Author: RESET team

  • Review: Workshop Cafe & Academy – The beloved London roaster is back with excellent coffee and real neighbourhood charm

    If you’ve ever wandered through Eccleston Yards on a Saturday morning -takeaway cup in hand, feeling inexplicably smug about your postcode – you’ll already understand the particular energy of this corner of Belgravia. It’s one of those eclectic London areas that feels both genuinely neighbourhood-y and semi-aspirational: independent boutiques, café terraces, and the kind of crowd that…

  • Top picks for spring: These 10 scent-sational spring scents are guaranteed to lift your mood

    Spring is about new beginnings in every sense and scent. There is something about the first warm day – when you leave the house without a coat and don’t regret it – that makes everything you wore, sprayed and reached for in winter feel suddenly, completely wrong. Scent is perhaps the most immediate way to…

  • Want to do skincare à la française? The French Skincare Bible has all of France’s best kept secrets

    Need a new face wash? Wander into your nearest Boots and take your pick from the crowded aisles. And if you’re dealing with a skin condition and need something more targeted, the beauty counters are aglow with premium treatments, all too eager to make a dent in your wallet. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that…

  • May in food: The best London restaurants launching this month

    Throughout the first few months of this year, we’ve ridden some grand, sweeping waves of restaurant and bar openings. Among the mass, Weezie’s claimed its spot next to sibling Amie Wine, Fenix brought full Greek island chic to Mayfair, and Poolhouse launched the UK’s biggest pool site to date. But spring has turned up the…

  • Review: Sova is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern European wine – and it arrived at the right time

    The beginning of April saw a number of exciting restaurants blossom – and even in the midst of some loud voices at the table – Sova managed to be heard. Meaning “owl” in several Slavic languages, Sova is the new Eastern European restaurant/bar to land in Ladbroke Grove, taking over the old ZIMA Notting Hill…

  • Energy drinks have changed – Here’s what to reach for now and how many are too many

    Feeling low? Supermarket fridge aisles are aglow with energy drinks promising an instant boost. The effects of caffeine on the body aren’t always favourable — that much is hard to ignore – but even the most health-conscious among us occasionally needs a little pick-me-up to shake off that sluggish, heavy-lidded feeling and get on with…

  • Review: Viajante87 is the hidden cocktail bar serving late-night Latin-American energy

    Notting Hill, West London – Cocktail bar & late-night venue If you’re longing for a direct flight to Mexico but have four remaining days of annual leave to ration until August, you might as well make peace with it over a Horchata Colada at a Latin American bar in Notting Hill. Viajante87 (viajante meaning traveller…

  • How to prepare your home for hay fever

    While most people are out here rejoicing at the first signs of spring, 26% of adults in the UK (and up to 15% of children) are bracing themselves for the constant sneezing, itchy eyes, and blocked nose. Longer days, blooming flowers, fresh air – and an immune system that has absolutely lost the plot over…

  • Poolhouse is London’s most glamorous new venue – and yes, you’re there to play pool

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    The team behind Topgolf and Puttshack have a clear formula: take something familiar, strip it back, rebuild it properly, and make the room beautiful while you’re at it. Poolhouse – their latest venue, now open at 100 Liverpool Street – applies the same logic to pool. Twenty tables across 21,000 square feet, AI-assisted gameplay, a…

  • Here are three fresh vegetarian recipes for spring, straight from Farmer J’s new cookbook

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    Spring blesses us not only with some much longed-for rays of sun and longer days, but with a bounty of bright, colourful seasonal ingredients that can liven up any plate. Even if you feel like you’re singlehandedly keeping Hello Fresh in business, it’s hard not to be inspired by some of the lovely produce we…