THREE OTHER GRAND FRENCH BRASSERIES October 25, 2010 GALVIN LA CHAPPELLE A year after it opened, the Galvin brothers’ Spitalfields restaurant has become an institution for City diners looking for superior French flair. Its sister bar, Galvin Cafe a Vin, lives up to its name with a fabulous wine list, plus formidable food of its own and a cigar terrace. 35 Spital Square, [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS October 25, 2010 BENARES’ DIWALI FEAST Mayfair’s favourite posh Indian restaurant is going to be celebrating Hindu festival Diwali in style with a special menu. Michelin-garnering chef Atul Kochhar’s menu, on offer throughout November, will two or three courses with paired wines, of which highlights include smoked lamb kebabs with pickled red cabbage; tandoor sea trout with marinated [...]
How to look razor sharp October 25, 2010 EVERY man knows how to shave, right? Wrong. Look at your colleagues and spy out the ones with red blotches and roughed-up skin under their chins and you see the chaps who have never mastered wielding a razor. “You can tell from looking at them who has been shaving badly for years,” says barber Carmelo [...]
A taste of true relaxation, Chinese-style, at the Connaught Hotel October 25, 2010 THE CONNAUGHT unfurled itself slowly and lusciously, with Hélène Darroze’s superlative restaurant and two jewel-like bars opening at various intervals after the hotel’s major refurb a couple years back. One year old but little trumpeted is the hotel’s super-discreet Aman spa (with a pool) where I went to experience an “experience inspired by China”. This [...]
FIT IN THE CITY October 25, 2010 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT THE “use it or lose it” theory applies to your brain in exactly the same way as it does to your hamstrings and pecs. Here’s how to strengthen that muscle. EAT RIGHT FOR YOUR BRAIN Your brain requires healthy fats to function properly. The body can’t produce these essential fats so [...]
Swiss class indoors, Swiss snow outdoors make an iconic St Moritz hotel October 24, 2010 THE lift doors opened and, there, standing in the grand foyer of St Moritz’s Suvretta House, stood a woman who seemed to epitomise this luxurious Swiss hotel. Tall, elegant and effortlessly chic in her glossy fur coat paired with long, expensive black boots, she oozed European-style opulence. Behind her, the stunning alpine view glinted in [...]
SKI NOTES October 24, 2010 Ski Chamonix in style Save £865 per person with this seven night package at Les Granges d’en Haut, Chamonix. Stay seven nights from £1,850 per person in a two bedroom chalet and in addition to a hearty daily breakfast, you’ll have free chauffeur service to the slopes and village centre, après ski tea and cakes, [...]
The Malay paradise where the world’s A-list comes to relax October 24, 2010 THERE’s a moment, when I step in to the glistening emerald Malaysian waters of my own secluded cove, next to my private “Estate”, when I can see just why this place is so popular with celebrities. The sun is shining. Hornbills are squawking in the air. There’s no-one to take in my pasty white bikini-clad [...]
TRAVEL NOTES: HALF TERM October 24, 2010 Space fair at RAH Encourage your little ones’ interest in space while you can and take them to this festival of art, music, science and education themed around the night sky, extra-terrestrial activity, astrobiology and a good deal more. Events include talks, screenings of classic space-questioning films, including ET and Close Encounters of the Third [...]
Fairs and exhibitions catering to amateur buyers show that home is where the art is October 21, 2010 IT’S one of the more basic facts of interior design: unless you live in some whitewashed, ultra-minimalist zen house – and that’s so very five years ago, dear – a room benefits from some kind of art on its walls. As leading interior designer and art collector Nina Campbell says: “You reach that moment when [...]