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Bubbledogs

Grower Champagne Snogs Hot Dog Champagne and hot dogs, eh? That’s where we’re at in London, in the grip of pimped up fast food Americana-esque, buried under a slew of…

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Beagle

The Beagle Has Landed The sheer exhilaration of going to lunch in a former bike shed at Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch, is that it necessarily is a “take the afternoon…

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Som Saa

The Real Thing ‘Som Saa:. a variety of citrus fruit used in old-style Thai cookery’ When David Thompson packed his bags for Thailand, closing Nahm in the Halkin Hotelin December…

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STK

American Psycho in London ‘This is not an exit’. American Psycho begins and ends with blood red lettering. The business card for STK London could double for the front cover;…

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Story

Let the Fun Times Roll “You’re wasting your time mate, booked up till July…” – One of the enduring myths that swathe the hottest new gigs to open in London…

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Street XO

‘What’s it going to be then, eh?’ – A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962) David Muñoz stares out from the website of his three Michelin star garlanded Madrid restaurant DiverXO…

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Sushi Tetsu

Worst Sushi in London? A restaurant no-one wants to talk about. Shout its name in the street and you may very well be lynched, a hate mob rugby tackling you…

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The Brookmill

Deptford Rising: Pies and Elizabethan Intrigue   “Christopher. The other name is unsure. Marlin, Merlin, Marley, Morley. Marlowe will do”— Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford (1993) The playwright…

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The Laughing Heart

Poets and Romantics on Hackney Road   There’s a new host in town, in the form of Charlie Mellor with the opening of his wine bar and kitchen on Hackney…

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The Woodford

Churchill Country Woodford: Sir Winston Churchill was MP for the Woodford and Wanstead constituency during the Second World War, and his statue stands imposingly looking towards Westminster, close to the…