Blue Badge guide to London and academic specialising in early twentieth century history. Blogging on history, academia, and food and culture in the capital (and occasionally elsewhere).
Being confined to SE1 in many of my waking hours there have at least been two consolations this week. Borough Market of course is the destination of choice for lunch, even if it means having to walk past The London Bridge Experience and its shit-tackularly spectral shoite there and back. The other consolation this week has been…
Argh! So not only have I been too busy to eat anywhere, I’ve been too busy to even write about the places I went to before I was too busy to eat. So La Bota is a distant memory now. As I recall we were looking for meaty snack yums and we got them. We…
How can you review a restaurant you've been going to for two decades?
Bush Magic at Rabot 1745. And the food ain't bad either.
Cold tapas and lager on a hot Spring day. Perfect post-school outing.
Decent canteen-y Vietnamese a short stroll from the snooker club
In a competitive Stroud Green Italian scene La P doesn't quite cut it on a Friday night.
To Coventry to hand over tickets for a Tindersticks gig and catch up with the eldest. We had snow, hail, rain and sun on the way to the excellent Twisted Barrel Alehouse and similar on our trek back to the other side of Coventry to Akbar’s in search of curry. And boy did we get…
Thoughts on Delacroix in London and Paris.
A must see exhibition for Mussorgsky and Marmontov alone. Shame about the Muzak.
A London Journal 