Update Oct 2013: The Crowne Plaza is now the Ace Hotel and the restaurant is Hoi Polloi , created by the people from Bistrotheque. Described as “an English modernist brasserie”. If it’s anything like Bistrotheque it should be good. Full review will follow but on the surface it seems that accessibility and facilities remain the same i.e.very good…
Run by A. Horne and Ted House the Hotel Bran UK is unfortunately a shadow of the grand castle it is said to have once been. However, my stay there was a little bit of an adventure. I was told by an old old friend that I should hurry there to check it out. “It’s…
Last week was the week when having a pee tried my patience! First I went to The Hampshire Hog, a GastroPub in Hammersmith, which is owned by the team that ran The Engineer in Primrose Hill. The Engineer is a well known celeb hang out but not so here, not yet. It’s got more of a…
Working for Blue Badge Style I’ve a lot of conversations over the phone with restaurants and bars asking them about their disabled access. During this time, there’s been one particularly odd thing that keeps cropping up a lot and I just can’t get my head around it. The conversation normally goes a little something like…
As we slowly but surely move towards the future we all want – where all buildings offer total accessibility – you might expect nightclubs to be among the last places to make the change. Being dark, cramped and normally downstairs they’re hard to get into and there is also a common preconception that less able…
Harrison’s restaurant in Balham is co-owned by Sam Harrison, Rebecca Mascarenhas and Rick Stein. Harrison is the main man behind the menus with Rick acting in a ‘godfatherly way’ to help him oversee things. He also pops in now and then to promote a book and his recipes feature on the menu from time to time.…
Just a quick update to say Malmaison Liverpool has been visited and it is definitely ’boutique-chain’ stylish (contradiction in terms??), but still haven’t seen the disabled rooms, see our previous post. So full 2.5 BBS Ticks for common areas. Also Mes Amis was recommended by Conde Nast as a good, secret restaurant in Hammersmith but…
We’re looking for less able people and their carers/attendants to join our BBS Interest Panel. It’s basically a forum to discuss all of the issues that affect less able life. We’re looking to open up a discussion about anything and everything that concerns the discerning less able. So if you have anything at all that you…
We all know that it’s really frustrating when you want to go somewhere cool – a stylish restaurant for instance – but you find out that they don’t have a disabled toilet. Yesterday we named and shamed some Michelin star restaurants who fall into that category. However, what can be equally or maybe even more…