It sounds like you Trusted Placers have been painting the town red, eating, drinking and dancing your way through the weekend and coming back to tell us all about your exploits. Not content with a simple night down the boozer you’ve been having interesting experiences all over town and yes, we’re getting ever so […]
Time for a little spring cleaning on the blog now that it’s almost April. First thing to dust off is the blog roll. I’ve been a little lax in keeping on top of all the great sites out there that give us a smile at the TrustedPaces office so let’s start a new regular look […]
Being a Londoner I tend to avoid the tourist hot spots where visitors congregate. Mostly because I’m usually in a hurry to get somewhere else (the true sign of a Londoner) but also because whatever has caught the tourist eye is probably something I’ve seen a million times before. Then again I love bringing […]
It wasn’t so long ago that we were having a gentle dig at the new Michelin Guide for still having a cover that would look right at home in a caravan circa 1975, but now the geriatric guide (it’s 108 you know!) is having the cane kicked out from under it by the likes […]
An interesting legal story came out of Northern Ireland last week:
A Belfast court yesterday upheld the right of restaurant reviewers to ply their trade without the risk of libel claims. The Northern Ireland court of appeal overturned a decision to award damages of £25,000 against the Irish News for a scathing review of Goodfellas pizzeria.
The […]
Clothes shopping is a minefield these days: I don’t trust cheaply made garments and I can’t afford expensive ones. What’s more, I don’t enjoy barging my way through crowded streets or queuing for the changing rooms! Luckily even the pickiest of people have places to go in this city.
Last weekend I visited my […]
Calling all Irish and everyone who loves Ireland, partying, drinking and dressing up in green, Lá Fhéile Pádraig, St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us! This special day is celebrated across the world, with cities such as Chicago making an extra effort by dying the Chicago river green!
London not looking to be undone will also […]
We were very pleased with the outing to the London Transport Museum that we co-organised with Going Underground. In fact the museum themselves were so happy with the resulting photographs (almost 700 of them) that they decided to feature five of them on the museum’s website.
We found the job of deciding which five to […]
It may be only March, but by blogging this in a sun trap and ignoring the huddled people walking past outside in scarves I can pretend it’s summer already.
Alternatively it looks like I could nip down to Spitalfield’s market for a bit of colour. Sonewfangled’s Colorful food was taken in February and still manages to […]
The Guardian’s Word of Mouth is asking how come Birmingham became the only UK representative of Delice, the European food network:
I will confess that I haven’t eaten out very often in Birmingham (I had a lot of chocolate there 15 years ago at Cadbury World, which hardly counts). So I can’t really say whether the […]
