Restaurant Review – Bread Street Kitchen
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Having visited Mr Ramsay’s relatively new Heddon Street Kitchen, as well as Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa (the competition that’s situated just next door) to Bread Street Kitchen, in recent months, I find myself very excited to finally sample what’s on offer at BSK, having enjoyed my trip to the restaurant’s little sister situated in Central London. Arriving at Gordon’s corner of One New Change (the shopping centre that’s located mere metres from St. Paul’s Cathedral)...
The Social Side of Customer Experience
By Ulrik Bo Larsen, CEO and Founder of Falcon Social What are your goals when you create content for social media? Engaging your audience, entertaining them, driving clicks, signups, and sales? How do you decide what will get people to pay attention (which is becoming harder to do, considering the volume of content being produced) and help you reach these goals? The immense amount of data generated by social channels can help guide you in content creation. Data on engagement...
Death of a Gentleman
By Richard Bannan If you're reading this you're a sports fan. If you're a sports fan, you're a fan of Test Match Cricket. To claim otherwise is akin to being to a lover of sketch comedy with a blind spot for Monty Python. And if you love Test Match Cricket you must see Death of a Gentleman. This new documentary, from journalists Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber began life in 2011 as a love letter to Test Match Cricket and an...
In Search of the Ultimate Sandwich
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Dating as far back as the 1700s with the namesake penned in homage to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who allegedly came up with the concept of eating his meals pressed between two slices of bread: the classic Sandwich is now one of the most popular universal lunchtime dishes. Sure, the concept has evolved a little over the years, but the general precipice has remained the same. For many, the idea of a...
Tesco To Cut Sugary Drinks Such As Ribena From Their Shelves
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food The UK’s biggest Supermarket chain, Tesco has caused outrage across Internet social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, following their decision to remove sugary drinks such as Ribena from their shelves. A number of health campaigners, on the other hand, have welcomed the Tesco’s decision to crack down on sugary drinks. The decision was made in a bid to combat childhood obesity, and will be put in to place as of September 7th,...
How To Drink In Style Through The Summer
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food A brand that’s synonymous with Summer style, Hackett has teamed up with Beefeater 24 Gin to provide a limited-edition Cocktail Hamper that’s perfect for Picnic Season. Outdoor drinking is generally frowned upon, yet this classy contraption is too good to resist. Featuring four highball glasses, a Hackett Picnic rug, four stirrers and four stylish napkins, not forgetting a container for ice and lemon slices which also doubles up as a portable Cocktail shaker with...
Restaurant Review – Oblix
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food For a short while, I thought that our most recent reservation at Oblix would never have gone ahead. Thankfully, the restaurant understands that Southeastern can be a cruel beast, with it a train service that’s more temperamental than the British weather. Located upon the 32nd floor of London’s tallest skyscraper – The Shard – it’s a real shame that the view is often more famous than the restaurant’s food. Having visited Oblix twice beforehand,...
Research highlights areas of weakness in newly acquired firms
By Paul Lindsell, managing director and founder of ThoughtSpark Over the last few years, new international banking regulations have made bank credit less available, resulting in a greater need for alternative funding. Private equity is proving an increasingly popular growth funding option for firms, whether as seed capital or at a second stage. However, buoyant business growth typically requires a set of key business skills – ranging across business management, financial management, new product development, HR, sales, product/service distribution, IT...
We need landlords who care about creativity if we’re going to save London’s artists
London is currently home to almost two-thirds of all artists’ studios in the UK, mainly concentrated in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, according to the most recent numbers compiled in the 2010 Cultural Metropolis report. But for how long? In the midst of all the desperate land grabbing and selling, and the apartment blocks being thrown up hastily all around us – eloquently described as “the city that ate itself” just last month by Rowan Moore - London’s artists are being...