The Lone Hotel is a five star hotel located ten minutes outside of the town of Rovinj, Croatia, on the Adriatic Coast. In recent years this area has become a real hot spot for holiday makers and the Lone Hotel caters for those of them seeking a stylish, upmarket place to stay. It’s a member of Design Hotels which…
The Amano is a nice 3-star hotel with a pair of trendy bars in the Mitte district of Berlin. The hotel is modern and stylish with good service but it is the hotel’s bars that are its greatest strength. There is a great roof terrace bar with views of the surrounding area which is very popular…
Nimb is a hotel, restaurant and bar in the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen. Despite it’s slightly strange, Moorish inspired, outside appearance, it is more understated and very trendy inside. Dylan Jones, editor of UK GQ magazine has described Nimb as ‘super-cool’ and ‘quite simply the best hotel in the city’. Unfortunately the hotel has no disabled…
Bunga Bunga is described as ”An Englishman’s Italian, Bar, Pizzeria and Karaoke”. Bunga Bunga has a meaning in Italian which is unclear (suffice to say it is used in conjunction with Silvio Berlusconi and his sex exploits.) It’s located just over Battersea Bridge and apparently attracts a young ’20 something crowd’ from Chelsea. Operated by Charlie…
I and an old and friend are visiting Indian Zing at the end of November, after realising that the Chef Proprietor, Manoj Vasaikar, was my neighbour. We both watched the Olympic Torch pass our building and another neighbour highly recommended the food!! There are also two other restaurants in the group Indian Zest in Sunbury and Indian…
I went to Hibiscus at the end of October accompanied by the Epicure Lieutenant. We had a great time we were given a suggested menu which was brilliant. I loved my starter of crab with rosehip & crab apple sorbet and walnuts, whilst my Lieutenant got stuck into a ravioli of smoked potato & hen’s egg yolk…
Ozone is a very stylish roastery originating from New Zealand it opened it’s first chain in Shoreditch. There are 2 small steps up to the door but they will help you up those no problem! Once inside there are no steps and they have a disabled toilet. Ozone gets a provisional 2.5 BBS Ticks
Finally a Boisdale with a disabled toilet! We haven’t audited Boisdale in Canary Wharf but we gave them a call. It ‘s a ‘lively restaurant serving traditional Scottish cuisine, with live music, whisky bar, cigar terrace, caviar and oyster bar’ – Something for everyone then! Obviously be prepared for plenty of tartan style. They have…
The Lamb Inn in Hindon Wiltshire is another part of the Boisdale group of Scottish style venues. It hasn’t been audited by us but they told us they do have a disabled toilet! There is one step into the restaurant which you can be helped over and once inside there are a few steps but again someone…