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In Review: Paris House, Woburn
2021-06-12 21:11
It’s been a bloody long year for the gastronome, eh? Despite a few special chef-made deliveries and an endless stream of experimental dinners (a novelty which, frankly, wore thin in th… Read More
How To Run: ‘Couch To 10k’ In 9 Weeks
2020-06-22 15:53
Art by Chris MarrinanYou could not have paid me to go for a run at any point in the last twenty years. I was more likely to hike up and down mountains all day than run a single bloody mi… Read More
Remember Me?
2020-06-20 14:10
Well hello, friend! Been quite a while. I know, I know – that’s an understatement – but I had the most all-consuming craving to blog this morning. I could say it came ou… Read More
In Review: The Alchemist, London
2019-02-08 15:37
Despite frequenting The Alchemist for a number of years, I’ve never given the cocktail citadel a proper review. This could be, perhaps, because I’ve typically only drank in the… Read More
How To: Road Trip In An Electric Car
2019-02-06 14:37
One year ago I moved into a gated community brimming with electric car charging points. Beforehand, I hadn’t given much thought to the EV explosion. As one in the majority of carless… Read More
What I Wore: The Pink Power Suit
2019-01-22 19:31
Just another demure look from y’ girl today. When I pulled this pink power suit out of its box, both my partner and I genuinely squealed. Him, potentially to guard his eyes. But I blo… Read More
What I Wore – One Girl Resolution
2019-01-04 12:12
HAPPY NEW YEAR, TRIBE! I’ve been having a bit of a ponder about New Year’s Resolutions; their importance (or lack thereof), their success rate (or lack thereof) and their true i… Read More
Travel Blog: Doha (Qatar, Revisited)
2018-12-07 16:08
A lot has happened since my first trip to Doha. Both personally and…Qatar-ily. In the three years that followed the country has pushed full steam ahead to build all things World Cup… Read More
Beauty Favourites – October 2018
2018-10-31 12:51
The Pevonia Jumeirah Sensory Wellness Journey Treatment at The Peak, Knightsbridge Don’t worry, babe – I didn’t have a bloody clue what a ‘wellness journey’ was… Read More
The Best Bolognese Recipe, Ever
2018-10-23 18:55
You ask for it and you get it, guys and dolls: the bolognese recipe to beat all bolognese recipes. The rather impromptu Instagram Stories how-to I posted a few weeks ago received more comme… Read More
The Notebook Of The Future
2018-10-19 14:36
Timeless. Innovative. Groundbreaking. They aren’t words I would ever imagine using to describe an A5 notebook. Nonetheless, they fit my GreenStory notebook to tee. So much so I’… Read More
In Review: The Little Blue Door, Fulham
2018-10-12 12:24
It has been a hot minute since I’ve recommended a bar-first venue to you gastro-obsessed babes (takes one to know one!), but I think The Little Blue Door might just tick all your boxe… Read More
What I Wore – Kicking It Old School
2018-09-10 16:55
I wear jeans about once a year. It’s not that I have an issue with them (quite the contrary, I think they’re a classic component of any chic closet), I am simply too sleepy to p… Read More
In Review: Bucket, London
2018-09-04 13:09
I spent most of June on an all-seafood diet and came home with the star-crossed seafood snobbery to show for it. When you grow up in the Big Smoke, you learn to shy away from anything more s… Read More
What I Wore – Lucky Charms
2018-08-22 11:46
A small introduction to my two new favourite things caused such a stir on Instagram Stories that I truly couldn’t snap these shots or write these words fast enough! This is your offic… Read More
Beauty Favourites – August 2018
2018-08-09 09:35
Emma Hardie Midas Touch Revitalising Eye Serum If you can read the product name without bursting into ‘Goldmember’ by Beyonce, you’re a far superior human than I. REGARDLES… Read More
In Review: Smoke And Salt, London
2018-08-08 16:45
It sounds like the start of a terrible pun; two chefs walk into a shipping container and – spoiler alert – walk out with the best small plates I’ve had all year. Alas, it… Read More
What I Wore – Baby Blues
2018-08-06 10:42
Last week I was beyond fortunate to take a bit of tim off work so I could show one of my beloved American babes around my hometown for the first time. I was such a breath of fresh air &ndas&helli…Read More
In Review: Old Spitalfields Market, London
2018-08-02 13:55
Old Spitalfields Market really finds itself up against it. On one hand, you have neighbouring destinations of dreams for tourists and locals (Shoreditch, Boxpark, Old Street, et al). On the… Read More
What I’ve Been Writing…
2018-08-01 13:09
Well ‘ello, loved ones. It’s been quite some time since I’ve just sat down in front of this battered old MacBook to chat you through general life happenings and your &lsqu&helli…Read More
In Review: Heliot Steak House, London
2018-07-26 17:05
Two years ago, I found the holy grail – the actual best steak in London. Yet, thanks to a demanding schedule, I haven’t had time to return to the Hippodrome’s Heliot Steak… Read More
How To Set A Table
2018-06-29 17:52
It’s no secret I take a lot of pleasure in food blogging my way around the world. I find joy in every little part of it – the unpredictable street stalls, the over-egged white t… Read More
Beauty Favourites: June 2018
2018-06-28 14:43
Spoiler alert: it's hotter than the cast of Riverdale and I've been forced to rejig my entire beauty regime. Lush Powdered Sunshine In Croatia, this quite literally saved my skin. Though I… Read More
How To: Deal With A Delayed Flight
2018-05-22 11:16
Flight delays are one of life’s nasty little inevitabilities and if you’ve never experienced one before, they’re also pretty overwhelming to navigate. Luckily, I’ve h… Read More
What I Wore – Summer In The City
2018-05-11 15:30
I am like a moth to a barbecue flame when British summertime rears its unexpected head. Despite living in a concrete jungle, I have a penchant for hunting out London’s secret green sp… Read More
Beauty Favourites – May 2018
2018-05-04 15:16
After a few months of repetitive rituals, I am having a moment with new beauty products. HAX Holographic Lip Kit My first obsession is the lip kit so many of you asked about from this outfi… Read More
Margarita Rumble With Jose Cuervo
2018-05-03 11:44
I’m about to reveal the best margarita in London, y’all. Strap in. This is a story about a woman (hey, there) who did all the ground work so your liver doesn’t have to. We… Read More
What I Wore – Pom Queen
2018-05-01 15:41
I’m not saying shoe gods exist, PER SE, but some spiritual sartorial entity has been pointing me in the direction of these pom pom heels for quite some time. First, there was the move… Read More
2018-04-20 12:28
I live to share the places I love with anyone who may feel the same. But I suppose that’s pretty obvious from these travel blogs, eh? Nonetheless, I have so many destinations on my hi… Read More
Warriors: A Love Letter To Warhammer Quest
2018-04-12 13:33
It was 3am, the room was thick with adrenaline, and Warhammer Quest had taken hold of me. Had I been asked prior to my first twelve-hour marathon, the dungeon-based RPG – now twenty y… Read More
What I Wore – Shake It Up
2018-04-08 20:26
One of my favourite things about moving is rediscovering my wardrobe. Especially the things that never end up in my weekly dress-reliant rotation. The faux fur gilets, the suede shoes, the… Read More
In Review: Pomonas, London
2018-04-07 10:45
California has, without a doubt, been one of the most consistent food destinations I have ever had the pleasure of visiting. My last trip to LA alone felt like a constant stream of fresh, i… Read More
In Review: Alcotraz, London
2018-04-06 08:08
It’s time I talked about my stint in the clink. The CliffsNotes version of the story? I’ve considered leading a life of cocktail-intended crime ever since I escaped the joint. F… Read More
In Review: L’ami Malo, London
2018-03-20 16:11
As a food writer I am quick to respond to restaurant suggestion demands across every corner of London, but Liverpool Street has always stumped me. While there are the obvious choices, great… Read More
Burning Heart
2018-03-19 11:00
I need to look after you. No really, I do. I have a crippling compulsion to prioritise others’  needs far above my own and, naturally, put any hope of relaxation on the backburner… Read More
In Review: Le Petit Chef, London
2018-03-12 11:00
While I am undoubtedly tech obsessed, the receipt of press release with the words “multisensorial projector-based dinner show” at the top made my combatively anti-millennial ins… Read More
Trains, Trains, And Trainmobiles
2018-03-02 20:21
A post shared by Lela London (@lelalondon) on Feb 14, 2018 at 2:49am PST Just when I thought I knocked all of my train-loving bucket list dreams out of the park, It has been a number o… Read More
In Review: Ballie Ballerson, London
2018-02-26 16:27
I’m a proper adult. A post shared by Lela London (@lelalondon) on Jan 12, 2018 at 2:57pm PST Nights out in London don’t get much more memorable than tormenting strangers… Read More
If I Were A Boy…
2018-02-25 16:25
Though my Y chromosome-less self swans around town in an unintentionally strict wardrobe of dresses and heeled boots, a huge part of me yearns for the masculine chill of men’s fashion… Read More
The Jose Cuervo Salt Sommelier Adventure
2018-02-21 16:55
With just one sleep National Margarita Day (a holiday I have Leslie Knope-level thirst for), it seems to be the perfect time to take you on a tour of my recent adventures with Jose Cuervo… Read More
In Review: La Belle Assiette, London
2018-01-21 13:41
The unlikely string linking a decade of dinner parties? The hysterically diverse threads I’ve worn to each of them. When I’m fortunate enough to be invited to a friend’s… Read More
What I Wore – Let It Snow
2017-12-21 14:34
This pink-hooded parka of snowtime ideals has caused quite an unexpected stir. Though the thought rarely crosses my mind, I thought it might be a bit…well…extra. But snow need… Read More
The Christmas Drinks Guide 2017
2017-12-20 22:23
Whether you’re hosting or guesting this Christmas, sharing an interesting bottle or two with your loved ones will never go unappreciated. This festive season, I’ve been conducti… Read More
Getting Christmas Ready On Oxford Street
2017-12-16 23:34
Nothing beats Christmas on Oxford Street. It is beautifully chaotic. The hundreds – maybe thousands – of shoppers dashing throughout the 200+ shops, the glistening lights, the t… Read More
In Review: La Soiree, Aldwych Theatre
2017-12-13 13:27
The first ‘non-essential’ I bought myself when I moved back to London as an adult was a ticket to La Soiree. Trading a week of caffeine-dependent sanity for nose-bleed seats to… Read More
What I Wore – Puttin’ On The Glitz
2017-12-12 20:12
Most December evenings riding the tube feels like something of a Christmas party on tracks. The women line seats in glitzed-up garms while men stand overhead in shiny shoes they forgot hurt… Read More
How To Make Sushi
2017-12-04 20:24
After four hours of OCD disquietude, my naive ‘how to make sushi’ Google sinkhole resulted in force-feeding my frustrated and starving eighteen-year-old self a bowl of hard rice… Read More
What I Wore – Feeling Thigh
2017-12-02 18:51
If you’ve paid a shred of attention to these outfit posts over the years you’d know that bare legs are as much part of my style as retro-inspired dresses. In fact, I’ve ea… Read More
In Review: The Perception At W London
2017-11-30 17:39
I have treated W London‘s Library and Room 913 as a makeshift members club for over five years. I frequently danced myself into the next day under its titanic disco ball, made my way… Read More
In Review: The No Menu Supper Club, London
2017-11-20 21:17
I am a little bit indecisive when it comes to ordering food. Little bit in the way that Donald Trump is a little bit awful. It’s not so much that I’m a picky eater but that I&rs&helli…Read More
What I Wore – World Diabetes Day
2017-11-14 21:22
We’ll let the day-to-night blue dress explosion and Instagram caption speak for themselves… Happy World Diabetes Day, loved ones! A post shared by Lela London (@lelalondon)… Read More
2017-11-04 12:04
Lash Perfect Lash Lift When I threw that shot without makeup up on Instagram, I didn’t realise how truly phenomenal the Lash Perfect Lash Lift was going to be. As someone with naturall… Read More
In Review: Thali, London
2017-11-03 18:09
Unbeknownst to my former self, one of my favourite Londoners managed to eat her way through years in this multicultural mecca without ever trying Indian food. That is, until I got involved… Read More
All The Bingo Ladies
2017-11-01 14:15
As I watched a group of bodycon-clad women pose in front of a photo booth and a table of my friends chasing mozzarella sticks with surprisingly good wine, I could hardly believe I was at Ga… Read More
In Review: Showstopper! The Musical
2017-10-31 16:21
Musical theatre has made me a relatively intolerable human to be around. Some time around the purchase of my first pair of tap shoes, I realised that every moment in life had a song and dan… Read More
In Review: Canova Hall, London
2017-10-14 21:20
While I respect anywhere with the balls to promote a restaurant, cocktail bar, hot desking workspace and nightclub as a single venue, I’m not sure Canova Hall should call themselves a… Read More
What I Wore – Coordinates
2017-10-13 17:50
The current consuming insanity of life has left me playing an unintentional game of sartorial apathy almost every morning. It’s all turned a little “insert dress here” and… Read More
In Review: Crowne Plaza, Leeds
2017-10-12 09:48
This year, The Times voted Leeds the number one cultural place to live in Britain above London, Manchester, Brighton, et-personal-al. Though I hadn’t been back for almost two years, t… Read More
In Review: Santi, London
2017-10-11 18:17
Authenticity has been bastardised by the food industry for far too long. Any old restaurant with a creme brulee on their menu seems comfortable calling themselves an ‘authentic French… Read More
Legal Weed?! What The Actual Is CBD?
2017-09-27 19:21
When I overheard a woman praising “legal weed” for curing chronic pain on the Underground, I was more than a little confused. Though many progressive US states have decriminaliz… Read More
How To Get Your Friends To Do Karaoke
2017-09-11 19:09
I doubt a crystal ball could have predicted the tumultuity I witnessed in the corner booth of Lucky Voice Islington. For a fraction of a moment (maybe even A Moment Like This by Kelly Clark… Read More
In Review: The Ivy, Tower Bridge
2017-09-04 22:49
Unlike the famed Covent Garden original, The Ivy‘s new Tower Bridge restaurant is tempered, brasserie-style rendering of all that the holding company have earned their reputation on;… Read More
What I Wore – A Week In WearAll
2017-09-01 17:02
Now that I have mentally burned* the five outfits I spent four months living in, I have rediscovered the long-lost joy of getting dressed in the morning. So much so I set myself a little ch… Read More
Accomplice New York, I Love You
2017-08-31 16:10
There are few places in this world as intoxicatingly vibrant, inclusive and diverse as New York City and nowhere else could compare as the crescendo of Lela Takes The Crescent. Ironically… Read More
What I Wore – The Sports Bra Epiphany
2017-08-29 12:44
As a petite woman with non-petite extremities (we’re talking boobs and bums here, babes), I have always found fitness wear rather aggravating. Sports bras tend to do one of two t… Read More
Travel Blog: Washington, DC
2017-08-24 12:23
As politically-driven as I am, it seemed improbable I managed to avoid a stop in Washington, DC over ten years of travel to a number of the capital’s neighbours. Thankfully, Lela Take… Read More
In Review: Wing Wing, London
2017-08-17 16:09
If I’m raving about fried food after four months in America, you know someone’s doing something right. In this case, it’s Wing Wing – London’s answer to the ev… Read More
What I Wore – Cote D’Azur
2017-08-08 14:57
Before flying off to the South of France, I typed myself to the rabbit hole of Boohoo’s ever-alluring skirt selection and fell head over keyboard for this floral-embroidered mesh maxi… Read More
Travel Blog: Athens, Georgia
2017-08-07 12:57
“They live in Athens?” I questioned, momentarily wondering whether my sporadic decision to spend a long weekend in a city I couldn’t point to on a map was all that br… Read More
What I Wore – Discs For Days
2017-08-03 14:16
Coming back to London after four months – FOUR MONTHS! – has thrust me into a state of constant celebration. All I want to do is hug long-lost friends ’til they pop, over… Read More
Travel Blog: One Day In Atlanta, Georgia
2017-08-02 17:22
Though Stop Two of Lela Takes The Crescent technically registered as Atlanta, I spent a total of approximately 24 hours in the city before shooting off to Athens for the majority of my Geor… Read More
What’s Going On: 6 Months Of Trump
2017-08-01 14:24
New video and news-centered vlog series, What’s Going On, recaps the last six months of life with Donald Trump as President (and what you can do about it). Click here to watch! Trans… Read More

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