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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We need to eat more seafood – here’s how

June 22, 2022

Between the cost of living crisis, the imminent environmental collapse and the obesity epidemic, the UK has got its work cut out when it comes to food. Part of the solution, according to a new white paper, is to get people to eat more seafood. The government will invest £24 million in “seafood science and [...]
Revolve brings a buzzy brasserie to bustling Broadgate Circle

June 15, 2022

Imagine Magaluf but populated entirely by people who work in finance – that’s Broadgate Circle on a balmy summer evening. It’s a mad, sweaty cauldron full of pink-faced men drinking lager and gently glistening in the heat. Take a step back from the epicentre and you’ll find a second, slightly elevated circle of bars and [...]
The Glass Menagerie: Amy Adams plays it straight in underwhelming show

June 10, 2022

The Glass Menagerie heralded the arrival of Tennessee Williams. It was the first of his “plastic” memory plays, mining the rich seam of material from his own unhappy adolescence. Over the following two decades he would perfect the formula, creating some of the great American plays, but The Glass Menagerie remains among his best known [...]
Welcome (back) to Ibiza, as the Balearic prepares for its biggest summer yet

June 7, 2022

The pandemic hit every tourism-focused economy hard, but few places felt the effects of Covid more starkly than Ibiza, an island that specialises in squeezing lots of hot and sweaty people into enclosed spaces. Two years of closures and uncertainty took their toll – almost half of the island’s GDP comes from tourism and visitor [...]
David Mitchell on acting, cancel culture and why the internet is evil

May 25, 2022

On 15 March 2020, David Mitchell took a bow following what he reckoned was the best performance yet of The Upstart Crow, the West End version of Ben Elton’s sitcom about William Shakespeare. The next day the country went into lockdown. “I found the pandemic pretty bleak, really”, says the comedian and panel show host. [...]
Anne-Marie Duff in fine form in The House of Shades at the Almeida

May 23, 2022

Sometimes an ambitious failure is preferable to a safe success, but that’s sadly not the case with The House of Shades. Even the incredible Anne-Marie Duff – on fierce form – is unable to pull together the threads of a play that’s part state-of-the-nation polemic, part kitchen sink drama, part Greek tragedy and part surreal [...]
Middle theatre review: A bleakly comic but overlong relationship drama

May 7, 2022

When things are going well in a relationship you might hear three little words, when they’re going badly you might hear four: we need to talk. David Eldridge’s new play Middle is about that talk, picking apart the remnants of a marriage that’s already “smashed on the rocks, bleeding to death”. We meet middle-aged couple [...]
Age of Rage review: Ivo van Hove sprawling Greek epic is a hot mess

May 6, 2022

You wait a lifetime for a play retelling the fall of Troy through the medium of interpretive dance and then two come along at once. Following hot on the heels of Punchdrunk’s immersive The Burnt City comes Age of Rage, the first post-pandemic work by Dutch auteur Ivo van Hove (The Network, Hedda Gabler). From [...]
Trivet restaurant review: A masterclass in the fine art of simplicity

April 27, 2022

When you visit the Fat Duck website you’re greeted by the message: “Welcome questioneer… Are you ready?” Beside this plays a video of a steam train whizzing past a rapidly-growing crystal formation that, like an acid trip, becomes a lime, then a flower. Am I ready? I’m not sure. Scroll down and the restaurant’s famous [...]
The Burnt City review: Punchdrunk return in spectacular fashion

April 22, 2022

Punchdrunk is the company that put immersive theatre on the map. Its productions of The Drowned Man (2013) and Sleep No More (2003, although best known for its 2011 revival in New York) created the modern blueprint for the medium, spawning a thousand imitators, most of whom only served to highlight how difficult immersive theatre [...]

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