Towpath Cafe

A quick heads up for the summer months - there's a hole-in-the-wall cafe just off the Dalston entrance to the Regent's Canal. It might look makesfift but they churn out gourmet coffees, fancy cheese platters and homemade carrot cakes. And if you're lucky they'll have fired up the barbecue for grilled sardines.



Towpath (between Whitmore Bridge and Kingsland Road Bridge)
Open 8am-dark Tue-Fri; 9am-dark Sat; 10am-dark Sun

SHOW&TELL: Amazing Grace Ladoja

I first met Grace when we did the door together at Friends and Family in Cargo. Never before had I met someone so young with so much swagger. Five years on and she now runs her own film production company, Ladoja and Sons. To find out more about what she's all about, check our interview in lecool.

Here she gives a heads up on what to love in London in the first of a series of SHOW and TELL interviews.

Favourite shop? Maiden on Shoreditch High St

Place to eat? The Hawksmoor, Commercial St

Best parties? Deviation @ Grammaphone, Incest @ The Macbeth and anywhere David Rodigan is playing

Plat du jour? The afternoon £1.50 screenings @ The Prince Charles Cinema and dancing in the darkness of the nightclub Plastic People

Favourite Londoner? Barnzley Armitage (I did my first Uni film on him, he's amazing) and Kim Jones

WAH Nails

Like Desmonds for Kim Jones fans, WAH nails is a heavenly sanctum of chat, Nicki Minaj and massive talons. Sharmadean Reid's nail shops are current darlings of the media and growing fast. The empire was born in this slightly shabby space in Dalston, sandwiched between fried chicken shops and Poundlands.

If you can't afford a new pair of shoes but you're in need some swagger, head to WAH. Come and read some fancy magazines, do some fashion watching (between the staff and the customers at WAH you'll find a street style blogger's wet dream) and feast your eyes on nail colours you never knew existed.

Ms Reid's girls are trained each fashion season in the latest trends. Want nails daubed in some Prada banana print? Done. Want Missoni zig zags on the end of your fingers. All yours.

To find out more about Sharmadean Reid check out my interview with her on the lecool London blog.

WAH Nails 0207 812 9889