Despite being virtually unknown, hard-to-find and gone-in-a-flash, London’s pop up restaurants are the capital’s latest food phenomenon. Sasha Arms, editor of Foodie Magazine, previews the best for summer 2011. It’s time to admit it. Pop up restaurants in London are now well and truly embedded into the city’s culinary landscape, and have injected a buzz [...]
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A Very Big House In The Country
Closing times, huge queues, expensive bar tabs… Who needs it? Chris Osburn spurns another night out in London to live it up in the shires instead. The country house party has returned, and it’s in full swing. Terribly fun and mildly frisky, White Blackbird has been hosting swanked-up weekend getaways for a couple of years [...]
Photo Story: Borough Market
Known in its heyday as ‘London’s Larder’, the 4.5 acres of Borough Market in Southwark is the capital’s oldest food market, and its origins can be traced back to Roman times although it has moved several times since (so whether you’re inclined to call it the same market would depend very much where you stand [...]
London StreetWars: The Bullets Rain
They’ve taken place in New York, LA, Chicago, Paris, Vienna and, now in 2010, in London. StreetWars is a three-week long water assassination competition and our reporter, Sameer Patel, is a marked man. (Photos by RJ Fernandez, released courtesy of The Shadow Government). Monday morning, a ringing wakes me up. Bleary eyed, I answer my [...]
Photo Story: The Big Smoke, On The Water
Once charged with the all important job of supplying the HP factory with saucy spices, London’s canals now offer residents (and visitors) a delightful change of pace. Words and photos by Magda Wrzeszcz. The idea of Regent’s Canal came to life in 1802, to create a link between the newly-opened Grand Junction Canal, which ended [...]
