Berghain is a legendary techno nightclub in Berlin. It’s located in a former power plant so it has enormous rooms with gigantic dance floors. The style of the club is intentionally a bit run-down which is exactly how everyone must feel by closing time, which is normally well after sunrise. This is a club for serious,…
The Mountain Trike is a brilliant new wheelchair, designed to help less able people enjoy the countryside. With three wheels, suspension and a clever lever system, these wheelchairs are able to go off-road, making them perfect for lovers of the outdoors. The Mountain Trike’s inventor, Tim Morgan, has recently been awarded a Silver Medal from the…
The New Ellington is a hotel in Leeds but we are only reviewing the bar and restaurant. A friend of Blue Badge Style, Danni, has been there but we called up to confirm and get more details about the disabled access and facilities. We managed to find out that the entrance of the hotel has 2 steps…
The Maven Bar is in Leeds and is a “characteristic cocktail lounge with a pre-Prohibition look & feel but with a twist.” We haven’t been to The Maven Bar but we gave them a call only to find out that their disabled access isn’t so great… The bar is upstairs and there is no way of getting…
La Becasse is a “stunning oak-panelled restaurant” in Shropshire. The Guardian seemed impressed by the restaurant and said “If fine dining was like this more often, maybe it wouldn’t be dying out” We haven’t been here yet but we’ve managed to find out they don’t have the best facilities for those in a wheel chair… There is…
I keep forgetting to write this review and I don’t know why as I had a great night out at Bubbledogs, in Charlotte St., London. They serve exactly what you’d think champagne – direct from growers so there are some unusual and very good bottles of ‘poo’ – and hotdogs – which were fine but…
London is so full of interesting museums and galleries that often, with the massive places like the Natural History Museum, The Science Museum and The Tate being so well known, it’s easy to overlook some of the smaller one’s. But there are so many other interesting specialist museums out there. We’ve compiled a list and…
Edmund’s restaurant is in Birmingham, they serve French cuisine and the restaurant is beautifully “decorated in warm golden tones, with superb lighting”. We haven’t been to Edmund’s yet but we’ve found out that they have pretty good disabled access! There are no steps into or around the restaurant and they do have a disabled toilet.…
Blue Badge Style founder, Fiona, has written an article for the latest edition of Hospitality Today an online magazine for the UK’s hospitality market. The magazine possesses a circulation of over 35,000. Blue Badge Style hopes that a good proportion of that number will agree with our point of view and reach out to the emerging market…