Ordinarily I’d eschew the “Parish Newsletter” format – however the simple fact is I’ve done bugger all in the way of blogging this year, and it’s certainly not been due to any lack of activity at this end! The dearth
Qype: Padron in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurant – Spanish So, from what we can gather, this place is located on the site of a former burrito joint – and its new incarnation is… a Spanish place, which does burritos! (I’m
Qype: Tapasia in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurant – Japanese & Sushi For someone with “tapas baggage”*, the idea of a “tapas style” place can be fraught with angst and a sense of impending disaster. Although as Tapasia describes itself as
The Tun’s the one! (That’s Tun 1401, son)
I was always crap at origami. Every creation from my fingertipes has ended up a torn, skewed interpretation of what could have been delicate and graceful – a bull with miniscule front legs that make a T-Rex guffaw with superiority,
Qype: Kimchee in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurant – Other Asian – Korean Having worked in the area for a while, Kimchee is typically referred to as a landmark with the description, “That Korean place that always has the queues out
Qype: El Mexicana in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – Mexican Atmosphere-free refit of an atmosphere-free refit of a former Pret: El Mexicana seems to churn out a solid burrito, although doesn’t come near some of its neighbours. Nevertheless, the Barbecoa meat
Pushing the boundaries of airport excellence
There’s a metaphysical thing out there which friends of mine refer to as “The Jason B. Standing Transport Effect”, which is the name for the gestalt of the seemingly limitless variety of transportial cockups that surround and accompany me wherever
Beer steps
I’m usually pretty cynical about the effect of online petitions, however one turned up in my inbox this morning through the form of a blogpost by the excellent beer writer: Mr Pete Brown. The matter in question is that of
2011 – a post of lists
I’m not sure that I get massively turned on by end-of-year retrospectives and Top Tens (you can put together a top ten ANY time – why limit it based on some arbitrary calendar point?). However last year I was interested
If you’re going to get busted, might as well do it by means of a hit US TV series
I love Tropfest. It started as an Australian short film festival (now an international event of 20 years) where anyone could enter a 7 minute or shorter film on pretty much anything they liked, provided it somehow featured the “theme