Marylebone gets Euro-chic September 27, 2010 Café Luc 50 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5HN FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £36 YOU might assume – I think I did – that Marylebone High Street is hardly in need of another place mixing dining and café culture. But the crowd packed into the recently opened, Belgian-owned Café Luc last Tuesday [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS September 27, 2010 WINE MATCHING AT CINNAMON CLUB Love fine Indian food but not sure how to pair it with wine? Fear not: one of London’s finest Asian restaurants is putting on a five course banquet with wines matched – somewhat unusually – from the Australia’s oldest family- owned winery Yalumba. Exciting pairings will include tandoori king prawn [...]
Off-piste: the pre-snow joys of Chamonix September 26, 2010 ASK MOST people what comes into their head when you mention Chamonix, and they’ll say skiing. But the mountain capital of the world has much more to offer, especially when the snow disappears from everywhere but the highest peaks. Home to over eighty nationalities – making it one of the most multicultural places in France [...]
TRAVEL NOTES September 26, 2010 Ambeo Jets’ new Park Lane check-in Europe’s number one private jet company just became even sleeker with the opening of a check-in lounge at supercar dealership Excalibur on Park Lane. Passengers will be able to check in and drop off luggage – oh, and have a glass of Pommery – before being whisked to the [...]
More than Voho, darling: Vauxhall is in for an overhaul September 23, 2010 SANDWICHED between the South Bank and the Battersea waterfront, it was never going to be long before Vauxhall took off. Until now Vauxhall has traded on two cards: “Voho” – Gayer Soho – and housing London’s politicos. However, this week’s launch of St George Wharf, more commonly known simply as The Tower, is a sign [...]
It’s a landlord’s market for hungry Londoners September 23, 2010 THE period of fear, uncertainty and stagnation in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ collapse is well and truly behind us – if you’re looking at the rentals market, that is. Prices in central London are at levels not seen since before the meltdown, according to property services firm LSL. Rents in London rose by 2 [...]
Where the cleverest of sun-seekers are heading September 23, 2010 IN 2012, Brazil will host the World Cup and in 2016, the Olympics. The north-eastern city of Natal, where some of the games will be hosted, is to complete the first phase of the world’s sixth biggest airport in 2012, making direct flights to London possible. Known as the city of sun, Natal has 360 [...]
FOCUS ON: EPSOM, SURREY September 23, 2010 ELEMENTS Price: From £294,995 for a two bed terrace Constructed on a former hospital site, this development consists of 322 two, three and four-bed homes. There are private rear gardens while some properties also have balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows. Contact: Crest Nicholson on 0870 751 3958, www.crestnicholson. com/elements by Jessica Mead 13 COURT FARM AVENUE [...]
SELLING September 23, 2010 MANAGING DIRECTOR, PROPERTY HUNT Q.Dear Russell, I have heard that London property stock levels are still low. Will this change? A.You would normally expect stock levels to be higher in late September than they currently are but people have been put off selling by low rates. For example, in Kensington & Chelsea you get a [...]
PROPERTY NEWS September 23, 2010 BRUSSELS PENTHOUSES International developer Thornsett Group yesterday launched six duplex and triplex penthouses at Leopold Village in the heart of Brussels’ European district and with stunning views over the city. The penthouses cost from €750,000 excluding taxes. Contact: +32 2 280 3034, www.leopoldvillage.com. SAVILLS’ AUCTION SUCCESS Savills’ latest residential auction raised £19.5m with a success [...]