The Montpellier Chapter Hotel in Cheltenham shows that you can have style and good accessibility even in a grade II listed building. The four star hotel takes the positive points of the early Victorian villa in which it is found and mixes it with the funky design and the modern notion of disabled access. So…
Why would you call a bar Mook? Well, that’s something that has not been fully explained to us. It seems like a strangely self-demeaning name to choose for your bar. But you get the sense that this bar in Leeds is the sort of place that wouldn’t care what you called it. It’s the sort…
Grain Store Restaurant, mentioned in this article, has been visited and access and disabled toilet are fantastic as is the food. N.B. make sure you don’t inadvertently order two courses with the same vegetable, can be overwhelming. They get a fully audited max 3 BBS Ticks, excellent. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… For many people who made it a…
The 3 BBS Ticks are the gold standard for style and accessibility. Today we’re giving out 3 Ticks for the following… What To See I recently went to see the Oscar nominated film WHIPLASH and it was brilliant, even if you’re not a fan of Jazz or drumming. If J.K. Simmons doesn’t win an Oscar for…
Mo*vida is a very stylish bar/club not far from Oxford Circus with a sister bar in Dubai In Mo*vida there is a “raised DJ booth, state of the art sound system, 14 plasma screens and 15 meter LED Screen” and 50/60 steps down to the bar but a security member will carry you down… The…
Momo is “London’s original Arabic Den”, today it “encompasses Music, Food and Visual aesthetics”. When we visited Momo the food was great and Timeout said the atmosphere is “intoxicating and seductive”. When I could I went downstairs to the bar which had uber cool music. Momo has got very good disabled facilities and access as far as…
Update on Budapest: Jo Knight has sent this review of the Gresham Palace, Four Seasons Hotel and as we thought, it’s worth the maximum 3 BBS Ticks: Stayed here for a long weekend. The trip was a gift from my son, and he had phoned to checked suitability of facilities for me in advance – so…
The Miro Hotel is located between Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts and Frank Gehry’s legendary Guggenheim Bilbao. The hotel is a member of Design Hotels which credits the building for managing to carve it’s own identity, architecturally, whilst surrounded by such ‘prestigious neighbours’. The hotel is named after Catalan fashion designer Antonio Miró rather than Joan Miró the famous painter and sculptor.…