A body scrub that’s perfect at lunchtime May 17, 2010 Elemis exotic lime and ginger salt glow at the citypoint club **** TWICE last week I stripped down for a strange man. The first was James Read, spray tanner to the stars, based at Agua at The Sanderson (see left). “Hello, just take off all your clothes and put these on,” he said to me, [...]
Mozzarella in Mayfair goes glam May 17, 2010 Cielo/Luxx 3 New Burlington Street W1S 2JF 020 7297 2893 www.cielorestaurant.co.uk, www.luxx-london.com FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £50 THESE days, being a restaurant plain and simple just isn’t good enough. Since the credit crunch bit, we have entered a new realm of added value, and if you like to [...]
Piggie-shaped cheese hits Sardinia’s chicest enclave May 17, 2010 WHEN the sun doesn’t shine in southern Italy, there is one major comfort. The food. I was reminded of this over the weekend during a trip to Sardinia since it was warmer, sunnier and less windy in London than it was there. And it wasn’t warm in London. Or sunny. Or particularly still. If there [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS May 17, 2010 THE MILROY: NOT JUST FOR MEMBERS Ever heard of The Milroy restaurant? Unless you’re a member of private casino Les Ambassadeurs, probably not. Previously only accessible to members The Milroy has flung open its doors to the hoi palloi for lunch. If the superlative European food, cooked by Simon Foster, previously of Claridge’s and La Tante [...]
Anyone with dicey cooking skills, please apply within May 16, 2010 AM I a desperate housewife? I’d like to think only occasionally (technically I’m no one’s wife although I do have a partner and a child), however when it comes to rustling up something interesting for us to eat this side of midnight after rushing home from work, it’s fair to say that sometimes it can [...]
The stylish way to take a hike May 16, 2010 THE LAKE DISTRICT The Samling Poking out of a secluded forest on the shore of Lake Windermere, The Samling must be one of the most magnificently appointed hotels in the country. It occupies a pretty Victorian mansion, but it’s no chintzy country hotel – the interiors mix heritage classicism with boutique style, the restaurant has [...]
Waterways for a boating break May 16, 2010 1. THE NORFOLK BROADS The spiritual home of messing about on the river, the Norfolk Broads is an area of ethereally beautiful countryside, remote villages and over 200km of navigable waterways, most of it tidal. Consisting principally of seven interlinked rivers, and in fact stretching across both Norfolk and Suffolk, the Broads is the country’s [...]
TRAVEL NOTES May 16, 2010 Destination Tintin tours Billions of blue blistering barnacles! Quality tour operator On the Go Tours has teamed up with Moulinsart, the publisher of the Tintin stories, to put together journeys following in the footsteps of Herge’s globe-trotting reporter. Taking place in India, Egypt, Jordan and Tintin’s home city of Brussels, the tours are led by [...]
Buy into stability with a well-placed Tuscan property May 13, 2010 THERE have been many pretenders to the throne of Italian property gold, but the fact is that Tuscany is still the place everyone wants to be. The downside to any oversubscribed spot is inflated prices, but the upside, in the case of Toscana, is an extremely stable, not to mention lucrative investment – and proximity [...]
FOCUS ON: WIMBLEDON May 13, 2010 DORSET ROAD, SW19 3HA Price: £1.45m Set in the Merton Road Conversation area, this four-bedroom semi-detached house is ideal for a family. All four bedrooms are on the first floor along with a family bathroom. Downstairs, there are two reception rooms both with bay windows, a modern kitchen-breakfast room and a family room with doors [...]