Book a cricket experience for you and your friends November 11, 2022 | Sponsored After nearly two Christmases in hiding, Sixes is looking to smash this year’s party season out of the grounds. Test your batting skills against its best-in-class technology (with scores recorded on a leaderboard), enjoy buzzing DJ sets and go all out with the Golden Balls feasting package, complete with pigs in blankets and a cranberry-flavoured [...]
Give a coffee fan the best beans November 11, 2022 | Sponsored The coffee addict in your group deserves a rich blend this Christmas, and Artisan Coffee Co’s range could be the answer. The company uses premium, flavourful specialty grade beans, treated with care and attention, and roasted to perfection. Led by Ashley Palmer-Watts, former chef director of The Fat Duck Group, the Artisan team has created [...]
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Treat them to bespoke vitamin gummies November 11, 2022 | Sponsored Seeking a colourful alternative to classic vitamins to give your loved ones a health boost? Consider Nourished’s sugar-free, 3D-printed gummies. Believing that everyone should be able to personalise their health and wellness, Nourished has come up with a clever way to fine-tune people’s nutrition, with its range of bespoke vitamin gummies. After a two-minute online [...]
Of dice and men: How Ian Livingstone conquered the nerd universe November 11, 2022 In a leafy enclave of West London, Ian Livingstone is balanced precariously upon a chair in his study, grasping for a top-shelf box filled with incredibly rare figurines. The legs of the chair creak in protest, and there is a moment when I fear I may be responsible for the untimely death of the man [...]
Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me, Kiln Theatre review: Masterful comedy about being single and disabled November 11, 2022 Amy Trigg is a name we’ll be hearing from and seeing more prominently at the top of cast lists in the years to come. She won The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 for this piece, her debut play, which has just been on a nationwide tour and now returns to the Kiln Theatre where it [...]
The Crown is royal cosplay – look out for James Bond and King Charles as a 1990s rock star November 11, 2022 There’s been much hoo-haa about how The Crown isn’t historically accurate, but one element about the show that is close to fact is the style sense of the royals. It’s hard to believe by today’s standards but in the 1990s Prince Charles was actually something of a style icon. God love him, but these days [...]
A Taste of Luxury in the Mountains: Méribel November 10, 2022 | Sponsored Located in the heart of Les 3 Vallées, the world’s largest ski area, Méribel is arguably the best all-around ski resort and offers world-class skiing for all levels. It is very popular with British skiers and snowborders and the resort is made of cosy wooden chalets surrounded by trees and white peaks. If you are [...]
The Connaught Grill review: London’s classiest hotel plays with the formula November 9, 2022 There are lovely five-star London hotels and then there are the ones run by The Maybourne Group. That’s the company behind The Berkeley, Claridge’s and The Connaught, the eagles of the hotel world that fly higher than all the rest. In Mayfair, all the buildings look gorgeous, but propping up the corner of Adam’s Row [...]
Manteca restaurant’s kale pasta is an easy winter warmer recipe we love November 9, 2022 A perfect winter warmer, this light pasta dish is easy to make and sure to impress your dinner guests with its vibrant colours, says Chris Leach, chef at the Italian Manteca restaurant in Shoreditch. Chris tells us: “This is a great dish for the colder months and when cavolo nero is in season. It’s a [...]