Where in London can you afford to rent on your own? How big a salary do you need to rent on your own in London? We made the map below to give an indication. Dark red = more than £100,000 Red = more than £50,000 Orange = more than £40,000 Yellow = more than £30,000 Green = more than £20,000 [Note: these are only guidelines based on [...]
Today is Pancake day, here’s where you can get some if you don’t want to make your own Granger & Co We went for brunch at Bill Granger's Notting Hill outlet, and have just started salivating at memories of the honeycomb butter that accompanies its ricotta hotcakes. (Seriously, it's like Pavlov's dog around here.) You get three hotcakes, with maple syrup and a slab of banana. They are gorgeously fluffy and the ricotta [...]
This is the longest journey you could possibly make in London While wearing our curiosity-oriented thinking cap the other day, a stray thought struck us. What are the two furthest points from each other within Greater London? We presumed someone else would have already calculated this, but a Google search later left us none the wiser. That's when we decided to grab the cartographic bull by [...]
Plan ahead for Valentines day and book yourself a table: The restaurants that serve London’s poshest dishes February 3, 2017 Sometimes, pie and mash just won't do. Here are some of London's poshest dishes. Fancy. Beef Wellington at The Ritz Restaurant The beef Wellington at The Ritz must be ordered to share between two people but oh, what a magnificent dish, and one of the greatest British dishes. Its perfect latticed pastry is a dark, [...]
Want more excitement in your food? Here are London’s most fun desserts January 27, 2017 Fire baked cookie at Temper Temper is Soho's basement playground dedicated to meat, smoke and tacos with plenty of global flavours and few boundaries. It's pretty impossible not to have a good time here, particularly if you end your meal with a dish of 'baked cookie' which doesn't give a huge amount away, so let [...]
The best London restaurants for healthy eating January 13, 2017 Tombo Japanese food tends to be light and healthy, as long as you stay away from the kara-age (fried chicken) and whipped cream-heavy patisserie. Tombo, in South Kensington has a large menu of healthy options to choose from, with sushi, sashimi, and London’s newest fishy craze, poke (poke-ay). In case you missed it, poke is [...]
10 things to look forward to in London in 2017 January 6, 2017 Forget 2016; here's what you need to look forward to in London in 2017 1. Nordic Matters Festival, Southbank Centre The Southbank Centre is planning to explore all things Nordic through 2017, with some scandi-tastic special events. Think Moomins, Lego, hygge, saunas and gastronomic treats like cinnamon buns, pickling and curing — alongside the most [...]