LDN: HOT OR NOT

A beautiful film of my favourite Ian McEwan book. The cast and scenery looked ravishing and although I didn't love Keira Knightley's...

More of a lukewarm really - I loved the bright white high-ceilinged room, the chocolate fondant and my pork belly with savoy cabbage and pan...

A really imaginative production of a play about mathematics and its impact on two intertwining relationships - the Cambridge mathematician G...

A tiring and stressful day spent trudging up and down the bottleneck known as Brick Lane in search of people, food, music and a place to sit...

You have to line up to get in, it's clean, the service is quick and it's filled with young Asian people, all a good sign. The food p...

A gallery and cinema hidden away on The Mall (a pleasant cycle through the parks from my house), the only sign of it was a bunch of cool art...

This is apparently the best place for crispy duck but I wasn't overly impressed (although I'm willing to give it another chance). Th...

I don't know whether it was Friday night tiredness or because I'm not as literary as I thought, but I found this play pretty incompr...

For a man with SO MANY HITS (as he kept proclaiming) I didn't know 50% of the songs - but the 50% of the songs I did know were fun and f...

A relaxing way to end the day with Ingrid's magic hands massaging beautiful smelling Aesop products into my face and shoulders. The 40 p...

I'm going to go more often to this creaking old world cinema - on Tuesdays it's only 3.50 (and with my still-valid student card, als...

I have no idea why more people haven't discovered this place as it does fantastic tapas in a subterranean environment right near two cin...

Very good churros - crisp and hot and not too sugary, though chocolate dipping sauce could have been hotter. Though apparently nothing could...

It looked so promising - low stools, casual atmosphere, hearty food - but the dodgy service rapidly put me off. We sat for ages without menu...

Going inside made me want to eat again (dim sum) but we just popped in for a drink as no other bars were open. Big high stools and a sleek b...

Great food, free miso soup refills and lots of Japanese patrons - a great find. My salmon and ikuru don was delicious (I'd never had sal...

I think they should make Regents Street pedestrianised all the time, but otherwise the crush of people at this fizzer of a festival was like...

I used to live around the corner and never truly appreciated the fashion gems there (probably due to lack of funds). The hoards of tourists ...

Introduced my former secretary and her husband to an extremely satisfying Indian 'tapas style' meal, meaning lots of little morsels ...

Exmouth Market is a nightmare to navigate on a cold rainy evening if you're not familiar with it, so I was grumpy to begin with. Inside ...