MOULIN ROUGE

Last week in Paris I made my way up to Montmartre to visit the most famous cabaret in the world. The legendary Moulin Rouge…

BIRTHDAY OUTFIT

For my birthday last month I went for lunch with my best friend at Newman Street Tavern (I hadn't been before, but woul…

Camino King's Cross

It's always good to have a reliable list of inexpensive restaurants for casual dinners in between paydays and Camino h…

FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Crikey, this only seems like yesterday.  I've been with my boyfriend five years today so we're celebrating by goin…

LE LIDO, PARIS

The Lido on the Champs-Élysées is somewhat of a Paris institution.  In the same way that the changing of the guards at Buc…

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

One of the best nights in London I've ever had (quite the accolade, having lived here for eight years and had my fair s…

BLUE ELEPHANT

On the rainiest Friday night of the year I ventured to south west London to visit Blue Elephant . I’d been to the Paris bra…

FEBRUARY INSTAGRAM PHOTOS

February saw a relaxing  minibreak in Wiltshire , which ran into London Fashion Week , It was super duper cold so I wore my …

NO 35 RESTAURANT

Everyone knows Sundays and Mondays are the worst days of the week so, as these are the evenings I need cheering up most, I l…

THE LUCKY PIG

Last night I went for midweek cocktails at The Lucky Pig in Fitzrovia, which is a cool speakeasy-style basement bar decorat…

CANTINA

Last week I went to see  Cantina , a weird and wonderful vaudeville show which offered a good old-fashioned variety show of…

MADDOX DINNER

A few weeks ago I was invited to Maddox for dinner as part of their fifth anniversary celebrations.  I'm fairly snobby…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SASKIA

Happy Birthday to my gorgeous BFF Saskia, with whom I went to the Blitz Party   on Saturday night and oh I say, what a joll…

L'altro Uomo: The Face Issue

Last week I was invited to the launch party for the new issue of bi-annual men’s style and culture book, L’Altro Uomo. Ther…

WEEKEND IN BARCELONA

We spent a fantastic long weekend in Barcelona, spending a sunny day walking around Park Guell , gorging on delicious fruit…

Come here baby

'... and kiss me like you mean it'. I went to the Barbican to see the Magnetic Fields last night.  Stephin Merrit&…

Buena Vista Social Club at the Royal Albert Hall

Last night I managed to blag tickets to the "very sold out" Buena Vista Social Club show at the Royal Albert Hall.…

Mahiki Madness

Mahiki was kicking last night - it was the MOBO nominations at The Mayfair Hotel around the corner and lots of the nominee…

Eight at Moorgate

Last month I went to the opening of new members' club Eight in Moorgate. It's now fully opened its doors to city s…

Blur @ Hyde Park

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year and Londoners were out in force with sunhats, spfs and six packs (beers, unfortuna…