By: Steve Dinneen

Life&Style Editor I'm the editor of City A.M. The Magazine, and editor of the daily newspaper's Life&Style section. We cover food, wine, going out, culture, technology and travel. I'm also the head judge of our Toast the City awards that celebrates hospitality in the Square Mile. Find me on X @steve_dinneen

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Restaurant review: Tredwell’s – Marcus Wareing’s new venture in St Martin’s Lane

October 29, 2014

Upper St Martin’s Lane, which neatly bisects the tourist wastelands of Leicester Square and Covent Garden, seems like the last place Marcus Wareing would pick for his third UK restaurant. His flagship venture “Marcus” – formerly Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley – is a two Michelin-starred love-letter to formal dining (and home to one of [...]
Review: iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3

October 23, 2014

iPad Air 2: ★★★★★From £399 for 16GB wi-fi onlyiPad Mini 3: ★★★☆☆From £319 for 16GB wi-fi only Apple products are like buses, if buses were only 6.1mm thick, featured the kind of technology people could only dream of a decade ago and came in gold. Wait, no, they’re like buses because you wait ages for [...]
Theatre review: East is East, Trafalgar Studios

October 20, 2014

★★★★☆ Trafalgar Studios Most people will remember East is East from the 1999 film, part of the cultural fabric of the New Labour years alongside the likes of Notting Hill and Human Traffic. Ayub Khan Din’s play came two years prior, capturing his feelings of alienation and confusion over his cultural identity as a [...]
Theatre review: Speed the Plow

October 10, 2014

Speed the Plow | The Playhouse Theatre | ★★★☆☆ There’s something very patronising about the coverage of Lindsay Lohan’s stage debut in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow. “Didn’t she do well for turning up?”, “Didn’t she do well for only forgetting one line?”, “Didn’t she do well for not being absolutely freaking terrible?” We should, perhaps, give [...]
Film review: Annabelle

October 10, 2014

★★☆☆☆ Annabelle, a creepy, possessed Victorian doll, was one of the stars of last year’s horror hit The Conjuring, despite only appearing in a handful of scenes. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that she takes centre stage in this prequel, which plays like a Buzzfeed list of fright-movie cliches. Creepy children, moving dolls, enclosed spaces, [...]
Lindsay Lohan answers critich in new play Speed the Plow

October 9, 2014

Theatre: Speed the Plow ★★★☆☆ There’s something rather patronising about the coverage of Lindsay Lohan’s stage debut in David Mamet’s Speed the Plow: “Didn’t she do well for turning up?”, “Didn’t she do well for only forgetting one line?”, “Didn’t she do well for not being absolutely freaking terrible?” We should, perhaps, give her a [...]
Review: TED Restaurant

August 26, 2014

I’m a sustainability hypocrite. If I were at a dinner party and the host served bluefin tuna, I’d take great pleasure in making a scene. “How very dare you? Don’t you know bluefin numbers have dropped by 96 per cent thanks to intensive fishing? And while we’re at it, did you know they can swim [...]
Film Review: God’s Pocket

August 8, 2014

★★★★☆ God’s Pocket is what Goodfellas might have been like had it been directed by Alexander Payne. It follows the lives of a group of ageing petty criminals as they attempt to blot out the overwhelming futility of life in a down-and-out American town through the liberal use of alcohol and violence. At the funeral [...]
Theatre Review: My Night with Reg, Donmar Warehouse

August 8, 2014

★★★★☆ Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play charts the romantic entanglements of a group of gay university friends, now well into their 30s, set against the backdrop of the Aids crisis. It explores issues of love, loss, infidelity and insecurity, and how they are all tainted by the shadow of the disease. The Donmar’s new production is [...]
Film Review: Welcome to New York

August 8, 2014

★★★★☆ Welcome to New York is a grotesque character study of the French head of a world bank – not to mention Presidential hopeful – who stands accused of raping a maid in a New York hotel. Director Abel Ferrara’s film is certainly bold. In fact, you wonder how he got away with it: the [...]

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