GINGLE'S LISTS

Here's a novel idea for you - a poetry brothel. And it works rather well. Sexing up what can already be quite a sensuous thing, the...

I don't know what a buttermilk pie is when it's at home but I can tell you it's delicious. At least, it is when A Pie Party makes it. It...

I did not get into Berghain. (sad times) And then I DID get into Berghain! (techno joy!) How did this happen? Well, I do not think there...

As part of my birthday week, I feasted. First up was Yosma, a Turkish place in Marylebone, a little further afield than the spate of...

It was my birthday in August which gave me an excuse to take a day off and do something off the beaten track without the hoardes of...

A place can be years on my list but I'll get there eventually! Such as it was with The Marksman. I can't even remember when it first...

A friend of mine asked me the familiar question: is From the Flames going to be 'more DVS or more TG'? What they wanted to know was...

On a balmy summer's evening (when I started writing this there didn't seem to be any other kind this year - oh how times change) we...

We went to Somnai in its preview week and suffered from faulty technology and a storyline that didn't make much sense. Yet I was still...

I have been keen on returning to the Bleeding Heart since a farewell work dinner there in 2007. It made that much of an impression....

Klub Verboten may be the perfect kink club for me. They clearly take every aspect of it seriously and the result is a seriously great...

I have been going to Book Slam for years - before I even started the blog, hence not writing about it as I normally only write about a...

It may be sacrilege to say it but I think I prefer crab to lobster. So when I heard that Claw were moving to a permanent place in...

I was racking up a few places in the Broadgate Circle area that I wanted to try that are only open lunchtimes so finally I decided to...

I went to the inaugural Club DVS and was happy to return six months later to see it's really found its feet, even selling out completely...

House of Kittens was as sensuous and erotically charged as I had hoped it would be, having been teased for months by the little snippets...

Going to Beagle feels like quite an achievement being it has been on my list since it opened in 2013! It caught my eye as it was opened...

I was already very familiar with Smokestak from their street food days which is why going to their permanent place in Brick Lane wasn't...

I should have written about Science Showoff years ago as I like to write about the first time I've been. But I didn't. But I went...

After an experimental outing to Scout not too long ago, I found myself in another cocktail bar in East London that was positively exuding...