Update on Madrid Nov. 2014: Our friends at EIB in Madrid have given us some useful sites to look at re accessible Madrid. Here they are:- Accessible rooms http://www.spain.info/en/informacion-practica/turismo-accesible/guias/Madrid-accommodation-accessible.pdf Places to go with access http://www.spain.info/en/informacion-practica/turismo-accesible/guias/Madrid-resources-accessible.pdf Other information on Accessible Spain http://www.spain.info/en/informacion-practica/turismo-accesible/ ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… It seems we’ve covered the Blue Badge Style award winning journey to Madrid in every which…
Gymkhana is a high class, Michelin starred Indian restaurant which opened just over a year ago in Mayfair. Nine months after they opened for business the restaurant was voted No 1 in the National Restaurant awards, Restaurant magazine’s annual countdown of the top 100 restaurants in the country. This is a startlingly quick rise to…
The Five Fields is a fine dining restaurant, off the King’s Road, in what was once the Chelsea Spanish restaurant El Blason. Chef Patron Taylor Bonnyman, working in collaboration with Head Chef Marguerite Keogh, offer elegant and playful modern British cooking which emphasises the use of artisanal, fresh British ingredients – particularly vegetables which feature…
This weekend The Ledbury was named the UK’s favourite restaurant in a vote in the Observer Food Monthly supplement. It’s by no means the first accolade for this 2 Michelin Star modern French restaurant in Notting Hill, helmed by the well known Australian chef Brett Graham. As well as the latest honour in the OFM awards, the Ledbury is…
Just back from a week in Mykonos where we stayed in a very accessible villa unfortunately the rest of the island was less so. We spent most of the time digging the hired BMW out of gravel and searching, unsuccessfully, for restaurants with disabled toilets. All will be revealed in a further article. It was…
G0w’s Fish Restaurant and Oyster Bar is a high quality seafood restaurant in London’s Square Mile. In fact, its location is so embedded in the centre of the City it’s basically within spitting distance of Liverpool Street Station (not that we condone that sort of behaviour). The restaurant has been trading for over 125 years and…
Ember Yard is a seriously sophisticated tapas bar in an off the beaten track part of Soho (in as far as it’s ever possible to get off the beaten track a stones throw away from Oxford Street). The restaurant comes from the same people who brought London Dehesa, Salt Yard and Opera Tavern and serves delicious small Italian-Iberian dishes cooked over smoky…
Baltic is the London restaurant to head to if you’re keen to sample Polish and central European food. In their spacious and contemporary Southwark restaurant, Jan Woroniecki’s team cook up a variety of Baltic dishes from buckwheat blinis to rabbit braised in a fragrant broth. The restaurant is a long lasting London favourite and was…
You may have seen on our Facebook Page that we met Lord Livingston, Minister of State For Trade & Investment, at Sesame Lifts . They produce those lovely lifts that appear from disappearing stairs. The video below shows a lift for a residential Listed Building in Edinburgh but I digress, the meeting was a surprising…