Le Nusa: Beneath the Surface
Larry finds an Indonesian outpost on the Strand that trades in understatement at street level and…
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The Victoria, Oxshott
As spring begins to stretch its limbs and Londoners eye the exits for a weekend…
La Belle Epoque
Larry finds himself behind closed doors in Mayfair, where a new cognac built on decades…
Haystacks and Chamomile: An Evening at SINO
I confess, my expectations of Ukrainian food were shaped less by knowledge than by the…
Gara Rock: The Wild Side of Salcombe
At the ragged edge of South Devon, where country lanes peter out to the Atlantic…
A Pot Luck Pop-Up
“Why is a samosa £32?” Jess doesn’t even glance up from the menu. “Ah,” she…
Man and Boy at the National Theatre
Terence Rattigan wrote Man and Boy in 1961, at what he perceived to be the…
Così Fan Tutte at the ENO
The irony of staging Così fan tutte over Valentine’s weekend is inspired. Mozart’s comedy of…
Villa Nai: Privacy Perfected
With just eight rooms, a fiercely discreet clientele and an uncompromising architectural vision, Villa Nai has…
The Ministry of Work
For a journalist perpetually in motion, London can be rich in meetings but poor in…
A Love Letter to Lenk
In which Larry heads into Switzerland’s lesser-known Simmental to discover a village that has kept its…
Smoke, Ceremony and Seoul in the West End
January needn’t mean culinary hibernation. At Soom, as Larry discovers, London’s Korean barbecue scene finds…