All posts tagged: yo sushi

YO! Sushi Camden Celebrates 1st Birthday

I remember the first time I ever visited YO! Sushi. My dad had promised my brother and I a culinary treat on one of our many escapades to London and as we made our way up to the Fifth Floor at Harvey Nichols, I was full of excitement. The fact that we could pick dishes at our own leisure from a moving conveyor belt provided much entertainment and I distinctly remembering our hands wavering over many a dish, scared that we were going to pick the wrong one and not be able to put it back. Fast forward a good few years, I can’t remember now many exactly but I would bet that it’s around 12, and I’m at YO! Sushi in Camden celebrating the restaurant’s first birthday. YO! Sushi hasn’t changed much in the last 12 years – the same conveyor belt carries freshly made sushi and hot dishes around the room and guests can still choose at their own leisure. And they do in their droves – the popularity sure hasn’t waned over …

Vintage at Southbank Centre

Let me set the scene. My boyfriends family are huge advocates of vintage, whether that be music, fashion, design or films. I met my boyfriend in a field at Bestival in 2007 and I remember thinking that it was cool that his dad and little brother (who was 10 at the time) came for a couple of days. We went back to Bestival for the next couple of years and as we started to see the changes, the way that it was expanding so fast, we decided to give it a miss the following year. It was the same year that my boyfriends parents had an idea. To encompass everything that they are passionate about and hold their very own festival. A relationship with Goodwood was established and the date was set – August 13th – 15th 2010. See my post on the event last year here. Anyone that went last year will know how fantastic it was. A high street in a field, post war silver service in The Torch Club, the BEST club …