Coffee, cocktails, cicchetti and creativity are on the menu at The Thin White Duke David Bowie has inspired many things. Musicians. Artists. The 2012 Great Britain Olympics Team. And now he’s inspired an all-day bar / restaurant / recording studio in Soho. And, indeed, why not? Created by production designer Sasha and musician Giovanni Almonte,…
Have you heard the one about the insurance broker, the surfer and the engineer? Look, we know it’s not funny, but we can only work with what they gave us. They got together and, 12 years later, created a really cool thing. And what Jennifer Köhnsen, Carsten Höltig and Holger Daum gave us is the…
The Connaught Bar is the Best Bar in the World. Still. The World’s 50 Best Bars Awards has given its top place to The Connaught Bar – for the second year running. It’s only the third time a bar has held on to this prestigious award in the World’s 50 Best Bars history and a…
Not to mention white sandy beaches, tropical rainforests, blue lagoons… Yeah, alright COMO Laucala Island, we get the point. You’re beautiful… As yet another storm lashes the UK, Fiji seems even further away. But hey, we have faith, travel will return. And when it does, COMO Laucala Island is going to be close to the…
The Other House is a new concept in hospitality. And it’s coming to London in 2022. When is a hotel not a hotel? When it’s a “residents’ club”. No, us neither, but we’ll try and explain. According to the official line, The Other House “disrupts” the traditional sectors of hotels, serviced apartments and private rentals…
No. Not that one. The good one. With the truffles. Well, it’s THAT other season too, of course, should you need that as an excuse for indulgence. But you shouldn’t need an excuse to buy truffles, right? White and black truffles remain some of the most luxurious and coveted ingredients in the world but have…
The Singleton of Glen Ord release a very special new vintage It’s not often you get to describe a 39-year-old as “new”, but then it’s not often a distillery releases something of that kind of age statement. Step forward then The Singleton of Glen Ord, and the (naturally) limited release of their longest secondary maturation…
The Twenty Two. Spring 2022. At 22 Grosvenor Square… “We want to redefine the traditional Mayfair hotel and club.” So says hospitality entrepreneur, hotelier and tech investor Navid Mirtorabi whose latest venture, The Twenty Two, is coming to 22 Grosvenor Square, in 2022. The Twenty Two is a new hotel with an all-day public restaurant…
What happens when fashion meets baking? Dolce & Gabbana Panettone, that’s what… Fashion legends Dolce & Gabbana are turning up the luxury this Christmas, and announcing the return of their luxury Panettone. Calories and fashion are not the obvious pairing but, actually, the D&G Panettone has developed something of a cult status… The cakes themselves…
And, in the case of Novikov, it’s been around for ten years. Cast your mind back to December 2011. The X Factor had just created Little Mix. Bolton Wanderers were still a Premiership side. The Marvel Universe was five films in, rather than 26. And celebrated legendary Russian restaurateur Arkady Novikov had just launched his…