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Wednesday, 1st September 2010
RYAN BORROFF
IT might have been disappointing but it came as no surprise that there was no chance for me to test the maximum speed of Jaguar’s fastest XKR yet, even at Goodwood’s race track.
Jaguar’s latest...
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Wednesday, 1st September 2010
RYAN BORROFF
PEUGEOT’S FULL HYBRID DIESEL
This is the Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 Crossover, the first full hybrid diesel production car. With its 2.0 litre diesel engine plus a 37bhp electric motor, the car can achieve...
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Tuesday, 31st August 2010
TIMOTHY BARBER
Goodman City
11 Old Jewry, EC2R 8DU
www.goodmanrestaurants.com
Tel: 020 7600 8220
FOOD
SERVICE
ATMOSPHERE
Cost per person without wine: £50
FOR some people – sensible people – no amount of fancy...
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Tuesday, 31st August 2010
ZOE STRIMPEL
GAUCHO SMITHFIELD
Most people are familiar with Gaucho’s Argentine steaks and wine. The formula is so successful – a chain, but glamorous with a hint of the gourmet – that it’s expanding at a rate of...
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Tuesday, 31st August 2010
ZOE STRIMPEL
FASHIONABLE COCKTAILS AT THE TRAFALAGAR
To prepare for Fashion Week, the Trafalgar Hote’s ground floor bar Rockwell will be serving cocktails inspired by the season’s key looks. The menu includes...
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Friday, 27th August 2010
Zoe Strimpel
WHEN I was a child in the US, back-to-school fashion (we didn’t have uniforms) was a matter of two new scrunchie hairbands and a new pair of spandex rose-patterned cycle shorts. Oh, and a side pony...
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Thursday, 26th August 2010
Zoe Strimpel
THE RED QUEEN
BY PHILIPPA GREGORY
Simon & Schuster, £18.99
MEGA-novelist and Tudor historian Gregory returns to her new series, The Cousins’ War, with an instantly, electrically gripping story...
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Thursday, 26th August 2010
TIM BADHAM
IT may still be peak holiday season but in our cosmopolitan capital you can complete a world tour whenever you like by taking a glamorous (if slightly less exotic) journey around London’s more...
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Thursday, 26th August 2010
ANDREW WATSON
YES
AS experienced a father as David Cameron may be, he absolutely needs to be around in these first formative weeks not just to build a relationship with the baby, but to help his...
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Wednesday, 25th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
THE Mazda3 MPS was once the most powerful front-wheel-drive hot hatch you could buy, an accolade that now belongs to Ford’s Focus RS. Even so, it’s quite possible you may not even be aware of its...
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Wednesday, 25th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
CITROEN’S LIMITED EDITION HOT HATCH
This is the DS3 Racing, the latest hot hatch from Citroën. With a specially tuned 1.6-litre 207hp engine, a top speed of 146mph and a 0-62mph time of just 6.5...
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Tuesday, 24th August 2010
Laura Ivill
IT seems pretty impossible to avoid stress at some point in the working week, but is stress a word we use too easily? Neil Shah, world-renowned well-being expert and director of the Stress Management...
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Tuesday, 24th August 2010
Keith Anderson
PERSONAL COACH AT FULL POTENTIAL
THE human heart weighs about nine ounces and beats 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. But what has it got to do with your running? Well, its performance and...
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Tuesday, 24th August 2010
Zoe Strimpel
Park Terrace
Royal Garden Hotel
2-24 Kensington High Street
W8 4PT
020 7937 8000
www.parkterracerestaurant.co.uk
FOOD
SERVICE
ATMOSPHERE
LIKE the hotel that houses it, Park Terrace looks blandly...
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Tuesday, 24th August 2010
ZOE STRIMPEL
A GOURMET END TO RAMADAN
Break the Ramadan fast in style at Malaysian restaurant Awana. Dishes include a date korma as well as roti canai, a Malaysian bread made from a traditional family recipe, and...
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Monday, 23rd August 2010
Timothy Barber
YOU could argue that New York does hotels better than any city in the world. Historic luxury landmarks, hipster crash-pads, fashionable design hotels, groovy boutiques, high-tech business places – it...
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Friday, 20th August 2010
Timothy Barber
HERITAGE, tradition, craftsmanship – these are the menswear values du jour. A perfectly constructed brogue has never been more fashionable, a tailored tweed suit is oh so very now. Which means you...
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Friday, 20th August 2010
Film Review
the expendables
Cert: 18
Rhys Griffiths
IT’S arguably the action cast to end all action casts. In charge, Sly Stallone. Then there’s Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li,...
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Thursday, 19th August 2010
Juliet Samuel
YOUR City A.M. gadgets correspondent had a sneak preview of Xbox's brand new Kinect sensor last week. The sensor, which will be on sale in November in time for Christmas, is an accessory to the new...
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Thursday, 19th August 2010
Advertising on social networking sites will reach $3.3bn this year, according to research by eMarketer, an online marketing research firm. This means that advertising revenues are up 31 per cent on...
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Thursday, 19th August 2010
Online communities are buzzing with the news that Apple will be bringing out a new iPad by the end of the year. According to the Chinese paper Economic Daily News, which correctly predicted the...
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Thursday, 19th August 2010
ZOE STRIMPEL
Redhook
89 Turnmill Street, EC1M 5QU
Tel: 020 7065 6800
FOOD
SERVICE
ATMOSPHERE
Cost per person without wine: £40
THE restaurant industry has a huge crush on Farringdon. Farringdon is the cool girl...
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Thursday, 19th August 2010
ZOE STRIMPEL
GOODMAN
This Russian-owned steakhouse is widely considered the epitome of red meat in London – and now there’s a City branch. The 150 day-aged corn-fed USDA beef is second to none, and there’s lots...
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Thursday, 19th August 2010
ZOE STRIMPEL
PATISSERIE POP-UP AT HARVEY NICKS
Get the cakes in – in spectacular style – at Harvey Nichols this autumn where American super-patissiere Claire Clark will be opening a pop-up for two months. Goodies...
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Wednesday, 18th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
Like an ageing playboy, this Lexus has a handsome face, but is let down somewhat by its rather bloated rear end, inflated no doubt by the installation of its excellent folding tin top roof. Maybe an...
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Wednesday, 18th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
VAUXHALL NEW WARRANTY
Vauxhall has announced a new lifetime warranty on all its new cars, trumping Kia which offered the best warranty up until now. The Vauxhall Lifetime Warranty applies to the...
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Wednesday, 18th August 2010
ZOE STRIMPEL
OPERA AND DINNER UNDER THE STARS
Dining outdoors in a frescoed courtyard while being entertained with soaring opera is pretty much a win-win plan for an evening, right? If you agree, then nab the...
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Tuesday, 17th August 2010
Timothy Barber
NUTRITION
Nutritionist Charlotte Fraser recommends making sure you slot back in with the eating routine wherever you are locally. Consequently, if it’s breakfast time, eat breakfast – whether your...
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Tuesday, 17th August 2010
KEITH ANDERSON
PERSONAL COACH AT FULL POTENTIAL
INJURY is perceived as a natural by-product of running. And while it’s true that two out of three runners suffer injury each year, with careful planning, many can be...
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Monday, 16th August 2010
Esther Shaw
A BRILLIANT meeting of East and West, it offers an unforgettable introduction to the Orient, and is the perfect place to explore a different culture while taking in the rugby at the Hong Kong Sevens...
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Monday, 16th August 2010
THE end of March marks the time when the rugby nations come to town for three days of non-stop action on the pitch at the Hong Kong stadium near Happy Valley. Off-pitch it's a non-stop party in the...
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Friday, 13th August 2010
Film
THE LAST AIRBENDER
Cert: PG
ASTITLES go, “The Last Airbender” is more likely to induce guffaws than the awe and wonder intended. Not as many guffaws, though – for British audiences anyway – as...
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Friday, 13th August 2010
TIM BADHAM
August is the quietest month for clubs and so openings are thin on the ground in the West End. Last week however saw the launch of one of the biggest new venues in London (yes, Camden is in London)...
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Friday, 13th August 2010
FILM
FIVE EASY PIECES Starring Jack Nicholson, one of the greatest films of the Seventies, on re-release.
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Argentine thriller that won this year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar...
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Thursday, 12th August 2010
Timothy Barber
THE City can seem a pretty quiet place at this time of year – for the action, you need to head to the countryside. “Glorious” August 12 being the start of the game season, keen shots will today be...
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Wednesday, 11th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
MOST motorists can appreciate that there’s something outrageous about one person commuting to the City in a car designed to carry at least four grown ups in it. Whichever way you look at it, it’s...
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Wednesday, 11th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
NISSAN’S BRAVE NEW WORLD
UK order books for Nissan's LEAF car open on 1 Sep. The LEAF – which stands for Leading, Environmentally friendly, Affordable, Family car – has a top speed of 87mph and a...
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Tuesday, 10th August 2010
TIMOTHY BARBER
WHAT’S your idea of perfect Sunday relaxation? Climbing into a barber’s chair and getting lathered up probably isn’t first on many lists, but after discovering the grooming service on offer at West...
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Tuesday, 10th August 2010
KEITH ANDERSON
PERSONAL COACH AT FULL POTENTIAL
GOOD nutrition is vital for health and wellbeing. For runners there’s the additional significance of enhanced performance, faster recovery between sessions and the...
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Tuesday, 10th August 2010
LAURA WILLIAMS
FITNESS & DIET EXPERT
Make sure you use those all-important minutes at the gym as efficiently as possible to get the most out of that lunchtime workout.
Forget endless reps Research has shown...
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Monday, 9th August 2010
Leo Bear
BEST FOR: FAMILY FUN
ANANTARA DHIGU Lots of resorts in the Maldives have kids’ clubs, but it’s the little touches at Dhigu that make a difference. From dusk til dawn, your sandy, sticky-handed brood...
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Friday, 6th August 2010
Timothy Barber
THE difference between an off-the-peg suit and one that’s been properly tailored is usually pretty easy to spot – the latter will have a better fit, smarter hang and finer structure at the very least...
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Friday, 6th August 2010
TO go with that bespoke shirt, look for cufflinks that are crisp and understated, like these stylish two-tone examples.
AUSTIN REED
£25
www.austinreed.co.uk
BROOKS BROTHERS
£109
www....
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Friday, 6th August 2010
Film review
Knight and Day
Cert: 12A
Rhys Griffiths
THIS action-comedy proves that no amount of star power can make up for a lazy script, lazier direction, a total lack of depth and a seriously bad...
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Thursday, 5th August 2010
Juliet Samuel
DENON AH-C560R
£99.99
www.denon.co.uk
It would take some particularly good in-ear buds to make me pick them instead of over-head headphones – normally I find them uncomfortable, I fret about what...
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Thursday, 5th August 2010
NICK BOOTHTECH
I’VE seen the future of British youth – it’s half man, half desk. Why? They can’t relate to anything unless it’s writ large on a glowing screen at chair level.
But now the school PCs and whiteboards...
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Thursday, 5th August 2010
TIMOTHY BARBER
LAST CHANCE: AFTER THE DANCE
Anyone who’s been riveted by Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in the BBC’s updated version of Sherlock Holmes should check out his tremendous starring role in After the...
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Wednesday, 4th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
DRIVING along in the new Volvo S60, I am so engrossed in conversation with my passenger that I’ve completely taken my eyes off the road. This is why I don’t see a pedestrian in front of me....
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Wednesday, 4th August 2010
RYAN BORROFF
PORSCHE’S GREEN LEAD
Dreams can come true...Porsche has announced it will build its astonishing 918 Spyder concept for the road. The mid-engined plug-in hybrid super-sports car should have a top...
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Tuesday, 3rd August 2010
Timothy Barber
NUTRITION
IT MAY be tempting, but crash dieting isn’t to be recommended. Any nutritionist worth their salt will tell you how, at best, it may give you the impression of quick weight loss but you’ll...
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Tuesday, 3rd August 2010
KEITH ANDERSON
PERSONAL COACH AT FULL POTENTIAL
SO you’ve decided to take up running and you’ve made a great decision. Along with obvious health benefits, a great advantage over pastimes like golf or cricket is...
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Tuesday, 3rd August 2010
Zoe Strimpel
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BROWN’S has the seasonal pedicure market cornered. So simple, yet so lovely. Summer brings Fruity Tootsies: so, tired of my bashed up, blistered feet and overgrown (and in-grown) toenails – the...
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Monday, 2nd August 2010
Leo Bear
BEST FOR: SPA
COCOA ISLAND Voted best hotel spa in Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean in this year’s Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Awards, Cocoa Island is the go-to resort for spa...
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Monday, 2nd August 2010
EVER thought about upping your fitness levels but just can’t find enough hours in the day? Well, here is an initiative just for you.
City.A.M have teamed up with Garmin, leaders in satellite...
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Friday, 30th July 2010
Film
THE A-TEAM
Cert: 12A
Rhys Griffiths
A quarter of a century years after the finale of the TV show, the A-Team blunders its way into the twenty-first century – and what should be a film providing...
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Friday, 30th July 2010
FILM
Karate kid Shame on you Jackie Chan. Remake with Jaden “son of Will and Jada” Smith as the kid.
south of the border Oliver Stone’s documentary about South America’s left wing resurgence....
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Friday, 30th July 2010
Timothy Barber
A WATCH that tells the time is one thing. A watch that tells the time, the date, the temperature and has an alarm and stopwatch is – well, child’s play in the world of digital technology, but really...
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Friday, 30th July 2010
SARA HOLLAMBY
WHY would you want to draw attention to a skinny, sometimes hairy piece of leg between your trousers and your shoes? Is it because you’re particularly fond of the knobble on your ankle and it...
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Friday, 30th July 2010
IF chronographs are at one end of the complications scale, at the other you find the tourbillon. Originally developed by the Abraham-Louis Breguet in the 18th century, it’s designed to lessen the...
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Thursday, 29th July 2010
THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF MAXWELL SIM
BY JONATHAN COE
Viking, £18.99
by Zoe Strimpel
JONATHAN COE represents the pinnacle of British picaresque – his iconic novel about 80s Britain, What a Carve Up,...
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