Tag: London
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EATS- AKOKO, MAYFAIR
Innovation with a nod to tradition; I do love when chefs take risks with tastes and harness it into something daring and well… innovative. Akoko is such a place. Ten courses or so we had of the tasting menu, plate after plate of beautifully plated and splendidly delicious food. Located in Mayfair; check on that,…
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WINDOWS- FORTNUM & MASON
Nowhere does tradition like Fortnum’s and no one ever will. From the advent calendar façade that lights up the store during the holidays to the chiming of the clock at the top of the hour, that brings out Messrs Fortnum and Mason to perform for the adoring crowd below. Everything about this feels like a…
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THE WINDOWS- HARRODS
I typically don’t post my favourite windows first, but what the hell I am too giddy about this window and quite surprised by my absolute adoration for it because it is a single brand, layered yet single story windows, encased in gingerbread format absolute high fashion and I LOVE it. Harrods entire façade has been…
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LONDON | TIFFANY, VISION AND VIRTUOSITY
When I was about twenty-one, those Tiffany tag bracelets were all the rage, so I saved all my money earned from working Saturdays in Russell & Bromley to buy myself one; I think I still have it actually. Back then it was a sign of… youth and frivolity, and proper high fashion. All the girls…
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LONDON – TWO EXHIBITIONS
A Year in Art Australia 1992 centres around Australia before the place we know today; the land that belonged to the people before their blood was shed and they were cast into the outbacks. This exhibition is as revealing as it is painful to see and witness but one that you must make time for.…
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SUMMER SESSION- THE LIST
The summer is upon us and we are not broken because the barbarians at the gates will not win. Whilst we live to fight another day, let’s try and get some joy for summer and beyond because it is much needed. Welcome to the soft summer or summer of softness or soft girl season… whatever…
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EAT- STORK, MAYFAIR
London, has some of, if not all of the best restaurants in the world. We do not play with food in the capital and it has everything in the mix; British, French, Thai, Chinese, African, Pan African, Indian, Jamaican… there is a fullness of flavour brimming in the capital that is unparalleled. Through the swish…
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PAULA REGO | A RETROSPECTIVE
It is October… how is it October?! It is literally less than 100 days to Christmas. How are you doing? Good? Good. We move. A few summers ago I spent a short stop in Lisbon and took the train to the bucket list destination in Cascais, the seaside town which I talk about on the…
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LONDON- N.W.
Kilburn Park is my special part of London. I lived here on the council estates across the road from Maida Vale. I loved it here. The closeness to everything and the real sense of community spirit there was back then. Some might say its gentrified today, but it is still my favourite thing about having…