Ice-cream Price Hike Rocks W11

It was great news when Gelato Mio opened last year, selling real Italian ice-cream at their new parlour on Holland Park Avenue.
The ice-cream was so good and there were so many flavours, the little HP Tarquins and Jocastas practically exploded with impatience as their mums queued up.
(Though it is hard to queue there, have you [...]

W11 Welcomes Gelato Mio

Sometimes everything falls into place in Holland Park. A BMW dealership closes down and an ice cream parlour opens up.
And not just any old ice cream parlour. This one is the real thing, all proper Italian, fresh and homemade.
In something of a first for this blog, I sought out the owners (Carlo and Simone) and [...]

Fine Dining in W11, Mister Pumpkernink’s Pizzeria

Being partially unemployed recently I’ve had time to consider the cheesy enigma, smothered in a claggy tomato paste of puzzlement, wrapped in a soggy calzone of intrigue that is the riddle of the continuing existence of Mister Pumpkernink’s Pizzeria, 116 Holland Park Avenue.
To start with, it seems so utterly out of place nestled between Lidgate’s [...]

Classy Old Kensington McDonald’s

Forget the Henry VIII suite at the Excalibur Hotel, I think I’ve just seen the classiest thing of all time. McDonalds, Kensington High Street has a player piano.
It’s actually a £15,000 Roland Grand piano, left alone to play crappy midi files, pianola-style, in order to lend an air of sophistication in a twinkling room full [...]