Pub of the week: Toast Award-winner The Rising Sun on Carter Lane Life&Style Nobody loves a pub as much as City AM. Over the years we have campaigned for them, we have reported on their plight, and we have honoured them in our Toast the City Awards. Now we’re launching a new regular feature celebrating the best drinking holes in the Square Mile and beyond. While the exact [...]
Galvin La Chapelle launches menu to celebrate Toast award Life&Style I have written about restaurants for this newspaper for some 15 years – but my latest visit to City institution Galvin La Chapelle was a first: reviewing a menu designed to celebrate winning a City AM award. Last year we hosted the first Toast the City awards, celebrating the things that make the Square Mile [...]
Galvin La Chapelle launches special menu to celebrate Toast Award win Life&Style Michelin starred City institution Galvin La Chapelle has launched a special new menu to celebrate winning Best Restaurant at the inaugural City AM Toast the City Awards. The Toast & Taste menu, which is on offer until 24 February, will feature a combination of brand new dishes and returning classics from throughout the restaurant’s 15 [...]
Angler restaurant review: City staple feels both humble and flamboyant December 15, 2025 Win a chef’s table for 8 at Angler through our City Winners platform – click here to find out more! There’s long persisted a rumour that people in the Square Mile aren’t short of a dime or two. So it is strange that our local parish doesn’t have more Michelin starred restaurants. There used to [...]
City AM crowns the capital’s best at Toast the City Awards 2025 October 23, 2025 London’s Square Mile played host to a celebration of culinary and cultural excellence last night at City AM’s inaugural Toast the City Awards 2025. Supported by five Business Improvement Districts, the Eastern City, Culture Mile BID, Aldgate Connect, Cheapside and Fleet Street Quarter, Toast the City awards was the first ever ceremony celebrating Square Mile [...]
St Paul’s on bringing art into the Cathedral: ‘It was Marmite. Some worshippers said they’d leave’ October 22, 2025 This evening earmarks the inaugural Toast the City awards – the first ever ceremony celebrating Square Mile culture – and as City AM staffers bunk off work to smarten up, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral is bestowing us with his good wishes. The Cathedral has been nominated in our Best Coffee and Best Cultural [...]
Toast the City finalists: Who will win best Late Night Venue? October 22, 2025 The Toast the City Awards are here to celebrate the very best in hospitality of placemaking in the Square Mile. On the eve of the big night, we are highlighting each of the 138 finalists who have beaten off competition from more than 2,000 entrants. Next up is the Best Late Night venue category, a [...]
Toast the City finalists: Who will win the Best Fitness Experience? October 22, 2025 The Toast the City Awards are here to celebrate the very best in hospitality of placemaking in the Square Mile. On the eve of the big night, we are highlighting each of the 138 finalists who have beaten off competition from more than 2,000 entrants. Next up is the Best Fitness Experience category. To find [...]
Toast the City: What is the Square Mile’s Best Overnight Stay? October 22, 2025 The Toast the City Awards are here to celebrate the very best in hospitality of placemaking in the Square Mile. On the eve of the big night, we are highlighting each of the 138 finalists who have beaten off competition from more than 2,000 entrants. Luxury hotels have cropped up all over the City over [...]
Toast the City finalists: Who will win the Best Sandwich category? October 22, 2025 The Toast the City Awards are here to celebrate the very best in hospitality of placemaking in the Square Mile. On the eve of the big night, we are highlighting each of the 138 finalists who have beaten off competition from more than 2,000 entrants. Next up is the Best Sandwich category. To find out [...]