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Le Petit Beefbar reaches Scotland For a restaurant that celebrates compactness in its name, Le Petit Beefbar seem pretty hellbent on global domination. They’re in Italy, France, Greece, Qatar, Malta, Switzerland, Egypt, Mexico, Hong Kong, the USA to name but a few locations. And now, to add to their London outpost, they’re adding a second…
1959? It was a very good year… Mr George Legacy is coming. While he sounds like a US congressman, the reality is, frankly, so much more appealing. Mr George Legacy 1959 – to give the full name – is the latest release from Gordon & MacPhail’s in their annual series celebrating the legacy of George…
Style. A good thing right? Stylish people, stylish things, stylish places, stylish magazine. In his mesmerising ‘lost’ 1971 interview, Bruce Lee says “I do not believe in styles anymore: because of styles people are separated. They are not united together because styles became law.” Granted, he was talking about style in the context of Jeet…
It’s almost unsurprising to see a line of shiny Morgan cars in various pristine hues rocking up at Cromlix House, near Dunblane. They look like they belong on the gravel. I mean, how else is one going to get to Gleneagles for a spot of clay pigeon shooting? Cromlix House isn’t a razzle-dazzle kind of…
Your journey from the toilets of Cheltenham to the sands of Necker can be bumpy and, ultimately, lacking in cheer. Alain de Botton wrote of how we only need to be slightly richer than our immediate peer group to feel contentedly on top. Slightly richer is the key. Any less and we suffer status anxiety.…
Fashion Editor Thea Lewis and photographer Andres Reynaga show us some of the latest and greatest menswear. Continuing the theme of our 18th edition, we head to one of Scotland’s finest hotels.
If I told you I was lying on a sun-lounger in the middle of the night, on a moor, in Scotland, in deep winter, and I was laughing with glee, you might assume I’d had a few drinks. You’d be right too. I was three sheets to the freezing wind. But it wasn’t a drunken…
Could a first time shot bag himself the coveted Highland Macnab? LUSSO editor, Greg Nasmyth heads to the highlands to see if John Buchan’s Macnab is still possible. Find out how the challenge went by watching the film, or downloading the edition – the feature is available exclusively to readers of Lusso magazine on iPad,…
These days, young aristocrats spend most of their time stumbling around Mahiki with their maracas hanging out. But there’s nothing like a title to make one feel special. Cameron House, that famous five star haunt on the bonny banks of Loch Lomond, are offering the faintly bizarre chance to be part of the nobility with…
It should really be expected that a night spent in Edinburgh – even in a five-star hotel – would be no ordinary stopover. After all, there’s barely a building in Scotland’s capital without its resident ghost. The Scotsman has five ghosts, the hotels barman tells me. In any other city this might seem a bit…