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LIFESTYLE: Kanaloa Club, Chancery Lane, London

Wednesday, 25 June 2014


After my first little visit to Kanaloa with Team Costa I knew I wanted to go back ASAP so Andrew and I went along on Friday after work last week!

We arrived at about 6.10 and it was already full of business people relaxing after a bust working week! As we walked in, we were greeted with flower garlands and taken over the little tropical bridge to my pre booked table! 
The club itself looks amazing, I was just looking back over the photos and I could actually believe that I was no longer in England - I felt instantly transported from the busy city center of London to a hidden paradise, I felt like I was going to leave and have to walk along the beach to get home.

 Everyone was dressed in tropical dresses and hawaiian shirts which was great and the service was great too - Marta (Possibly Martha?) Our waitress, was friendly and efficient and Andrew told me I must add that she was attractive too haha she was great.
We started off with a cocktail each, looking though the menu was loads of fun in itself with all the pretty little illustrations. Andrew went for the Diablo because it had tequila in it and he hates tequila - great logic there! And if you've been following me on twitter, you will know what I got!! I have been dreaming about drinking cocktail from coconuts and pineapples ever since Andrew and I booked Thailand so when I saw a pina colada served in a pineapple, (we arrived yesterday and our hotel does them! Yey) that was the only thing I wanted hahaha
Next up we ordered a big platter, Andrew hates going out to eat and then to a bar/club as we always eat too much and feel ill so we decided to get food in the club and it was perfect! So tasty and a great amount for the two of us. It was just my style of food, sticky ribs, lamb chops, breaded squid, prawn crackers, edamame beans and tempura prawns with lots of sticky sauces - so yummy!
ok, now for the crazy part haha Since I was here to experience the club Andrew decided that we should order one of there sharer cocktails, another thing I've always wanted to try. He didn't seem to care that there were only two of us and went ahead and ordered a "Chest Of Fire" which underneath said, serves 10! A big treasure chest came out along with sparklers, mist and a bottle of champagne which was poured into the chest at our table. It was such an experience and I loved it! Everyone was a bit starey but I guess that's because it was like 7pm and there was only 2 of us to get though it haha. The cocktail itself was delicious, I really enjoyed it - white rum, fruit juice and a whole bottle of champagne poured into a tray of ice with the prettiest flowers on top!
I had such a great time and that was just for after work drinks, I definitely want to come back for my birthday for a proper night out!! Also, its such a great location for us, just a five minute walk from chancery lane station and were on the central line home!
Thanks for having us Kanaloa!

LIFESTYLE: Birdseye Inspirations, Krispy Kreme & Costa's Summer Menu

Friday, 23 May 2014


 I've done lots of foodie bits and pieces over the past two weeks so I thought instead of loads of mini posts, I could just put them into one!
 

#BirdseyeInspirations
I was invited to a sitting of the first ever pay by instagram restaurant in London hosted my Birdseye, what a strange concept, but I loved it, any excuse to take more photos of my food haha. I'll be honest, I thought it all might be a little cheap since it's free but it wasn't, you would never be able to tell! It looks just like a normal restaurant except you didn't have to pay at the end.

We started with some bread, oil and vinegar which is something I always love to start a meal with. The waiting staff were great and offered us wine, water, coke, whatever we wanted really. Once we were settled with our bread and drinks we then got to work picking our meals over the iPads, each table setting came with and ipad for you to use throughout your meal - I picked the chicken which was super yummy with a garlic sauce inside and some minted veg!

The meal finished with a choice of chocolate or strawberry desserts, obviously I went for chocolate which was a super thick and decedent chocolate pot thing with ice cream on top!



 Since it was national doughnut week, the next very exciting launch that I went to the unveiling of the world's most expensive doughnut with Krispy Kreme. I arrived first thing in the morning and was very excited, I didn't really know what to expect although I did think it was going to be huge!! After getting everyone's attention and a little drum roll the doughnut was revealed and although it was normal sized, it looked amazing! A sparkly gold creation sitting on a pretty cocktail. I got a chance to speak to the woman who made it and she talked me though the ingredients - Dom Pérignon jelly, 24 ct gold leaf and edible diamonds! Then finally we were told how much it cost! £1000!!! and one lucky lady - Claudine - won in on a facebook competition, what a crazy prize and as well as that she got a stay in London plus £500 Selfridges voucher - a very nice prize if you ask me! If you fancied a less expensive version for yourself, Selfridges were selling 12 bespoke doughnuts on the day at £39.99 each.

At the end of the unveiling Krispy Kreme presented a giant £10,000 cheque to the children's trust! 
After all that excitement, I was off down to Oxford street for a little bit of shopping! I said goodbye and left but not before picking up a yummy chocolate doughnut for the journey!!

I didn't have time to look up the venue properly for this one so I just followed my phone to the address - I turned up outside a Hawaiian paradise club hidden behind chancery lane, definitely not what I was expecting for a coffee event, but I was very excited all the same, I love Costa's summer drinks normally so I was looking forward to what that have planned for this year! I arrived early and was greeted by the lovely Costa girls and the amazing room they had set up with deck chairs and flower garlands, a makeup artist, manicurists, food and lots of Costa treats! The girls and I got straight into eating some of the yummy food and chatting about the new releases before trying all of the drinks with a piece of cake afterwards!

There are eight yummy new drinks for you to look forward to which will be in stores from the 29th of May! Here's what you have got to look forward to -

Strawberry & Lime Fruit Cooler
Green Tea, Mint & Lime Fruit Cooler
Caramel Latte Cooler
Mint Mocha Creamy Cooler
Lemon Iced Tea
Peach Iced Tea
Coffee Cooler
Iced Ginger Beer & Mint

My favourite was 100% the Mint Mocha, I'm not a fan of actual coffee as I was a bit worried about trying it because I have never liked coffee based coolers in the past but it was really nice and the tiny little faint taste of coffee give it a little extra kick, it was also topped with whipped cream and chocolate which helped put it to the top of my list haha. I also loved the white chocolate blondie, I've never had a while chocolate brownie before but it was amazing, sweet and gooey with chocolate chunks and pecans on top, so yummy! After stuffing my face with one of every thing, you know I had to try if all for reviewing purposes, I ended up behind the bar making a ginger beer inspired cocktail in theme with the new release, I was far too full to drink and alcohol but I was happy because it meant I got a drink in a tiki glass and that was all I really wanted hahah.

LIFESTYLE: Meeting Lauren Pope With JC Le Roux + GIVEAWAY

Wednesday, 16 April 2014


I had a real Essex girl day last week - I spent the day shopping at Lakeside with my mum before making my way into London to meet the girls, get on the party bus and drive into Essex for a night at Bar Blanco. Raleigh is a part of Essex that I haven't ever visited before but as soon as I got into the club it felt like home, it was just like the my end of Essex clubs, white sofas, sparkling wine and diamonté gems everywhere.

We sat down and popped open the first of many, many bottles of JC Le Roux - a bright pink bubbly wine, very Essex and with its very low percentage it took me at least 3 glasses before I started feeling a little tipsy, and that is saying a lot for me considering last week it was half a cocktail haha. Its very sweet and fruity and far too easy to drink! After the wine, the snacks arrived and we got stuffing our faces, that's when Lauren also arrived! haha she spent a while outside with the papz which gave us all a chance to swallow our food and straighten ourselves out!

We each got a little bit of time to ask Lauren some questions. I knew she lived very local to me but I was quite shocked to find out that she basically lives at the end of the road where I used to live, crazy! One question that I was burning to ask her was do the TOWIE girls really wear heels all day every day like we see in the show?! The answer is no - Lauren likes to lounge around in trainers or smaller more manageable heels, normally from Zara. She is obviously a big fan of Zara - she arrived in the new very popular eye print dress - looking lovely! She also told us the New Look was one of her favourite places for big jewellery!

After a little bit of questioning, we topped up our glasses and got comfy in our V.I.P booth before jumping in a cab home!

Thanks Team JC Le Roux for a fun night and for introducing me of one of my new favourite drinks! 
At the moment, it can be bought from Morrisons for £7.49 a bottle!

As for my outfit, It was put together last minute when I realised that the invite said #PinkParty. I am loving theses kind of smart origami shorts/skorts that are everywhere at the moment. The crepe style material is really comfy and keeps me cool! I paired it with a black crop and my big clumpy boots.

Crop - ASOS
Shorts* - RARE
Boots* - Missguided
I left the event with an amazing goodie bag full of pretty pink products! The JC Le Roux team have offered up another very similar goodie bag to giveaway to one of my readers - Just enter below!


 
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