Duck & Waffle doesn’t have the greatest kitchen in the world but the views are ace September 24, 2012 RESTAURANT DUCK & WAFFLE Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AY FOOD ** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE ***** Cost per person without wine: £44 MY HOUSE is what estate agents would euphemistically call “lower ground”, which translates almost exactly as “basement”. Outside the front door, running underneath the pavement, is a cupboard, which would, once upon a [...]
London’s bespoke hidden gems September 24, 2012 There are not many hair salons that have a porter greet you at the door, but then Rossano Ferretti is not your average salon. In fact it doesn’t even call itself a salon, but adopts the label “hairspa”. This is not meant to be your usual run of the mill trip to the hairdresser. Number [...]
The most influential people in beauty and makeup September 24, 2012 1. Maksymilian Faktorowicz (1872-1938) He founded Max Factor, which started as a theatrical make up shop and grew into a cosmetic empire. 2. Elizabeth Arden (1884-1966) She founded the brand, under her own name, which became international in 1915. 3. Charles Revson (1906-1975) He created the world famous makeup company Revlon, launched in 1932. 4. [...]
The New York fairytale hoping to wow London. But is it any good? September 24, 2012 RESTAURANT BALTHAZAR 80 Spring St, New York Tel: 00 1 212 965 1414 FOOD **** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £45 In the late nineties and early noughties, New York’s Balthazar was the very definition of an “it” restaurant. Renowned as one of the hardest places to get a table in [...]
How to make a Drambuie cocktail fit to raise the dead September 24, 2012 City A.M.’s resident cocktail expert TO MAKE Donn Beach’s infamous Zombie cocktail you’ll need white rum, golden rum, dark rum, apricot brandy, fresh pineapple juice, fresh papaya juice, 151-proof rum and grenadine. Good luck with that. Making some cocktails is akin to trying to cook like Heston Blumenthal. You’ll be back on the beer in [...]
Top tech boss: London still no Silicon Valley September 23, 2012 LONDON needs to do more to nurture growth in technology firms and become an attractive destination for them to go public, the head of one of the UK’s most successful internet firms said yesterday, warning that the US is a significantly better option for blooming British companies. Michael Acton Smith, chief executive of Mind Candy, [...]
Clegg plan on pensions draws fire September 23, 2012 THE INVESTMENT industry slammed Liberal Democrat plans to allow parents to use a quarter of their pension pots to guarantee their children’s mortgages yesterday, arguing it could undermine pensions and hit retirement incomes. Nick Clegg said the move will help struggling young people get a foot on the housing ladder at a time when large [...]
Clegg revives battle on rich with raft of tax plans September 23, 2012 THE TOP 10 per cent of Britons should pay more in tax, the Deputy Prime Minister said yesterday, promising to become more creating in finding new ways to take money from the richest. But finance analysts warned the move could simply drive cash and assets abroad, making the UK and the government worse off, rather [...]
The Liberal Democrats’ attack on middle class will backfire September 23, 2012 It is hard to know what the Liberal Democrats are playing at. Their traditional positioning was centrist, appealing to people who were repelled both by Labour’s statism, high taxes and authoritarianism (as well as its foreign policy) and by the Tories’ low-tax, smaller government, Eurosceptic policies, as well as their traditional social conservatism. The Lib [...]
Taxpayers will spend £1bn on business bank September 23, 2012 VINCE Cable will today announce plans for a new business bank, aimed at pumping government money into small firms cut off from other sources of finance. The business secretary wants to put £1bn of taxpayers’ money into the new institution, which will then borrow up to another £9bn on the capital markets, giving it a [...]
