LDN: HOT OR NOT

The decisive guide to London

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

HOT: Guest Night, Gray's Inn, High Holborn

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An ancient town like London contains many opportunities for a history buff to delve into historic buildings and arcane traditions - but not ...
Monday, 24 November 2008

HOT: Ferran Adria, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank

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"Food is a language, the most universal of all." So began the theme of Ferran Adria's discussion on the role of food as part ...
Wednesday, 19 November 2008

HOT: Meals at The School of Life, Konstam Restaurant, 2 Acton Street Kings Cross WC1X 9NA

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When you first meet someone, how do your conversations normally start? A moan about the weather? Finding out about their job? Where they liv...
Sunday, 16 November 2008

HOT: Leong's Legend, 4 Macclesfield Street London

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It's been my secret ambition for a while now to drag my friend Rebekah Leong to eat at Leong's Legend, if only so I could get her to...
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HOT: La Clique, London Hippodrome, 10-14 Cranbourne Street WC2H 7AJ

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I hate burlesque. However, Jen's constant raving about La Clique , plus their sell-out shows all around the world, made me think I shou...

HOT: The Photographers' Gallery, Great Newport Street WC2H 7HY

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One of the things I love about London is that there is always something unexpected around the corner. En route to kill some time in Covent ...

HOT: Campaign For The Titians, National Gallery

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Titian's Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto are considered the greatest paintings in the Bridgewater Collection, and now they...

HOT: Southbank Centre Shop, Festival Terrance, Southbank Centre, Belverdere Road SE1 8XX

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With ten minutes before my lunch booking, I wandered into the Southbank Centre Shop - and promptly fell in love with the giggle-inducing Dum...

HOT: The All-Seeing Eye (The Hardcore Techno Version), BFI Southbank Gallery, Southbank

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The latest BFI Gallery commission comes from the team behind the quirky film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , the artist Pierre Bism...
Saturday, 15 November 2008

NOT: Cold War Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington

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I was anticipating much more from the V&A's winter exhibition on the influence of the Cold War in design, film, art, architecture. F...
Friday, 14 November 2008

HOT: Piaf, Vaudeville Theatre, 404 Strand WC2R 0NH

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When an actor is playing a real life person, it can often be hard to distinguish between a skillful imitation and when the actor is really g...
Thursday, 13 November 2008

HOT: Ivanov, Donmar West End, Wyndhams Theatre, Charing Cross Road WC2H 0DA

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The first of Donmar's star-studded West End productions is a new version of Chekhov's classic Ivanov , written by Tom Stoppard and s...

NOT: Daylesford Organic mail order

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Nov 9 to mailorder@daylesfordorganic.com Hi, I rang you to place an order on Wed 29 October - the order was for delivery on two items to my ...
Tuesday, 11 November 2008

HOT: Eat and Two Veg, 50 Marylebone High Street W1U 5HN

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A scheduling error on my part meant that I turned up for my dinner date with Riya a week early. Luckily, Eat and Two Veg is a bright and inf...
Monday, 10 November 2008

HOT: Bureau Club, 13 Kingly Court Soho W1B 5PW

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It's natural that a glamour-girl like CC would choose to celebrate her 25th birthday in the glamourous members-only club Bureau . You go...
Wednesday, 5 November 2008

HOT: Table Manners, Old Vic Theatre, The Cut SE1 8NB

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The Old Vic is showing the Norman Conquests trilogy for the first time in 34 years, and the first of the plays, Table Manners, takes place ...

HOT: Baltic, 74 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8HA

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I was surprised when Huy suggested a pre-theatre meal at Baltic - I would have thought that Eastern European cuisine would be low on the eat...
Saturday, 1 November 2008

HOT: Manon, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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A blustery rainy Saturday night is the perfect weather for getting glamorous and settling into the velvety cocoon of the Royal Opera House ....

HOT: Knife Skills, Leiths School of Food and Wine, 16-20 Wendell Road W12 9RT

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With London suffering from a spate of senseless knife crime at the moment, it seemed sensible for Gourmet Chick and myself to enrol in Leith...
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Friday, 31 October 2008

NOT: Quantum of Solace, Barbican Cinema

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I never have high expectations for Bond movies, but I can't say I enjoyed this latest outing where Bond turns into an unkillable leaps-...
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