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, going out, art, technology and travel.

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Staycation time: Take a break at Locke in East London’s Dalston

June 25, 2021

The government’s new travel traffic light system is now crystal clear. We have “green”, which means you shouldn’t go, but it’s totally okay if you do. There is “green watchlist” which means you can book your holiday if you like, but don’t expect it to actually go ahead. There’s “amber”, which is for those countries [...]
Under Milk Wood: Michael Sheen shines at the National Theatre

June 24, 2021

There are few opening lines as transportive as that in Dylan Thomas’ 1954 radio play Under Milk Wood. “It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and- rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.” It’s a surprise, then, when [...]
Michelin starred Pied à Terre in Fitzrovia stops lunch due to ‘Brexit and Covid’

June 21, 2021

In another sign of the post-Covid recruitment crisis, one of London’s oldest Michelin-starred restaurants has closed its lunch service until further notice. Fitzrovia’s Pied à Terre says Brexit and Covid have impacted recruitment so badly it is no longer able to open for the whole day. The restaurant said it could not “protect the welfare [...]
Les Bordes: The ultimate European golf retreat just got better

June 17, 2021

With mere hours to go until the start of the US open, the City A.M. team is beginning to lust for the perfectly manicured surrounds of the golf course. Thankfully, the perfect solution is just a short plane-ride away. One of the most prestigious golf clubs in the world, Les Bordes in France’s famed Loire [...]
‘We keep getting crushed’ – hospitality reacts to Covid news

June 16, 2021

News this week that Covid restrictions will not fully end on 21 June as previously planned has come as a fresh blow to the embattled hospitality industry. While bar and restaurant owners were hoping to capitalise on the combination of the good weather and Euros, they are now they are back in survival mode. We [...]
Visit the world’s biggest open-air bar, Sweden’s Drinkable Country

June 15, 2021

Sweden yesterday celebrated the stoic defensive performance that earned them a Euros draw against highly fancied Spain almost as if it were a victory in the latter stages. Today any Swedes still in the party mood can let loose at Drinkable Country, which has been dubbed “the world’s largest open-air bar”. Comprised of pop-ups hosted [...]
Last chance to back fantastic Hear Art film campaign

June 14, 2021

There is just a week left to support one of City A.M.’s favourite arts initiatives, Hear Art, in its crowdfunding campaign to raise £15,000 to help fund films made by deaf filmmakers. Hear Art is a non-profit platform founded by Cindy Sasha (photographer/activist) and Rachel Shenton (actress/writer/activist) to help address the lack of opportunities for [...]
King’s Cross restaurants: Breakfast lunch and dinner, sorted

June 11, 2021

Once little more than a train station set in a dystopian commercial wasteland, King’s Cross is now a business hub to rival The City and Canary Wharf, with tech giant Google’s vast campus overlooking an ever-expanding roster of sophisticated shops and restaurants. Here’s how to eat there in style, no matter what time of day. [...]
The Death of a Black Man at Hampstead Theatre review

June 4, 2021

It’s a sad indictment on society that a play called The Death of a Black Man could have been written in just about any era of modern history, about more black men than you could ever hope to name. Today it perhaps most strongly recalls the death of George Floyd, whose murder last year by [...]
Where to eat in… Mayfair: Breakfast lunch and dinner, sorted

June 2, 2021

When you think of the traditional heartlands of City A.M., the Square Mile and Canary Wharf are probably the first places that spring to mind. But Mayfair, with its hedge funds, law firms and commercial property offices, has always been a hub for our readers. Of all the hospitality locations to suffer through the lockdown, [...]

Should Vuori ditch Draper over injury-hit tennis season?

Should Vuori ditch Draper over injury-hit tennis season?

Two countries, one holiday: Turkey’s glitzy Bodrum and Greece’s unbuttoned Kos

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