LDN: HOT OR NOT

The decisive guide to London

Saturday, 31 January 2009

HOT: Wild Honey, 12 George St W1S 2FB

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Another day, another Time Out Top 50 Restaurant . Wild Honey certainly lived up to its Top 50 rating, with its sedate wooden interior (remin...
Friday, 30 January 2009

NOT: L'Atelier de Joel Rubochon, 13-15 West Street, Soho

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If a dining experience was purely about the food, then I can safely say the dishes coming out of this restaurant's colourful open-racked...
Tuesday, 27 January 2009

HOT: Bistrotheque, 23-27 Wadeson Street, Bethnal Green E2 9DR

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It took me four trains to get there, I remained underground for almost half the time it would take me to get from London to Paris, and the r...
Monday, 26 January 2009

HOT: Milk, Gate Picturehouse, 87 Notting Hill Gate W11 3JZ

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Milk is my fourth Oscar Best Picture Nominee film, and I think it is a nomination well-deserved. Sean Penn (also a Best Actor nominee) domin...

HOT: Topshop, 216 Oxford Circus London

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The three pumping floors of Topshop at Oxford Circus make up the world's largest fashion store - you can shop, eat, powder your nose, ge...
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HOT: Mr Jerk, 187 Wardour Street, Soho W1F 8ZB

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I don't know why English pub food never developed down the chilli route over the centuries. If I had to choose between bland stodge and ...

HOT: Greater London...Richard Bryant's Photographic Celebration of a City, Terrace Rooms, Somerset House, Strand WC2R 1LA

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Richard Bryant's photography exhibition takes the viewer on a journey across London, from west to east. I really enjoyed his work - he h...

HOT: Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand WC2R 1LA

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The Courtauld Gallery has been on my to-do list for a while, so I took the opportunity to don some disguise and explore it on an admission-...

HOT: Thomas Exchange Global, 402 Strand WC2R 0NE

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When you travel as much as I do, then its inevitable that you become a forex rate tart. I've discovered that the best retail currency ra...
Sunday, 25 January 2009

HOT: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE

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The Wellcome Collection is not one of London's blockbuster museums, like the National Gallery or Tate Modern, but it is unexpectedly in...

HOT: York and Albany, 127-129 Parkway, Camden NW1 7PS

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We heart Angela Hartnett, so despite sickness, freezing cold and gusting rain, we decided to make a Sunday lunch pilgrimage to her new resta...
Saturday, 24 January 2009

HOT: Orchestre des Champs Elysées/Herreweghe, Barbican Hall

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I still remember when I first heard Mendelsshon's Hebrides Overture - Grade 11 music class, sticky and sweaty in my uniform, sitting in ...
Friday, 23 January 2009

HOT: Hakkasan, 8 Hanway Place, London W1T 1HD

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Dinner at Hakkasan was planned as a quasi-Chinese New Year celebration, but really more of an excuse to work my way down my (long) list of ...
Wednesday, 21 January 2009

HOT: Dinner@Dana: Brain Man, The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington SW7 5HD

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I really like the fact that there is enough interest about science in London that there is a purpose-built building like the Dana Centre , w...
Monday, 19 January 2009

HOT: La Bayadere, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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My last ever ROH ballet performance (sob)! In all ballet performances the costumes are beautiful, but in La Bayadere I thought the costumes ...
Sunday, 18 January 2009

HOT: The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art, Saatchi Gallery, The Duke of York's HQ, Kings Road, Chelsea SW3 4SQ

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The Saatchi Gallery has been rehoused in the brilliant exhibition space of the grand Duke of York's HQ, and its opening exhibition wa...

NOT: Magnificence of the Tsars, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington SW7 2RL

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I was expecting a lot more from this exhibition but it was a pokey, crowded and flourescently white space stuck in the middle of the permane...
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HOT: Victoria and Albert Museum Cafe, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington SW7 2RL

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The V&A Cafe is as far removed from the ladle-of-slop-from-bain-marie as you can get. The tempting food is displayed in bright white su...
Saturday, 17 January 2009

HOT: Meryl Streep: A Life in Pictures, BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts regularly hosts events which celebrate the life and work of people in the film industry, fr...

HOT: Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, Dalston E2 8EA

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The Geffrye Museum is a well-planned museum featuring interiors of the English 'middling classes' from 1600 to present day. An Engli...
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