Hix Selfridges to Serve Starbucks Coffee
A celebrated British chef and an American mega-chain coffee shop might seem like strange bedfellows but within the squeakily clean retail walls of Selfridges, it could be a match made in shoppers’ heaven.
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London Food & Drink News: 10 March 2011
Wanna learn how to mix a killer cocktail or slice sustainable sashimi? There’s a masterclass for that. Details along with more tasty London food and drink news.
New Design for London Starbucks Unveiled at Conduit Street Coffeehouse
“Brown Siren Starbucks Heritage Logo” photograph by Chris Osburn Starbucks revealed a new look today at their Conduit Street location. There was less green – even the logo sign out front was sans vert – and more earthy, woody tones. The mood was certainly easier …
Starbucks To Scale Back London Stores
Anti-globalisers and fans of Naomi Klein, rejoice — the wave of Starbucks has broken and may be receding back down the shore. The Seattle-based company is closing a number of its London stores, which has one of the greatest concentrations of Starbucks cafes in the …
Londonist Interviews ‘Winter’, The Starbucks Tourist
On Monday we noted the recent London arrival of ‘Winter’, the Californian who has spent 12 years (and counting) trying to visit every branch of Starbucks in the world. Well he’s still here, so we thought we would take the opportunity to ask him a …
Starbucks Obsessive ‘Winter’ Arrives In London
Picture courtesy of Todd Huffman under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Non-news story of the day concerns a Californian software engineer, known as ‘Winter’, who is being described by the press, somewhat predictably, as a “man on a mission”. Whenever we read those words we …
Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 1st June 1845: A homing pigeon arrives in London, having set off from Namibia some 55 days earlier. Supposedly. Tuesday – 2nd June 1953: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II takes place in Westminster Abbey. Wednesday – 3rd …
Just What London Needs: More Starbucks
Bunch of suckers, us Brits. Show us a dream and we’ll buy into it. Especially if it hails from Stateside. We watched Friends, and suddenly we all wanted to be 30 something, carefree and urbane. Which was clearly best epitomized by our schlepping (whatever that …
Liberating London’s Libraries
There are less than hushed whispers in the library world. In fact, you can hear the chatter way back in the zoology section. Things be a-changing, you see. Libraries are getting sexed up. No longer are they the exclusive reserve of those who wish to …
Star Glocks
Foreign visitors may be bemused by our relatively toothless bobbies with their funny hats and ineffectual truncheons, but the truth is they can’t always be trusted when packing heat. A female officer has been removed from operational duty after she left her firearm in an …
March with a Difference
On Londonist we try to include as many different aspects of London as we can: it’s not all news, entertainment and parody….sometimes we aim for edification, things that we genuinely find absorbing or surprising. Things that make us go ‘ooh-er’, or even ‘gosh’ (‘cept to …
