Eat & Drink

Zagat London is Calling all Foodies

It’s late in the day, and you’re scrambling to finish a memo before meeting a friend for dinner. She keeps emailing you. Where are we going? She asks. She’s getting antsy; you’re getting desperate. A restaurant name, recently recommended by a colleague, is on the tip of your tongue but you can’t hone in on … Read more →

Explore London, My Favorite Things

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Christmas is upon us, heralded by dismally dark days, festive lights and gingerbread lattes topped with whipped cream and cinnamon. This time of year is one of my favorites in London. I love meandering along Regent Street beneath dazzling lights, where I can’t help but indulge my inner child at Hamleys before building an age-appropriate … Read more →

Miscellany

Seeking Writers for An Expat’s Guide to London

Happy December, Anglophiles. I hope you’re enjoying holiday festivities as much as I am, depressingly short days notwithstanding. It’s been a while since I posted. Quite a while. An embarrassingly long while. Although I’ve been busy writing about all manner of things, including London, I’m struggling to provide regular posts on the site now that … Read more →

Eat & Drink

Mobile BBQ Heats up London this Summer

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Several months ago, I posted about London’s best American comfort food. Tex-Mex, Burgers & BBQ, although scarce in foreign metropolises, serve as integral antidotes to culinary nostalgia. This summer, another BBQ joint hit the scene: Pit Cue, a temporary mobile food cart located beneath the Hungerford Bridge, has garnered a cult following during its short stay … Read more →

My Favorite Things

Shop ’til You Drop!

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When I first visited London as a young girl, my parents awarded me $100 to spend during our three-week tour of the UK. Delighted by their generosity, I tucked the cash away until arriving in London, when I cooly approached a currency exchange in Knightsbridge. The agent smiled wryly, dispensing several bills and heavy coins … Read more →

My Favorite Things

Happy 4th of July

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Happy Independence Day to everyone preparing to celebrate the 4th of July, my favorite holiday! To the rest of you, many of you ambivalent towards, or eluded by, this annual show of intense American spirit, you’re missing out… …on fireworks, fried chicken, cold beer, blueberry pie, and awkward red, white and blue-themed costumes. Although I’d love to … Read more →

Miscellany

Summertime Renewal and a Splash of Pimm’s

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Summer in London. Does it get any better? Londoners are emerging from their flats like bears from hibernation, ready to soak up eerily long days with pitchers of Pimm’s at cricket matches, Henley, Wimbledon, and… who needs an occasion? It’s also a time for fresh beginnings, and this Expat Blog has long needed a facelift. … Read more →

Eat & Drink

Curries, Cobras and Inevitable Food Comas

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Early exposure to spicy Tex-Mex cuisine spoiled my taste-buds, curious little things that they were, already pushed to adventurous limits by parents who wouldn’t tolerate childish behavior at the dinner time. Or anywhere. Whether at our cozy kitchen table, dining at a local favorite, or experiencing novel cuisine on foreign soil, we were coerced into … Read more →

Eat & Drink

London’s Best American Comfort Food

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My San Antonio upbringing created a meat and grease-loving, gluttonous appetite that thrives on Tex-Mex, burgers and BBQ, three cuisines that spoiled and simultaneously ruined me, creating expectations that are rarely replicated outside of Texas. I struggled to find adequate TEX-MEX within the United States and barely imagined the uphill battle I would face after moving … Read more →

Eat & Drink

Survive Winter With These Indoor London Havens

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It’s that time of year again, time for the nominal English sun to slink behind ever-gray clouds and another frigid winter come early. Each day shorter than the next, as the December solstice approaches like an unwelcome storm rolling across the horizon. Savvy travelers jet off to the southern hemisphere for a bit of sun … Read more →