Fast, good and cheap: L’Atelier de Joel Rubuchon’s new Michelin-starred L’unch menu
The Squash. The Beef. The Tart. It read like a haiku from a Post-Modernist remake of Beauty and the Beast, but it was, in fact, my lunch.
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The Squash. The Beef. The Tart. It read like a haiku from a Post-Modernist remake of Beauty and the Beast, but it was, in fact, my lunch.
Emily Gibson / Dates, Drink, Indoors, London, Mates, £££ / central London, cocktails, covent garden, dates, drinking, going out, pop-ups, quirky, quirky dates, review, reviews, things to do, unusual, west end / 0 Comments
The latest addition to Covent Garden’s burgeoning cocktail scene involving sipping mystery tipples in pitch darkness.
Emily Gibson / Competitions / Christmas, covent garden, male grooming, Murdock, Soho, spa / 0 Comments
Win yourself – or a manly friend – the ultimate male grooming experience with the immaculately coiffed guys at Murdock London.
Emily Gibson / Dates, Do, Indoors, Learn, London, Organised Fun, Shop, Sweat, £££ / Barbers, climbing, covent garden, gift ideas, Grooming, ice climbing, Murdock, personal grooming, Soho / 0 Comments
There’s nothing nicer that taking a Friday afternoon off work. Especially when you’re going ice climbing, getting your beard did and beating the queues at one of Soho’s hottest new restaurants.
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I’ve never been to New York, but I’ve known of the great American steakhouse Smith & Wollensky ever since I read American Psycho many years ago. As a discerning psychopath, wealthy protagonist Patrick Bateman name-drops hundreds of fancy brands – some real, some not – and S&W is one of them.
Emily Gibson / Dates, Do, Drink, Eat, Indoors, London, Mates, Mums, £££ / afternoon tea, central London, cocktails, covent garden, drinking, eating, gin, going out, ideas, lunch, quirky, quirky dates, reviews, special occasions, things to do, unusual, west end / 0 Comments
“I bet the blokes who work here get laid a lot,” muttered Carla behind me, as we clambered up the very steep steps of Mr Fogg’s Gin Parlour.
Emily Gibson / Eat, Impulse Friendly, Indoors, London, Mates, Organised Fun, ££ / Asian, central London, cheap eats, covent garden, dining, dining out, dinner, eating, London, lunch, ramen, restaurant review, restaurant reviews, restaurants, review, reviews, west end / 2 Comments
Kanada-Ya’s new Haymarket digs smell like some fragrant wonderland in which pigs spend their days happily rooting out truffles before ritually boiling each other alive.
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Native is my absolute new favourite restaurant, and it’s just around the corner from my new office. I’m very smug about this.
Emily Gibson / Do, Eat, Indoors, Learn, London, Mates, Mums, Organised Fun / Asian, central London, covent garden, dan doherty, dinner, duck and waffle, jeremy pang, recipes, school of wok / 0 Comments
I’m proud to announce that duck and waffle, so delicious it has a restaurant named after it, is the latest dish in the Gibson culinary repertoire. It’s a bit fancier than my other specialties (oven chips, sausage sandwiches, eggy bread, etc.) – but, as Carla and I found at School of Wok last week, it’s […]
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Mike and I have a system: I cook, and he washes up. It works extremely well – I hate cleaning, and Mike can’t even chop an onion without a) nearly lopping a finger off and b) bursting into tears. (Sensitive eyes, apparently.)