People say you need money to eat well in London. I've spent years proving you don't — walking into the small places that don't have a PR machine behind them, eating everything, and telling you exactly what to order. Over 800 restaurants so far.
But this site exists because of a different sentence. People say once you turn 30 you should have achieved your dream and settled your life. I believed that too. Then I turned 41, and the bucket list I bought paper and pens for before turning 40 was still sitting in my house. Blank.
So I stopped calling it a bucket list. A bucket list is for someday. This is a TODO list — and things on a TODO list get done. Run a Korean food festival. Make the videos I kept postponing. Live in other countries, following good weather. Finally trying things I kept saying I'd do later — one at a time, in public, on the Now page.
Along the way, I put every place that survives my camera on a map, with the exact must-orders written on every pin. That's what the newsletter is: every Thursday, one place worth your money, free. Members get the map itself — every pin, every city I ever cover.