Twixmas dining: The best restaurants to eat between Christmas and New Year’s Eve December 28, 2022 We all know what we’ll be eating over the next couple of days – turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, consumed in quantities such that the effects will still be visible around your midriff come February. But what happens once the leftovers have been hoovered up on Boxing Day? While many restaurants remain closed, some central [...]
Women reveal what turns them on most about a partner’s bedroom December 28, 2022 Tidiness is what turns women on the most in the bedroom when it comes to things that aren’t sex, according to new data revealed by bedding experts Pizuna Linens. They had surveyed women about potential ‘icks’ in the bedroom as well as the things they like most from sexual partners’ bedrooms and 81% said a [...]
Britain’s most-Googled Christmas film has been revealed December 25, 2022 You know the joke about Mariah Carey being defrosted every Christmas, right? If not, in a nutshell, the search traffic for Mariah Carey and her Christmas song All I Want For Christmas Is You starts increasing every year around November when Christmas obsessives get excited. Social media users start screenshotting the increased search traffic around [...]
How to get rid of a hangover: Top chefs give us their foolproof tips, from revitalising smoothies to a hair of the dog December 22, 2022 Most of us plan on celebrating the time off over Christmas with a few drinks – but, inveitably, one must pay the piper for one’s excesses. That means hangovers – lots of them, each one incrementally worse than the last, until the festive break becomes one long cycle of drunk-hungover-drunk-hungover, repeating ad infinitum until, somehow, [...]
Restaurants with DJs and live music to book for New Year’s Eve in London December 21, 2022 It may still be days until Christmas, but that doesn’t mean you haven’t already left it extremely late to make your New Year’s Eve plans. If you feel a little old for clubbing, we have the perfect solution: go to a restaurant. This selection of dining venues all have special menus and live entertainment to [...]
Flee the UK and buy one of these gorgeous Caribbean properties December 20, 2022 Sick of the cold and wet? Why not flee to warmer shores – you can snap up some veritable Caribbean properties for the cost of a two-bed flat in Leyton With the temperature predicted to fall as low as minus six this week, you can add freezing weather to the seemingly endless list of things [...]
How The Maldives are properly celebrating their food culture December 12, 2022 On The Maldives, local cuisine is finally being properly celebrated. Angelina Villa-Clarke jets in to eat local delicacies including mud crabs I’m sat high in the treetops, hidden amongst the oversized leaves of banana trees. Flickering candles light the tables but, mostly, the scene is illuminated by the night sky, ablaze with an eternity of [...]
Hex, National Theatre, review: Tonally weird and too macabre December 9, 2022 The National Theatre’s Christmas show isn’t exactly a Christmas show. Hex is a modern interpretation of Sleeping Beauty, a boldly imaginative spectacle that is more than a touch macabre. In terms of the plot, a fairy lives deep in a forest and one day a palace worker running from a baby-eating ogre stumbles upon her [...]
The best (and worst) supermarket Christmas sandwiches 2022 December 8, 2022 It’s beginning to look a lot like, City A.M.’s annual Christmas sandwiches taste test! Don’t we treat you well… The City A.M. team have been torn away from writing about all the important stuff to chow down on some delicious Christmas sandwiches, as well as some truly awful ones bringing Scrooge energy that really should [...]
Koya restaurant co-founder Shuko Oda on her favourite eateries, from Kiln to Yashin November 28, 2022 The Koya restaurant serves authentic Japanese Udon noodles at their three London eateries. There is one in Soho, one in the City and another in Hackney. Co-founder Shuko Oda shares her favourite places to eat in London when she isn’t at work at the restaurant. KOYA KO It was a peculiar and lovely feeling to [...]
