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 I discovered the joys of tinned fish

June 26, 2025

Until I was in my twenties, I thought tuna was a sort of grey, flaky mulch that tasted of brine and disappointment. I had no concept of what an actual tuna might look like: I’d only ever seen them in the form of a hockey-puck sized cylinder. They might have fished them from the inky [...]
4.48 Psychosis review: Sarah Kane’s last play still packs a punch

June 23, 2025

When 4.48 Psychosis was first staged in the year 2000, its author Sarah Kane had ended her own life just months earlier. Tackling mental illness and suicide, it seemed to offer a posthumous glimpse into the mind of a troubled genius, laying bare the anguish that led to her death aged just 28. Kane has [...]
Richard Caring apologises for supplier letter amid wave of criticism

June 16, 2025

Richard Caring has been forced into an embarrassing apology after City AM revealed his restaurant group demanded suppliers take a “mandatory” 2.5 per cent pay cut. The founder of the Ivy Collection and Caprice Holdings endured a wave of criticism after our exclusive story last week, with the saga branded a PR disaster. Billionaire Caring [...]
Toast the City: Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Immersive Experience is unmissable

June 13, 2025

This autumn City AM will launch Toast the City, an awards celebrating all the places that make the Square Mile the vibrant, exciting location it is – and we need YOUR help. The Toast the City Awards will recognise the institutions old and new – and the men and women behind them – that make our lives that little [...]
Exclusive: Richard Caring hits suppliers with mandatory ‘discount’ amid £1bn sale talks

June 12, 2025

The Richard Caring restaurant empire, which includes the Ivy Collection and Caprice Holdings, has demanded its suppliers take a 2.5 per cent “discount”, blaming “increased tax burden and cost of employment, cost of indirect products [and] services and also direct cost of food and beverage.” In a letter dated 3 June, signed by Richard Caring’s [...]
Fallow founder James Robson: Labour is killing hospitality

June 5, 2025

James Robson is one of the most successful restaurateurs in London, setting up the hugely successful Fallow, Roe and Fowl restaurants with his business partners Will Murray and Jack Croft. In less than two years, Fallow went from a promising pop-up to a vast operation employing 300 people and serving up to 1,000 covers a [...]
Toast the City: Why High Timber is a Square Mile hidden gem

May 29, 2025

In a new series celebrating the people and places nominated for our Toast the City awards, Steve Dinneen visits one of the Square Mile’s best hidden gems, High Timber, a riverside restaurant and wine bar with a vibe like no other. What is it? Despite being one of the City’s most established restaurants (it’s 17 [...]
Tom Sellers: My message for Gen Z chefs

May 29, 2025

Twelve years ago Tom Sellers, aged just 26, launched Restaurant Story. The fine dining restaurant in Bermondsey went on to land two Michelin stars and became one of the most sought-after meal tickets in the land. The menu, which revolved around stories from Sellers’ life, was a hit with both diners and critics, with dishes [...]
Shucked musical: A smash at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

May 27, 2025

Regents Park Open Air Theatre is appropriately dotted with stands serving freshly grilled corn for the arrival of Shucked, a musical obsessed with both corn on the cob and corny jokes. If a rootin’, tootin’, country and western-inflected musical about crop farming sounds like a strange choice to kick off the tenure of Drew McOnie [...]
Toast the City: How we are celebrating the Square Mile!

May 22, 2025

This autumn City AM will launch Toast the City, an awards celebrating all the places that make the Square Mile the vibrant, exciting location it is – and we need YOUR help. Over the 20 years we have served the Square Mile, it’s transformed from somewhere people worked hard to a place they want to [...]

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