The Good Food Guide has announced it’s Readers’ Top Restaurants for 2014 and we thought we’d check on their disabled credentials with varying results. We agree with Delifonseca as the overall winner but some of the others have room to improve re Blue Badge Style & our exacting standards (I guess we ask for too…
What a result in the cricket I was absorbed all week in the ups and downs of England in The Ashes. Keeping cool under the pressure of watching required more than one glass of wine but I managed to enjoy it, possibly!?! Later in the week I went to Petersham Nurseries in Richmond on a…
You can’t fail to spot Karpo. Located opposite the red bricks of St Pancras Station, this restaurant’s bold and vivid facade stands out from the crowd. The brightly coloured, graffiti style, decoration of the exterior is a very bold statement and is backed up with cool design and good food inside (although fortunately it’s not all…
Canal House, in Nottingham, is surely a unique pub in that there is an actual working canal running through the middle of the building. It’s a really cool feature in this large red brick pub which has possibly the largest selection of continental beer in Nottingham. We first came across it in a list of…
Casamia is an Italian restaurant in Westbury-on-Trym. It’s a family-run business that, having been handed down from parents to children, has gone on to gain a Michelin star. It’s a real success story for this little restaurant to have become one of the most highly rated in the country. The two brothers, who know run…
Nightjar is a speakeasy style bar close to Old Street Station in London. They are extremely dedicated to producing the best cocktails possible – rumour has it that the team turn up several hours before opening time to prepare. The drinks are divided into different eras: Pre-Prohibition, Prohibition and Post-War as well as Nightjar Signatures. In…
Sophie Elwes sent this review about the ME Hotel that we previously reviewed here. “After dinner near The Strand, some friends and I wanted to venture elsewhere for some drinks in a bar. As I am in a wheelchair it was a bit of a gamble as to access and disabled facilities. My friend works…
Yashin Sushi is a very classy sushi restaurant in Kensington. It has a very good reputation and was included in Time Out’s list of the best 5o restaurants in London. There they said that “a meal at Yashin may not be cheap, but it’s an experience not to be missed.” On one of the restaurant’s walls,…
Update on Champagne & Fromage , a further visit discovered that the disabled toilet was another ‘Quasi Khasi’ i.e. just about get a wheelchair in but no grab rails so they are now downgraded to 2 BBSTicks. Shame. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. What a week I went to Charing X hospital without an escort and managed the lifts…