Fiona has written an article which is now up on The Lady’s website! She lends her experience and expert opinion – picking the best five locations to go out in London for the able-bodied and less able alike. Click here to see where she selected.
15th November BBS App is highlighted, in the disability press again, on the About Access website.
The Esprit Brasseries chain includes some of the most iconic of Parisian restaurants. Each, in their own way, encapsulates elements of Parisian style and culture. All of them lay claim to their own little bit of French history. In particular, all appear to have been, or still are, favourite haunts of the rich and famous.…
Cafedraal is a restaurant and bar tucked away in the centre of picturesque Bruges. The restaurant specialises in traditional French-Belgian recipes with locally sourced ingredients. You can eat either in the 15th Century interior or outside in a popular terrace garden. The Lonely Planet website describes the restaurant as having “hip yet homely multicoloured rooms buzz with diners…
The Lydmar Hotel is a stylish five-star hotel on the waterfront in Stockholm. Trip Advisor’s 2012 Traveller’s Choice Awards listed the Lydmar as one of the top-25 hotels in Sweden. It has an informal and relaxed feel to it. They emphasise that the try to create this friendly environment rather than an over-stylised and slightly…
Newton Bar is a trendy establishment in Berlin named after legendary Berlin fashion photographer Helmut Newton. In tribute to him the walls of the bar are decorated with photographs he took of nude supermodels blown up to about 18 foot tall. The photographs dominate the look of the place with the rest of the bar…
The Hotel Arts is a luxury hotel on the Barcelona beachfront, built to coincide with the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. It’s five star hotel in a 44 storey skyscraper of a building which offers spectacular views of the town and the sea. The hotel has terraced gardens right beside Frank Gehry’s ‘golden fish sculpture’ which dominates…
Barts & Maggies Bar are part of the same group that own Bunga Bunga, see my previous review. BARTS is in the Chelsea Cloisters serviced apartments on Sloane Avenue. It’s a quirky speakeasy at the rear of the reception where you have to ring a bell to get in. Not sure they’ll see you through the peephole in…
Eskis is an interesting restaurant in Lyon serving really unusual food. In the Michelin guide it says “the young chef is curious about the world and delivers creative and ‘molecular’ cuisine”. The restaurant has similarities with Heston Blumenthal’s approach although it is a little bit more grounded in reality than the Fat Duck. Samuel Desjobert, the…