Honeydrippin’ photography by Chris Osburn Back in July, half a million honey bees checked in at the Lancaster London, making it the first central London hotel to install beehives on its roof. Yesterday, the hotel’s “Bee Team” invited us round to have a taste of their …
Sir Terence Conran plans to flood London with a chain of Albion clones, putting affordable traditional British food as served in his Albion café in Shoreditch, on every other street in London and across the UK. The dream is part emulation, part healthy family rivalry, …
Among the many yum-yum offerings associated with this year’s Chocolate Week is one particularly gorgeous afternoon tea in the gorgeous Winter Garden at the Landmark London hotel. If you’re looking to splurge or to wow a certain someone, you can’t go wrong with this luxurious …
If you happen to be round Lancaster Gate today a little past 9am, look up. At exactly 9.09am the Lancaster London (formerly known as the Royal Lancaster Hotel) will release 999 balloons (which we assume will be filled with helium and which we’re happy to …
Image from Google Street View If you’ve been around Aldwych in the past couple of years, you can’t have failed to notice the prominent building site on its south-western corner. It’s a Foster building, and a rather handsome one at that. Or, at least, it …
Kanteen, the chic little eatery at K West Hotel and Spa near Shepherd’s Bush Station, has recently introduced a new “Saints and Sinners” menu, with head chef Sylvan Chevereau taking a two-sided approach to “modern British dishes”, Born in Mauritius, Chevereau uses his culinary experience …
Image by pit van meeffe from the Londonist Flickr pool A new boutique hotel has been proposed for London, with great potential to please those who like sliding down poles, firing off jets of white spray and men in uniforms looking sweaty and manly in …
Over the weekend, the Royal Lancaster Hotel offered a Fairtrade Banana Afternoon Tea with a selection of freshly prepared Fairtrade banana finger sandwiches, “banana fancies”, and a choice from a selection of Fairtrade teas. The introduction of this especially a-peel-ing menu coincided with the end …
Great Eastern Street’s luxury hotel The Hoxton today celebrates one of it’s famous £1 sales. The idea is simple – 500 bedrooms will be dramatically reduced to 100 pence at 12 noon and we have to battle with each other to arrive on the website …
What’s with fancy schmancy hotels in West London serving tapas? First, we reported on the tapas available at Knightsbridge hotel, The Cadogan. Now, we’re here to tell ya that The Gore Hotel in South Ken (one of our favourite spots to catch burlesque in London) …
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