Drug wars in the swamps of Brazil September 22, 2010 COBRA BY FREDERICK FORSYTH Bantam Press, £18.99 by Zoe Strimpel Classic best-selling thriller writer Forsyth – of the highly acclaimed period pot-boiler The Day of the Jackal – is back. This time his hero’s enemy isn’t a person or group of people, it’s the entire world cocaine trade. The US President has decided to destroy [...]
LIFE COACH September 22, 2010 My inbox feels totally out of control and with it, my sense of professional and personal control has gone out the window. How do I get it back? Bob, 31, green energies broker INBOX overload is one of the major banes of modern corporate life. It may be over 15 years since email became a [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 22, 2010 SONDHEIM AT THE DONMAR Stephen Sondheim, the man who wrote Send in the Clowns and the creative force behind musicals including A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and – as lyricist – West Side Story, is 80 this year. Passion, one of his more recent works, is a tale of love, obsession and power set [...]
Why go out for dinner when dinner could come to you? September 22, 2010 WHAT’S a hungry banker with a bonus burning in his back pocket to do? Ostentatious displays of wealth just aren’t the done thing anymore, unless you want to risk attracting the attention of marauding bands of bitter taxpayers. But just because a ten course blow-out at your favourite high-end restaurant might be off the menu [...]
TIM BADHAM GOING OUT September 22, 2010 ENTERTAINING clients shouldn’t be rocket science. Some good food and plenty of drink should do. However, if you want to really impress and stand out from the competition, you’ll want to go the extra mile. You can’t go wrong with the very top restaurants such as Zuma and Marcus Wareing. Throw in a chef’s table [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS September 22, 2010 LP FIZZ DINNER AT THE LANESBOROUGH Champagne lovers with a bit of cash to put behind their passion should not miss out on this dinner at the super-swanky grand hotel. An eight-course menu designed by the in-house triple Michelin-starred chef Heinz Beck will be matched with Laurent Perrier fizz. The classic zero dosage Ultra Brut [...]
How to make a saloon car sexy September 21, 2010 Forget large SUVs. This is the Mitsubishi ASX crossover and it is the future of family SUVs – well, as far as Mitsubishi is concerned. Now that driving a proper 4×4 through the boroughs of Islington or Wandsworth is such a complete no-no, thank goodness that the car manufacturers have come up with an alternative [...]
CAR TALK September 21, 2010 MASERATI’S WILD SIDE UNVEILED The fastest, lightest and most powerful Maserati yet is to debut at the Paris Auto Show at the end of the month. When it goes on sale in the spring next year, the 450hp Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale will be capable of over 300km/h (186mph) but will offer the same fuel [...]
Battling Jesus and Poker Gods in WC2 September 20, 2010 RAISE 2,000,” I say, and toss my chips on to the table. My face is carved from granite, but my heart thumps so loudly it could start its own drum ‘n’ bass label. In any big poker tournament there’s always one Table of Death, the one table where all the top pros happen to be [...]
NYC chic at the Wharf September 20, 2010 Tompkins 3 Pan Peninsula Square E14 9HN 020 8305 3080, www.tompkins.uk.com FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £30 THE day we went to Tompkins, on the ground floor of Docklands’ largest residential tower Pan Peninsula, it was grey and chilly. This was a shame, since there is an impressive riverside terrace where suits [...]