THREE OTHER CITY SLICKERS September 28, 2009 RHODES 24Sitting at the top of Tower 42, Gary Rhodes has got himself a perfect spot in which to dazzle City high-flyers. Dishes are named after their bare ingredients, from lobster (glazed lobster omelette thermidor) to rabbit (potted, with potato and bacon salad) and are – on the whole – done well. 25 Old Broad [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS September 28, 2009 ASIAN COOKING SCHOOL Hooray – a cooking school that focuses on Asian food. Instead of sweet or savoury, mains or dessert, Angela Malik’s new cookery course will focus on the tastes: hot, sweet, salty, sour and the fifth flavour, umami. Courses include Indian Express Lunch, Real Vietnamese Cooking, How to Create the Perfect Indian Dinner, [...]
Where the cool suits go to play September 28, 2009 EIGHT Moorgate is the essence of the new City. Rather than being brash and in-your-face, everything about it says discretion, from the near-impossible to find location (behind Liverpool Street) to the matte, fairly plain-Jane interior design – there are no cascades of crystals here, no Cuban cigars or magnums of Bolly spread about enticingly. Instead, [...]
Feeding the skin organic veggies, fruit and honey are the new cream September 28, 2009 PORRIDGE was drying stickily on my face and the smell of strawberries wafted towards me, past the little pot of goat’s milk yoghurt by my head. No, I was not the victim of a breakfast explosion – I was on a treatment table at Belgravia’s Glow Urban Spa, trying out the new talk-of-the-town treatment: American [...]
RAPID MOVES IN OIL PRICE ARE UNLIKELY September 28, 2009 OIL is one of those markets that are so capricious that it’s hard to resist trading. For those who have dipped a toe into the so-called liquid gold within the last year, it will have been a particularly rough ride. After hitting lows of $34 in December, when actual and perceived demand for oil fell [...]
Technologygives your trading a head start September 28, 2009 THESE days, contracts for difference (CFDs) are most often seen as an efficient way of opening positions and building positions that are held for several months. At the moment, though, with crystal balls in short supply and the future uncertain, traders might be wary about making trades that rely on predicting trends. Which is why [...]
RAPPER WARREN G SWAGGERS HIS WAY OUT OF THE ECONOMIC MESS September 28, 2009 OH, THE joy of listening to celebrities wax lyrical about how they’ve attuned their jet-set lifestyle to the rigours of the global recession. This week, it’s rap superstar Warren G, rapper on the 1994 track “Regulate”, who has given a no-holds-barred interview to Vanity Fair magazine about how he’s managed to emerge unscathed from the [...]
Linklaters’ Mr Tough Guy on why the next two months are key for the City September 28, 2009 THE legal profession might be going through one of its biggest slumps in a decade – but you would not know that looking at Linklaters’ senior partner David Cheyne. A small, dapper man, he is relaxed and all smiles as he sits in a tastefully furnished ground floor meeting room at the firm’s Silk Street [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS September 28, 2009 ASTRAZENECAJefferies said AstraZeneca faces a series of patent problems throughout its forecast period. While resurgent growth, pipeline delivery and cost savings on its lower cholesterol drug Crestor may help to offset some of the impact, Jefferies see a meagre earnings versus a weighted average of four per cent for the sector. DIAGEODiageo looks set for [...]
Gap founder Don Fisher dies, leaving art collection September 28, 2009 DON Fisher, the man who founded clothing giant Gap, died yesterday aged 81. Fisher opened his first shop with his wife Doris forty years ago after struggling to find a pair of jeans that fitted. The husband and wife team named the store after the “Generation Gap” in a bid to appeal to a younger [...]
