Bug Salad!

I love living in London. There are so many fun places to go and to eat! I recently rounded off the late night Jack the Ripper tour of Whitechapel with a meal at Archipelago Restaurant in West London.

Archepelago specialise in exotic dining and they certainly mean it. The menu includes crocodile, kangaroo, zebra, scorpion and many other fantastic and unusual dishes! It was a great experience to try something different.

For my starter I ate crocodile. It tasted like chicken but had the texture of fish. It was delicious and I would highly recommend it! Just don’t think about it being a crocodile! For my main I had a wilderbeast curry. That too was out of this world! It reminded me of lamb or game and didn’t seem too hardcore really as it was kind of similar to stuff we have here. It was cool to say I gave it a try though! My side salad of locusts and crickets marinated in chilli and garlic was the most daring I got! Though, I drew the line at chocolate covered scorpions for desert.

However the atmosphere, setting and delicious delicacies have made me want to go back soon. I tried Mr One Piece’s zebra main and think I may order that next time... possibly with scorpion for desert!

Check out their website at http://www.archipelago-restaurant.co.uk

Also, if you haven’t been on the Jack the Ripper tour that is worth looking into especially if you love history and a bit of a fright! My tour was conducted by a Beefeater from the Tower of London so he was full of stories, facts and jokes too!

Check out their website at: http://www.jack-the-ripper-tours.com

The photo of my salad was taken by my very good friend Rene Ehrhardt. Check out his photos at http://reneehrhardt.com/ and http://reneehrhardt.com/blog/

Much love,

One Piece xxx

AW10 Channels "Mad Men Vibe" from Prada to Vintage

Whilst Spring Summer may be the season of Tim Alice in Wonderland (Que you fighting in H&M with 12 year olds of polkadot hair bands- we have some of these in for SS10 btw) Autumn Winter 10's cultural connect most definitely takes fash inspiration from popular TV Show Mad Men a much more grown up and recession freindly trend that will see you purchasing frocks that will become the staple of your wardrobe for years to come (and then hunted down by the shoreditch sisters of 2050 -who probabably be collecting our blackberrys and ipods as novelty bric-a-brac).
Very much in line with the Festival Lily Allen launched today Vintage at Goodwood. Retro takes to the mainstage again.
Expect the popularity of shows like Mad Men to rocket to new popularity as the profile of the cast and the style of the wardobe department start shaping your world.
From Prada's new heritage AW10 range (shown tonight at Milan Fashion Week) which is the sixties style with a very prada twist (like gorgeous frilled patent gloves).
Mad Men's stunning Christina Hendricks has been getting heat this week though over her weight- a glossy magazine editor was heard saying "you don't put a big girl in a big dress"- We'd beg to differ that a bone bag would look pretty terrible in that stunning Golden Globes Frock.