Last week I visited the Electric Diner in Notting Hill, Portobello Road and it was certainly electrifying. The food (a burger) was fine and the ambience was set off by the beautiful people who go there to be cool but don’t quite make the mark. The most exciting thing of all was the ramp to…
The BBC’s Great British Menu,where top chefs compete to serve at a banquet for D-Day Veterans, is now finished but we still had to review Wales and the chef’s restaurants. Here’s what we found on the battle fronts of style, accessibility & disabled facilities. The welsh judge was Angela Hartnett whose Murano restaurant is both stylish & accessible and has been…
The BBC’s Great British Menu,where top chefs compete to serve at a banquet for D-Day Veterans, is now long finished but we still had to review Scotland & Wales which has taken some time to investigate. For Scotland the judge was Jeremy Lee of Quo Vadis. It’s been reviewed before and is a stylish and accessible restaurant…
Update June 2014: we contacted the Hotel Continental in Whitstable as another place to stay. Their reply is as follows – I’m afraid we do not (have rooms with wetrooms), the Premier Inn does, and I believe the Marine has rooms with wheelchair access. Sadly all our rooms are first or second floor and we…
BBC’s Great British Menu reaches it’s conclusion this week but leading up to this we’ve been assessing the accessibility of the competing Chefs’ restaurants. Particularly as they’re preparing meals for veterans of the D-Day Landings that happened 70 years ago, we’re sure some of them will have mobility issues and it’s good to see how…
The Botanist, in Kensington, is a popular restaurant and bar favoured by the Made In Chelsea type crowd. Right on the corner of Sloane Square, with floor to ceiling windows making it feel open and almost on the street, it’s an ideal place to relax with a cocktail and watch the bustling world of Chelsea…
The Cavendish is a four star hotel situated in the heart of Mayfair, a really accessible location for west end theatres, Fortnum & Mason, the Royal Academy and many others of London’s best tourist attractions. The hotel was originally run by Rosa Lewis, aka “the Queen of Cooks”, who worked her way up from a servant…
Leading up to the Bank Holiday meant a slow down in activities at BBS HQ, hence the late ‘Wrap’ as nothing much happened until I was taken by the American Lieutenant to Aqua kyoto a restaurant above the old Dickens & Jones in Regent St. A number of people have told me to go (see…
Situated canal-side, in a former print factory, CRATE Brewery is Hackney Wick’s first craft brewery and pizzeria. The location’s converted industrial interior is a one of a kind and has been creatively crafted with reclaimed materials from around the Wick, giving it a really cool, simple and stripped back look that is so trendy of late. Of course the beer…