Score a networking hole in one September 25, 2012 Mix business and pleasure with a corporate day on the golf course. We seek out some of the best options. Marriott Tudor Park, Maidstone, Kent What: An 18-hole championship golf course in Maidstone, Kent located in a 200-acre park. Cost: From £50 per person, season dependent. £5,000 for full course for the whole day. Optional [...]
Prime London property prices still soaring up September 24, 2012 PRIME London property registered another quarter of booming growth in the three months to September, estate agent data revealed yesterday. Prime property prices grew 0.5 per cent between the second and third quarters, capping off growth totalling five per cent over the year, the research from Savills showed. Contrasting with the picture in much of [...]
Duck & Waffle doesn’t have the greatest kitchen in the world but the views are ace September 24, 2012 RESTAURANT DUCK & WAFFLE Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AY FOOD ** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE ***** Cost per person without wine: £44 MY HOUSE is what estate agents would euphemistically call “lower ground”, which translates almost exactly as “basement”. Outside the front door, running underneath the pavement, is a cupboard, which would, once upon a [...]
London’s bespoke hidden gems September 24, 2012 There are not many hair salons that have a porter greet you at the door, but then Rossano Ferretti is not your average salon. In fact it doesn’t even call itself a salon, but adopts the label “hairspa”. This is not meant to be your usual run of the mill trip to the hairdresser. Number [...]
The most influential people in beauty and makeup September 24, 2012 1. Maksymilian Faktorowicz (1872-1938) He founded Max Factor, which started as a theatrical make up shop and grew into a cosmetic empire. 2. Elizabeth Arden (1884-1966) She founded the brand, under her own name, which became international in 1915. 3. Charles Revson (1906-1975) He created the world famous makeup company Revlon, launched in 1932. 4. [...]
The New York fairytale hoping to wow London. But is it any good? September 24, 2012 RESTAURANT BALTHAZAR 80 Spring St, New York Tel: 00 1 212 965 1414 FOOD **** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £45 In the late nineties and early noughties, New York’s Balthazar was the very definition of an “it” restaurant. Renowned as one of the hardest places to get a table in [...]
How to make a Drambuie cocktail fit to raise the dead September 24, 2012 City A.M.’s resident cocktail expert TO MAKE Donn Beach’s infamous Zombie cocktail you’ll need white rum, golden rum, dark rum, apricot brandy, fresh pineapple juice, fresh papaya juice, 151-proof rum and grenadine. Good luck with that. Making some cocktails is akin to trying to cook like Heston Blumenthal. You’ll be back on the beer in [...]
Antarctica is a mysterious, icy wonderland and a visual feast September 23, 2012 THE Antarctic tundra is a black and white world, except for the occasional colourful beak, feather, foot or fin, or the blue ice and turquoise underbelly of a whale. While it is certainly remote and desolate, it is also pure and peaceful: it makes you feel alive. From October to March, there is no night [...]
Open House unlocks London’s hidden gems September 20, 2012 The Gherkin 30 St Mary Axe, EC3A 8EP; Sunday 9am-5pm Sir Norman Foster’s spectacular 40-storey office building has become a landmark of the London skyline. Built in the heart of the financial district, it has 360-degree views across the city. Every 10 minutes, groups of 30 people will be shown around this magnificent building. Heron [...]
Pre-Raphaelite exhibition is an ethereal, poetic success September 20, 2012 ART PRE-RAPHAELITE, VICTORIAN AVANT GARDE Tate Britain | **** THE TATE Britain presents the most extensive Pre-Raphaelite exhibition on these shores in 25 years. The collection maps the progress of the brotherhood, paying special focus to the three originators; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, and records how they challenged the [...]