Nobu brings its fancy to Marylebone’s Portman Square
It’s hard to imagine how regular old, food-eating, toilet-going Robert De Niro finds the time to dunk a crunch biscuit into a nice cup of tea, what with his glittering Hollywood career, adverts for Warburtons bagels and heading up a global hotel and restaurant empire
It’s disco, it’s Kylie… it’s Disco Kylie!
Whether you love her or love to laugh at her, a new Kylie album is always something to sit up and take notice of, especially as this time she’s been back down the disco mines
Larry’s, down Peckham.
Now, we love big old gay old Larry Levan, Paradise Garage DJ supreme, as much as the next person but we reckon the folks behind some of south London’s coolest fooderies are taking it a little far.
NoMad’s first international hotel lands in London
Hands up if you’ve walked past the old Bow Street Magistrates Court in Covent Garden and thought, that would make a really great hotel?
The Newt in Somerset is back, back, back!
Anyone who is anyone - and some people who are no-one at all - knows Bruton’s where it’s at.
The ultimate Maldives vacation. Room for 100 only.
The Maldives are like Marmite. In a world where everyone loves Marmite.
Is this the dolliest autobiography of the year?
'I was tall, thin and adored by all who met me whether it was Hubert de Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent and especially Karl Lagerfeld...' Well, we've all been there.
Bvlgari announces a new hotel in Rome. And it’s a beaut.
Bvlgari – don’t mind if we do! – are coming home with a new, showstopping hotel, set to open in 2022 in Rome’s Campo Marzio neighbourhood.
Legendary gay restaurant group Balans is auctioning off its sites
Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse, whoever was left standing at Shadow Lounge as the lights came up at 6am and fancied carrying on the party over a Thai Red Curry… the original Balans on London’s glittering Old Compton Street has welcomed them all.
Is it an earphone? Is it jewellery? Yes!
Is it an earphone? Yes. Is it jewellery? Most certainly! Is it fabulous? Well, what do you think? It’s a whole new concept in listening to your Now That’s What I Call Embarrassing Music playlists.
Stay at Manchester’s hottest new hotel, (maybe) win a fancy trip to NYC
Manchester’s glorious gay village has gone and got its very own slice of hip hotel action, Hotel Brooklyn, from the people who brought us Gotham so they know their lemons. And what lovely lemons they are!
Rush. It’s a new play starring Rupert Everett.
They had us at ‘Rupert Everett’, right? Right. Because it’s nigh on impossible for anything starring London’s glittering Rupert Everett to be a dud, even that thing he did with Our Glorious Leader (‘Madonna’ in old money). You know, that awks baby daddy one, she’s got strawberry-blonde hair, he’s got sperm.
Jaffa Cake Gin
Some things just go together. Strawberries and cream. French & Saunders. Love and marriage (that last one was just our little joke). Sex and alcohol. And now - new entry! - Jaffa Cakes and alcohol.
The Drive-In
For those of us with a car and perhaps even people to fill it, news of a peripatetic (some of us spent lockdown watching re-runs of Call My Bluff) drive-in cinema this summer will have you reaching for your phony-ponies (don’t forget the ribbon!) and leather biker jackets before you’ve had time so say, ‘Oh, Sandy!’
A Streetcar Named Desire
We won't hear a word against Gillian Anderson. We may occasionally say one but we certainly won't hear it even if we do.
+Audio
Anyone who has noticed the crackles and crunches on the rare disco tracks played over cocktails at a Jake event will have surmised that we are into our vinyl.
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
Lucky we’re in lockdown because this 976-page biography of big old gay old Andy Warhol could only ever be read at home.