Update 2016: Visited Ceviche, Peruvian Kitchen & Pisco Bar and yes the food & ‘S.American ambience’ is good. Loved the ‘King Prawns in Tiger’s Milk’, very fresh and delicately seasoned. It was packed with very trendy people, out on a sunny Sunday, but the service was still friendly and there when needed. Access is tricky as…
Located in one of the most accessible hotels in London, The Dorsett (see review), we tried Shikumen after a visit to Vue at Westfield Shopping Centre. We weren’t expecting much, as hotel restaurants usually rest on the laurels of their captive hotel guests. What a surprise, when not only was it totally accessible with plenty…
Traveled by East Coast trains to Edinburgh. Very easy to get on and off, assistance provided and only £100 return first class. The Fringe Festival is more like a ‘grunge’ festival. I have never been in so many back offices/ kitchens in my life! Gigs at the festival have been mainly accessible but usually via…
Lavan is a bar/private club in Budapest in Pest’s Szent István tér. If you get a concierge to book you’ll get in and speak English loudly. It has an all-white theme, white fabric on the walls, white flowers in vases, a light-bathed white bar and hard, angular bar stools. It doubles as a restaurant, but…
The Five Fields was visited last year by myself and No.1 Lieutenant and it was the latest, secret, haunt in Chelsea. Serving fresh seasonal and very ‘clean’ food i.e. there was no over-use of seasoning, sugar or butter. Now, however, the word is out and it’s difficult to get a table due to it’s popularity.…
Update 2016: Casamia has now moved to The General, Lower Guinea St., Bristol. There’s plenty of style and good food. They still have good access and a fully equipped disabled toilet, along with a Michelin Star and a provisional 2.5 BBSTicks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. Casamia is an Italian restaurant in Westbury-on-Trym. It’s a family-run business that,…
This is much more of a drinking place and there’s a small step from the pavement to the outside seating area but it’s OK from there. So an audited 1.5 BBS Ticks as no disabled toilet either (there is one opposite at Vinoteca see the review). ……………………………………………………………………….. A new bar in trendy Devonshire Rd. Chiswick…
This review is part of a Travel Blog by Ann, friend of BBS, see it here. Raffles Le Royal Hotel Phnom Penh is probably the best this premier Asian brand can offer. People rave about Raffles in Singapore but this is the far classier younger brother. It dates from the 1920s and is styled with…
Floridita has now become the 100 Wardour St. and offers a ‘live music line-up, five days a week, every week’, downstairs (via a lift) in the Club and restaurant serving cocktails and dishes such as ‘Iberico tartare and sharing dishes like bone-in Galician ribeye steak’. The ground floor is also a relaxed bar area and…