LDN: HOT OR NOT
The decisive guide to London
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
HOT: Babylon at Kensington Roof Gardens 99 Kensington High Street
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A HOT place for a lazy weekend lunch and for the first time in 2008, accompanied by (moderately) HOT weather. I love the Roof Gardens for p...
HOT: Contains Violence, Lyric Hammersmith
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The creative concept of this play is what makes it exciting - you're given a pair of headphones and 8x40 binoculars, then you sit on the...
HOT: Sleeping Beauty, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, WC2
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I always love the Royal Ballet but as far as ballet outings go, Cynthia and I agreed that Sleeping Beauty was far too long. The story of Sle...
NOT: Snows on the Green, 166 Shepherds Bush Road, Brook Green
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Not a true NOT, more a not-too-bad. The restaurant is light and bright near Brook Green, with proper white tableclothes and friendly service...
HOT: Bar Shu, 28 Frith Street, Soho
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Literally, as Bar Shu specialise in Sichuan cuisine. This is glamour Chinese - it's tastefully decorated with black and white photograp...
HOT: Afternoon Tea, Palm Court, Park Lane Hotel Picadilly
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Afternoon tea is such a delightfully refined way to spend a Sunday afternoon, dahling. Thanks to lastminute.com , for only £21 each the fou...
HOT: Spitalfields Market, Brushfields Street, Spitalfields
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I'd forgotten how brilliant Spitalfields is for unique young designer fashion. The same Japanese fashion students from Portobello Road s...
HOT:
Treacle
110-112 Columbia Road, Hackney
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A cute, yummy-smelling whimsical little cafe in the middle of the Columbia Road flower market sells adorable cupcakes and other nostalgic s...
HOT: Columbia Road flower market, Columbia Road, Hackney
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I had expected this Sunday market to be enormous but it was really just a local community market lined with cute homewares stores and cafes....
HOT: L Restaurant & Bar, 2 Abingdon Road, Kensington
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A great find off Kensington High Street which even got the Huy seal of approval, and we all know he doesn't hold back if something is be...
Friday, 18 April 2008
HOT:
Goldfrapp,
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank
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Listening to Alison Goldfrapp's sexy voice, especially while seated in the sleep-inducing Royal Festival Hall, was like slowly sinking i...
Sunday, 13 April 2008
HOT:
Concrete
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
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I loved the interesting decor of this funky cafe attached to the Hayward Gallery - pink toilet paper art,funky red-knobbed coat stands, grey...
NOT: Alexander Rodchenko, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
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Two arts dates with Huy, two NOTs in a row. Actually, Rodchenko left me indifferent rather NOT but I don't think I've ever gone to a...
Saturday, 12 April 2008
NOT: Speed-the-Plow,
Old Vic Theatre
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This play was terrible. I was indifferent to all plight of three whiny characters, Mamet's text was dense, unwitty and soulless, and the...
HOT:
Waterloo Bar and Kitchen
131 Waterloo Road
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A really nice pre-theatre restaurant - light and airty, good food, friendly attentive service. My cod was a bit steep for £14.95 but the chi...
Friday, 11 April 2008
HOT: Portishead,
Hammersmith Apollo
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Beth Gibbons' voice has matured and deepened from the wispiness of Dummy - but the trippy beats and emotional energy has remained the sa...
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
HOT:
New York City Ballet
London Coliseum
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After the debacle of the dire Pina Bausch, I felt that I owed Debora a decent night out at the ballet. Luckily, the world famous NYC ballet ...
Saturday, 15 March 2008
NOT: The History Boys, Wynham Theatre
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Yalin and I were unable to work out how this schlock was the winner of numerous Tony Awards (including for Best Play). Unrealistic, self-imp...
Friday, 14 March 2008
HOT:
Unfinished Sky
London Australian Film Festival at Barbican Centre
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A fantastic film set in country Queensland about a loner out in the bush who helps a battered Afghan illegal immigrant woman who stumbles do...
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
NOT: Tough Time, Nice Time,
Barbican Centre
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Another bizarre undertaking from Ridiculusmus, all of which takes place with them naked on stage in a spa bath. Unfortunately not very funny...
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