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‘Five stars, no notes’: Arlington reviewed

Arlington is named for the 1st Earl of Arlington and his street behind the Ritz Hotel. It used to be Le Caprice, which was opened in 1947 by the...

18.04.2024 9

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‘Can’t help but exude warmth’: Paper Moon at the OWO, reviewed

Paper Moon is the Italian restaurant inside the Old War Office on Whitehall, now a hotel called Raffles London at the OWO. It has nine restaurants and...

04.04.2024 10

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The fragile crown

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03.04.2024 20

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Food / ‘As good as you will find in London’: Noble Rot Mayfair, reviewed

Noble Rot, which is named for a sickness that afflicts grapes, a self-aware name for a restaurant in London, is becoming a chain. Don’t get me...

13.03.2024 20

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Rent asunder / Airbnb has ruined Cornwall

Michael Gove’s restrictions on Airbnb are too late for St Ives or Mousehole which now mirror Dull-on-Sea in The Pirates Next Door: ‘Too busy in...

23.02.2024 10

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‘You can stare at a cow you will soon eat’: The Newt, Hadspen, reviewed

The Newt is an idealised country house in Somerset which won the World’s Best Boutique Hotel award last year. It is small, beautiful and...

22.02.2024 7

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Food / ‘Is it France? I don’t know’: Hôtel de Crillon, Paris, reviewed

Hôtel de Crillon sits on the Place de la Concorde, a vast square renamed for bloodshed, then the lack of it – it was the Place de la Révolution,...

11.02.2024 5

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In praise of the big, fat Range Rover

Cars mirror humans: that is what they are for. (If they didn’t, everyone would drive a 2012 Ford Fiesta). And so, cars are obese too now. They are...

26.01.2024 9

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Books / The strangeness of Charles III

There are two narratives in Robert Hardman’s Charles III. The first is an account of the King’s first year on the throne. This is superbly...

25.01.2024 7

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‘I pity MPs more than ever’: the Cinnamon Club, reviewed

The Cinnamon Club appears on lists of MPs favourite restaurants: if they can still eat this late into a parliament. It lives in the old Westminster...

25.01.2024 6

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‘The lasagne is perfect’: Hotel La Calcina, Venice, reviewed

Pensione La Calcina is one of John Ruskin’s houses in Venice. He stayed here in 1877, after completing The Stones of Venice and going mad, and there...

11.01.2024 10

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The problem with Christmas films

Modern Christmas films are square pegs in round holes, as Kate Winslet says to her wicked lover in The Holiday (2006). This is a successful film set...

25.12.2023 7

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Save the small boats / Cornwall’s fishermen are being drowned by bureaucracy 

Bill Johnson is the assistant harbour master in Mousehole and skipper of the pilot Jen, a small boat of the inshore fleet. I know him because in...

16.12.2023 7

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‘The chocolate soufflé is too good for people’: Pavyllon at the Four Seasons Hotel, reviewed

One in, one out, as Rick says in Casablanca. Le Gavroche, which was the first restaurant in Britain to win three Michelin stars – and this was...

14.12.2023 6

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Food / ‘This is generous food’: The Salt Pig Too, reviewed

Swanage is a town torn from a picture book on the Isle of Purbeck: loveliness and vulgarity both. It is famous for fossils, Purbeck marble, a...

07.12.2023 10

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Food / Song to Swanage

Swanage is a town torn from a picture book on the Isle of Purbeck: loveliness and vulgarity both. It is famous for fossils, Purbeck marble, a...

07.12.2023 5

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‘The potential for jeopardy’: Pullman Dining on the Great Western Railway, reviewed

I am lazy and nosy, and so I spend a lot of time on the GWR service from Penzance to London Paddington. Each journey is a play with a unique...

23.11.2023 6

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London is for Instagram and the super-rich now – nothing more

Raffles London at the OWO (the Old War Office) sits on Whitehall like a rebuke. It is new, leased from the British government for £350m for 250...

14.11.2023 5

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‘The food is as good as you will find in London’: Saison at Raffles London, reviewed

The Old War Office (bad acronym OWO) on Whitehall is now a Raffles hotel: you can stay in Winston Churchill’s office if that helps you sleep at...

09.11.2023 4

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The madness of Burton and Taylor

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07.11.2023 4

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‘They do better spaghetti bolognese in Hampstead for a tenner’: The Lobby at The Peninsula, reviewed

The Peninsula is a new hotel at Hyde Park Corner. It is part of the trend for absurd expense: rooms start at £1,400 a night and express the kind of...

26.10.2023 8

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The unconscious savagery of the Rolls-Royce Spectre

Most Rolls-Royce drivers have four cars or more: this is a car for leisure. They drive their Rolls-Royces perhaps 3,000 miles a year: I would never do...

23.10.2023 4

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The strange discord of being British and Jewish

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18.10.2023 3

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‘Well-priced and skilful’: Masala Zone, reviewed

There are cursed restaurants and cursed women, and this makes them no less interesting. One is Maxim’s in Paris, which knows it – it gaily sells...

12.10.2023 3

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Books / Is Israelophobia the latest form of anti-Semitism?

Israelophobia addresses an anti-Semitic mutation ‘evolving out of reach’: the demonisation of the Jewish state. Its author, Jake Wallis Simons, is...

28.09.2023 3

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Fine food in a fine restaurant: Origin City reviewed

Origin City is a good name for this restaurant, whether it knows it or not. It is at West Smithfield, the only surviving wholesale market in the City...

28.09.2023 10

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As gaudy as Versailles: The Duchess of Cornwall in Poundbury reviewed

Poundbury is the King’s idealised town in Dorchester, built on his land to his specifications: the town that sprung out of his head. (‘My...

14.09.2023 10

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I nearly died during childbirth. A culture of silence leaves new mothers powerless

Stories of medical woe abound, as if the NHS is a religion that is fracturing: murderous Lucy Letby, who dressed the babies she killed, and who...

11.09.2023 1

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