We provisionally reviewed Les Deux Salons earlier this year, but Fiona’s now been in to audit the restaurant and stopped for a bit to eat. Here’s the updated review… “I went for Saturday lunch near Covent Garden with Lieutenant Lucy and chose to go to Les Deux Salons. Although they’d said they have step free access (and they…
Lima have just opened a new restaurant in Covent Garden, Lima Floral. We love their twist on Peruvian food and we didn’t mind the lack of disabled facilites in their earlier restaurants in Soho (Ceviche) and Charlotte Street (Lima). We thought that in their expansion plans they would start to look for premises that provided…
The Red Dot Design Awards are major international design prizes awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. Every year thousands of companies and designers submit their work in order to be selected for the Red Dot Awards exhibition of the best of the best. A Red Dot means a lot in the world…
Having had an early summer holiday and the fact the tan is wearing off I felt in need of a small makeover. So I started to look for easy and ‘accessible’ (in terms of mobility and expense) treatments. Here are the ones I found: It seems logical that if you exercise your face muscles just…
For most people with mobility issues, a shower stool, seat or bench is an absolutely crucial piece of kit. Probably because they’re in the sweet spot of catering equally for the elderly and less able markets, a wide choice of ways to approach adapting your shower, stylishly and effectively, for reduced mobility has grown. At one end…
Castle Terrace is Scottish chef Tom Kitchin’s second restaurant in Edinburgh. Following the success of his first Michelin starred restaurant, The Kitchin (some people become chefs, some are born chefs and some people are born with names that force chefness upon them), The Castle Terrace opened in 2010 with his mate, Dominic Jack, as head…
Amaya is a Michelin starred Indian restaurant (something of a rare honour) in Belgravia, London. Having opened in 2004, the restaurant received outstanding reviews and won a series of awards in the mid-noughties before ever so slightly fading from attention. That’s not to say that the standard of food ever slipped – they still serve…
There are so many new exciting wheelchair designs out there that we’re forever finding more examples of design concepts from the last few years. Not many are available to buy at the moment but it’s always good to keep abreast of the latest updates and to simply sit back and enjoy the style and creativity…
Just back from Spain, Cala de Mijas – located on the coast between Marbella and Malaga. We stayed in a Miami style villa which had nearly everything you’d need for an accessible and stylish holiday. Read on and I’ll tell you a tale of Alice in Wonderland, Cross Dressing & Andalusian experiments with liquid nitrogen……….…