Newbie Soho eatery, Food Secret, invited Londonist along to a lunchtime press event yesterday allowing us to have a go at their “bold new concept in fast food.” After sampling some nibbles as well as a massive “tailor made” salad, we walked away pleased enough …
The ten-man production team Shunt is back with another mind-boggling but nonetheless spectactularly alternative show: Money. Like its other productions Tropicana and Amato Saltone, emphasis is on location and impressive sets rather than strong narrative making the show more of an enhanced visual experience than …
Our weekly round-up of cinema reviews Oops. Looks like Ricky Gervais has laid a stinker with The Invention of Lying. “It’s bad. The Love Guru bad. Sgt. Bilko bad. David Brent’s stand-up bad” cringes Empire (1 star). Gervais plays his usual loser in a world …
Today marked the first of two days of B Festival ’09 at the Primrose Hill office of trade and private client wine merchants, Bibendum. Sadly, this wine tasting event is only open to trade and press. But the good news is that there are some …
Some will already be familiar with the general plot of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues thanks to Ray Lawrence’s 2001 film, Lantana. Where the film had the luxury of showing all the action in a linear way, the play is, of course, more restricted but …
Located on tony St James’s Street, Brasserie St Jacques offers an upscale but (smart) casual Parisian dining experience not so easily happened upon in London. Among the many reasons to visit this charismatic restaurant is its exception steak tartare – among the best we’ve tasted …
Stephen Daldry’s (Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader) multi-award-winning production of An Inspector Calls is back in the West End. And when we say awards, we mean awards: it’s won more than any other theatre production. Twenty years (and two West End runs, six national …
When they first started out, LA band Music Go Music were said to be so ashamed of their somewhat Eurovision sounds that they were shrouded in mystery, not wanted to lose the ‘serious rock artist’ credibility they’d built up in main project ‘Bodies of Water’. …
Back in the days when boys became bands without the unwelcome attentions of Louis Walsh, or girls sang aloud without a televised vote – young Victoria Wood penned a simple, funny and sweet piece for the Sheffield Crucible based on her own experiences backstage in …
Our weekly round-up of cinema reviews We last saw Sam Mendes directing classics at the Old Vic but this weekend we can see him back to film. Away We Go is probably not going to win him any more Oscars but it has “an easy, …
A stage version of the hit film, The Shawshank Redemption? Why not! On paper, it seems to work perfectly. There’s a theatre-friendly single setting (prison); helpfully differentiated goodies and baddies; simple costumes (uniforms versus scruffy jeans) and a terrific plot. What could be simpler? But …
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