Emerging markets to buoy Pernod Ricard October 12, 2010 LOOK to the top of any global blue-chip company these days and you’re likely to find an accountant playing a key strategic role and not simply doing the books. Gilles Bogaert, managing director of finance at Pernod Ricard, is no exception. Having originally joined the French drinks giant in 1995 as an internal auditor, Bogaert [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 29, 2010 FLASHDANCE COMES TO THE STAGE It’s all about legwarmers, leotards and doing the splits to Giorgio Moroder’s What a Feeling at the Shaftsbury Theatre, where Flashdance, the 80s cinematic cheesefest about a female welder who dreams of making it to ballet school, is opening in stage musical form. Victoria Hamilton-Barritt stars as leotard-sporting, high-kicking Alex, [...]
Dreary place, bright food July 26, 2010 Brasserie Joel First Floor, Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, SE1 7UT. Tel: 020 7620 7272 FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £45 MUCH has been made of the unfortunate location of Brasserie Joel – and rightly so. This new outpost of the talented Joel Antunes, fresh from exile in the States, sits in a [...]
William Grant seals C&C deal July 1, 2010 William Grant & Sons yesterday completed its purchase of C&C’s spirits and liqueurs division for €300m (£246m) The Scottish distillery will now own brands including Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey, Carolans, Frangelico and Irish Mist, The new business will operate as William Grant & Sons Irish Brands Ltd. Its portfolio already includes Glenfiddich and The Balvenie [...]
High class: where to go for the best views in town June 16, 2010 WITH roof-top bars and outside space in London hard to come by (or just plain wet), top floor views and cityscapes have become the next best thing and a desirable year-round alternative. This week, as one high and mighty new members’ club opens its shiny elevator doors for the first time, another is scrapping its [...]
Hollywood gets the NYPD blues June 10, 2010 Film BROOKLYN’S FINEST Cert: 18 This gritty police drama sees director Antoine Fuqua return to the familiar territory with which he made his name in 2001’s Training Day. Fuqua assembles an impressive cast including Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle, and fans of The Wire will notice a few familiar faces from the cast. [...]
Don Draper’s old fashioned drink of choice May 5, 2010 IT’S probably a little too easy for us to be dismissive of bourbon in this country. After all, with all the world-beating malt whisky painstakingly produced up in the most northern parts of our little island, what do we need with the harsh, corn-based yankee equivalent? We’ll gulp it down in the odd cocktail – [...]
How London fell for American cuisine January 27, 2010 FIVE years ago, McDonalds was the best-known export of US cuisine in London. Yes, there have been other venues dedicated to that fine nation’s culinary tradition, such as Joe Allen and the Chicago Rib Shack, which have both been around since the 1970s. But mostly it’s been burgers and bad steaks, confined to slightly grotty [...]
The deep south comes to Camden January 4, 2010 The Blues Kitchen 111-113 Camden High Street, NW1 7JN Tel: 020 7387 5277 Cost per person without wine: £25 WHAT is it with fatty food these days? Low-fat dining – dressing on the side, steamed vegetables,“low fat” in brackets next to the dish – seems to belong to some distant era wholly unrelated to the [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS November 23, 2009 QUAGLINO’S BACK ON FORMQuaglino’s, the vast St James’s dining establishment that was the fashionable cornerstone of the Conran empire in the nineties, is aiming to bring back the buzz with a new chef, an enhanced look and a bit of live entertainment. Belgian cook Konrad Inghelram arrives having worked at Michelin-starred establishments back home, and [...]