How to make the ultimate working from home salad June 3, 2021 We asked Eleanor Warder, co-founder of healthy restaurant Atis, to talk us through her dream Working From Home lunch. Here’s what you need to make the Atis Azteca salad bowl: Chopped romaine Baby spinach Black beans Sweetcorn Avocado Feta Baked chipotle tortilla chips Pickled red onion Lime coriander dressing For my healthy lunch recommendation I’m [...]
Grape things afoot in Malta, the world’s smallest wine-producer June 3, 2021 The latest wine day to put in your diary is 20 March, which has just been proclaimed Girgentina and Gellewza Day. But you don’t have to wait until the vernal equinox of 2022 to sample Maltese wine. Malta is the world’s smallest wine-making country. Most of its wine is sold domestically so sometimes it’s easier [...]
Where to eat in… Mayfair: Breakfast lunch and dinner, sorted June 2, 2021 When you think of the traditional heartlands of Morning Wire, the Square Mile and Canary Wharf are probably the first places that spring to mind. But Mayfair, with its hedge funds, law firms and commercial property offices, has always been a hub for our readers. Of all the hospitality locations to suffer through the lockdown, [...]
Richmond and Hampton are perfect for a London ‘micro-break’ June 2, 2021 Horror story images of eight hour queues at Heathrow – a perfect storm of Corona restrictions, Brexit chaos and pent-up demand – are enough to put anyone off going abroad for their summer holidays. When you’re likely to spend longer standing in line at immigration than waiting to see the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, [...]
Jawbox Gin unveils record breaking 915-measure bottle June 2, 2021 Size matters when it comes to gin. With the market saturated with small batch artisans all trying to out-botanicalise each other, one distillery has decided to go in the opposite direction, producing the world’s largest gin bottle. Northern Ireland’s Jawbox Gin has unveiled a 73cm tall, 32 litre, 915 measure Jawbox Giant’s Edition containing the [...]
Scots look away – the best whisky in the world is made in Taiwan June 1, 2021 The best whisky in the world is made in Taiwan by a company that started off making mosquito repellent and root beer. The King Car Group’s Kavalan 10th Anniversary Sky Gold Wine Cask Matured Single Cask Single Malt Whisky has just been named “Best of the Best” single malt at the recent Tokyo Whisky & [...]
Quaglino’s: Golden-age glam the perfect antidote to lockdown June 1, 2021 It is fair to say that good old fashioned glamour has not been in vogue during months of endless lockdowns. Cocktail dresses abandoned for athleisure. Black tie (which you can read all about in this excellent piece by our resident sartorial expert) for three days without a shower. But London is back, and open-ish, and [...]
How Welsh whisky is taking a sip of Scotland’s favourite dram June 1, 2021 North Wales is celebrating the opening of its latest distillery and the release of the first Welsh whisky in over a hundred years. Gwynedd’s Aber Falls Distillery, which used to be a slate works, a margarine factory and a drinks wholesaler depot, has launched its Inaugural Release, a non-age statement single malt made from 100 [...]
Where to watch Euro 2020 in London: Top beer gardens May 29, 2021 After a mad, harrowing year, it seems difficult to believe that Euro 2021 is mere weeks away – and that the biggest games will be taking place in London. For fans without tickets to the tournament, which runs from 11 June to 11 July, watching at the pub looks set to be a game of [...]
Another defence of Chardonnay, which is better than you think May 28, 2021 Last week our wonderful wine columnist Libby Zietsman-Brodie weighed in in defense of Chardonnay, a grape variety often wrongly maligned by people who know enough about wine to have an opinion but not enough to have a correct opinion. And quite right she was, so I though I’d throw my two cents’ worth in too, [...]