Martin Williams: Here are my favourite places to Toast the City June 4, 2025 This month, you can let your thoughts be heard as we open the nominations for ‘Toast the City’, City AM’s inaugural hospitality awards celebrating the best of the Square Mile! For inspiration, debate and disagreement – best made over a pint, or a glass of burgundy, as per your preference – here are a few [...]
Why Greek wine is having its moment in the sun June 3, 2025 Mayfair’s flamboyant restaurant Bacchanalia is taking part in the Coravin World Wine Tour 2025, with an exclusive wine list of rare and iconic bottles never usually available by the glass. Here, over a copper dish of silky truffle tagliatelle, I was reminded just how brilliant Greece’s Xinomavro (pronounced Zee-no-mav-ro) can be. I sipped at a [...]
Toast the City: Galvin La Chapelle brothers on Michelin success and 20 years in business May 31, 2025 In a new series celebrating the people and places nominated for our Toast the City awards, Adam Bloodworth visits Galvin La Chapelle, a Michelin starred restaurant in a Victorian chapel in the Square Mile Half of all restaurants that open in London close within two years. It’s a bleak truth, and yet the upside is that [...]
Toast the City: Why High Timber is a Square Mile hidden gem May 29, 2025 In a new series celebrating the people and places nominated for our Toast the City awards, Steve Dinneen visits one of the Square Mile’s best hidden gems, High Timber, a riverside restaurant and wine bar with a vibe like no other. What is it? Despite being one of the City’s most established restaurants (it’s 17 [...]
Toast the City: How we are celebrating the Square Mile! May 22, 2025 This autumn City AM will launch Toast the City, an awards celebrating all the places that make the Square Mile the vibrant, exciting location it is – and we need YOUR help. Over the 20 years we have served the Square Mile, it’s transformed from somewhere people worked hard to a place they want to [...]
Why we love the Square Mile’s Williamson’s Tavern May 22, 2025 In a new series celebrating the businesses nominated for the Toast the City awards, Adam Bloodworth visits one of the Square Mile’s best hidden gems, Williamson’s Tavern, an alleyway-based boozer with a vibe like no other What is it? Ancient rules dictate that sightlines to St Paul’s must be visible from across the capital and [...]
Martin Williams interview: New Evolv boss on aggressive growth and the closure of M May 22, 2025 In a new series interviewing the judges of our new Toast the City awards, our Life&Style editor sat down with new Evolve Collection boss to talk Terence Conran, aggressive growth and how it feels to see M Restaurant close Few people have had a bigger impact on the City’s food and drink scene than Martin [...]
Eat, drink, sleep, repeat: Out on the town with Evolv boss Martin Williams May 21, 2025 Last week, my Evolv Collection exec team and I were invited to visit Domaine de Mirabeau, the home of pink pleasures. In a world where wild yeasts are added to wines not only to assist primary fermentation, but to ‘influence’ the flavour profiles (think apricot, raspberry or peach, regardless of grape profile), it was inspiring [...]
How to buy wine for… A blitz spirit street party May 21, 2025 When I first moved into my street I was bemused by its welcome. Having lived in London for years, my neighbourly communication had typically been limited. The odd hello when you awkwardly leave your houses at the same time. In my twenties, there were some fraught messages from above about the volume of my music, [...]
Spanish wine: What I’ve learned and where to drink it May 20, 2025 Spanish wines are changing. At the annual Spanish Wine Tasting earlier this year I was struck by how the traditional styles are evolving and many of our preconceptions must be thrown out the window. Here are some of the top trends I noticed. Red wines are getting lighter There is still plenty of power but, [...]