‘I LOVE YOU!!!!!’ shouted my boyfriend, across the table on Friday night. ‘Aw, I love you too babes!!’ I shouted back, picking my nose, focused on my menu. Then I looked up, and realised … he wasn’t talking to me. He was talking to the bottom of our waitress, Nadia. Yeah, so on Friday night, […]
words: claire gamble Claire won our poorly executed twitter competition recently, and in return we gave her a meal for two at Italian food bar Assaggetti. Here’s what she made of it all … Assaggetti is located off London’s theatre-land district, which me made me a little skeptical at first. But the airy Italian bar […]
May 18, 2012 by jonesysayz
words: catrin jones Pop-up restaurants are, by and large, COOL. One of the many exciting fads of our generation. Particularly in East London. As I don’t venture to either as much as I’d like, I was pretty excited to be invited along on a last minute food mission to a warehouse in Hackney (naturally) where […]
You may have past Trullo, on Highbury Corner, several times. As you fly off the roundabout, it catches the eye just a little too late. EIC grew sick of this happening, especially as head chef Tim Siadatan was an early graduate of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen. So finally, we stopped the car one sunny Sunday, got out and went […]
March 20, 2012 by benrobinryder
words: Ben Ryder Despite its position at the forefront of urban cool, EIC has found itself on the King’s Road twice in recent months. This is unsettling. Even more unsettling was the reason for our visit; a four year anniversary celebration, with dutiful partner in tow. Error; because The Big Easy is perhaps the least date-friendly […]
If you missed them earlier in the year, Santa’s just made your Christmas. And if you don’t know who they are? Ooof. Have a ickle listen to one of their tunes, Pressure, and decide how much longer you wanna be in the dark.
August 2, 2011 by James Glynn
It’s August. Summer is already passing us by in a rain drenched, when-does-it-start haze..but praise be for small mercies. Field Day London’s COOLEST festival, pitches up in Victoria Park this weekend and the weather gods are promising SUN. Here at EIC towers we can see Victoria Park from our windows. Excited. Little. Kidadults. Gone are […]
June 13, 2011 by James Glynn
You may or may not have noticed but EIC has a massive thing for smoked salmon. So when we bumped into Ole of Hansen & Lydersen Smoked Salmon – we were like ‘mate, do you smell of fish all the time?’ to which he replied, ‘yes mate, all the time.’ Thankfully Ole – who is […]
March 26, 2013 by Kitty
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