Donald Trump…
Category: Life
The Professional Kitchen - Behind the Scenes
Thanks to the recently departed Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, we’re all pretty familiar with the idea of the dark and dirty side of a professional kitchen, the rampant sex, drug taking and alcohol abuse. Stories of Marco Pierre White making Gordon Ramsey cry and of Tom Aikens branding the hand of a trainee employee are…
Why Wear A Watch?
This could be a dangerous question for a watchmaker to ask. My industry colleagues might start sharpening their swords, but I think it’s important to face this question head-on. When someone considers what kind of watch to wear or which brand to invest in, it’s vital to consider why a man should wear a watch…
Westminster’s Unusual Spots
In a city as old as London it’s hardly surprising that it’s covered in little quirks and items of interest. Westminster is ram packed with facts and features that you wont notice unless you’re looking for them. We’ve put together our list of the best to keep an eye out for as you go round…
Spicy Meatball: London's Street Photographer
Thankfully Instagram isn’t just about millennials showing off their ‘better than you’ loves or pictures of food, it has become a show room for the creative work of all sorts of artists and landscape and cityscape photographers. Among the many of high res generic images of London, you’ll find some great photographers of the city…
A Tour of London’s Brutalist Architecture
Brutalism, love it or loath it, London is the spiritual heart of the architectural movement, so to celebrate the launch of its Atlas of Brutalist Architecture, a tome of a book mapping 878 Brutalist buildings by 798 architects in 102 countries, Phaidon organised a tour of the Brutalist masterpieces of London. So what is Brutalism?…