Learn He-Man’s recipe for great guns November 15, 2010 WHATEVER your feelings about the acting skills of Swedish action film star Dolph Lundgren, the man has guns. That is, insanely sculpted arms and a physique that suggests super-human strength. So when an opportunity arose to go and train with him while he was in London to promote his new film the Expendables, I couldn’t [...]
OUT OF OFFICE November 15, 2010 SCOTTISH ART AT FLEMINGS Mayfair’s most genteel Victorian hotel has teamed up with the Fleming Collection on Berkley Street to offer a first-rate Scottish Art Experience. You’ll take a private tour of the gallery with a guide discovering some of the finest Scottish artists of the 19th century, followed by tea in the Flemings Hotel’s [...]
More friendly, and just as tasty November 15, 2010 Sake No Hana 23 St James’s St, SW1A 1HA Tel: 020 7925 8988 FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £45 SAKE No Hana, formerly the only Japanese restaurant in London to make Nobu seem cosy and inviting, has undergone three big changes. One: the downstairs sushi bar has gone upstairs, and the upstairs [...]
THREE OTHER JAPANESE RESTAURANTS IN MAYFAIR November 15, 2010 SUMOSAN Less well publicised than nearby rivals Nobu,?Zuma and Umu, Sumosan has a particular type of high-octane glamour. Those in the know swear by the place for its delectible sushi, beautifully presented raw fish salads and impeccably cooked meat. The elegant interior and quiet service make for a discreet spot for business. 26 Albemarle St, [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS November 15, 2010 GOT A ‘TACHE? GET A FREE BURGER London’s favourite burger restaurant Byron – the newest branch just opened at One New Change by St Pauls – is getting firmly stuck into Movember, the men’s health drive. It’s offering a free burger to anyone who can show that their ‘tache is part of the campaign against [...]
Brogue Traders November 14, 2010 BROGUES have come a long way. Invented in the bogs of either Ireland or Scotland, depending on who you believe, they were originally designed for wading about in mud and water – hence the holes, which were designed to let the water run through. When country gents started bringing the style to town, their journey [...]
When spokes meet bespoke November 14, 2010 THERE’S a story that one of Sigmund Freud’s friends once came into a room to find the great psychoanalyst fingering an absolutely massive cigar. This caused the friend to raise an eyebrow. What did this say about Freud, the man who believed that everything had a sexual undertone? “Sometimes,” said Freud mournfully, “a cigar is [...]
CYCLISTS CAN BE STYLISH November 14, 2010 STYLE COUNSEL IT’S a shame that cycling gear is so often unstylish, the need for visibility and safety overriding the imperative to look good. But it needn’t be that way. Rapha is a London-based company that started up six years ago “driven by a passion for road cycling” and “the stamina, strength and focus that [...]
Far from the Medina crowd November 14, 2010 MARRAKECH might not immediately spring to mind when choosing somewhere to unwind. And to be sure, its main square Jemaa el Fna delivers noise, commotion, smoke and crowds, with tourists tripping over dancing monkeys and baskets of cobras to get to their next tagine. But there’s another side to the pink city, away from the [...]
TRAVEL NOTES November 14, 2010 Foody heaven in Cairo’s plush new hotel One of the more exciting hotels to open in the Middle East in the last few months is the Kempinski Nile Hotel – a place of truly swell luxuries that’s also raising the culinary stakes for the Egyptian capital. Its rooftop restaurant, Floor 10, mixes modern French cuisine [...]
