Latin-fever hits London next year with cuisine from Peru and Brasil November 9, 2011 COLOMBIA Sabor has lived on the Essex Road since 2004. Its name means flavour, and that’s exactly what it delivers: the taste of Latin America. Including Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Argentina in its culinary repertoire, you can expect empanadas, ceviches, palm-heart salads and papaya relish from Colombian national Esnayder Cuartas. 108 Essex Road, N1 8LX, [...]
5 minutes with David Ponté, owner of Cabana restaurant November 9, 2011 Q. What’s Cabana all about? A.The whole point of Cabana is that it’s generous. That’s the sprit of barbecue. It’s about Brazilians getting together, eating together, making Caipirinha, which gets better as sits in your glass. It’s a very social thing. It’s got the essence of being very Brazilian. Q. What do you love about [...]
Persimmon and Bovis see demand rise November 8, 2011 TWO of the UK’s biggest housebuilders yesterday reported a boost in demand as the sector picked-up with first time buyers helping to lift the gloom. Persimmon said the number of first-time buyers has risen by over 35 per cent since the same period last year, a welcome boost to the industry that has seen first-time [...]
A Playboy queen in chef’s whites November 8, 2011 IMAGINE, for a moment, the head chef at a Playboy Club. Whatever image just sprang to your mind, I am fairly certain it is not Judy Joo. A Korean-American former Wall Street banker (she was a sales-trader on the fixed income floor of Morgan Stanley; her husband works for a hedge fund in London), Joo [...]
Nail-biting times call for nail-saving measures, boys November 8, 2011 I have never given cuticles much thought. I tend to consider them a neutral part of the body; neither good nor bad, like the bladder or the spleen. Not so. My cuticles are “outrageous,” according to The Refinery’s nail expert Christine. Outrageously bad, to be precise. The Refinery on Mayfair’s Brook Street is a vast, [...]
FIT IN THE CITY November 8, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT IN an attempt to get us all to move more, Olympic equipment provider TechnoGym has joined forces with Team GB in the Our Greatest Team campaign – part of the 2012 project that aims to bridge the gap between those elite athletes and us mere mortals, and so to create a [...]
The practical Yaris lacks X factor November 8, 2011 Design *** Performance *** Practicality *** Value for money *** SURE, the Toyota Yaris has sold well. It has never been offensive to look at. And I’m certain it has happily transported the majority of its owners around in the quiet satisfaction that they had purchased a reliable, reasonably economical and completely adequate, possibly cheery [...]
CAR TALK November 8, 2011 PEUGEOT 208 Available next spring with three and five doors, this is Peugeot’s new 208, a descendent of the iconic 205, which was a great little driver’s car. Peugeot claim the 208 will be lighter, more agile and more efficient than its predecessor – the 207 – and roomier and more luxurious inside too. Lets [...]
Shares in DTZ crash by 86pc November 7, 2011 SHARES in DTZ have crashed by more than 86 per cent after the property consultancy, which is in takeover talks with several unknown bidders, said the equity in its business was worth “minimal value”, if anything at all. The company put itself up for sale last month, just days after its majority shareholder Saint George [...]
Not as wild as the original November 7, 2011 BUNGA BUNGA 37 Battersea Bridge Road, SW11 3BA 020 7095 0360, bungabunga-london.com FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £25 There’s often a point in the Apprentice TV show when a contestant’s confidence surpasses sense. Someone has an idea, and you spend the next 50 minutes watching the team run round and execute it [...]