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Press release – Waterloo Food Fortnight

Press release – Waterloo Food Fortnight

Living in Waterloo, every summer I see the excitement that the two weeks food festival brings to the area, with loads of local restaurants, bars and establishments taking part with a variety of events. This year the list is really packed, so sharing the press release and information below, hoping to see some of you there! The ‘Opening Act’ of Food Fortnight takes place on Thursday 27th June from 5pm to 9pm. As Glastonbury festival goers arrive in Somerset, local…

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A night out at Lost Love Speakeasy

A night out at Lost Love Speakeasy

An immersive dining experience set in 1920’s New York with food by Neil Rankin We love a good immersive dining (and non dining) experience. Our favourite is possibly Gingerline (read my piece for Italian site Agrodolce) where we have been many times and each time we love it more. I am usually pretty aware of anything similar in London, but this time it was my husband that alerted me to a new event which sounded really cool: Lost Love Speakeasy,…

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Travel bites: hosting on Airbnb

Travel bites: hosting on Airbnb

The up (few) and downs (many) of hosting on Airbnb For a number of reasons which I am not going to dwell on, we found ourselves managing a friend’s flat via Airbnb for a couple of months. What seemed a great idea at first, turned into a real nightmare. So much, that I have decided to write about, partly to alert anyone planning to do the same, but also partly to vent about what we’ve had to endure as ‘hosts’…

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Coffee Sapiens launch event with Ferran Adrià and Lavazza

Coffee Sapiens launch event with Ferran Adrià and Lavazza

It is not every day that you can find yourself in the presence of a genius. Such a thing happened a few days ago when I was invited to a breakfast event where visionary, culinary master Ferran Adrià was to give a talk on a project he’s embarked on after closing down El Bulli. A wide-ranging coffee project on the cusp of innovation and entrepreneurship The subject of his talk was his enormous current project, an encyclopaedia on all things…

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Travel Bites: a family day out at Brooklands Museum

Travel Bites: a family day out at Brooklands Museum

Having a husband with a passion for classic cars and motorbikes, we occasionally attend related, themed events and meetings. While sometimes I would rather stay home with the dog, other times it makes sense to make these a day out and make the most of them. One place we’ve visited a few times is Brooklands Museum, near Weybridge in Surrey. Yet we had never visited as a ‘family’; the Mini event seemed a good opportunity do such a thing, especially…

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