It’s been a while since her last postcard, but we’ve heard again from Ann in Vietnam. This time she’s reporting back from the nation’s capital, telling us about the most stylish places in Hanoi and assessing how accessible they are too: Hanoi is a bit like Marmite…. you are going to love it or hate…
18.04.2014 Update on Hand & Flowers the inaccessible restaurant by Judge Tom Kerridge. With regard to accessibility here’s what they say, “The Hand and Flowers is a grade two listed building. We do have a few steps going down into the pub, however our front of house team will be more than happy to help…
My Gimpy Life is a hit online comedy series about less able people, by less able people and for less able people (although able bodied people will equally enjoy it). It’s been going for a while but we’ve only just come across it and want to share it because we really like its message and…
Last week Lieutenant No1 told me of good new restaurant in Holborn, The Holborn Dining Room at the luxury Rosewood Hotel, in Holborn of course. So I had to give it a review, however when I arrived I realised I’d been there before, it’s past life was Pearl restaurant run by Jun Tanaka. I had eaten there and…
This week has been a trial by pavement. My bones have been shaken & stirred and not in a good way. Firstly, I and the Mancunian Lieutenant decided that after a hair appointment in Richmond, we should wheel down to the Crown in Twickenham (great pub with fab garden see previous review). Little did I…
On Tuesday we posted a piece about the problems that one of our readers has had accessing cruise ships. Her husband, as a wheelchair user, has found that two cruise companies have provided issues relating to accessibility (i.e. weren’t very accessible). We got in touch with the relevant companies to ask what the deal is…
We recently received word of some fairly lousy attitudes towards accessibility on holiday cruises. Margaret contacted us with two stories of cruise companies which were a bit of a let down in this area. Firstly, this is what happened when she called up to book with a firm called Cruise and Maritime: “I was making…
This week I headed to Fitzrovia to try out the fantastic Ollie Dabbous’ new, lower budget, restaurant. Charlotte Street is a real haven for style seekers and discerning diners and The Barnyard proved to be no exception. First of all, the food was excellent – quite basic on paper but absolutely fantastically flavoured and brilliant value too.…
We recently wrote about accessible fine dining in Manchester and now we’re going further afield to Lymm in Cheshire where Aiden Byrne has his first restaurant/pub – The Church Green. He won the fish course in The Great British Menu 2013 for Comic Relief. He served ‘A Culinary Joke’ which was a reworked prawn cocktail…