So many Michelin 3 star restaurants, and so little time to eat in them. You could just do it in one go. All you need is six months and £182,000 apparently. The ultimate foodies pilgrimage has just been created – a visit to every Michelin 3 star restaurant in the world (all 107 of them), spanning 12 countries across…
Henley Royal Regatta, the international rowing event famed for its riverside ritz and champagne-fuelled shenanigans, is nearly upon us. But it’s not all about sculls and oars. To counter any concerns that Henley isn’t public school enough, it’s also the best place outside of Australia to watch the biggest match of the 2013 Lions tour, as the…
Xavier Marcel Boulestin was the French author and pioneering celebrity chef once referred to as “the most subtle, imaginative and liberating food writer of his day”. He was also the legend behind Boulestin, the celebrated Covent Garden restaurant that opened in 1927 and stayed strong for over 70 years before closing (to much uproar) back…
We don’t know how you’d go about opening this one. An expectant drumroll? Gilded sabre to the bottleneck, perhaps? We don’t have a pic of the actual £1.2 million bottle, but to get an idea take your usual Goût de Diamants Brut champagne (shown above, already not exactly your everyday supermarket variety) – and then…
The greatest hotel in Paris. Enough said. Fa-Raon stalks the corridors of his palace, adored by heiresses, exotic beauties and well-groomed children alike. With such a vast abode, the aloof master of the house often goes unseen for days – not that folks worry of course, for he is the master of this kingdom and…
There’s no excuse to be at a loose end west of the west end anymore. If you fancy the theatre but aren’t quite up to braving the West End’s tourist trap triangle, we’ve got the perfect solution. St. James Theatre first had people treading its proverbial boards in September of last year and yet its…
Tasting is smelling is seeing in the world of immersive whisky. A blustery Tuesday evening in Soho, and I’m ushered up the creaky staircase of the Riflemaker’s Arms and squeezed into a small dark room full of chatter, familiar faces from the spirits biz and the distinctive smell of The Singleton single malt Scotch. I’m…
Peer back through the mists of Scottish folklore and whisky has always been an integral part of Gaelic life, a tradable by-product of monasteries and farms. Medicinal ‘aqua vitae’. Then disgruntled English gin-drinkers imposed their levy’s in the early 1700’s, and suddenly illicit distilling was all the rage; tartan-clad moonshiners with undercover ways and means. When armies of…
Take an old Scottish church. Furnish it to look like a shag pad as imagined by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. You’re in business. Debauched. One of those words that, being a pedant, I often flinch at. ‘Oh last night was SOOOOO debauched!’ some tool will indulgently groan at you. ‘Why?! What happened?!’, I’ll ask, my eyes…
What happens when you take a cuppa and a slice of cake and pimp that shiz up? ‘We never do anything fun anymore…’ The words any hard-working, stressed yet romantically inclined man dreads hearing from the neighbouring pillow. Dinner has become routine. The ballet sends you (literally) to sleep. Nightclubs remind you that you might…