FOCUS ON: HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE November 5, 2009 GEMINI HOUSE, HOGPITS BOTTOM, FLAUNDEN, HP3 0PU Price: £1.1mThis modern house has been extended over the years and now has five bedrooms and four reception rooms. The master bedroom has an en suite shower room, which comes with a sauna and two of the other bedrooms are interconnected. The pine conservatory overlooks the extensive gardens, [...]
Anglophile Malta a top proposition November 5, 2009 WITH winter descending, one can hardly be blamed for thinking about sunnier, warmer climes. While the downturn has badly affected much of the holiday homes market, it can still be both a fabulous luxury and a sound investment to own a place for summer escapes if you can find the right spot. The island of [...]
Q&A: BUYING November 5, 2009 Camilla DellMANAGING PARTNER AT BLACK BRICKQ. Dear Camilla, I am in the process of buying a house and my surveyor has found some structural problems. Should I be worried? Can I negotiate the price down in order to pay for these faults? At what point should I pull out? A. You should talk to your [...]
Evil festers under a glass dome November 4, 2009 UNDER THE DOMEBY STEPHEN KINGHodder & Stoughton £19.99THE MASTER of the slow-burn thriller about the bad things that happen when people are trapped together in one place has found another intriguing way to explore the nature of human evil. This is a big, invisible, and deeply sinister dome that descends over the town of Chester’s [...]
Pork of the town November 4, 2009 I LOVE a good sausage – who doesn’t, really? So, in honour of British Sausage Week (a noble Week if ever there was one), I decided to pay tribute to the nation’s favourite pork product by going along to Boisdale of Bishopsgate to learn to make sausages with chef Neil Churchill. Boisdale is big on [...]
WHERE TO GO FOR A TOP SAUSAGE November 4, 2009 HG WALTERPremium butchers supplying Hibiscus, Arbutus and top schools in London. Their sausage maker has been making the same traditional recipe for 30 years using free-range Surrey pigs for juicy, fatty cuts of belly and shoulder, plus rock salt and white pepper. The sausages are 80-85 per cent meat, depending on the presence of leek [...]
THE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED November 4, 2009 JEFF GALVINWE FOLLOW THE GALVIN BROTHERS AS THEY COUNT DOWN TO THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW CITY RESTAURANTIN 14 days time we open Galvin La Chapelle and Galvin Cafe de Luxe. Wednesday 18 November will see the culmination of two years of planning and preparation and 25 weeks of building and design. It feels like [...]
New Merc is in an (E) class of its own November 3, 2009 I HAD a nice massage today, while driving a Mercedes through the forests on the outskirts of Wiesbaden. We reviewed the new E Class Coupe recently and this wagon is from the same grown-up stable. It’s the workhorse of the family, and just the thing for taking the children back to prison after half term [...]
Ten years younger: why City men are lapping up the botox and lipo November 2, 2009 LAST week, Gordon Ramsay admitted that he has had cosmetic surgery to fill in the crevices – smile lines, as he called them – on his chin. The most astonishing thing is not that a man with a media career has had work done, but that he has admitted it. Only a few years ago, [...]
Japanese food goes global at this buzzy, brash new lounge in Soho November 2, 2009 Aqua KyotoFifth floor, 240 Regent Street, W1B 3BR020 7478 0540, www.aqua.com.hkCost per person without wine: £42 AQUA KYOTO is a Japanese restaurant opened by a Chinese company, sharing its space with a Spanish restaurant – and it feels like something from brash and showy Los Angeles. Tucked up on the top floor of a building [...]