CHAKRA LONDON We have exciting and delicious new client news. We are please to announce we are now working with chakra London.

Situated on the border of Notting hill and Holland Park, Chakra is a local favourite and a destination must for International gourmands of West London.
Chakra is not your typical Indian; it delivers a stunning menu inspired many centuries of tradition from different regions of India and royal Indian cuisine. Executive Chef Andy Varma has invested many year cooking with legendary Indian chefs and studying ancient recipes to draw inspiration for his menu at Chakra. His dishes are inspired by his respect for artisan chefs - the artists of the kitchen.






Chakra is the balance of mind, body and food. With evolved Indian cuisine presented with the modern British palate in mind, the Chakra experience is unique. The art of spicing, searing, baking and marinading combined with the finest produce deliver a gastronomic experience to savor.

The interior of Chakra resonates style and comfort. Furnishings in shades of biscuit-cream, with chandeliers, crisp napery and padded, dimpled walls create a sophisticated vibe. The service team is clad in siren-red outfits, which adds fiery glamour.




Chef Andy Varma aims to re-create this Artisan and traditional way of ?running? the food from pan to table. With a unique menu designed to share, it combines seven schools of cooking, each containing recipes that have evolved throughout the centuries. Typically, 1 or 2 dishes should be ordered to share from each section, to try different cooking preparations and different techniques or ?schools? of Royal Indian origins.
Chakra, has 75 covers in the restaurant, with knowledgable staff on hand to take care of your dining experience. The restaurant is open for lunch service at the weekend from 12-3pm. Dinner service, Monday?Saturday is 6-11pm and Sunday 6-10.30pm. It is closed for lunch Monday-Friday.

-Ish London Dry Gin We have a new little secret at Handmade HQ and we are going to share it with you...

It's your turn to break the rules. To strike out at morality and the bourgeois customs. To push conventionalism aside and explore the world of the forbidden, of the unconfessional.

Welcome to the -ish side of life. Welcome to Britain´s Fetish.

-Ish Gin



www.ishgin.com

Coldpress Juices We are excited to be working with Coldpress natural fruit Juices.

Coldpress is 100% fruit juice with a clean, crisp and just off the tree taste.

In 7 gorgeous flavours the hardest part is choosing which one to have!




www.cold-press.co.uk

The Monkey Biz Our client and friend Caroline Monk has launched her behind the scenes showbiz blog to document her crazy celebrity friend filled life.

Not only is it hilarious.. its hearwarming and fun to read. Check it out!

TheMonkeyBiz.co.uk

Sinitta's a Star!

Our friend and Client Sinitta is doing so well in 'Im A Celebrity' on ITV at the moment- we are very proud of how she is overcoming all her phobias! We are throwing her a party at Zebrano on Ganton Street w1 THIS Thursday to celebrate.

Come and show your support and lets make her Queen of the Jungle.

Sinitta Enters The Jungle We are delighted to announce that our good friend and client, Sinitta has entered the 'Im A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here' Jungle!

We our so glad our little secret is finally out!



Please support her and make her Queen of the Jungle!

Follow her and us on twitter for up all the Im A Celeb gossip

@sinittaofficial and @HandmadeUKPR

Caroline Monk does Big Brother Spooktacular Our very own Caroline Monk headed to the Big Brother house last week to watch the premiere of 'Paranormal Activity 3'... and as usual she made a few new celebrity friends on the way.

London Lifestyle Awards Does OK! Check out the coverage of The London Lifestyle Awards 2011 in this week's OK! Magazine.

New Talent at Handmade Handmade UK are excited to announce that we are now the sole press representatives for Caroline Monk.

Caroline Monk was recently crowned 'London Personality Of The Year 2011' at The London Lifestyle Awards and is Celebrity Liaison Manager at The Variety Club and founder of Caroline's Campaign.

New Talent At Handmade Handmade UK are delighted to announce we are now the sole press representatives for the lovely Sinitta

Star of TV and Stage with 15 worldwide top ten hits to her name. Gave her the credentials to have worked on the X Factor as a mentor. She is now a respective business woman with the development of talent platform website Attinis.com.

For press enquiries please contact

Jason@handmade.uk.com or Kiefer@handmade.uk.com

London Lifestyle Awards 2011 Here at Handmade Headquarters we were busy beavering away behind the scenes getting everything ready for the London Lifestyle Awards 2011 to ensure this year?s London Lifestyle Awards went off with an almighty bang.- which of course it did.

Preparations for the awards started back in February and we have been working hard for all the nominee?s ever since.

On the day of the awards Team LLA headed down to the River Bank Plaza. Job one of the day was goody bags!

We had an amazing team of interns helping us to make up 500 goody bags for all our guests. The lovely Boohoo.com kindly provided us with bags and our star team of interns made a glam production line to fill them to the brim with treats.

After a spot of lunch which included a bucket full of chocolate, sweets and crisps the girls were put into ?teams? that included Celebrity team, Goody Bag Team, Team AV and Trophy team.

The rest of the day consisted of sound checks with our host Greg Burns, and celebrity run through of the awards and presenters with the celebrity team. We had to ensure everything was perfect.

When every detail was prepared and perfected it was time to chill and get glam! (Whilst eating pizza!) Nine girls getting ready in one room makes for A LOT of hairspray and bronzer!

At 6.30pm all teams took their places ready for awards to start. Guests and celebrities started to ascend into the hotel lobby and were escorted up to the Thames suite for a cocktail and champagne drinks reception? ready to be seated for a mouth-watering 3-course dinner.

Once everyone was seated; dinner was served. Guest tucked into a Tomato & Basil tart with goats cheese to start, followed by Oriental Five Spice Duck Breast with noodles, vegetables and a sweet chilli jus, topped off with a chocolate and raspberry tart with vanilla cream for dessert.

Once dessert was eaten, our host Greg Burns took the stage?It was show time!




After all the awards had been presented to all our deserving winners it was party time, Contemporary Pianist Clifford Slapper was accompanied by the Hackney Heroine Pauline Pearce who sang her heart out to Wonderful World, followed by a DJ set by Rusty Egan who set the tone for the after-party.


Once guests had grabbed their goody bags they bundled into cabs to our official London Lifestyle Award After Party in the heart of Soho at Zebrano Ganton Street where they danced until dawn to celebrate the City we love.
Team LLA finally called it a night at 3am and were back in the office bright eyed and bushy tailed at 9am ready to start planning next years event.. With the help of bacon sandwiches and a few alkaselters to hand.


The Winners 2011
Congratulations to all our winners and runners up of 2011.

Green Contribution to London
WINNER: Barclays Cycle Hire
Runners Up
Go Green Car
Green Tomato Cars

London Fashion Retailer of the Year
WINNER: Bolongaro Trevor
Runners Up
Mark Powell Bespoke Tailoring
Jeffery West
Lucy in Disguise

London Coffee Shop of the Year
WINNER: Benugo Café and Deli
Runners Up
Bar Italia
The Haberdashery

London Hotel of the Year
WINNER: Sanctum Soho Hotel
Runners Up
The Dorchester
Rafayel Hotel and Spa

London Cultural Attraction of the Year
WINNER: Victoria and Albert Museum
Runners Up
St Paul?s Cathedral
Regent?s Park Open Air Open Theatre

London Sports Attraction of the Year
WINNER: MINT Polo in the Park presented by Captive Minds
Runners Up
Lords Cricket Ground
Urban Golf
All England Lawn Tennis Club

London Health and Fitness Facility of the Year
WINNER: The Third Space
Runners Up
River Wellbeing Spa
Soho Gyms

London Live Music Venue of the Year
WINNER: Hootananny
Runners Up
The o2
Dover Street Restaurant Jazz Wine Bar Club

London Theatre Show of the Year
WINNER: The Lion King
Runners Up
Wizard of Oz
Mamma Mia

London Hairdresser of the Year
WINNER: Errol Douglas
Runners Up
MACS Salon
Stuart Phillips
Ian Carmichael at Royston Blythe

London Restaurant of the Year
WINNER: Searcys Portrait Restaurant
Runners Up
Quo Vadis
Aqua Nueva

London Concierge Company of the Year
WINNER: Quintessentially
Innerplace
Bon Vivant

London Bar of the Year
WINNER: McQueen
The Hoxton Pony
Artisan & Vine

London Club of the Year
WINNER: PUBLIC
Merah
The Roof Gardens

London Member?s club of the Year
WINNER: Home House
Morton?s Club
Eight Members Club

Outstanding Contribution to London
WINNER: Christopher Moran
Really Useful Group
The o2

London Beauty Salon and Spa of the Year
WINNER: Taylor Taylor London
Independent MindBodySoul
MACS Salon

London Personality of the Year
WINNER: Caroline Monk
Nick Ede
Zoe Griffin
Daniel Priestly

London Lifestyle Award 2011 Tickets on Sale NOW!

The second London Lifestyle Awards will be held October 6th 2011 at the Riverbank Park Plaza.

500 people attended last year?s award which was a fantastic eclectic list of celebrity, press, celebrated industry figures and the public. This year will be no different with the great and the good attending? Fear not we have reserved 150 tickets available to the public. Follow this link to purchase tickets for the 2011 awards ceremony


After the massive success of the inaugural London Lifestyle Awards 2010, voting has now opened for the Lifestyle Awards 2011 and you can be part of it! To contribute and have your say, simply vote for your favourite lifestyle business or personality. Whether you?re one of a group of friends hanging out in Soho, a Saturday visitor who loves to check out the latest exhibition, or even if you?re not a born and bred Londoner but couldn?t bring yourself to leave this magnificent city, now is your time to prove your love for the businesses and people who help to make London the best city in the world.

Like most of us maybe you can?t make it through the morning without your daily dose of caffeine from your local coffee shop? Or maybe you?re a keen fashionista who buries themselves in the rails of this season?s style at your favourite store? Or even just the night owl who can?t survive the weekend without a trip to one of the best bars or clubs that London has to offer.

Now is the time to vote for that great lifestyle business, that makes your life in 'The big smoke' more relaxed, cultured, happier, tastier, funnier, sexier, hotter and simply MUCH more amazing.

Take a look at the categories and vote HERE and say thank you by voting for those special businesses. Then tell them all about it next time you visit them. We bet they love you right back. Spread the love and love London as much as we do.

Zebrano Beach Party

Last weekend we brought the Caribbean sands to the 'shores' of central London with our annual Zebrano beach party in the heart of Soho.

The Handmade team spent months of planning to ensure this special event went off with an almighty bang! This year we decided to turn up the temperature with a steamy 'Love Island' theme.. equipped with sharing cocktail buckets and plenty of Love heart sweets!

Our bank holiday weekend started at 6am on the morning of the 26th.. we huddled around drinking strong coffee, rubbing our eyes and waiting for the 5 tonnes of sand to arrive at Ganton street. When it arrived, the real work began, shovelling all that sand into the bar was no mean feat! After hours of hard work, the final decorations were put in place and the party could begin!




To reward our hard work the Handmade team stayed to celebrate with some yummy Zebrano food and a few of the Love Island sharing cocktail buckets. The whole 4 day bank holiday was a roaring success once again and the Beach Party lived up to its 'legandary' name tag.

We are already counting down the days until next year..

Only 359 days to go.

Spotlight on Jeffery West A collection that is at home in Mayfair as it is in a farm in Northamptonshire, the Jeffery West range has grown from a small selection of shoes in 1987 to a range today that includes Italian made shoes, British made shoes and even an alternative to the Wellington Boot.

The brainchild of Mark Jeffery and Guy West is the brand that has been seen on everyone from Mickey Rourke to Leonardo DiCaprio all from humble beginnings at a shoe market in Northampton.

Having won the London Lifestyle Award in 2010 for ?Best Men?s Fashion Retailer? the brand is going from strength to strength with some exciting collaborations and partnerships coming up to mark the anniversary of their 25 years in the shoe trade.


?We have several exciting projects coming up such as collaborations with Heston Blumenthal, Morton Motorbikes and Mark Brazier-Jones. the creator of bespoke furniture, lighting and functional art.?

Twitter.com/JefferyWestUk

Jean-Pierre in Bella Magazine

Jean-Pierre, Reshape Coach and rapid fat loss expert, had a fantastic double page spread in Bella Magazine this week.

As one of our top clients, Jean-Pierre?s 15 years of experience as a self employed personal trainer has most certainly paid off. Pierre's techniques are martial arts based, integrated with Thai boxing. He shares some tempting top tips that we can all engage in:

?Sleep is more important to keep your metabolism revved up because you produce a growth hormone when you sleep which burns fat. Aim for at least 7-8 hours. Eighty per cent of fat burning occurs while you sleep.?

Pierre believes that health and fitness goals work hand in hand with career and life goals and many high achievers simply don't take care of their health. He says that people can change their lives by reshaping their bodies and mindsets and his overall target is to make sure there is not a single overweight high achiever working in London.

The 'Bella' article contains great advice which we can all put to practice from the comfort of our own homes. Pierre suggests using your whole body as one unit for maximum results: ?This is called functional strength training ? it makes your whole body work harder so your strength, fat loss and metabolism will all be boosted.?

For Jean-Pierre's incredible words of wisdom, get your claws on Issue 22 of Bella Magazine or visit his website at: http://www.reshapecoach.me.uk .

The London Lifestyle Awards Magazine is out and coming to a London letter box near you!

After a lot of sweat and blood we proudly present the London Lifestyle Awards magazine!

Covering our awarding categories ? the Archant Life and London Lifestyle Awards contributors can finally pat themselves on the back and celebrate!

Over 300,000 magazines will be printed and circulated around London so make sure you put the kettle on and enjoy London and it?s lifestyle.

Special thanks go to the creator of the London Lifestyle Awards ? Jason Gale, committee member Akashia Hoosein, Emily Pain, Archant Life?s Sharon Kirby, Mark Kebble and Olivia Wakefield, Personal Trainer ? Jean ? Pierre De Villiers and BBC?s London?s Joanne Good

Our "personality" clients

Handmade UK understands the value of individual talent and thus represents a range of exceptional men and women as well as successful businesses. Take a look at a few of our newest clients and their websites!

Daniel Priestly, author of the best selling book A Key Person of Influence, successful entrepreneur, and celebrated international speaker.

(http://danielpriestley.wordpress.com/)

Jean-Pierre De Villiers: founder of RESHAPE: Personal Training and Lifestyle Coaching?a fitness program helping high-achieving individuals find effective and fun ways to lose weight and improve their mindsets with strength & body conditioning, Thai boxing, Cross Fit training and more.

(http://reshapecoach.wordpress.com)

Anita Foy: founder of Foy Associates, a personal introduction agency helping extraordinary men and women find their perfect partners.

(http://www.foyassociates.com/)

Nigel Gifford: the Grand Master of Adventure and author of The Adventurous Traveller

(www.nigelgifford.co.uk)

Celebrate your IPAD 2 with a cocktail

The long awaited IPAD 2 launches today at 5pm, and what better way to celebrate your new gadget than with a cocktail at Zebrano Bars!! Show us your receipt for the latest must have gadget and they will give you a FREE cocktail... Now that has to make you the coolest kind on the block.

Career in hand now it?s time to find YOUR love

A month has passed away since St Valentine's day. Research shows that because of our busy lifestyles and focus on careers we don?t have time for love... Many of us aren't content and feel lonely unless we have that someone special raising the debate, especially for the ladies, of what?s more important career or love and if we should be following our hearts for true happiness...

Well worry no more! The experts have found that men LUST after an independent professional woman, and with Foy Associates, the bespoke specialist service for those looking for the real thing not just casual dating, you can now have the best of both worlds.

So what are you waiting for? Check out Foy Associates now, get head hunted and let your love come to you...

London Lifestyle Awards 2011 - Nominate today!

Mychelle's Baketique now on twitter! Join our latest client, Mychelle's Baketique - delicious cupcakes and bakery, on twitter (@MyBaketique) and facebook for all the latest news and offers!

Platform gets a mention in BBC Olive Magazine this month. Under 'vintage drinking' Platform Restaurant and Bar's delectable Pink Lady cocktail gets a mention. Pop down and try it out.

Jason Gale continues his regular slot on BBC London tonight. Tune in to the Late Show with Joanne Good on BBC London 94.7 tonight from 10pm to hear Jason talking to Jo about the news stories this week.

Labrinth shoot in Zebrano out in ES Magazine today.
The talented Labrinth recently visited Zebrano Ganton Street and had some amazing photos taken on the roof...you can check them out in ES Magazine today!

Jason Gale will be speaking about Triumphant Events today. Jason Gale, founder of Handmade UK, will attend a Triumphant Events session today and will be talking all things PR!