Review #6 – The Booking Office
Slow breakfast in a big room
Review #5 As U Like It, Petts Wood
Ham, mustard, tea. All good.
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 #1 Wright Bros. Soho
A brief muse on the changing status of the oyster from working class staple to high end luxury.
La Philharmonie and a Musical Museum for London
Arguing for a landmark museum of classical music in the City of London.
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…
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…
The Foundling Museum
The Foundling Museum, in Brunswick Square, is one of those small London museums that is easy to miss. They’ve had some publicity recently due to their new exhibition, The Fallen Woman, which discusses the issues of extra-marital sex and prostitution in the nineteenth century and the responses from social reformers and artists. I can wholeheartedly recommend the…
On Masterpiece London
This week I was given a ticket, and a strong recommendation, to visit Masterpiece London, a fair of arts, antiquities and design that takes place in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. I was vaguely aware of the event, it being mentioned in the FT but it had never occurred to me to go; Chelsea is not…
A London Journal 