SW12 has been christened ‘Clapham’s cooler younger sister’ making Balham one of the hippest areas in South-West London right now. With Nick Jones recently opening his Chicken Shop on Chestnut Grove to Ed Sheeran recording one of his first live EPs at The Bedford, Balham is where you want to...
What: Alice in Wonderland afternoon tea followed by Alice’s Underground Adventures Where: Amba Hotel, The Strand, Charing Cross, London WC2N 5HX then The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN Why you should go there: Die-hard fans of the original tale will love all the attention to detail...
What: Alice in Wonderland afternoon tea followed by Alice’s Underground Adventures Where: Amba Hotel, The Strand, Charing Cross, London WC2N 5HX then The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN Why you should go there: Die-hard fans of the original tale will love all the attention to detail...
What: Top seafood in a classic English setting Where: 11-15 Swallow Street, Mayfair W1B 4DG Why you should go there: To experience a nod to a time when dining out really was a luxury Favourite thing we ate: Bread and Butter Pudding and the lobster Opened since 1916, Bentley’s is a staple of...
What: Top seafood in a classic English setting Where: 11-15 Swallow Street, Mayfair W1B 4DG Why you should go there: To experience a nod to a time when dining out really was a luxury Favourite thing we ate: Bread and Butter Pudding and the lobster Opened since 1916, Bentley’s is a staple of...
Not so long ago we were telling you that Dirty Martini was moving down south and over to Clapham, well now they’re heading north to open their seventh venue. Transforming a former XOXO on Islington’s Upper Street the new Dirty Martini, will be the first in the north and will follow the design...
A few decades ago, Hollywood science fiction films predicted what millennial life would look like…hover boards, self-tying laces and shiny silver jumpsuits were just some of the predictions made. We all like to look back and laugh at these films, until you realise that some of the predictions...
Ever since that iconic (read: cheesy) girl band, whose name escapes us, sang ‘spice up your life!’ we’ve had a love affair with all things sugar and spice. Our love for all things hot can now be indulged, thanks to the new London pop-up, Carom’s Spice Garden this July. Pan-Indian restaurant...
I believe it was the great 20th century aquatic American philosopher Sebastian the crab who noted that ‘darling it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from me.’ Sebastian sure was right, as seafood is up there with some of the tastiest nosh this great planet has to offer us. He...
The Handbook’s first love will always be London, but every so often we venture slightly further afield and recently we found ourselves in Malta. The beautiful archipelago (that’s a group of islands) is situated between Sicily and North Africa meaning that it has warm Mediterranean seas, a dry...
