Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
Boxpark’s Lease Extension Bought Forty Seven Small Businesses Real Time, Not A Permanent Guarantee
The venue’s near-closure last year should have taught the neighbourhood something about complacency A Reprieve Worth Remembering Was Not Guaranteed By Cyndi Himmelstiere. It is…
Goodhood Left Shoreditch For Spitalfields Two Years Ago, And The Neighbourhood Still Has Not Fully Reckoned With Why
One of our most iconic independent retailers chose to move a short walk away, and the reasons matter A Short Walk That Meant Something Longer…
American Buyers Are Reshaping Shoreditch’s Property Market, And Long-Term Residents Are Noticing The Shift
Tech and private equity money is moving into a neighbourhood that used to define itself against exactly that A New Kind Of Buyer Arriving In…
The 20 Best Satirical News Sites In The World, Ranked By Someone Who Just Deleted A Very Long Text Draft Instead Of Sending It
A global satire league table, compiled with the same brutal editorial instincts you need to know when a headline, or a relationship, isn’t working There’s…
I Finally Tried The Exclusive Harvey Nichols Menu And Understood What All The Fuss Was About
Cyndi Himmelstiere on booking a table purely out of curiosity and leaving with genuine food regret about every meal she’s ever had before I’ve walked…
The Jerk Chicken Stall At Notting Hill Carnival That Ruined My Twenty Pound Budget In Under An Hour
Cyndi Himmelstiere on Carnival food, financial discipline, and the total absence of the latter I set myself a strict twenty pound Carnival budget this year,…
I Tried Every Food Stall At Summer Sounds King’s Cross And Ranked Them By How Fast The Queue Moved
Cyndi Himmelstiere applies deeply questionable scientific methodology to a free music festival’s food offering Summer Sounds at King’s Cross is technically a free music festival,…
I Ate My Way Through Three Plated London Restaurants In One Weekend And My Stomach Has Filed A Formal Complaint
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the ambitious, possibly reckless decision to treat a month-long dining festival like a sprint When I heard more than thirty restaurants across…
The Smoked Cocktail At Cocktails In The City Nearly Defeated Me And I’m Still Thinking About It
Cyndi Himmelstiere reviews the pop-up bar takeover of Bedford Square Gardens and one drink in particular that required real commitment Bedford Square Gardens is usually…
Mr Fogg’s Market Tavern Opened In Covent Garden And I Spent An Entire Evening Pretending To Be A Victorian Explorer
A London food diary entry on the new Phileas Fogg-themed drinking den, why themed bars usually make her cringe, and the specific cocktail that changed…
