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Say Hello Again to the Greenhouse

Ben Falk | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Ben Falk

You can feel the villagey nature of London's most expensive neighbourhood in the mews houses that surround it. But while I have a tendency to shy away from places packed full of financiers, the airy yet intimate environs of Michelin-starred The Greenhouse means it feels comfortable and even cosy.

Three Things to Eat and Drink This Month

James Emtage | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
James Emtage

I found myself munching on a gull's egg this week. I wasn't planning on it, the situation just sort of arose and presented itself in my mouth. What's special about a gull's egg, you might be wondering. I was.

Burrata? Bless You...

Ben Falk | Posted 02.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Ben Falk

I'll admit it - I wasn't entirely sure what burrata was when I read about the new menu touting the stuff at Italian bolthole Babbo on Albemarle Street...

Simplicity Sells: Bill Amberg

Eleanor Doughty | Posted 09.05.2013 | UK Style
Eleanor Doughty

The handbag is a very special thing. The perfect leather is required for the job at hand, the size an art to perfect, and the fastening is nothing but the third stage of precision difficulty on the path of handbag Eden.

Can a side order of peas really cost £7?

James Emtage | Posted 29.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle
James Emtage

I'm not normally startled at the ever-escalating prices of some of London's restaurants. There's no hiding the fact that our capital is packed with so...

Where Is Kim Thinking Of Moving To?

WENN | Posted 11.11.2012 | Home

Kim Kardashian is the latest celebrity to start plotting a move to London, saying it reminds her of being in New York. Kim seems fairly used to get...

Man Arrested Over Theft Of Olympic Medals

PA | Posted 25.10.2012 | UK

Police are still searching for bronze medals allegedly stolen from two of Britain's Olympic heroes. The medals were taken from rower Alex Partridge...

Restaurant Serves Edible Condom

David J Constable | Posted 12.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
David J Constable

I am not walking across a beach but there is sand, and the above description is indeed of a condom. A pink condom. A filled condom. And I'm about to eat it.

Crombie: Coats Maketh the Man

Jason Holmes | Posted 30.10.2012 | UK Style
Jason Holmes

Crombie's autumn/winter 2012 collection possesses what you would expect from a company that has dressed the likes of the Duke of Windsor, Winston Churchill, Cary Grant, The Beatles, JFK and Barack Obama: and that is ineffable classic style, but with a modern twist. Jason Holmes met Crombie's head of wholesale Gordon Ritchie to try on the king of coats

Horror As Woman Dies After Being Hit By Window Frame

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.08.2012 | UK

A woman has been killed by a falling window frame in central London, after it fell on her as she walked past a construction site in Hanover Square, Ma...

Penumbra

Diego Giolitti | Posted 19.07.2012 | Home
Diego Giolitti

The word penumbra is often rendered "half-light." The Latin origin paene umbra literally means "almost shadow." In between the shadow and the light there is a zone through which we may see what is in the penumbra, but we see it with this darkened hue, and it is problematic to say whether it is illuminated or not.

The Big Egg Hunt

Kate Bryan | Posted 29.04.2012 | Home
Kate Bryan

From Pancake Day, 200 giant and uniquely crafted Easter eggs have been smuggled into a variety of locations for 'The Fabergè Big Egg Hunt'. The eggs have been strategically placed throughout the capital, each designed by the world's leading artists, architects, designers and jewellers. Each egg therefore represents a unique moment to be discovered.

Banksy 'Threatened' In Graffiti By Old Rival King Robbo

The Huffington Post UK | Sam Parker | Posted 17.04.2012 | Home

The great artistic rivalry of our times appears to have been revived this week as Bansky’s long-time antagonist King Robbo flipped the lid off his p...

To Put Park Lane Into a Tunnel Should be to Recover the Lost Parkland, Boris, Not for Building Upon

Peter Martindale | Posted 10.04.2012 | UK Politics
Peter Martindale

I read with interest recently, enthusiastic support for London Mayor Boris Johnson as visionary for proposing to sink Park Lane (Mayfair, London) into a tunnel and to build on the land thus freed-up. Oh dear, environmental awareness certainly escapes Boris!

Banksy Strikes Again, This Time In The Homes Of London's Elite

Posted 19.02.2012 | Home

A new Banksy artwork has been discovered on the side of an empty building in London. It appeared in the financial district of Canary Wharf in the s...

Cameron Diaz And Gwyneth Paltrow Party With Prince Philip In Mayfair

MyDaily | Posted 06.12.2011 | UK Style

Here's a sentence we never thought we'd write. Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz hit London's Mayfair last night (their arrival was enough to cause a s...

Kirsten Dunst Hits London For Melancholia Premiere

MyDaily | Posted 28.11.2011 | UK Style

Kirsten Dunst hit London's Mayfair last night for the premiere of her latest film, Melancholia....

London Is Burning: Raiding in the Name of Fashion and Luxury

Joao Paulo Nunes | Posted 12.10.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Joao Paulo Nunes

There are important discussions to be had not only about how and why this social unrest came about, but how British society has allowed for a culture of celebrity, easy money, and up-for-grabs luxury to infiltrate via the media and become morally acceptable.