Remelluri Organic Winery – travel review
The mountains have been here for 80 million years; humans have been using the mountains for a lot less time than that, but nevertheless for...
Farzi Café in Haymarket
Haymarket is an historic street in central London. Connecting Pall Mall with Piccadilly, Haymarket dates back to Elizabethan times and, unsurprisingly, it was once a...
From Pot to Plate with Burpee Toms
We all want to eat better, and saving some money would be a bonus. So how can we do both? Growing your own fruit and...
ALDI Premium White Rum
ALDI Premium White Rum is bound to be popular with all those bar flies who are now confined to home. They will want a spirit...
Kensington’s Melia Hotel
Melia London Kensington Hotel was the first hotel in this International chain in which I had stayed. It’s a Spanish group and there is a...
Wild and Game Isolation Pies
Wild and Game, the not-for-profit and favourite company of mine, are putting game on the menu across the UK. They have released a special self-isolation...
Moto – Covent Garden
The neighbourhood of historic Covent Garden isn’t short of restaurants and bars. There are iconic eateries, busy cafés and swanky watering holes to suit every...
Black Cow Vodka
Black Cow Vodka! A nice name and the untutored might imagine that a cow was chosen just as a pretty motif. But the truth is...
Ladurée Teatime
What could be more quintessentially English than afternoon tea? A great location helps, and they don’t come much more iconic than London’s Covent Garden. Add...
Major Aelbert Cuyp Exhibition in the Netherlands – September 2020
Aelbert Cuyp Exhibition 27 September 2020 to 14 March 2021 To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691) the Dordrechts Museum...
STRYYK – Not Vodka
It’s a new age. We worry about the planet, bush fires, floods, and living cleaner and leaner. That thrust is also found in bars. Legless...
Mahiki – coconut rum – taste of the Islands
Mahiki? It certainly sounds Polynesian! It is actually a prominent nightclub and bar as well as a rather good drink. The clear glass bottle has...
ChicP Hummus – a fresh look
Founded by Hannah McCollum, ChicP is a company that is taking a fresh look at a vegetarian favourite. This young company was set up to...
Currency in Crisis: German emergency money, 1914 – 1924
3 October 2019 – 29 March 2020 The first major exhibition of Notgeld in the UK During the First World War and the following inflation,...