Welcome to London’s foxiest diner
This might just be the most eye-popping diner you ever did see
Trainers, much?
What do you get when you combine one of the UK’s most luxurious footwear specialists and one of London’s most exclusive retail destinations?
Love & Dancing & Horse Meat & Disco
As if the four superstar gay DJs behind the Horse Meat Disco brand weren’t genius enough with their global gay disco that pops up in London, Berlin, New York, Lisbon and at The Downlow during Glastonbury, they have now become even more genius.
Oh, what a life!
So, it’s not a biography but it’s not NOT a biography either. Certainly not an autobiography, through the person in question reckons he could recognise himself, and it’s not really a novel. Or is it?
Hampton Court finally gets a hotel fit for regal purpose
Been down to Hampton Court lately? You’ll know The Mitre, a hop, skip and a head roll from the gates of Henry VIII’s palace its very regal self.
Almodóvar, Cocteau, Swinton, Balenciaga
No, it’s not a stream of consciousness of some of our top cultural icons, it’s edited highlights from the credits of The Human Voice, the film that’s looking like being one of the most interesting moments in the upcoming London Film Festival.
Grace Jones as you’ve always seen her before
Grace Jones making an exhibition of herself? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time only for once it’s someone else making an exhibition of Grace Jones. You know, just for a change.
London’s most expensive coffee, anyone?
Queens of Mayfair, which is an all-kinds-of-fancy coffee shop (whatever happened to just ‘café’?) in London’s glittering Mayfair has bagged itself a batch of the UK’s most expensive coffee.
A Japanese-Nordic lifestyle destination is opening in Mayfair and it looks helluva gorgeous
People throw hyphens around willy-nilly these days, but when we’re talking the fusion of Japanese and Nordic food, drink, art and design our ears are pricking right up.
A hotel that looks like a pile of old boxes? Glamorous!
Plage Palace may be the only new hotel in the south of France worth a two-week homecoming quarantine.
The Mandrake’s launched a post-lockdown festival and it’s giving us all the feels
One of our favourite London hotels has launched an all-new, in-hotel festival aimed at the creative communities. Which is totally us.
A floating cinema, you say?
Have you been wondering how on earth you’re ever going to make it back to the cinemas when it means a) Having to sit in a near-empty room b) Having to wear a blunking face mask throughout the show? And c) and also maybe d)?
Mama Shelter’s back with a bang. So to speak.
You know Mama Shelter, right? The edgy boutique hotel brand founded by Philippe Starck, off-of genius designer, and the guys behind Club Med? Always in cool neighbourhoods? Press release says ‘effervescent and provocative’? Ringing any of your bells?
Ain't No Hairdo High Enough
Quite apart from anything else, this was to be the Summer of Ross. Glastonbury and a major tour, bringing the big dresses to the little people. Unfortunately, due to the lack of industrial strength wind machines, sorry, Covid-19, all Ross-related activity has had to be postponed... except for this little gem of remixed hits.
Costa del… Tottenham?
Now you have to quarantine to come back from the real Costas, may we intro-seduce you to Costa del Tottenham, which has been such a smash-hit success that they've already expanded so that you now have a Northside and, a few minutes away, a *checks notes* Southside!
Does anyone still wear a hat?
When it comes to Sondheim, there's no shortage of epic moments. Angela Lansbury singing The Worst Pies in London in Sweeney Todd; Dame Judi speak-singing her way through Send in the Clowns in A Little Night Music; and, of course, Elaine Stritch rasping that ode to lazy society bitches The Ladies Who Lunch
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?