High-rollers get charitable for sick kids October 18, 2010 WHEN you’re trying to win chips off your opponents at the poker table, charity’s the last thing on your mind. That would particularly be the case if you were slinging chips around in the cardroom of Les Ambassadeurs casino in Mayfair, which hosts the biggest (by which I mean highest stakes) poker games in Europe. [...]
Spanish favourite hits mark again October 18, 2010 Camino 28 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, E14 8RR. www.camino.uk.com/canarywharf Tel: 020 7239 9077 FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £35 IT must be tricky designing a Spanish restaurant. One route is to go rustic, with wine barrels, crates, bull-fighting memorabilia and castanets everywhere, and instructions to staff to wipe their hands on their [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS October 18, 2010 IN CONVERSATION WITH FERRAN ADRIA If you’re one of the many foodies that is fascinated by El Bulli chef Ferran Adria, then don’t miss this chance to hear him in conversation with acclaimed food author Colman Andrews at the Royal Geographical Society. The event is in celebration of the chef’s first biography, published by Phaidon [...]
THREE OTHER SPOT-ON TAPAS RESTAURANTS October 18, 2010 BARRICA Goodge Street has become like mini-Madrid, with two great tapas bars a stone’s throw from each other – Salt Yard and this one. Everything is delicious here, from the melty pork loin to the whole juicy courgettes with almonds and lemon. 62 Goodge Street, W1T 4NE. Tel: 020 7436 9448. DEHESA From the people [...]
ITEM: cuts won’t cause double-dip October 17, 2010 THE UK faces a slow economic recovery but fears of a double dip recession are overdone, one of the UK’s top forecasters will say today. The Ernst & Young Item Club – which uses the Treasury’s own economic model to make its predictions – also suggests that far from hurting the economy, Wednesday’s Comprehensive Spending [...]
AIA listing values firm at $20bn October 17, 2010 AIA Group could raise up to $20bn (£12.5bn) when it launches an initial public offering (IPO) later this month in Hong Kong, making it the world’s third largest IPO in history. US insurer AIG’s Asian unit said it would initially offer 5.86bn shares at between HK$18.38 (£1.48) and HK$19.68 each, or up to $15bn. But [...]
Cable ups the heat on banks October 17, 2010 BRITAIN’S biggest banks are today set to face up to small business organisations and business secretary Vince Cable in an attempt to show that they are committed to rebuilding trust between the sector and smaller firms struggling to get access to credit. Cable will chair the first meeting of the Small Business Economic Forum, which [...]
Corporate spending set to rescue UK October 17, 2010 THANK goodness for the private sector. With the exception of parts of the property investment industry, it is now in reasonably good shape. Contrary to what many believe, this means that Wednesday’s Comprehensive Spending Review – and the all too necessary spending cuts it will detail – won’t derail the UK economy. Sure, a chunk [...]
Miners get City Freedom October 17, 2010 CHILEAN president Sebastian Pinera and the 33 miners rescued last week after over two months trapped underground in a collapsed mine are set to be awarded the Freedom of the City of London. Pinera will today attend a lunch at the Mansion House hosted by Lloyd’s of London chairman Lord Levene, standing in for absent [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 17, 2010 THE SUNDAYS The Sunday Telegraph LORD LAWSON URGES OSBORNE CUTS Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former Chancellor and a man used as a sounding board by George Osborne, has urged his successor to “be bold” when making cuts to expenditure in this week’s Comprehensive Spending Review. Lord Lawson said that in spite of fears of [...]
