Dining out: London’s best burger, sushi and fried chicken revealed in public vote January 21, 2019 Hungry Londoners have spoken, and Meatliquor and Chick n Sours are among the restaurants who’s dishes have been crowned the tastiest in the city in a public vote. The awards, announced today, are based on more than 50,000 reviews of London’s restaurants, and are given to dishes that have garnered the highest ratings. Winners include [...]
Mary, Queen of Scots review: An excellent, if factually wild, exercise in historical empathy January 18, 2019 Trailing the petticoats of Oscar contender The Favourite is another female-centric period drama about the notorious feud between Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart. Though this film is far more serious and conventional than its competition, it’s also clearly angled at awards season. Its contenders, Margot Robbie as Elizabeth and Saoirse Ronan as Mary, are undeniably [...]
From igloo glamping to glacier kayaking, the frozen landscape of the Pemberton Icecap has been transformed into a tourist hotspot January 18, 2019 Outside, the sun is blazing hot, a white glare cast across a vast expanse of snow. Inside the ice cave, it’s one degree above freezing; a gleaming cool blue cut through with a trickling lake of glacial water. Centre stage is a moulin, a frozen “straw” of ice that glows as the sunshine above ground [...]
Interiors: The new show apartments in the former BBC Television Centre are a lesson in how to do 70s retro decor well January 18, 2019 If you have fond memories of Saturday morning TV in the 1970s – Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and its gaggle of pop-tastic guests trailing in and out of Television Centre – then you’ll be excited to visit the Grade II-listed BBC building in White City, which has been restored and reopened as a smorgasboard of homes, [...]
Opinion: Property raffles are 500 times easier to win than the EuroMillions but they’re not going to go mainstream until they’re transparent January 18, 2019 Property raffles have certainly generated national media column inches over the past few years. There has been a huge buzz around the concept and it’s easy to see why – the thought of owning a multi-million pound home for the small cost of a ticket could turn an ordinary person struggling to get a foot [...]
Focus On Peckham: The ‘hipster capital of south London’ saw impressive house price growth last year January 18, 2019 They say that if you want to spot the next up-and-coming property hotspot, all you have to do is follow the artists. That’s certainly been true of Shoreditch, the hub of the Young British Artists movement in the 1990s. Anyone that bought on the outskirts of the City 20 years ago is chuckling all the [...]
New homes: Our pick of the new builds going on sale in London this weekend January 18, 2019 Fitzroy Gate, Hounslow From £1.4m Get a new house and new body at the same time at this health and fitness day to launch a new show home in west London. From 10am to 4pm tomorrow, personal trainers from Fitness Space will be at the marketing suite for a four bedroom show home in Old [...]
Beautiful Boy film review: Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet star in harrowing but flawed drug addiction memoir January 17, 2019 The drug movie is a tough genre to navigate. Go too far in one direction and it becomes preachy; too far in the other and you end up glamourising the fetid reality of addiction. Beautiful Boy is drawn from a pair of memoirs by the journalist David Sheff and his son Nicolas, and relates the [...]
The Raft review: A bizarre experiment to determine whether humans are naturally violent has predictably sexy consequences January 17, 2019 In 1973, Spanish-Mexican anthropologist and human behavioural psychologist Santiago Genoves stuck 11 strangers on a raft and sent them on a three-month voyage across the Atlantic. The ethically dubious experiment, which today sounds like the premise of a terrible reality TV show, is the subject of this gripping documentary, and was intended to determine whether [...]
Our resident chef columnist Mark Hix on why he’s been promoting bycatch crab in his restaurants January 15, 2019 I first encountered this dish years ago on the back of a boat in Sydney. It made use of their native mud crab, and it was a real treat. It’s the kind of dish you can cook at home with our native brown crabs, either chopped up whole or just using the claws, which make [...]