We took a brief detour to stylish cocktail bar and restaurant Skylon yesterday for a quick post-work drink (well, post-work for Paul, post-shopping for me. It’s a hard life). At £11.50 for a cocktail Skylon is rather pricey, and not a place we regularly frequent – we keep it instead for treats and tend to [...]

I’ve been dying to share this gem with you since I first discovered it last Saturday. I went there for lunch with my aunty and my lovely friend Chandni, who had been before and was desperate to introduce us to it. We were very happy that she did – the Cadbury Cocoa House is the [...]

Love Hearts are, hands down, my favourite retro sweet, so I was delighted to discover you can currently buy a pack of mini Love Heart tubes for £1 at HMV. Originally I was displaying mine in a cute crystal dish so that guests could help themselves when they came over. But then I helped myself [...]

As regular readers will know, it’s difficult to find somebody more carniverous than Paul. For all you not-s0 regular readers, let me put it this way: if the man was reincarnated as a plant he’d be a Venus Flytrap. As a result we are often to be found sourcing meat for all sorts of dishes, [...]

You may be thinking that I’m a bit obsessed with chocolate at the moment, given that I wrote about the beautiful Prestat boxes not that long ago. I was slightly afraid of chocolate overload on the blog but a) I’m sure many of you would indignantly argue that there is no such thing as chocolate [...]

Mother’s Day is fast approaching (for those of you who aren’t so good with dates, it’s the 3rd April) and what better way to treat your Mum than to take her out for a sophisticated cocktail? The mixologists at London’s stylish restaurant Tamarai have specially designed their Singapore Side Car to be low in calories [...]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Excuse me, I haven’t quite woken up properly yet. There’s a lot on at the moment, and having got back from doing a uni project report at 8:45 pm yesterday I’m up and getting ready to go off for another long day in the library. Wish me luck! Anyway, this post is about something [...]

Picture the scene: James Bond walks suavely into a bar, adjusting the cuffs of his expensive suit and scanning the room to ascertain the possible location of the roulette wheel/number of sexy ladies present/whether that man with the metal teeth is indeed who he thinks it is. Bond approaches the bar man, leans casually against [...]

I’ve got to be honest and admit that I’ve never tasted Prestat chocolate so I can’t vouch for it flavour-wise (although a brand stocked in Harrods is hardly likely to disappoint). What draws me to this chocolate is the exquisite packaging, which first caught my eye years ago and has since frequently had me transfixed. [...]

Just a quick post as I’m feeling pretty ill still (hey, if you’re getting bored of hearing it imagine how fed up I am!). I just wanted to introduce everyone to my friend Jenny’s fab new blog, GrapeChoice, which for me stands out from the crowd because it focusses largely on wine, something which we [...]