Category: Food

• This Is Halloween

  

  Ooooh GAWD it’s my Christmas! This week sees all manner of deathly symbols and imagery invade supermarkets, schools and offices. Whilst like any other festival, its commercialisation does seem to have detracted from its origin as Samhain, a time indicating the start of the darker part of the year and the time where the veil…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  October 28, 2019

  Advertisement, Cemeteries, Family, Food, History, London, Performance, Respect, Tour Guiding, Tours, Visits

  Celebration, Day of the Dead, Egypt, Escape Rooms, Events, Exhibitions, Halloween, London, Mummy, Seminars, Things To Do, tomb, Tpurs

• Chief of the Clan McSausage

  

  Say the sentence ‘I’m looking for the Sausage King’ and you’ll get responses like ‘I’ve seen him on Grindr’ ‘so am I, dear’ or ‘I like how honest you are’. The one I’m referring to  is one of the most eccentric characters of ye olde London, whose story has particular pertinence as recently it’s been…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 14, 2019

  Biography, Food, History, London, Royal, Work

  Clerkenwell, Eccentic, Innuendo, London, Meat, Sausage, Smithfield Market, victorian

• The Lost Restaurants of London

  

  Log out of TripAdvisor and exit the OpenTable app – we step back 100 years and reveal that there was more to life than Nando’s and GBK Going out in London and you’re usually confronted with the challenge of where you should go if you fancy a bite to eat. Particularly in my age bracket, the choice…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  June 12, 2017

  Food, History, London

  Dickens, Dinner, french, GBK, Gone, Italian, London, Lunch, Nandos, Pizza Express, Restaurant, Supper, victorian, Wagamama’s, Wasabi