A friend recently turned 30th and before heading out for her birthday drinks, I treated my other half to Benihana in St Paul’s based in the Grange Hotel. Benihana is a global teppanyaki chain, where food is combined with entertainment provided by the chef. We checked in with the restaurant and were guided to our…

Catching with some of my favourite old work colleagues doesn’t happen so often, but when it does it’s always a fab catch-up.  With some deliberation we decided on trying out Byron Hamburgers in Farringdon. It was a busy Friday and with no booking we managed to get a table for 4. Byron Burger is a…

December, the month where Christmas parties take place and where we over indulge in food. With that in mind we headed to Jimmy’s World Grill & Bar at the London Designer Outlet in Wembley for the family businesses Christmas treat. On entering Jimmy’s World its spacious, with a lively atmosphere, lots of table’s available and…

Being a huge fan of the American burger style joints, I was eager to see why everyone’s been raving on about Meat Liquor. So with that in mind, I decided to go for lunch and beat the long dinner queues. It took us a while to find the restaurant even with Google maps stored on…

Having been set up by the parents on a date, I decided on Covent Garden for a mutual meet-up which included a few drinks and dinner at Fire and Stone restaurant. Having previously been here and pre-booked due to the popularity with theatre goers we were in luck to get a table for two, and…

Whilst doing the usual shopping trip at Tesco, we decided to have a Sunday brunch at the recently opened Giraffe restaurant in Watford, just on Tesco’s doorstep. Giraffe is a great place to take kids, staff members were friendly, kids get play items, and the interior is very playful with artwork and very modern. But…

The Refinery Bar and Restaurant in Southwark is a modern and very chic looking bar and restaurant with music and late night’s available every Thursdays and Friday nights making it the perfect after works venue. On the three occasions that I have visited, I have never pre-booked, but it’s advisable to book for group bookings especially…

For a family night out of a few us headed to Kensington to celebrate a surprise birthday, before the drinks and drunken shenanigans kicked in we decided to search for some food and using our smartphones and checking the reviews we chose the Papaya Tree for some Thai cuisine. Now it did take us a…

Having my nephew staying over for the summer holidays makes it pretty hard to keep him entertained, so we headed to Northwick Park Golf for some ranging followed by a meal at Blue Zenzer which is just on the premises. Seeing that our party size was small we didn’t book in advance at Blue Zenzer,…

Having been in charge of organising a hen party, the chosen venue was at the Maison Touareg restaurant and bar in Greek Street, Soho. I had booked a hen package for 11 girls, and having been going back and forth with number changes the Masion Touareg team were great and made necessary changes without a…

On a recent sunny day we headed to the EV Restaurant, Delicatessen and Bar which is part of the Tas group  of restaurants, by The Arches which used to be railway arches in Southwark for a spot of some Turkish lunch. The outside of the restaurant is very green, lots of plant pots which hide…