Shrill deranged songstress Mariah Carey arrived in London this weekend but promptly ran into problems as she was unable to enter the Kensington branch of plush Italian hotel chain Baglionis as they had not met her specific entry criteria, namely a red carpet lined with …
A Bethnal Green Italian cafe has
We were browsing through some of our long-neglected bookmarks this afternoon and decided to take a look at the consistently brilliant Classic Cafes site. If you’ve never visited before (and you should have because it’s on our list of links right here on this page) …
It pains us to bring you news of an attack on a venerable London institution like the Standard but we couldn’t let this one go: an article on Media Guardian headlined Livingstone Attacks ‘Scumbag’ Standard. Sheriff Ken apparently laid into a Standard journalist at a …
Remember the world’s priciest truffle? If not, here’s a quick recap: it’s a fungus, it cost £28,000, it weighed 1.88lbs and was bought by Zafferano, an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge. And the latest news is…it’s dead. According to The Times the fungus may have been …
Visit London (“London’s official website” apparently….pfff, yeah right) are now offering a “a movie map” based on the film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The map is designed to “pinpoint the hang outs of the capital’s most famous singleton” and includes attractions such as …
Maybe we just aren’t foody enough here at Londonist, but we have to admit to having never heard of a restaurant called Zafferano. A quick search on Google tells us that it’s an expensive little Italian in Knightsbridge..which is why we’ve never heard of it. …
The Londonist was interested to read that about 200,000 people left the UK this year for more than 12 months, half of them aged between 25 and 44. A total of 513,000 people arrived, according to figures from the Office Of National Statistics (pdf file). …
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