My guilty guilty pleasure? Pie, mash and liquor from Manzes, under my flat. A “Danish Croydoner” is how Sarah Maria Klitgaard describes herself. She has lived on Tower Bridge Road for the past three years – which is handy right now as, on the side from her day job as a PR, she’s busy helping …
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My worst south London memory? Having to go to school in the aftermath of the Brixton riots in 1985 Old-school south Londoner James Browne was born at Lambeth Hospital in 1973 and grew up in Clapham and Brixton, where he developed a love for food – especially Caribbean. He trained with Michel Roux Jnr, before …
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I spend a great deal of time exercising in south London parks and the last thing you need is to put your hand in a pile of dog poo when you’re doing press ups Dom Thorpe runs Wireless Fitness, which provides wireless sound systems for fitness instructors – the company also runs Zumba in the …
Brixton-born James Browne is executive chef at The Jam Tree restaurant in Clapham. Next month, his restaurant is hosting Jamaica Jamaica – a fortnight of food themed around the Caribbean island’s cuisine and inspired by Browne’s travels there (and, no doubt, the plentiful places to eat Jamaican in Brixton – from Jeff the Chef’s market van …
Recipe: Jamaican Braised Oxtail and Butterbeans, by the Jam Tree’s James Browne Read More »
With more French people living in here than in Bordeaux, Nantes and Strasbourg, London is technically France’s sixth biggest city. No surprise, then, that south London’s annual celebration of Bastille Day is in its sixth year. And where better to hold an event dedicated to a country with such a gastronomic heritage than in one …
Free Weekend: Have a French holiday (without leaving south London) Read More »
Waterloo Bridge is a symbol when I’m travelling back from the north side of the river that I’m nearly home. Jon Rundell is an international DJ, acclaimed producer, in-demand remixer, record label boss – and south Londoner (he lives in Streatham). Rundell heads up Carl Cox’s Intec Digital label where he has been boss for seven years. …
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Earlier this week, our north of the river sister site, Kentishtowner, tapped into a hot topic in their neck of the woods: KT has no local cinema, and the website is campaigning to get one. The northsiders’ campaign was sparked by the impending closure of NW5’s Pizza Express, as the grade II listed building it …
Free evening? Visit one of south London’s secret cinemas Read More »
So many amazing people have lived, and amazing things happened in our city that aren’t commemorated by blue plaques or monumental architecture. And one south London building that never fails to give me a warm glow, is this unremarkable grocery shop on Cavendish Road, by Clapham Common, pictured above. This is going to take a …
Wednesday Picture: how did London’s first ever A-Z come to be sold in this Clapham shop? Read More »
