Last week I visited the Electric Diner in Notting Hill, Portobello Road and it was certainly electrifying. The food (a burger) was fine and the ambience was set off by the beautiful people who go there to be cool but don’t quite make the mark. The most exciting thing of all was the ramp to…
The BBC’s Great British Menu,where top chefs compete to serve at a banquet for D-Day Veterans, is now finished but we still had to review Wales and the chef’s restaurants. Here’s what we found on the battle fronts of style, accessibility & disabled facilities. The welsh judge was Angela Hartnett whose Murano restaurant is both stylish & accessible and has been…
The BBC’s Great British Menu,where top chefs compete to serve at a banquet for D-Day Veterans, is now long finished but we still had to review Scotland & Wales which has taken some time to investigate. For Scotland the judge was Jeremy Lee of Quo Vadis. It’s been reviewed before and is a stylish and accessible restaurant…
This week we (me and Lieutenant No.1, who insisted on singing England football chants all day), went on a visit to Bray & Marlow to see if Heston Blumenthal & Tom Kerridge (respectively) had taken any note of the disability hospitality market – worth £2BN p.a. First it was Bray which should be re-named ‘Heston’…
To coincide with the start of the World Cup, we’re conducting a survey to find out a bit more about the football viewing habits of people who are less physically able. We want to know how less able people are watching the beautiful game and why. Basically we want to know if bars and pubs could…
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…
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…