It’s never too early for a champagne breakfast September 10, 2012 BROWN’S HOTEL 33 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BP Tel: 020 7493 6020 FOOD **** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE ***** Cost for two people: £495 Ruinart claims to be the world’s oldest champagne house, founded by Nicolas Ruinart in 1729, and Brown’s Hotel claims to be the oldest hotel in London, opening in 1837. They have combined to [...]
A Bronx: take a drink on the wild side September 10, 2012 City A.M.’s resident cocktail expert EACH of New York’s five boroughs – Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island – have a cocktail named in their honour. Although the Manhattan is the Big Apple, you would be well advised to go north of the border and check out the Bronx. At root, the Bronx [...]
Have you got a…Scents of occasion? September 10, 2012 THE BIG NIGHT OUT For those nights of drinks and dancing and general debauchery wear heavy, intoxicating scents. Spicy, musky tones offer a sense of warmth with floral notes adding a richness to the scent. Chanel Coco Noir; £106 Claiming to capturing the seduction, elegance and magnetism of the colour black, this rich scent is [...]
Fit in the city September 10, 2012 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT TRADE IN YOUR LATTE That morning latte can contain around a fifth of your total daily calorie intake. Cut back to a small skinny cappuccino, or even better, downsize to an Americano. In just 10 days you could lose a pound from dropping a large latte alone. DON’T FORGO TREATS You [...]
Puglia takes on the family challenge September 9, 2012 IT’S ONE of those dilemmas that make you bone-deep thankful to be born in the twenty-first century, austerity notwithstanding. Two hundred years ago my ancestors faced problems like: “Will I be transported to a hellish penal colony if I steal that pie to feed my children?”. One hundred years ago: “Those Germans are looking feisty, [...]
Knightley fails to lift an unconvincing Karenina September 6, 2012 FILM DREDD Cert 18 | By Alex Dymoke **** We are just two minutes into this bleak, ultra-violent comic book adaptation when our helmeted anti-hero has blasted a flare into his criminal adversary’s mouth, burning and exploding his head from the inside. The 18-rated Dredd declines the family friendly middle-market targeted by most comic-book franchises. [...]
Where to drink September 6, 2012 AS THE temperature in London cools, the nightlife appears to be heating up, with almost twenty high-profile openings planned across the capital for September. Restless restaurant group D&D (Coq d’Argent, Floridita, Le Pont de la Tour) are making their first foray into hotels with South Place Hotel, launching this week near Moorgate. It looks poised [...]
Without You struggles with London life September 6, 2012 THEATRE WITHOUT YOU Menier Chocolate Factory | By Cathy Adams *** SOME PLAYS belong in London, some don’t. The Globe, for example, plonked in any other city would probably be dismissed as some backdoor village-hall-production-cum-barn-dance. American megaplay Rent, basically La Bohème with an extra injection of HIV, couldn’t exist in any other city apart from New [...]
Tablet market hots up September 5, 2012 A resurgent Microsoft hopes a new range of devices running Windows 8 will succeed where Google has failed and shake up a tablet industry dominated by Apple. Here are some of the players hoping to steal the iPad’s limelight. Sony Vaio Duo 11 The Vaio Duo 11 is a flippy, foldy, deckchair-like device with a [...]
Need to know the Nokia Lumia 920 September 5, 2012 The basics Nokia has, once again, produced what looks like a seriously good handset. It has a gigantic 4.5 inch HD display, which squeezes lots of the “Live Tiles” that Windows Phone 8 is based around onto the homescreen. It is also bright, with colours including banana yellow, electric blue and fire engine red. The [...]