Greek food tastes of sunshine and parched hillsides sloping into clear blue seas. As a series of islands on the edge of the Mediterranean, Greece can “do” seafood extremely well, offering lots of fresh fish and shellfish to the diner who likes that sort of …
Think back to 1985. Margaret Thatcher was in power; there was no internet; uh, people had stupid hairstyles and wore legwarmers and stuff. And, up until October of that year, there was no such thing as Neighbours. Unthinkable, isn’t it? The residents of Erinsborough have …
Turns out the four original bombers did a practice run at the end of June. Imagine that. You arrive at a station together, go your separate ways and then keeping an eye on your watch you countdown the seconds until your backpack would have exploded. …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. All the big releases came out last week (Zadie Smith, Rushdie, Coetzee, etc). This week, there’s little in the way of new stuff to read, …
Today’s Times offers us a ‘fascinating’ insight into the lives of the “Chelsea set” via the story of Roland Straub and Cynthia Taylor. Roland is the president of the Optimus Corporation and owns porperties in London and Zug in Switzerland. He met Cynthia while on …
We’ve all run into American tourists who try and cram as much culture and sightseeing into the shortest possible time frame. Big Ben in the morning, the Eiffel Tower in the afternoon and The Leaning Tower of Pisa before bed. These days of course seventeen …
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 …
If there’s one thing the newspapers like to report on it’s other newspapers, so the news that the Evening Standard might be ‘dummy launching’ its free ES Lite paper this week has brought the broadsheets out, knives at the ready. “There is some pessimism among …
A statue has been erected at Brook Gate in Park Lane to honour the animals that have served and died with British and Allied forces. Unveiled by Princess Anne the memorial sculpture consists of two mules a horse and a dog, and whilst recognising all …
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