Culture & Leisure

Stagolee’s: Hot Chicken & Cool Cocktails

**STAGOLEE’S HAS NOW CLOSED** When someone first mentioned Stagolee’s to me I was quite interested in paying them a visit but when I discovered the restaurant was located in Fulham Broadway my interest waned a bit. Visiting would mean enduring the painfully slow journey from West to East London at the end of the night however if the news was …

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Craft Metropolis: London Beers To Your Door

If you drink beer, or cider, you’ve no doubt heard the term craft being bandied about quite a bit. In the UK, because there is no agreed upon definition of what craft is, it is a term that can split a group of drinkers in to opposing camps, often with little chance of them agreeing. Things are different in the USA where …

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Fuller’s London Pride Unfiltered

Last week I was sipping whisky, this week I was supping something that has beer drinkers in a tizzy, although that isn’t exactly difficult to do. The event I attended was the launch of Fuller’s flagship ale London Pride; dispensed not from a cask but from a keg and not only that, it’s unfiltered! Before we start, let us acknowledge the …

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Quarry: Complete First Season

I have to be honest. I’d never heard of the TV show Quarry before I walked through the bookcase at the rear of Soho whisky institution Milroys, and entered the Vault where Milroys MD, Simo, educated me (and several others) on five delicious whiskies, only one of which came from Scotland. HBO, who screen Quarry, launched the DVD and Blu-ray on 14 …

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The Versatile Rapesco Supaclip

There is nothing better than a product that does what is intended to do as well as something totally different, but needed. If you haven’t already heard about it, allow me to introduce you to the Rapesco Supaclip® The Supaclip is actually a two part system consisting of the Supaclip dispenser and the actual clips themselves. The device is intended to provide …

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