The Wigmore

The Wigmore

This is the first time I have had to get past a bouncer to enter a pub.  Just to be clear, it wasn’t because of my dress or lack thereof.  Neither was this was not a pub/club hybrid.  It was a proper boozer. Being subject …

Barrafina

Barrafina

At a recent business event, I discovered that working nomenclature has moved on somewhat from what I am used to.  Instead of “unpacking” or “deconstructing” a complicated sounding but otherwise fairly ordinary word (no doubt in the belief that it makes the speaker more sophisticated), …

Rambla

Rambla

The only thing worse than eating crap food is eating overpriced crap food.  Wanting to spare the blushes of a certain chain of restaurant that epitomises said axiom, let’s just say that anywhere I can think of would be better than that place.  This may …

Flat Iron

Flat Iron

Sometimes I get that awful sinking feeling.  It feel almost like a preternatural suspicion that something is about to go wrong.  Some examples from my life could be one of those times when I realised that I should have maybe taken the restroom break about …

Nordic Bakery

Nordic Bakery

I seem to be in one of those minimalism phases.  After my pleasant visit to the DIY bakery at Scandi Kitchen, I had to try another example of an austere life.  Just off busy Regent’s Street, with a utilitarian name like Nordic Bakery (descriptive, it …