San Francisco on a Plate
With its varnished wood panelling, brown brasserie chairs and quirky pictures of patrons passed, walking…
Author Lucy Shaw
Europe’s Best-kept Culinary Secret
I’m lost in a forest in a place beyond the pines eating some of the…
A Celebration of Barolo at The Connaught
Tar and roses. Ask any wine lover what they smell when they plunge their nose…
White Gold: Truffle Hunting in Alba
Alba at dusk. A perfectly round, milk white moon is rising in the sky like…
Arabian Sands: The Allure of Abu Dhabi
“No man can live this life and emerge unchanged. He will carry, however faint, the…
A Taste of Tuscany: Castello Banfi Il Borgo
With its patchwork quilt landscape in every imaginable shade of green, snaking roads punctuated by…
Stockholm on a Plate
Some will view it as a stroke of genius, others the work of a madman.…
Perfect Provence: Crillon Le Brave
On gloomy winter days in London, when the slate-grey buildings mirror the colour of the…
Purobeach: Puro Pleasure
“Mallorca is a truly beautiful island. In some places, it still feels as fresh as…
In Pursuit of Powder
I’m halfway up a mountain in zero visibility trembling with fear. My skis are lodged…
Magic In the Maldives: Coco Palm
The boat stopped and we waited in silent expectation as the morning sun beat down…
Adventures in Amalfi
Like Lucy Honeychurch and her overbearing chaperone Charlotte Bartlett in E.M. Forster’s famous novel, we…