Bars
A taste of Spain (London style and prices) at Tendido Cero
Spanish fever continues this week. Following our Madrid sejour, we couldn’t resist booking London’s answer to a tapas bar, Tendido Cero for dinner with BFF. The same day as our date, La Roja suffered a disappointng loss to Switzerland in the World Cup. Totally irrelevant to this article of course, but mentioning it allows us [...]
By Patito, published on 23 June 2010
Fabulous and flirty at Dean Street Townhouse
When you have a hot date in London town, you need to pick somewhere special. And in a city where you’re spoilt for choice, that could be any number of places. But for Mr Fling’s visit to London one venue stood out: the oh-so-cool Dean Street Townhouse in the heart of Soho. Owned by the [...]
By Patito, published on 2 June 2010
Soak and spray: Champagne Party at the Ocean Club
Sometime between the fifth and sixth bottles of Veuve Cliquot, we directed our gaze at the group of Dutch pseudo-mobsters in the poolside bed across from ours. They’d been spraying each other with champagne for several hours now, along with the, ahem, ladies who’d screwed themselves to their posse. Hard, thirsty work indeed and it [...]
By Straight-Six, published on 1 June 2010
The Real Food Festival 2010: The highs and lows
We love anything food or drink related so an invitation from an old university friend, affectionately known as Shrimp, to the Real Food Festival at Earls Court was just up our street (quite literally in fact as we live in the neighbourhood). We met outside the exhibition centre at 2pm on a rainy Saturday afternoon [...]
By Patito, published on 26 May 2010
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Introducing the Lovestruck cheat
When we signed up to lovestruck.com we committed to go on six dates to give this thing a proper chance. Date number four was due to be last week, with a certain Simon75. A Derbyshire lad, he has been in London for ten years. We emailed for a month or so and just as we [...]
By Patito, published on 19 May 2010
A Lovestruck date with all the taboos at the National Portrait Gallery
They say there are three topics you should avoid in polite company: religion, politics and money. On our third Lovestruck date which lasted barely two hours, we tackled them all. Ouch. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in London. Sri Lankan Ali, a software engineer with an interest in photography was charming on email and [...]
By Patito, published on 12 May 2010
Fun and games Spanish style at Shoreditch’s Pizza East
Where do you take five football-mad Spaniards for a Saturday night out in London? Shoreditch. And here’s why. It’s not too young, not too old, it’s cosmopolitan without being touristy, edgy without being grubby. It has everything; pubs, bars, restaurants and clubs. And all within walking distance. It was also the only place we could [...]
By Patito, published on 14 April 2010
A blind date at the Benugo Bar & Kitchen
A week on from our first Lovestruck date, it was time to meet date number 2. Andy, a 31 year-old Englishman with a cat called Pandora, suggested meeting at the British Film Institute bar on the South Bank after work one Thursday. We’d been emailing for a few weeks. The conversation was easy, relaxed and [...]
By Patito, published on 27 March 2010
Lovestruck? Beginners’ guide to online dating at the Whisky Bar
Recently single, The Guide decided 2010 was the time to give online dating a go. A year ago, we were handed a fun flyer in Westminster that announced: “I know someone who fancies you”. Our curiosity was aroused. Lovestruck.com is the latest arrival on the online dating scene. With sites for London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Singapore, [...]
By Patito, published on 19 March 2010
