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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How Games Workshop helped a middle-aged generation survive the pandemic

January 18, 2021

Every quarter for the last five years, there’s been a condescending raise of eyebrows from the finance world when a publicly-listed company from Nottingham releases its results. The Games Workshop, most famous for its tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000, grabbed headlines again last week when it reported its operating profits had jumped to £92m in the [...]
Best of travel: A food odyssey across the South China Sea

January 16, 2021

Throughout January we’re remembering better times and sunnier climes by reposting some of our favourite travel stories from the last decade. In this instalment, our Life&Style editor Steve Dinneen eats a path across the South China Sea. ••• Hong Kong’s most celebrated restaurants are the kind of Michelin-rated palaces to gastronomy that you can find [...]
Celebrate Burns Night 2021 with Mac and Wild at home

January 15, 2021

Burns Night has always had a disproportionately significant place in the hearts of people who work in the City. There’s something about the combination of financial products and wearing kilts that just… works. There’s a reason why City A.M. has diligently printed a cut-out-and-keep version of Rabbie Burns’ famous Address to a Haggis every year [...]
We got an expert to pick three books pefect for City A.M. readers

January 15, 2021

Throughout lockdown one of the pleasures coronavirus has been unable to take away is reading. According to the Reading agency, one in three adults is reading more, rising to almost one in two 18-24 year olds. And while many of us rely on a combination of celebrity book clubs and Amazon for our recommendations, Sam [...]
CES 2021: Gadgets that wowed us in the first all-digital Las Vegas show

January 14, 2021

The first all-digital Consumer Electronics Show has come to an end, and while the event was a little more subdued than normal, there were still some gadgets on show that blew us away. Whether by virtue of their brilliance or their strangeness, here are the gadgets that caught our eye during CES 2021. Razer Project [...]
The best of travel: Why Okinawa is Japan’s Alex Garland destination

January 14, 2021

Throughout January we’re remembering better times and sunnier climes by reposting some of our favourite travel stories from the last decade. In this instalment, our Life&Style editor Steve Dinneen ventures to the remote Japanese archipelago of Okinawa. ••• Everyone who is serious about travel should have their Alex Garland destination, somewhere you can casually name-drop [...]
The Best of Travel: How L’Enclume transformed a Cumbrian town

January 13, 2021

Throughout January we’re remembering better times and sunnier climes by reposting some of our favourite travel stories from the last decade. In this instalment, our Life&Style editor Steve Dinneen makes a culinary pilgrimage to Cartmel to dine at L’Enclume. ••• The village of Cartmel lies just beyond the boundaries of the Lake District. It’s quietly [...]
Pink goes offline as Covid takes the shirt off its back

January 13, 2021

Pink Shirtmaker, the fashion retailer that became famous trading under the name Thomas Pink, has been shuttered by owner LVMH. Covid appears to have seen off the shirtmaker, which had been struggling for years and closed its Jermyn Street flagship in December. All traces of its social media channels, online store and links on the [...]
CES 2021: The futuristic gadgets killing Covid

January 12, 2021

In years gone by, City A.M. would have been on the showroom floor in Las Vegas bringing you the latest news from the frontline of the tech world. This year, of course, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has done digital, and if any expo in the world can pull off that feat, it should be [...]
Save Burns Night with a virtual Boisdale party

January 12, 2021

Burns Night is normally a beacon of extravagence in the post Christmas weeks, an island of indulgance amid Dry January and Veganuary and new year fitness resolutions. This year Covid threatens to take even this away – toasting the great Scottish bard alone seems like anathema to the spirit of the occasion, which entails drinking [...]

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