Well last week was a story of highs and lows. Went to the fantastic Hedone restaurant, my TV broke and I went to a Tech Meets Creative event which was an inaccessible step too far ! On a positive note we had a great response to our call out for people to sit on our…
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world’s largest arts festival, begins on Friday. There are going to be an incredible 2,871 shows by 24,107 performers in 273 venues. So there’s a lot to see and do, but where can you go when you’re not busy at a performance? We’ve compiled a guide to an accessible Edinburgh Fringe. It’s…
Apparently a baby was born this week and even I had a smile on my face but we won’t dwell on it as the story has been done to death. Instead I want to talk about Quasi Khasis. In the past week I’ve been to two places where I’ve been told there’s a disabled toilet…
The Bell is an old country pub in Waltham St Lawrence, we haven’t been there yet but we managed to find out that there are no steps into the building, which is good. However, there is one step inside that divides the main bar from the lounge which is at the back if the building…
Hole in the Wall is a pub/restaurant in Cambridge and run by Alex Rushmer who was a MasterChef finalist in 2010. It’s like an old fashioned pub with it’s red patterned carpet but the food is wholesome and more expensive than you’d expect from such a pub. The Telegraph review says: “There were no foams…
Fennel restaurant is in Inverurie, Scotland. The restaurant serves a range of classic dishes all with local produce and their website says “our warm yet contemporary atmosphere will instantly relax you while our attentive staff spoil you.” Sounds good to me! We haven’t visited Fennel yet but we gave them a ring to find out what we could about their disabled access.…
Rockstone is in Southampton and by the sounds of it they have got a very interesting setup with their disabled toilet! They do have one, fully functioning, hand rails an’ all, in the ladies but you have to get up a step to use it – so it’s a disabled toilet with bad access! That’s a…
The Inn at Whitewell, in Lancashire, is on the UK’s best beer garden list by Visit Britain and we were going to include it our ‘Best Accessible Beer Garden Guide’ (coming later today). But it turns out that it isn’t really a beer garden. The garden is more of a wooden terrace area than a classic beer garden and…
The Sportsman is a gastro-pub in between Faversham and Whitstable. It is fairly low key in terms of the style but it has a fantastic reputation for being one of the finest restaurants in the area with outstanding, locally sourced, produce from ‘The Garden Of England’. A review in The Telegraph went as far as to describe…