WHAT I AM DOING WHEN I AM NOT WORKING
Coffee, running, books, half-marathons, parenting. What life looks like in London when the laptop is closed.
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Hunting authentic matcha in London: HowMatcha, Jenki, Nagare and the rest
Matcha in London has gone high street in 24 months. Most cups taste mostly of milk. The three I return to (HowMatcha, Jenki, Nagare) and the ones that look good but taste average.
A hidden-Soho night out: the bars and food I run when friends visit London
My Soho nightlife loop, refined over years of running it. Rooftops at Aqua Kyoto, dinner on Kingly Street, cocktails in a basement at Disrepute, and dim sum behind a jade door at Opium.
366 classes at Barry's Bootcamp Queensway: 28 months in
Twenty-eight months, 366 Barry's Bootcamp classes, four studios, forty instructors. Honest notes on why this format stuck when nothing else did.
Why Hermanos Coffee is my number one cafe in London
After hundreds of London cafes, Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters is the one I keep going back to. The batch brew, the Delfina, and what to order on Portobello Road.