Review #4 – La Fabrica, Stroud Green Road
A Spanish gem in Finsbury Park. Yum.
Review #3 Wahaca Charlotte Street
In a cattle station on Charlotte St we get some Mexican food.
Review #2 – Devran, Harringay
A one-two of snooker and kebab on Green Lanes. Jimmy White would be proud.
Review #1 Wright Bros. Soho
A brief muse on the changing status of the oyster from working class staple to high end luxury.
Restaurants of 2016
In 2013 I spent a year conducting a (rather self-indulgent) experiment. I realised that I’d got stuck in a rut of eating in the same places all the time. Which seemed a waste given that in my local neighbourhood alone there are enough restaurants to not have to eat in the same place twice over…
La Philharmonie and a Musical Museum for London
Arguing for a landmark museum of classical music in the City of London.
Back in the north
A couple of weeks ago I went back to the north for a conference in Middlesbrough.* Some academics complain about having to go to conferences but for me, no matter where they take place (even Holloway Road), there’s always something to be learnt by getting out of the conference and having a good wander around. This…
Voluntary work for the Poppy Appeal
Once a year (or twice if I’m feeling very energetic and can get the time off work) I volunteer to collect donations on behalf of the Poppy Appeal.* It’s something that I welcome doing as a small act of remembering a good friend (now passed away) who once organised the poppy collectors of Chelsea, and also…
Two Parisian modernist landmarks
I was very lucky recently to be taken on a guided tour of a hidden away modernist gem in the back streets of Paris. The Maison de Verre was designed by Pierre Chareau and his collaborators for the gynaecologist Dr. John Dalsace to act as both family residence and practice centre. The house is privately owned…
Getting ejected from galleries
Having recently strayed from one of the purposes of this blog, which is to flag up things of interest to those in London on a limited budget, I return to the theme with two excellent exhibitions at RIBA and Ordovas Gallery. But with slight misgivings. As someone who occasionally works in the tourism/hospitality industry one of my key bugbears…
A London Journal 