Secret Bars Offer Whimsy Galore
Friday night in London’s Chinatown, and its heart, Gerrard Street, is abuzz with the usual post-pub and theater crowds perusing menus and seeking quick bowls of noodles to soak up their excesses. Nestling between two of the street’s gaudily fronted restaurants, Far East and the unassumingly named Chinese Restaurant, is a door, spattered with paint, weather-worn … Read more
Artisanal Chewing Gum Factory
Famed for curating fabulously ‘Willy Wonka’ inspired events – chief culinary experimentalist, Heston Blumenthal, used their expertise for his television series Feast – Bompas & Parr were this last week enacting every child’s wildest fantasies with their world-first, artisanal chewing gum mirco-factory, a breathtaking pop-up installation at Bayswater’s Whiteleys Shopping Centre. Allowing visitors to … Read more
