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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The dishes that got top chefs through lockdown

March 9, 2021

When future generations look back at lockdown, they will be able to differentiate its different stages by what we were cooking. Sourdough bread gave way to banana bread before TikTok coffee suddenly took off. But what about the professionals? We asked four of the top cooks in the land about the dishes that have sustained [...]
This IWD, meet the women changing the booze industry

March 8, 2021

The world of beer, wine and spirits has also been dominated during our lifetime by men, with phallocentric brands including Jack Daniels and Johnnie Walker aimed squarely at male drinkers. But it wasn’t always so – for thousands of years brewing was undertaken by women. And as we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), there are [...]
Mother’s Day gifts: Make 2021 a lockdown to remember

March 6, 2021

As the first mother’s day under lockdown rapidly approaches, this year it’s more important than ever to get your gift just right. This year we have focused on the amazing food options you can lavish upon your wonderful mother – or you could even buy two and eat them together over a nice, long Zoom [...]
Chefs spy light at end of Covid tunnel after Sunak budget

March 3, 2021

Chefs and restaurateurs across London have welcomed Rishi Sunak’s “life saving” budget plans announced today. A raft of measures aimed at keeping the embattled hospitality industry afloat until it can fully reopen in June includes an extension of the furlough scheme, grants of up to £18,000 for pubs and restaurants, and an extension of the [...]
Live in a fairytale castle and get change from £1m

March 2, 2021

Have you ever fancied living in what looks like a cross between a castle and a Tetris fever-dream? Well now you can, for just shy of £1m. High Morland Lodge in Knutsford, Cheshire was originally built as a gatehouse in 1905 and was designed by Richard Harding-Watt. It features a striking, extravagant design, with individual [...]
We asked top chefs for their dream post-Covid meals – find out who ordered the brains!

March 2, 2021

As we dare to dream about an end to the culinary purgatory that is Covid, we asked some of our favourite chefs to tell us where they most want to eat when the restaurant world reopens. The answers took us on an incredible gastronomical tour across the world, from the paladars of Cuba to the [...]
Jordan B Peterson interview: The unlikely conservative superstar

March 1, 2021

As Jordan Peterson’s new book Beyond Order is released, we revisit our 2018 interview with the unlikely conservative superstar, discussing the high price of fame, causing offence and that interview with Cathy Newman. ••• Professor Jordan B Peterson’s apartment smells of meat. It’s 8am and his wife, Tammy, is fastidiously slicing a pile of steaks, [...]
How Bloodborne dragged me through the dark days of lockdown

February 27, 2021

In the before-times, people like me – people in the prime of their working lives, three decades away from collecting a pension – would occasionally drift into reverie about what it might be like to retire. The books we would read, the places we would visit, the things we would create. Somewhere, the mother of [...]
Top London chefs expect summer gold-rush to toast end of Covid

February 24, 2021

The last 12 months have thoroughly rewired our attitudes to eating and drinking. Once second nature, now the thought of just popping out to a restaurant feels impossibly decadent. But chefs and restaurateurs, many of whom have borne the brunt of Covid restrictions, are now expecting a period of full houses and fat tips. We [...]
Soho prepares to party, with al fresco dining back on the menu

February 24, 2021

Hopes for a restaurant renaissance over the coming months were given a boost today when Westminster City Council announced its hugely successful – some have argued altogether too successful – al fresco dining scheme will return on 12 April. During the two “false openings” last summer and autumn, Soho became a Mecca for millions of [...]

What drinking alcohol at football could tell us about sporting fandom

What drinking alcohol at football could tell us about sporting fandom

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