About Hazel

Turkish food is sometimes limited in a Londoner’s gastronomic experience to a post-pub greasy kebab that resurfaces the next day as a bad multicoloured burp. This is wrong. This is very, very bad and wrong. The Turkish (sometimes also known as Anatolian or Ottoman) cuisine …

So. You’re dining out. You’re in a highly recommended little tapas bar in a slightly obscure part of London which was sold to you as “so authentic, even the napkins are Spanish.” That includes the menu. And you haven’t a clue what to order. In …

London and what makes it great has been the focus of the world lately. It’s the people, mainly, and the way different communities live side by side, just getting on with things and occasionally having a bit of a party. The inspirational Coin Street Community …

It’s hot and sunny in London and everyone has the same idea: let’s go to the park! Turns out the touring theatre company London Bubble has the same idea. This summer, they will be touring their new show The Crock of Gold across the London …

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival runs this year from 7th to 29th August. But attending can be a rather fraught affair requiring military precision to ensure all travel, accommodation and theatre / comedy / arts ‘n’ culture needs are met. There is also the likelihood of …

The theatre collective Shunt have finished with their show Tropicana, which was performed five nights a week from September last year in the cavernous labyrinth under London Bridge, scaring, baffling and amazing audiences who dared go through the “Staff Only” door in the station foyer. …

Sitting in a pub, swapping stories with a bunch of strangers while sipping a pint is generally agreed to be a pleasant way to spend an evening. Even better if it’s a pub like the George Inn, London’s only surviving galleried coaching inn nestled behind …

There are some parts of London that just don’t know when to stop. Greenwich has already got a shipload of interesting and beautiful things to visit such as the ruddy big Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the Old Royal Naval College which is now the …