Update June 2014: we contacted the Hotel Continental in Whitstable as another place to stay. Their reply is as follows – I’m afraid we do not (have rooms with wetrooms), the Premier Inn does, and I believe the Marine has rooms with wheelchair access. Sadly all our rooms are first or second floor and we…
BBC’s Great British Menu reaches it’s conclusion this week but leading up to this we’ve been assessing the accessibility of the competing Chefs’ restaurants. Particularly as they’re preparing meals for veterans of the D-Day Landings that happened 70 years ago, we’re sure some of them will have mobility issues and it’s good to see how…
In just over a month’s time the Chichester Festival Theatre is reopening after a enormous £20million revamp. We included Chichester Festival Theatre last year in our round up of the UK’s top theatres, but as the main Festival Theatre is about to reopen we thought we should report back on the accessibility and this year’s programme. We…
The Botanist, in Kensington, is a popular restaurant and bar favoured by the Made In Chelsea type crowd. Right on the corner of Sloane Square, with floor to ceiling windows making it feel open and almost on the street, it’s an ideal place to relax with a cocktail and watch the bustling world of Chelsea…
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…
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…
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.…