On one mild and lazy Sunday afternoon, J and I felt like going out for lunch. We landed at The Canonbury Tavern which is fabled for its large beer garden. While the garden was lovely, the experience was absolutely crap. They forgot J’s dish and garnished my £12.50
Pophams is my local cafe. It is very well known, and I’m very lucky. Pophams is so well known, in fact, that often when I’m asked where I live in London I rattle off a few Angel landmarks and it’s only when I drop that I’m
Redemption Roasters has a fantastic cause, which is to reduce reoffending in the UK via training people in prisons on barista-ing, coffee production, and roasting skills. I’m a bleeding heart, I should love them. Plus their branding is chic (not that you’d know it from the website). So
Which one ? I hear you quietly whisper to yourself. The one that is nestled between Bethnal Green Road and a small church park, once a public mass graveyard for the locals. The one that has dark painted wood panels, and framed dried butterflies as the essential type of decoration. One
Three Sheets is the sort of place you go for a martini or three anytime you need either a pick me up or to celebrate. Their Dalston venue is the OG but they’ve also opened a place in Soho which is today's focus. The cocktails are fantastic.
When a hungry 29 year old man comes home and helps himself to a sneaky crisp, and his first comment is ‘Hmmmm, I guess I can eat them. Do we have anything else?’ You know they aren’t good. Sadly my experience was no better. These crisps are the opposite