Don’t like new build homes in glass towers? We round up the best conversion homes in characterful period buildings November 12, 2018 You want to buy a new house, but you don’t want to live in a soulless shell. There’s good news: the historic conversion market is continuing to boom, with London’s ancient buildings being scaffolded as we speak. Hampstead Manor, at the heart of which is white-stucco mansion Kidderpore Hall, is one such development. It’s being [...]
Opinion: How can technology make moving house easier? We count the ways November 12, 2018 Moving home is considered to be one of the most stressful life experiences and as a result people rarely bother. The average person only moves once every 17.8 years according to the latest English Housing Survey. But does it need to be this way? Over the next decade, technology will transform the way we buy, [...]
Property of the Week: Order steak and cigars up to these two ‘bois’ pads above Scottish restaurant Boisdale Belgravia November 12, 2018 When most of us are too tired to cook we simply order a takeaway, but these apartments in Mayfair have a more upmarket solution. Both are situated on top of Boisdale on North Row, part of the legendary chain of restaurants founded by Ranald Macdonald in 1986 to celebrate his true loves; Scotland, whisky, cigars [...]
New homes: Our pick of what’s going on sale in London this week November 12, 2018 New developments on the market this week Aviator Place, Acton From £150,000 for a 40 per cent share of a one bedroom apartment Get onto the property ladder a share at a time by purchasing one of these Shared Ownership homes going on sale in west London tomorrow. Acton is an up-and-coming part of Zone [...]
iPhone XR review: Apple’s ‘affordable’ handset is the best pound-for-pound phone on the market right now November 7, 2018 Last month Apple released the best phone money can buy, the iPhone XS, which also happens to be a phone that costs more than any other. Prices start at an overdraft-worrying £999 for the 64GB XS and go up to a nosebleed-inducing £1,449 for the 512GB XS Max. In a tacit acknowledgement that a grand [...]
Working Lunch: Mark Jarvis lives up to the Anglo hype with his new Mayfair restaurant Stem November 7, 2018 Stem, 5 Princes Street, W1B 2LF WHAT? The much anticipated third restaurant from chef du jour Mark Jarvis, who blew everyone away with the universally acclaimed Anglo in Farringdon, and then repeated the trick with Neo Bistro on Oxford Street. He’s among the most highly regarded young (ish) chefs around, knocking together a totally assured, occasionally downright [...]
The Volkswagen Polo GTI is a mature hot hatch that hasn’t lost its sense of fun November 5, 2018 Reifnitz is nestled deep in the Austrian Alps, its quiet streets dotted with quaint, hand-painted chalets. Nothing much happens here, apart from one weekend each summer, when the village is invaded by 100,000 Volkswagen fanatics. They come from all over Europe and beyond – filling the mountain air with the aroma of beer, bratwurst and [...]
From towering glaciers to barnacle-encrusted whales, Lizzie Pook heads to unexplored east Greenland to learn how to capture this wild land on camera November 5, 2018 Spend enough time in the Greenlandic wilderness and everything starts to take on a cinematic quality. Inky waters roiling with dolphins seem like they should be scored by the soaring strings of an orchestra. Cathedral-sized icebergs, like colossal sparkling geodes, pass gracefully in the manner of silent film stars. Everything looks like opening credits; a [...]
Slowing down in Tokyo: Japan’s eccentric capital is best enjoyed at a snail’s pace November 5, 2018 Tokyo is the gateway to Japan for most visitors and one of the most varied and hyperdeveloped cities in the world. Only a special kind of masochist would brave the jetlag to visit Tokyo for a long weekend, but the capital is truly one of the urban wonders of the world, even if used only [...]
Bright restaurant in London Fields review: A cracking Italian-ish place with a drinks list to die for November 5, 2018 Before last weekend, I’d never eaten in Bright, although had you held a gun to my head I would have sworn that I had. You see, I’ve eaten in Ellory, which was in that space until February, when it snuck off down the road to reopen as Leroy (keeping up?). Anyway, it’s a mistake I was [...]