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Be aware: when searching for The Zetter Townhouse, Google-Map is not your friend; it seems convinced that the emerging cocktail bar is located within a rather officious looking block of flats. Resisting clawing at someone's office door and calling for cocktails, we eventually uncovered that the bar is located in the charming unnamed building opposite.
I’ve been to a few cabaret and burlesque nights in recent weeks. The beauty of them is that even though the basic concept is the same, the way the sets are devised and performed always seems unique and never grows tired or stale. Kind of like the inverse of a Jodi Picoult novel. My latest venture took me to The Black Cat Cabaret at Café de Paris in Soho where a decadent interior expertly conjurs up the palatial atmosphere of French vaudeville. Imagine Moulin Rouge, but with more sex and the absence of an over-acting Nicole Kidman.
The Charlatans were once billed as the world’s longest surviving rock band. This may have been tied up in record company rhetoric and the tragic circumstances that surrounded the making of Tellin’ Stories but there were other reasons for their longevity.
An antidote to the large faceless corporate festivals is springing up at Merton Farm in Canterbury this July in the form of the community-led Brainchild festival. ………..
‘We’re going to run a festival together’, so gushed the nineteen year old Marina Blake, co-founder of the Brainchild festival, to her friend Isobel Adomakoh-Young at midnight, New Year’s Eve 2012.
In a city of over 15,000 restaurants, it’s paradoxically sometimes quite hard to know where to eat in London. You want to branch out, but on the other hand you know that Joe’s Pizza Place on the corner is a reliable favourite. Sometimes Joe even gives you extra chorizo on your pizza and those are the days where you consider that you’ve won at life. However, tempting as it is to stick to that which is known, I urge you to explore the wealth of unique and niche dining and entertainment options offered by our bountiful capital.
