Update Feb 2017: Lockhart’s featured below has now left Marylebone and the premises are now occupied by The Gate vegetarian restaurant. To be reviewed soon. You may also want to visit Lurra in Seymour Place great basque food, see full review here. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… The latest trendy village in London is Marylebone which stretches anywhere from…
StreetXO is the long awaited entrance of ‘punk’, Michelin Starred Chef, David Muñoz. His restaurant in Madrid DiverXO, serves fusion cuisine that is presented as theatre rather than the stuffiness associated with Michelin Stars. In 2010, DiverXO earned Muñoz his first Michelin star, followed by a second in 2012. In 2013, the restaurant became the eighth in Spain…
Although published in 2014 we thought you should take a look at Kyrenia, N.Cyprus as it’s unusually accessible for a small island. ………………………………………………………………………………………….. Just back from Kyrenia, N.Cyprus where I stayed at the 4 Star Pia Bella Hotel. Fifi in a 4star I hear you say!! Yes but it had excellent disabled facilities. They had…
Update Dec 2016: We went to Fera at Claridges again (see original review below) and had a sublime tasting menu. Expensive, £110 for 7 courses but the quality was superb. Things to look out for are the ‘Seaweed cracker, lemon sole, sea herbs’ , the Cornish lamb, chervil root, crosnes, seeds and cocoa nib – best…
In July of this year I was invited to the launch of the UK’s first Accessible Strandkorb (literally a beach basket), at the German Gymnasium. This was organised both by the German National Tourist Office and the Tourism office of Lower Saxony. The weather was suitably British and a Strandkorb was needed to protect us…
Since renowned chef Simon Rogan opened his Michelin Starred, ‘clean’ cooking restaurant of L’Enclume a number of other establishments have come to our notice in Cumbria and The Lake District. So if you’re going, check these out and there’s at least one accessible hotel to try. Style and luxury have become part of this landscape and…
Two recent reviews have highlighted some award winning restaurants that appear to be great places to visit but slightly inaccessible. To be fair they are both trying to change their premises to make them more inclusive so we’ll wait and see before giving a final seal of approval. This prompted our initiative to present our…
We arranged a holiday to Menorca as it’s the most unspoilt/commercialised of the Balearic islands. We’d been to Ibiza and stayed in a very good villa, see our review of Ibiza but Menorca is far more ‘old Spain’ with many fishing villages and unspoilt beaches. We stayed in modern villa just outside of the town of…
We know BBS is sometimes too London centric but we are unapologetic in highlighting some wonderful, accessible things to do in London this summer: Cocktails With a View Less able people often consider multi-storey buildings to be the enemy but once a building reaches a certain height, as is the case here, there’s no way…