Mahoe Cafe-Bar in Bow Lane, Queen Victoria Street attempts to recreate the vivacious Caribbean spirit with its Jamaican flavours, Creole essence and reggae tunes. This is a place to let your hair down and live it up anytime you feel like it. The creation of a former City lawyer, Vanessa Hutchinson, it serves a slice of the Caribbean in London with panache. This café-bar's name refers to a tree indigenous to Jamaica.

Expect a host of Caribbean favourites at Mahoe. Starting off with sauteed black tiger prawns marinated in garlic and chilli or jerk chicken wings glazed with guava jelly sets the stage for more. This could be followed by a creamy coconut curry with Caribbean roti-bread or French-Creole style pan fried swordfish with a lemon chilli butter sauce. Dessert options like baked vanilla cheesecake with mango and raspberry coulis or Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee with rum and whipped coconut cream serve as a grand finale to the meal. Add to the celebration with reggae rum punch, pina colada, Mahoe mojito or Jamaican mule.