The lightest dinner out in town September 26, 2011 Galoupet 13 Beauchamp Place, SW3 1NQ 0207 036 3600; www.galoupet.co.uk FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £40 THERE is so much that is pleasing about Galoupet. It looks like the kind of place you’d find in one of those super-cool northern European cities like Malmo or Arrhus, frequented by thin-legged [...]
Shard steel firm slashes dividend August 23, 2011 Structural steel company Severfield-Rowen reported a lower first-half pre-tax profit yesterday, hurt by a weak construction market in the UK, but said it would meet its full-year expectations. The company, which is supplying steel for the Shard London Bridge, cut its interim dividend by 70 per cent to 1.5p a share. For the six months [...]
Jones Lang LaSalle profits surge July 26, 2011 Property giant Jones Lang LaSalle last night unveiled a 24 per cent jump in revenues to $845m (£515m), giving it a net income of $44m for the three months to the end of June. The New York-listed firm, one of the agents for the Shard tower, said net income would have been $50m were it [...]
CITY GRANDEES DEBATE FUTURE OF UK BANKING July 25, 2011 MAGIC circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Fleet Street offices played host last night to a City crowd debating one of the most pertinent questions currently facing the UK’s politicians, regulators and bankers – whether the country’s biggest banks should be forcibly broken up, or whether other kinds of reforms are the best way forward. [...]
Fresh, organic and utterly perfect July 25, 2011 Roganic 19 Blandford Street, W1U 3DH Tel: 0207 4860380 www.roganic.co.uk FOOD ***** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £55 or £80 WHERE to start with Roganic? It could be with the bad pun of a name, or the temporary nature of the place, or the exalted Lake District restaurant which begat this [...]
No punishment for diners in this corner July 11, 2011 The Corner Room Town Hall Hotel, Patriot Square, E2 9NF viajante.co.uk; tel: 020 7871 0461 FOOD **** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £30 IF nothing else, the Corner Room, which is the second restaurant to open in Bethnal Green’s Town Hall hotel, gives you a worthwhile opportunity to nose around more [...]
The 9 projects that show the future of commercial space July 10, 2011 Office Space ACROSS the capital, thrilling new commercial buildings are springing up, from the City’s twenty-first century office towers to Europe’s largest urban shopping centre at Stratford. Andrew Deverell-Smith, managing director of property recruitment specialists Deverell Smith Recruitment, says “for those of us with so much at stake in the property industry, it is refreshing [...]
Architecture is frozen ambition July 10, 2011 Office Space Despite talk that tall buildings have had their day, skyscrapers still reflect our highest values TALL buildings are a mirror of human confidence, ability and enthusiasm. They reflect our belief in our own capabilities to design and build them, and in the appetites of the markets to fund, lease and buy them. In [...]
East meets west with this fresh take on the brasserie May 30, 2011 RIDING HOUSE CAFE 43 Great Titchfield St, London, W1W 7PQ, 020 7927 0840 www.ridinghousecafe.co.uk FOOD **** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £32.70 THERE’s a sense of familiarity when you walk in to the Riding House Café. Parquet flooring, tick, exposed brick walls, tick, hospital-style white tiles, tick, communal booth tables, tick [...]
The Wolfpack goes mad in Bangkok May 26, 2011 Film THE HANGOVER II Cert: 15 BRUISED, bloodied, blacked-out and stood high above a sweltering Bangkok, it’s the morning after the night before. Again. Following their 2009 antics in Vegas, the dysfunctional “Wolfpack” – Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis – is back. Three manboys, their sensible mate, and one wedding in Thailand. What [...]