Sake fizz isn’t just big in Japan: Here’s all you need to know July 1, 2021 Bottle-fermented sparkling sake – “Awasake” or foam sake – is seeing a surge in popularity outside of Japan. To underline the point, French masterchef Alain Ducasse has partnered with Japanese brewery Shichiken in Yamanashi to launch a new sparkling variety that offers an international taste journey in which “Japanese elegance meets French art of living”. [...]
It’s still Champagne, just without the bubbles June 30, 2021 Still or sparkling? This question, normally asked when you order mineral water, could soon apply to Champagne. “Bollinger avec gaz ou sans gaz?” According to the latest figures from the Comité Champagne, despite – or perhaps because of – the Covid situation in the US and Europe, Champagne is fizzing again. Lanson chairman François Van Aal [...]
Loki Episode 4 review: Chaos reigns in hit Marvel drama June 30, 2021 *** WARNING: This article contains spoilers about new and past episodes of Loki *** It seems a bit misleading to call last week’s episode of Loki as uneventful, given Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) revealing a key plot point and facing the apocalypse with Loki (Tom Hiddleston). However, narratively it gave our heroes a chance to [...]
French Exit review – Pfeiffer is glorious in this surreal comedy June 30, 2021 The career of Michelle Pfeiffer is one that seems to have many comebacks, but in reality, the Oscar nominee never stopped producing good work. Despite missing half of the 2000s due to a self-imposed hiatus from acting, she still appeared in hits like Hairspray and Stardust, while the 2010s saw her feature in everything from [...]
Another Round review – drinking drama earns its Oscar June 30, 2021 A lot of films make it to our screens thanks to an interesting concept – what if there was a theme park that brought back dinosaurs, what if a man’s whole life was a 24-hour TV show, what if you could invade someone’s dreams? The idea behind Danish drama Another Round is slightly less ambitious, [...]
Black Widow review: Marvel returns with a familiar face June 29, 2021 By the time Black Widow hits cinemas, it will have been the longest we’ve ever waited for a Marvel Cinematic Universe instalment. Obviously there have been external reasons for this absence, but in a strange way the wait has been beneficial for the world’s biggest franchise. Yes, there have been two and a half Disney+ [...]
Restaurant delivery boxes are here to stay: We review 48 of them June 29, 2021 Before the pandemic, most top chefs would have turned their nose up at home delivery services. There’s the lack of control, the logistical nightmare, not to mention the wafer-thin margins. But necessity being the mother of invention has led to dozens of outstanding delivery services, and even with restaurants back open and looking forward to [...]
Toyota Yaris Cross Hybrid review: bang on the zeitgeist June 29, 2021 The new Toyota Yaris Cross takes an award-winning small car and makes it larger. Tim Pitt is among the first to drive it.
Where to eat in… Peckham: Breakfast, lunch and dinner, sorted June 28, 2021 In this latest instalment in our series charting the best places around London to grab breakfast, lunch and dinner, we come to Peckham. For years Peckham was a well-kept secret in the foodie world, home to a host of independent bars and restaurants that rivalled any of their north London counterparts. But over the last [...]
Yorkshire is taking on France and Scotland in the booze battle June 28, 2021 Yorkshire has just opened its first wine road and a whisky road may be next. The county now has 16 commercial vineyards and nine wineries, producing 100,000 bottles a year. The area had pedigree as a wine-producing region: the Cistercians of Kirkstall Abbey were early winemakers there, as were the Benedictine monks at Askham Richard. [...]