The Cavendish is a four star hotel situated in the heart of Mayfair, a really accessible location for west end theatres, Fortnum & Mason, the Royal Academy and many others of London’s best tourist attractions. The hotel was originally run by Rosa Lewis, aka “the Queen of Cooks”, who worked her way up from a servant…
On the face of it there’s nothing about the new ‘time travely’ X-Men movie that would pique our interest at Blue Badge Style. With its dodgy costumes, baffling time travel plot and generous applications of blue body paint, it just seemed like another new blockbuster superhero film for another weekend at the cinema. We were,…
Leading up to the Bank Holiday meant a slow down in activities at BBS HQ, hence the late ‘Wrap’ as nothing much happened until I was taken by the American Lieutenant to Aqua kyoto a restaurant above the old Dickens & Jones in Regent St. A number of people have told me to go (see…
Situated canal-side, in a former print factory, CRATE Brewery is Hackney Wick’s first craft brewery and pizzeria. The location’s converted industrial interior is a one of a kind and has been creatively crafted with reclaimed materials from around the Wick, giving it a really cool, simple and stripped back look that is so trendy of late. Of course the beer…
A brilliant promoter of modern and stylish design, the Coventry University Health Design & Technology Institute (HDTI) helps the helpers by assisting people who are aiming to create assistive products. The HDTI provides design, prototyping and user-centred product evaluation services to entrepreneurial individuals and companies developing new technologies designed to assist less physically able bodied people. The aim of…
Opera is typically seen as a form of entertainment to be enjoyed by a select few, rather than something that everyone can share. Most people find that the chances to see an opera performance are limited by many things, not least the fact that most of us don’t happen to have an opera house on…
Continuing our series following the accessibility/or not (see previous blogs) of the restaurants belonging to the chefs of BBC’s Great British Menu, for veterans of the 70th anniversary of D-Day, here’s our findings from week 4: For week 4, Central Region chefs of GBM included former banquet winner Aktar Islam, Mark Poynton and Jason Hodnett.…
This week started with a very trendy lunch at Hoi Polloi, an all day brasserie in Shoreditch that’s part of the ACE Hotel (see previous review). It’s run by the folks from Bistrotheque and Shrimpy’s and has a great atmosphere with subdued lighting that somehow still allows you to read the menu. It also had…
Equipment for disabled people is functional to the point of being “institutional” says a new survey from Blue Badge Style. The results of the latest BBS Interest Panel, set up to find out about the opinions of the disabled community on both mobility and household equipment, found that the available products are generally considered “not…