Our hunt for beauty is costing women dearly January 4, 2012 GIVING up alcohol is not going to happen. But there is one new year’s resolution that I’m going to try to stick to this year. It is to find self-validation in my achievements – professional, moral, intellectual – not in my appearance. As up to 50,000 British women face the risk of their PIP silicone [...]
How to dress after weeks of festive excess January 4, 2012 The accrual of festive flab is unpleasant on several scores: one, none of your clothes fit properly, leaving you obsessively watching the clock until you can go home and sprawl in pyjamas on the sofa. Two: weight gain inevitably dents self-esteem. Walking around with a spare tire peeking over your slim-fit Armani trousers or a [...]
Mr Cool’s kinda Jew-ish turn January 2, 2012 Mishkin’s 25 Catherine Street, WC2B 5JS Tel: 020 7240 2078, mishkins.co.uk FOOD **** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £30 HAVING entrenched himself as London’s hippest restaurateur with Polpo, Spuntino and co, Russell Norman has sallied into new and more dangerous territory: “a kind of Jewish deli with cocktails”. Sure, everyone – [...]
Carve yourself a very merry Xmas December 21, 2011 IN the Lord Byron room of Brown’s Hotel on Albemarle Street, a slow-grown just-roasted chicken rests on a bespoke stand and our mission is to carve it – properly. Mark Hix, ex-chef-director of Caprice Holdings, is hosting a masterclass to revive “the lost art of carving”, and he is teaching over a long roast lunch [...]
Where will our readers be spending Christmas? December 20, 2011 DAVID WOOTTON LORD MAYOR OF LONDON “I am going to spend Christmas day in Mansion House with all the family, including my grandchildren who are coming from Chicago. Boxing Day will be spent in Sevenoaks and then to a hotel in Kent for the family to enjoy. Lastly my wife and I will be spending [...]
Hitting the right note at 34 December 19, 2011 Restaurant 34 34 Grosvenor Square, W1K 2HD Tel: 020 3350 3434 FOOD *** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE ***** Cost per person without wine: £50 YOU missed Bill,” my companion informed me as I sat down to dinner at 34, the new restaurant from Richard Caring’s Caprice Holdings Group. “Bill Clinton,” he clarified. Like fellow Caprice outposts [...]
Shops, sun and spice: Marrakech is the perfect winter weekend getaway December 5, 2011 HAVING spent a bit of time in Morocco before, I was bracing myself. Six years ago, on a lone voyage on a rusty old ship from Algeciras in Spain to Tangier, I was accosted by three tipsy artifact sellers on board, before getting my camera pinched on arrival at the dusty old port. Further into [...]
Doing the Wild West in style December 4, 2011 IT’S with a spirit of rebellion that three girlfriends and I sip G&Ts, descending over Las Vegas, the first leg of what we planned to be a mammoth 30th birthday blowout road trip to the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, and the Big Sur. The trip is as much about commemorating a key cornerstone in our [...]
Marston’s to create 1,000 new pub jobs November 30, 2011 BREWER and pub chain Marston’s announced it will create another 1,000 jobs next year through its continued expansion, as the group reported a 9.4 per cent rise in full year pre-tax profits. Chief executive Ralph Findlay told City AM that the government needed to be “constructive” and “make the link” between its taxation policy, particularly [...]
FIT IN THE CITY November 28, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT So you ignored the headlines a few weeks ago giving you your Little Black Dress countdown. Now you’re faced with the prospect of sporting backless, strapless numbers for the next five weeks. What’s a girl to do? Act sharpish, I say. I’ve researched (yes, I’ve been the human guinea pig) for [...]