There’s little doubt in my mind that summer is the greatest season to be in London – for the past few years I have avoided booking trips in the summer months, in favour of staying in the city and taking advantage of everything it has to offer when the sun is shining (although it can…
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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…
London Oyster Week
Of all the food weeks and days London organises, it’s amazing to think that there’s never been one for oysters, those little shellfish that have been such an important food through the cities history. Well finally this oversight has been corrected, and London’s inaugural Oyster Week is shortly to be upon us. Organised by Katy…
The New Fourth Plinth
Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, originally intended for an equestrian statue of William IV, has become the leading public art installation in London. Started in 2005, the rotating commission has led the way in London’s pubic art commissions, to the point that the streets of our city are now awash with temporary and permanent art installations.…
Secrets to a Cheap Date in London
The clue is in the title – Cheap Date, or grammatically for this sentence Cheap Dates. I Am But A Poor Boy, nobody loves me…. well they won’t with that attitude – rich or poor – Get out and At ’em dear reader. As a survivor of several hundred Tinder dates (experiences to be lived…
Homeslice: Q&A with the Masterminds behind the Creations
For a long time I have raved about Homeslice, the pizza restaurant that started as a street stall before setting up as bricks and mortar on Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden. Now it has expanded to open a second restaurant on Wells Street, Fitzrovia, a third in Shoreditch, and it’s fourth has just opened in…