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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The City and Wall Street go head-to-head in Carnegie Cup

September 14, 2018

OK, Yankees, it’s on! The Carnegie Links 18-hole Championship is set to host the ultimate golfing face-off between the best of the City and the best of Wall Street. In a Ryder Cup-style format, the most respected golfers from financial institutions from both financial centres will go head-to-head in celebration of the links Andrew Carnegie [...]
The City and Wall Street go head-to-head in Carnegie Cup

September 14, 2018

OK, Yankees, it’s on! The Carnegie Links 18-hole Championship is set to host the ultimate golfing face-off between the best of the City and the best of Wall Street. In a Ryder Cup-style format, the most respected golfers from financial institutions from both financial centres will go head-to-head in celebration of the links Andrew Carnegie [...]
The Woods at Royal Court review: A bleak but powerful play about grief and madness

September 14, 2018

The last play I saw Lucy Morrison direct was Plaques & Tangles, a crushing tale about three generations of a family blighted by Alzheimers. It threw the audience into the sufferer’s mind, jolting back and forth in time, revealing itself only in fragments. Her latest play, Robert Alan Evans’ The Woods, takes the same techniques [...]
The Woods at Royal Court review: A bleak but powerful play about grief and madness

September 14, 2018

The last play I saw Lucy Morrison direct was Plaques & Tangles, a crushing tale about three generations of a family blighted by Alzheimers. It threw the audience into the sufferer’s mind, jolting back and forth in time, revealing itself only in fragments. Her latest play, Robert Alan Evans’ The Woods, takes the same techniques [...]
Christian Marclay: The Clock review – a bizarre, brilliant piece of video art that’s a perfect metaphor for life

September 14, 2018

The Clock is a bizarre, brilliant piece of video art that's already travelled from London to New York and back since its completion in 2010. And yet it feels like it’s found its home in the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik wing, with its focus on video and performance art. It’s an astonishing 24-hour montage of clips from movies spanning [...]
Christian Marclay: The Clock review – a bizarre, brilliant piece of video art that’s a perfect metaphor for life

September 14, 2018

The Clock is a bizarre, brilliant piece of video art that's already travelled from London to New York and back since its completion in 2010. And yet it feels like it’s found its home in the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik wing, with its focus on video and performance art. It’s an astonishing 24-hour montage of clips from movies spanning [...]
The drinks master: Marcis Dzelanis on why you need to reconsider the virtues of cognac

September 12, 2018

When you ask people about Cognac it often conjures up images of gentleman’s clubs, mahogany furniture, leather bound books and postprandial cigars. But Cognac is starting to shake off its stuffy image, with a new breed of producers embracing a dynamic approach to how the spirit is produced. They are challenging the conventional wisdoms, such [...]
Weekly Grill: Nathan Outlaw on baking ‘dead fly biscuits’ as a child and falling in love with mackerel

September 12, 2018

WHO ARE YOU? I’m Nathan Outlaw, dad, chef, restaurateur, writer of cookbooks and aspiring Jedi! Mostly, I cook seafood. I have a restaurant in Dubai and three in the UK including Outlaw’s at The Capital in London. I also write cook books. And I post lots of pictures on Instagram. WHAT'S NEW? Exciting things are [...]
The resurgence of vermouth: Saverio Vicari of The Capital Bar on how this unloved drink is making a comeback

September 5, 2018

While most of the UK has been sipping on G&Ts and stockpiling Aperol, vermouth has been quietly but confidently transforming the bar scene under our noses. To be honest, vermouth never really left. It’s always been a key ingredient in some of the most famous and classic cocktails, such as the drink du jour Negroni, [...]
Japanese whisky is eating scotch’s lunch – but which should you buy? Zuma bar manager Pawel Rolka reveals all

September 5, 2018

Unless you’ve been hiding under a barrel for the last decade, you’ve probably noticed that Japanese whisky has become an internationally recognised force in the world of booze, challenging – and often beating – the equivalent scotch. Fewer people know what, exactly, makes the two so distinct. Firstly you have the fermentation process, with Japanese [...]

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