The Mayfair Townhouse
If you equate Mayfair with stuffy, the Mayfair Townhouse will come as something of a surprise. Across 15 rambling Georgian…
The Mayfair Townhouse
If you equate Mayfair with stuffy, the Mayfair Townhouse will come as something of a surprise. Across 15 rambling Georgian…
Spa of the Month: The Runnymede on Thames
The Runnymede is not what you’d call a destination spa. It has a perfectly respectable spa for a hotel (especially…
The Newt’s Great Garden Escape
“If you look the right way,” wrote Francis Hodgson Burnett in The Secret Garden, “you can see that the whole…
Cunning Little Vixen at Opera Holland Park
The Cunning Little Vixen is an opera that presents both audience and opera company alike with a conundrum. Is it…
Among the Trees at the Hayward Gallery
In this turbulent year, nature has provided both a place of respite and a lifeline to normality. With so much…
Killer Thrillers for Summer
Assuming we manage to get away this summer, what could be better to be on a beach or by the pool…
Northern Ballet: Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons is well known to most of us, whether from the original Laclos book, the award-winning play by Christopher…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016 Preview
Everybody knows that each year’s Edinburgh Fringe is the best Fringe yet. More shows than ever, more venues than ever,…
The Oscars 2020: 92nd Academy Awards Line-Up
It feels like mere months since Green Book walked away with Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars, to the collective…
Cunning Little Vixen at Opera Holland Park
The Cunning Little Vixen is an opera that presents both audience and opera company alike with a conundrum. Is it…
Talking Shakespeare at the RSC
It’s been one of the enduring agonies of the lockdown; the closure of theatres, with no likely opening in sight,…
Wilding
Jay Rayner, of the Observer, is an estimable food critic; one of the best writing today, if not the best.…
Wilding
Jay Rayner, of the Observer, is an estimable food critic; one of the best writing today, if not the best.…
Restaurant Uformel, Copenhagen
Tough breaks, being a Copenhagen restaurant. On the one hand, Copenhagen’s food scene. Imagine being a cog in that gearbox.…
Arros QD
There have often been what we might call ‘food moments’ in London. Cacio e pepe pasta; Sri Lankan ‘hoppers’; the…
Beluga Terrace at Harvey Nichols
I’m not an online shopper. There, I’ve said it. It’s been over a year now that I’ve had to take…
One Thing Drives Out Another: Introducing Zager & Co
I HAVE a confession to make. I have, at times, acted like a Prima Donna. Not, I hasten to add,…
A Covert to Covet
THE arrival – or at least the imminent threat of arrival – of Summer is somewhat bittersweet for me this…
Beluga Terrace at Harvey Nichols
I’m not an online shopper. There, I’ve said it. It’s been over a year now that I’ve had to take…
Bath or Bust: A West Country Jaunt
It has, frankly, been a bad business being stuck at home these past few months. Even if you are fortunate…
Keeping the Doctors Flying: Casterley Barn Gala
There are two reasons to get out of the city and enjoy a break in the countryside. The first is…
