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Meet Zoe Roberts, Founder of Butter Nut Of London
Nut butter is enjoying a moment, riding the wave of the vegan movement and hailed by fitness gurus for their (good) fat and protein content. This is great news for Zoe Roberts, founder of Butter Nut of London, who trades at Borough Market.
Read moreMeet Peter Layton, Founder of London Glassblowing
Just metres from Bermondsey Street’s many digital creative agencies, where the latest software is used to bring designs to life, a more ancient form of art is in progress.
Read moreThe Shard Supports WWF’s 2019 Earth Hour
On Saturday 30 March 2019 at 8.30pm The Shard will switch off the lights in the spire for one hour in support WWF’s Earth Hour.
Read moreMeet Kim Innes, Founder of Humble Crumble
“My favourite is gin, rhubarb, raspberry and apple, because I love the sour flavours.” Kim Innes is not talking cocktails, but crumbles. The description does not sound like the pudding that graces Sunday lunch tables and her version certainly does not look like it either.
Read moreMeet Dale Gibson, founder of Bermondsey Street Bees
The temperature is above 10 degrees Celsius as Dale Gibson checks his rooftop hives and his charges are on the wing. Within a few hundred metres in all directions, his honey is being consumed and sold.
Read moreMeet Harneet Baweja, co-founder of Gunpowder
“My friends say I have the soul of a grandmother, all I want to do is feed people,” says Harneet Baweja co-founder of Gunpowder Tower Bridge, the bigger, more polished progeny of the Spitalfields hit with the same name.
Read moreMeet Angelo Sato, Founder of Omoide
Angelo Sato is glued to his phone as he orders a health shake from a hipster coffee joint, so far, so millennial. However, he is not a typical twenty-something. At 14 he left a religious cult to make his own living, at 17 he flew from Tokyo to London to ask Gordon Ramsay for a job.
Read moreMeet Santosh Shah, Executive Chef at The LaLiT London
Santosh Shah, Executive Chef at luxury boutique hotel The LaLiT London, is quietly determined to add its fine dining restaurant Baluchi to the area’s Michelin starred restaurants. Moreover, the unassuming 34-year-old, who grew up in a Nepalese village without electricity, will use kindness as his secret weapon.
Read moreMeet Faye Edwards, Group Exercise Manager at Third Space Tower Bridge
Forget ‘how to’ business books, any team manager wanting to motivate their staff could learn a thing or two from Faye Edwards, group exercise manager at Thames side super gym Third Space.
Read moreMeet Edson Diaz-Fuentes, co-owner of Santo Remedio
Santo Remedio translates as ‘holy remedy’, the cure to the cheddar laden burritos and fajitas that many restaurants pass off as Mexican food. Owners Edson and Natalie have thrown out pile-em-high nachos in favour of unique sharing plates such as hibiscus flower enchiladas. Tex Mex this is not.
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