A cheese and wine festival is coming to London February 22, 2017 Cheese lovers should listen up – you’ll be very grate-ful for this: a cheese and wine festival is coming to London. You could say it’s going to be a real crowd cheeser… Entry to the festival is free and it will take place on the first weekend of April in Stratford's East Village, which will [...]
Range Rover has teased its mysterious new Velar – the luxury SUV for the “avant garde” February 22, 2017 Range Rover has unveiled its latest luxury SUV with a single, mysterious photograph – dubbing it the "avant garde Range Rover". The Velar is designed to fill the "white space" between the Range Rover Evoque and the Range Rover Sport, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which owns the brand, said today. It added the new addition [...]
Six of the Best: Chicken Wings. Here are the joints that are getting us in a right flap over their tasty, sticky wings February 21, 2017 1. Bird 42/44 Kingsland Road, E2 If you want decent wings, go to the specialists. Dalston favourite Bird, which now has a second spot on Holloway Road, serves free-range, gluten-free wings, fried to order, with a choice of eight homemade sauces. Flappin’ hell. birdrestaurants.com 2. Absurd Bird 54 Commercial Street, E1 First things first; we’ve [...]
Our resident chef Mark Hix on why you should ditch bland supermarket salad for something red instead February 21, 2017 A lot of salad farmers grow delicious red, Italian winter leaves at this time of year. While you are probably familiar with the round and quite common radicchio, there are lots of varieties to explore, like trevisso, tardivo, trevisiano and, of course, red chicory, which all belong to the same family. My salad and vegetable [...]
Working Lunch review: Anglo in Farringdon is a constantly surprising, gastronomic take on modern British cuisine February 21, 2017 Anglo 30 St Cross Street, EC1N WHAT? Though it bills itself as ‘modern British’, Anglo is gorgeously gastronomic, but without the fuss and frills. Elegantly-arranged tasting dishes are served up on pristine earthenware in a tiny, contemporary dining room that lets the food do the talking. WHERE? It was pretty much hidden by a dirty [...]
We drive an updated model of the classic 90s roadster to see if its new retractable roof is as reliable as it is ravishing February 20, 2017 F or such a lightweight, the original Mazda MX-5 packed a mighty punch. In 1990, when the original MX-5 finally arrived in the UK, this feather-light and affordable roadster upset the establishment. It was the closest thing to a great British sports car since the death of the MGB in 1980. Sure, Lotus beat Mazda [...]
Beyond Caravaggio has left the National Gallery, so we’ll just have to put up with Cagnacci’s Italian Baroque masterpiece instead February 20, 2017 For those missing strong, dramatic Italian Baroque art in their lives now the excellent Beyond Caravaggio show has wrapped, the National Gallery have secured (timely, for Valentines?) a superb and extremely rare loan of the magnificent painting, ‘The Repentant Magdalene’ by Guido Cagnacci, from the Norton Simon Museum in California. Many will likely not have heard [...]
Long Weekend: Check into Marbella Club, a golf hotel in Malaga with an aristocratic pedigree February 20, 2017 The weekend: Marbs, as certain raffish reality TV characters call it, occupies a prime location by the Med on southern Spain’s Sunshine Coast. Behind this famous tourist town rises the jagged Sierra Blanca mountain range. You can shop, swim, hike, or mountain-bike, but most visitors are here to play a round with their balls. Thanks [...]
Meet the man making 10,000 luxury watches a year in Britain February 20, 2017 It takes two years to make a Bremont watch. It takes seven years to train the person who makes it. “We tend to mop up the area when we hire,” says Giles English, one half of the fraternal founders of Bremont, the luxury watch company. “We can’t just rock up and ask for a watchmaker [...]
Reach stunning landscapes, luxury hotels and the national speed limit driving in the Scottish Highlands February 20, 2017 The soul-crushing experience of driving in London can be enough to grind down even the most dedicated fan of cars. No matter how many horses are hiding under the bonnet, they’re not much use if you’re crawling along at 4.8 miles per hour. That’s why Scotland’s North Coast 500 is such a tantalising prospect – [...]