Hot stuff: Trishna is great for date night but mind the spice April 23, 2012 RESTAURANT TRISHNA 15-17 Blandford Street, W1U 3DG FOOD *** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £45 TRISHNA is that rare thing: a rustic-chic restaurant serving top-dollar Indian cuisine. Elsewhere in London, posh Indians are in over-sleek rooms without windows and rustic is the very last word you’d apply to them. At the [...]
Vivek Singh goes to Soho with Cinnamon April 23, 2012 RESTAURANT CINNAMON SOHO 5 Kingly Street, W1B 5PF FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £40 VIVEK Singh is one of London’s most serious restaurateurs: The Cinnamon Club in Westminster was the first of its type: a deeply elegant, quirky dining room and food to match. The Cinnamon Kitchen followed: a [...]
Beaches and barristers in the sunny Bahamas April 22, 2012 An architectural oddity in the middle of Nassau’s Parliament Square screams out for your attention. The octagonal library and city museum is painted pale pink (like all the important buildings in The Bahamas’ capital). I climb up creaky steps to the first floor and admire paintings of Nassau dashed off by ships’ artists in the [...]
TRAVEL NOTES April 22, 2012 Want to Enjoy England? There’s an app for that If you’re planning to staycation in the UK, a new Enjoy England app (iPhone and Android) has over a thousand ideas for places to visit, from ancient castles in Northumberland to blustery walks along the Cornish coast. Get away to Mauritius for less Weather getting you [...]
Fresh life in the Cornish market April 19, 2012 With weather like this week’s, one might be tempted to quit the UK entirely. But when the sun shines, and even when it doesn’t, there’s no lovelier part of the country than Cornwall – and the market knows it. Cornwall is not cheap – you can easily spend a few million on a seaside sprawl. [...]
The great outdoors April 19, 2012 Rob Ryan Bunting, £24.95, grahamandgreene.co.uk Very cute and colourful way to lend vibrancy and style to your garden. Perfect for parties, too. Art Meets Matter Coast 2 Pistachio Deckchair, £75, artmeetsmatter.com Listing all the UK’s sunniest destinations, this is a groovy litte number and will transport you you straight to the seaside. Graham and Green [...]
FOCUS ON: BATTERSEA April 19, 2012 PRINCE OF WALES DRIVE Price: £3.15m This semi-detached home features a large master bedroom and four additional double bedrooms. Outside there is a garden and a patio, ideal for outdoor dining. Close to Battersea Park, this spacious house is perfect for a family. Contact Savills on 0203 402 1900 PAGE MEWS Price: From £1.15m These [...]
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a feel-good hit April 19, 2012 FILM SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Cert 12A | By Zoe Strimpel **** A beautiful young woman named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) works for an unrealistically glossy PR company in London. She has a client: a sheikh, who has a dream to create a river in the desert land of the Yemen, import Scottish salmon [...]
Ecstasy is a low-rent Human Traffic that came 13 years late April 19, 2012 FILM ECSTASY Cert 18 | By Steve Dinneen ** Almost two decades since Trainspotting was released, Irvine Welsh is once again the man of the moment. His prequel to that groundbreaking novel, Skagboys, is just out (doing little to dispel the claim he’s just a one-trick pony) and now he’s back on the big screen [...]
Cillian Murphy plays the role of his life in Misterman April 19, 2012 THEATRE MISTERMAN Lyttelton at the National | By Steve Dinneen ***** The Lyttelton theatre is a big space for one man to fill – but for the duration of Misterman, there is only one person you will want to look at. Cillian Murphy plays the God-fearing Tommy Magill, a troubled but well-meaning young man from [...]
