Is Trader Vic’s the worst restaurant in the world? November 5, 2013 TRADER VIC’S Hilton Park Lane, 22 Park Lane, W1K 1BETel: 020 7208 4113 FOOD ★☆☆☆☆ VALUE ★☆☆☆☆ ATMOSPHERE ★☆☆☆☆ Cost for two with booze (but no dessert): £126.50 OK, let’s get this out of the way: Trader Vic’s is awful. Terrible food served in a rudderless, soulless venue for prices that should make you weep bitter tears [...]
Mix it up: Think coffee and beer don’t mix? Well… think again November 5, 2013 @philip_salter AS A general rule, simple solutions trump complex ones. The more variables you bring to bear on a problem, the higher chance you’ll make a mess of things. Take the martini, a perfect solution to near enough any problem. It’s simply gin or vodka and dry vermouth stirred over ice with the addition of an [...]
Join in our City Fit Challenge and diet your way to health November 4, 2013 THERE isn’t a worker in the City who doesn’t sometimes struggle to balance work, a social life and their health. Late nights in the office make trips to the gym harder. Regularly eating out makes controlling your calorie count difficult and, on the flip side, making a commitment to an intense exercise regime can impact [...]
Fitness Expert: Ways to burn calories on your fasting days November 4, 2013 THERE’S a good chance you’ve either tried, or know someone that’s trying, the 5:2 diet. It’s relatively simple, doesn’t involve cutting out a bunch of your favourite foods, and is extremely effective as far as weight loss is concerned. But where and how does exercise fit in? Is it okay to work out on fasting [...]
Diet Expert: How eating high-protein foods can help you conquer the 5:2 diet November 4, 2013 THE 5:2 diet, which evolved from the concept of intermittent fasting, has has been growing in popularity as an effective method of weight loss and weight management. Earlier, intermittent fast regimens such as the alternate fast day consisted of a “feed day” alternated with a “fast day”. A 24-hour total fast is quite challenging, so [...]
BMW electrifies driving in the city November 4, 2013 The German manufacturer’s first electric car is both a revelation and a bargain LOTS of companies claim their products are revolutionary. But when BMW says its new i3 electric car is ground-breaking, it means it. Usually, electric cars are bought by eco-conscious people on environmental grounds. Such cars are often compromised in terms of space and [...]
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A rural idyll a stone’s throw from London November 3, 2013 Under an hour from the capital, the Four Seasons Hampshire is the perfect place to recharge your batteries THREE years ago, during my first ever stay at a Four Seasons Hotel, my friend and I invented a game. In order to win all you had to do was walk from our room to the bar [...]
Hotel focus: Oitavos, Portugal November 3, 2013 TRAVEL writing tradition dictates that a property sitting amid mountains, forestry or, in this case, the windswept dunes of Portugal’s Atlantic coast, should be described as “nestled” among its surroundings. Not the Oitavos Hotel though. The five-star hotel near Lisbon looks like it has crash landed in the sand and grasses – a tower of [...]
A Marvel-ous second outing October 31, 2013 FILM THOR: THE DARK WORLD Cert 12a | Four stars ONCE every five thousand years the nine realms align, and the dark elves use the opportunity to plunge the universe into darkness. To do this, they need the Aether, an ancient force of evil which – for inexplicable plot reasons – has possessed the body [...]