Fifteen years ago the Standard published a shock report on the people left behind by London’s economic boom. This week we revisit this hidden world of privation
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The dispossessed: Babies buried four to a grave – not Dickens but …
Art at Vancouver Olympics Olympics always mean so much more than sport, and the current edition in Vancouver merits a medal of its own for such great art displays. One of the most interesting examples is the inukshuk , an Inuit monument made of natural stones.
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Art at Vancouver Olympics, Fashion in Milan, Strange Airports
Eat Out UK a leading UK based internet Restaurant Guide allows it’s customer base to locate their perfect venues by style of cuisine. When eating out in London diners can choose via a popular London Home Page or they can locate London Restaurants by Cuisine
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The screaming, day-glo Ed’s Easy Diner sits at one end of Old Compton Street, its juvenile décor rather out of kilter with the very adult bars and restaurants in the immediate area. Don’t get me wrong – there’s always a place in the world for a neon rocket, and it’s hard not to be a little bit charmed by the sheer audacity of this chrome-plated Liberace of a restaurant, but it’s hard to avoid the sense of superficiality. Trying too hard
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Ed’s Easy Diner, Soho
Gwyneth Paltrow wrote a new article in the GOOP website about her favourite kid-friendly restaurants in New York, LA, London and Chicago. From the London restaurants, she suggested La Famiglia for its “beautiful outside patio where kids can enjoy the trees and the pasta and fried zucchini”; The Wolseley as a great place to take kids to for brunch, lunch or tea; The River Cafe for a perfect summer Sunday and Tom’s Kitchen is said to have “the best eggs Benedict and the spongiest pancakes”
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Gwyneth Paltrow: GOOP on Kid-Friendly Restaurants
Meet the green-fingered gardeners behind the scenes of some of Brittany’s most beautiful gardens that are highlighted for one week in June. Some of the spaces can only be seen during this three-day window. In total Brittany has 113 gardens , some of which have been awarded special status by the French authorities
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Rendez-vous in the gardens of Brittany
The first time word started circulating on the Twittersphere that a new, independent burger bar was opening in London, serving “authentic West-Coast” American-style burgers, I was mildly ecstatic. I realise that in London the bar is set pretty low for quality burgers, and I was probably being hopelessly naive to assume that anywhere would open to challenge the prevailing mediocre orthodoxy, but I did, I admit, allow myself a short period of frantic optimism. My God, imagine if somewhere actually got it right
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Guerilla Burgers, Marylebone
What better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than in the pub for hours eating the most delicious Sunday lamb roast I’ve had since I moved to London, drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows and playing a hilarious game of Monopoly with good friends? Here’s a thumbs-up recommendation for Garden Gate in Hampstead for letting us hang about all afternoon and for serving up some awesome food
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Sunday Roast: Garden Gate
Many restaurants in Liverpool suffer from what I like to call ‘Tall Building Syndrome’. Not many of them are very tall though, so perhaps this requires further explanation. It was Andy Hayler , I believe, who noted the tendency for the quality of food to decline in direct proportion to altitude – so taking the most extreme example of airline meals, served at 35,000ft and usually inedible, down to revolving restaurants and the like who rely on stunning views to distract from the horrors on the table, right down to basement gastronomic palaces such as Le Gavroche and The Greenhouse who seem to be trying extra hard with their cuisine to make up for the lack of natural light.
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Merchants, Liverpool
Chilled tofu with spring onion (£4.50) A few weeks ago, I’d read on Eat Noodles Love Noodles (an excellent blog written by “Mr. Noodles”) that Keelung restaurant (which I’d enjoyed despite its drubbing by the pros) had reinvented itself as a Szechuan restaurant called the Empress of Sichuan . On the strength of Mr.
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Empress of Sichuan, Chinatown, Soho
McQueen”s rise from humble beginnings in London”s East End to create his own global brand was achieved through “determination, hard work and genius” and was an inspiration to others, Tillman added.
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London opens fashion week with silence for McQueen « A Review
Eat Out UK is pleased to announce partnership with three more London Restaurants. London is renown for it’s cosmopolitan lifestyle and this is certainly reflected in the wide range of cuisines available in London’s Restaurants. Browse a selection of the Capitals best venues at :- http://www.eat-out-uk.com/London_Restaurants/ Or visit one of Eat Out UK’s three new partners in the capital who share the range and diversity of the vibrant City
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I arrived at l’Art du Fromage, thanks to a combination of the dismal weather and the fact that London Transport falls completely to pieces at the drop of a broken umbrella, completely and utterly drenched to the bone. The long walk from Sloane Square in the rain was miserable but at least necessitated a walking pace that got me to the restaurant 30 minutes early, and my first instinct was to find a nearby pub to drip-dry in. In this strange, lonely hinterland between Chelsea and Fulham however, opposite the derelict and appropriately-titled World’s End pub, there really is nothing but bookmakers and windswept concrete estates
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L’Art du Fromage, Chelsea
West Ham could share the Stadium with Millwall; and have a dog track with pie and mash restaurants etc. Athletics could also use it in-between football games and dog racing etc. And in the evenings, it could be used for Bingo; …
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Tessa Jowell slaps down West Ham duo over football at Olympic …
mixed cold meze at Gem restaurant Much as I love living near Angel, I must admit that the local restaurant scene often disappoints. So imagine my surprise when, two weeks ago, we re-visited Gem and enjoyed the food immensely? I like it so much that I went back again last night, and now I think it’s the perfect place to go when you can’t be bothered to cook. After all, it’s cheap, it’s filling, the food’s pretty tasty, and you never need to book in advance.
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Gem (Kurdish Turkish), Islington
Tucked away behind a discreet red door just off Westbourne Grove is an eccentric boutique hotel called the Miller’s Residence. It was here, amongst the assorted jumble and frilly antiques that seemed to cover every inch of space in this bizarre building, that I and Lizzie of Hollow Legs fame had been invited to the Martin Miller’s Gin Masterclass, hosted by Craig Harper. Over a fascinating evening we learned all about the history of the martini, tested out various historic recipes (some containing exotic ingredients like absinthe and Peychaud’s bitters) and had a very amusing question and answer session, uncovering such facts as the reason for the Angostura Bitters’ oversized label (apparently an early mistake, never corrected) and how much vermouth Churchill liked in his martini (none).
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Martin Miller’s Gin Masterclass and Hereford Road, Notting Hill
foggy photo of chicken liver pate (£8ish) at the Duke of Cambridge in Islington Yesterday, Jon and I moved from the Barnsbury side of Upper Street to the Saint Peter’s side. Although the two areas are only a 10-minute walk apart, Upper Street might as well be the Great Wall, because in the 4 1/2 years we’ve lived in Islington, we very rarely crossed that divide. Jon and I have spent weeks packing in preparation
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Duke of Cambridge Pub, Islington
It doesn’t seem to matter that Viet Grill is located a good twenty minute trek from the nearest tube station; last Friday evening saw it bursting at the seams and I’m quite certain it wasn’t Rent-a-Crowd. Monsieur and I were there to review this well-reputed bastion of Vietnamese cuisine in London and, in spite of having a reservation, for a split second I wondered whether we might have to wait to be seated; that’s how busy it was
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Viet Grill Me!
It’s two years now that The Venere Travel Blog is online. It’s been fun and we hope that you have had such an amusing time as we have had. You have come to read us and we want to thank you and all Venere bloggers to allow us to celebrate this 2nd Anniversary: Thanks so much and Happy Birthday Venere Travel Blog! According to the Top 5 most-read articles, you like clubbing and ski and you seem to have a strong interest on knowing more about the Greek Islands .
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Happy 2nd Birthday to the Venere Travel Blog
This is not going to be a long post. I’d love to give you the usual blow-by-blow account of the more than a dozen small dishes we were served at Bob Bob Ricard on Friday, a thoughtful and precise analysis of the mix of flavours and ingredients, and a concise rundown of the styles and influences of this unique Russian-British restaurant. I’d love to talk about the charming, bloody-minded drive of our hosts Leonid and Richard, who have against all odds (and, let’s face it, all notions of common sense) opened a huge, lavishly fitted-out restaurant and private member’s bar, looking like a cross between the Moulin Rouge and an opium den, in the tail-end of the biggest recession to hit this country since the 1930s
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Vintage Vodka Tasting at Bob Bob Ricard, Soho