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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Christmas sandwiches tested: which have been naughty and which are nice

November 8, 2016

We filled a basket with the first crop of Christmas sandwiches – find out which ones we thought worthy of your lunch money and which to avoid like the Grinch. Pret Christmas lunch ★★★★☆ Too much going on here – piles of slightly-too-dry stuffing and a clumping of fillings in the middle. But saved by [...]
Nobu interview: the sushi tycoon talks about family, Robert De Niro, and how his new Shoreditch hotel will be a game-changer

November 8, 2016

According to Madonna, you can tell if a city is going to be fun by whether there’s a Nobu in it. The brainchild of Nobuyuki Matsuhisa and Robert De Niro – or just plain “Bob” – the brand has an uncanny knack of courting the beau monde. Even after 22 years, in which time more [...]
The Accountant review: Ben Affleck stars in silly but fun throwback to 90s straight to video thrillers

November 4, 2016

David Fincher’s Gone Girl has done for straight-to-video thrillers what Wes Craven’s Scream did for the slasher movie. All of a sudden there’s a lucrative niche for acceptably trashy, middle-class mind-candy, paving the way for the likes of The Girl on the Train and now Ben Affleck vehicle The Accountant. It follows the apparently mild-mannered Christian Wolff, a [...]
Nocturnal Animals: Tom Ford’s second film is a heartbreaking tale of loss and vengeance

November 4, 2016

Tom Ford has been doing interviews recently decrying materialism, which is a bit like Michael Fish admitting that the weather is a lie. Ford’s second film – after the heartbreaking A Single Man – continues the theme: possessions won’t make you happy, life is short, don’t waste it chasing the consumerist dragon. Where A Single [...]
James Ensor at the Royal Academy: a mercurial painter of the grotesque

October 27, 2016

In the paintings of James Ensor, life is dour and murky while death is a riot of colour and expressive brush-strokes. In one of the first pieces in the Royal Academy’s exhibition two women sit taking afternoon tea (Afternoon in Ostend, 1881) in an oppressively brown room, as if the bourgeois scene is so interminably [...]
Doctor Strange review: The tightest, funniest, most refreshing super-hero movie in years

October 27, 2016

While all around super-hero franchises are collapsing under their own grotesque weight – Batman v Superman, X-Men Apocalypse, Suicide Squad – Marvel stands alone in its uncanny ability to churn out hit after hit. With Doctor Strange, it’s just showing off. Its lead character is a beloved but relatively fringe inhabitant of the Marvel Universe, [...]
The Big Bang 30 years on: How the City went from bowler hats and liquid lunches to smartphones and tossed salads

October 26, 2016

There’s now a whole generation of City workers – and City A.M. readers – who weren’t even born when the markets were deregulated back in 1986. Standing in Leadenhall Market on a week-day afternoon, they could be forgiven for thinking the City hadn’t changed all that much over the last 30 years. Hundreds of besuited [...]
The Porsche 718 Cayman S is a ferocious sports car on the straight and a grand tourer in a traffic jam

October 24, 2016

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Oil at the Almeida is a challenging, ambitious play about the history of the oil business

October 20, 2016

Ella Hickson’s hugely ambitious new play knits together a sprawling 160 year geo-political soap-opera with a touching – but never candy-coated – story about a mother and daughter. Almost unfathomably dense – six years in the writing – it follows the trajectory of the oil industry from its early days as an energy source of [...]
The Apple store: first look at the iconic Regent Street space, filled with trees, gadgets and polished rock

October 13, 2016

The Apple Store – now just called Apple – on Regent Street will reopen on Saturday after a multi-million pound refit by architects Foster + Partners. The new shop banishes the famous glass staircase, instead opening up the space with a tree-lined central “boulevard”. There is also a living wall, a giant screen and an upstairs [...]

Cristiano Ronaldo can cash in from Saudi Pro League streaming initiative

Cristiano Ronaldo can cash in from Saudi Pro League streaming initiative

‘Bankers are people too’: Inside tongue-in-cheek bar The Pregnant Man

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