It’s Cocktail Week again! Last year we ran a post on London Cocktail Week in which we made our top ten recommendations for cocktail bars in London. This year we’re back with ten more highly accessible and trendy bars taking part in this year’s festivities. Thanks to the £4 cocktail tour, this week is a once in…
Graphic is a trendy Soho bar, with top quality, reasonably priced cocktails and an artistic influence that is clear without being pretentious. The bar blends a fairly laid back contemporary style with innovative urban art on the walls. It looks great, as does the astonishing list of gins, with 235 different types of the stuff…
Just back from a week in Mykonos where we stayed in a very accessible villa unfortunately the rest of the island was less so. We spent most of the time digging the hired BMW out of gravel and searching, unsuccessfully, for restaurants with disabled toilets. All will be revealed in a further article. It was…
The Transport For London’s exhibition at the Excel Centre yesterday showed the current level of access on London transport with life-size mock-ups of Tube and rail stations and street environments, interactive exhibits, talks and people on hand to discuss issues and solutions regarding transport. It was a chance to discuss what TfL are doing right and…
Our continued search for an upscale and accessible hotel in Madrid, ahead of our imminent trip over there for the European Investment Bank’s Social Innovation Competition, brings us to the Hotel Atlantico, a four star spot in the centre of town. Situated on the famous Gran Via, the hotel is in a grand old building…
Hotel Urban is a five star hotel in the centre of Madrid with all the trappings of a perfect hotel, except for, it seems, perfect disabled access. We were looking for a top Madrilenian hotel to stay at for when the BBS team shortly hit the Spanish capital for the final of the European Investment Bank’s…
G0w’s Fish Restaurant and Oyster Bar is a high quality seafood restaurant in London’s Square Mile. In fact, its location is so embedded in the centre of the City it’s basically within spitting distance of Liverpool Street Station (not that we condone that sort of behaviour). The restaurant has been trading for over 125 years and…
Big Chill House, in King’s Cross, is (for us) the final of the three trendy Big Chill bars. We liked the funky decor and laid back charm of both the original Big Chill Bar in Brick Lane (which got 2.5 BBS Ticks) and the Bristol Big Chill (2 BBS Ticks), so we thought it only made…
Conservatorium is a gorgeous five star hotel ideally located in central Amsterdam. Situated on Museumplein the hotel is perfect for visiting the city’s main museums, including the Van Gogh Museum and the recently reopened Rijksmuseum as well as glamorous shopping streets like P.C Hooftstraat and Van Baerlestraat. The hotel is a member of Leading Hotels which…