Six ways to spice up your kitchen July 7, 2010 LIKE your fellow time-pressed City denizens, you know you should be eating healthy home-made bread and organic frozen yoghurt instead of endless ready meals, but during that rare evening off who really has time to drop everything for hours of authentic home-cooking? Luckily, thanks to the wonders of human progress and the innovative genius of [...]
Real men only apply July 6, 2010 For a while, a few years back, it looked like the US trend for vast trucks and pickups was going to catch on here. Stateside rappers wearing signet rings the size of dinner plates applied the same “bigger is better” approach to all of their purchases, and cars like the mahoosive Hummer were suddenly very [...]
OUT OF OFFICE July 6, 2010 HABIT OF ART RETURNING After a sell-out run at the National, Alan Bennett’s amusing play about old age, the creative spirit and sexuality is returning to the Lyttelton from next week. National Theatre regulars Desmond Barrit and Malcolm Sinclair take over the roles of WH Auden and Benjamin Britten, towering figures of the arts staring [...]
Expert, yes. Tasty, yes. Fun, err… July 5, 2010 Roux at Parliament Square RICS, Parliament Square, SW1P 3AD Tel: 020 7334 3737 Cost per person without wine: £55 THE Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is perhaps not the sexiest-sounding location for a restaurant. Yet the Victorian building in which Roux at Parliament Square sits is handsome, the location is prime and the people [...]
TASTING NOTES July 5, 2010 FEELING weighed down by picnic and barbeqcue fare??Tired of rich meals that leave you feeling fat and ill? Well, as Heinz Beck, the Rome-based German super-chef has shown, it doesn’t have to be that way. Recently launched at his London outpost, Apsleys:?A Heinz Beck Restaurant at the Lanesborough hotel, is a healthy summer menu. It’s [...]
Tequila’s birthplace gives the drink a whole new spin… July 4, 2010 I’M drinking Tequila for the first time in years, as fingers of blazing Mexican sun poke down between the swaying branches of a shady tree. I can’t quite believe that I’m sipping firewater on the lawn outside a picture postcard 150 year-old hacienda – a Mexican manor house – as I eat a splendid lunch [...]
Experience Paris and all that jazz July 4, 2010 I DON’T think you ever need an excuse to spend a weekend in Paris but how about a weekend of live jazz in the city’s beautiful Parc Floral? Every weekend until 1 August the park is hosting the Paris Jazz Festival, a series of free outdoor concerts at its stage beneath the trees. Promising emerging [...]
TRAVEL NOTES July 4, 2010 Macau Mandarin opens For a different spin on Hong Kong, head to the island of Macau, just 45 minutes by ferry from central HK, where a brand new, super-luxe Mandarin Oriental has just opened. For those who fancy an idyll away from the intense gaming of the former Portuguese colony, there is no casino in the [...]
Surrey is still the homeliest home county July 1, 2010 IF you are looking for a family home, Surrey is a good place to start. Unlike some of the suburbs closer to London, Surrey has villages with character and history, fine pubs and some wonderful schools. Many of Surrey’s best spots also have a direct connection to Waterloo, an easy hop from the City. The [...]
Keep it real in the Caribbean, just the place for sun, sand and security July 1, 2010 THE appeal of white sand, turquoise sea and a developed infrastructure all in one is too strong to be destroyed by an economic downturn, even this one. While prices sank by 20-25 per cent in two of the British Caribbean’s hottest spots, Barbados and St Lucia, the market has far from stalled. In fact, buyers [...]