More cruise liner than chic January 23, 2012 Kitchen Joël Antunès 29 Old Burlington Street, London, W1S 3AN T: 020 7494 5660 FOOD * SERVICE ** ATMOSPHERE * Cost per person without wine: £65 Legends aren’t what they used to be. Almost anyone can be one. You have to do something pretty heinous to be both famous and dead and not be called [...]
Lobster and burgers, folks… that’s it January 23, 2012 THE vogue for culinary simplicity has been around for a while. The shorter the menu, the better – after all, asks the modern diner, how can caviar, steak, chicken, risotto and a thousand other dishes from one kitchen and one staff be fresh, made with the best of the day’s ingredients? Well, the guys behind [...]
A lesson learned on Canada’s wine January 23, 2012 HEAD SOMMELIER AND MANAGER OF LUTYENS RESTAURANT As is typical in the London restaurant scene, we have a very international team at Lutyens. My assistant Andres is from Canada and, as he went home for Christmas, he brought in some Canadian wine for us to try. There is comparatively little Canadian wine in the UK [...]
Limbering up for a brilliant ski January 23, 2012 LIKE many a busy office worker, I failed to prepare for my recent ski holoday. And I’m paying the price with a stiffness of gait and inelegance of posture that simply can’t be attractive. Don’t make the same mistake. Here are some ways to limber up so that you’re able to walk from slopes to [...]
EPISODE 43 – A FRAZZLED START TO THE DAY January 23, 2012 I WISH I could say the radio alarm had failed. But I can’t. Anyway, with infant twins in the house, neither bugle call nor drum roll is ever required for reveille. Nevertheless, at 6.45am I’m already 45 minutes behind schedule. The Perth flight leaves at 11am and it’s clear I won’t make it into the [...]
FTSE hits six month high January 23, 2012 The FTSE 100 hit a six month closing high, driven by increases in bank and commodity stocks and investor optimism regarding the Greek debt crisis. The index closed up 0.9 per cent at 5,782.56, the highest closing mark since July 29 2011. Banks benefited from French Finance Minister Francois Baroin’s declaration that a deal with [...]
EU bans oil imports from Iran January 23, 2012 The European Union has banned imports of oil from Iran as Western powers increase the pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear development programme. The 27 members of the EU are collectively the second biggest consumers of Iranian crude and news of the embargo pushed the price of Brent crude futures to over $110 dollars [...]
Private equity firm buys Bonmarche from Peacocks January 23, 2012 Private equity firm Sun European Partners has bought the budget fashion chain Bonmarche for an undisclosed sum in a pre-pack administration. Sun European intend to close around a third of the chain’s 394 stores, resulting in the loss of around 1,400 jobs. 2,300 staff will continue to be employed by the new owners. Bonmarche was [...]
Resource stocks lift FTSE as Eurozone closes in on Greece debt deal January 23, 2012 The FTSE 100 started in positive territory this morning — with hopes that Eurozone finance ministers can nail down a final agreement over the festering Greek debt pile on the rise. Banking shares across Europe were buoyed by renewed optimism that Greece can avert a default which would derail the bloc’s efforts to stabilize struggling [...]
Michael Page poaches Ocado finance chief January 23, 2012 Recruiter Michael Page has poached online grocer Ocado’s Andrew Bracey to replace Stephen Puckett as finance director at the increasingly global staffing group. Puckett stepped down after 11 years because he no longer wanted to undertake the travel needed for the job, Michael Page said on Monday. Bracey, who previously worked in private equity and [...]
