Eating Out
As the world's third busiest airport by passenger numbers, London's Heathrow can get a bit hectic - in fact, the coming and going never stops. With the international hub getting busier every year it was decided that a reorganisation was needed, and...
Shopping
British design legend Paul Smith's flagship store on the corner of Albemarle and Stafford Streets has been significantly extended and now offers one-off pieces along with men’s and women’s clothing and furniture. Now occupying a...
Eating Out
Award-winning Exmouth Market restaurant Moro opened way back in 1997, making it a seasoned campaigner on the London scene. The cuisine's inspiration goes back even further, with a menu rooted in the Moorish occupation of Spain – the...
Eating Out
Founder Ezra Mishkin's first restaurant on Catherine Street dates back to 1931, while this latest incarnation in the same location is a relative youngster having opened in 2011. Which is a little white lie. Russell Norman and Richard...
Eating Out
Seasoned travellers might know that “kin” is Thai for “eat”, and just like the name keeps things simple, so KIN as whole does too. The menu is pan-Asian street food with a restaurant kitchen spin – Thai dishes are joined by Vietnamese...
Eating Out
The Spanish flavours of Ibérica are now available to enjoy in Canary Wharf at the fledgeling chain's third London venue La Terraza. The estimable Lázaro Rosa Violán of Barcelona's Contemporain Studios brings a lovely authenticity to the interior,...
Eating Out
Part of the huge redevelopment project between King's Cross and St Pancras International stations, Caravan King's Cross sits inside a renovated Grade II-listed granary building. Inside the industrial heritage is still there to be enjoyed in an...
Bars & Nightlife
Tom Gibson, the man behind Dalston's famous Ruby's, has sprinkled a bit of his magic over on Broadway Market with The Cat & Mutton. The Hackney area has been well-known for its taverns since the 1600s, and this place takes it's name...
Eating Out
Original brick arches and beamed ceilings are the order of the day at Dock Kitchen, located in a stunning converted Victorian wharf building overlooking the Grand Union Canal in West London's Ladbroke Grove. Tom Dixon's collection of...
Bars & Nightlife
With a name that roughly translates from Ancient Greek as “the many”, don't expect a stuffy, elitist atmosphere at Hoi Polloi within Ace Hotel London Shoreditch. The brasserie is open from 7am to midnight/1am weekends, and the adjacent bar is an...
Shopping
Melbourne cosmetics firm Aesop has opened its sixth London store in Covent Garden; in homage to the area's Italianate piazza, Parisian architects Ciguë chose a floor of engraved green cement and an indoor window box of creeping vegetation that ties...
Culture
A network of tunnels below Waterloo Station in London has found a new lease of life as a multi-use creative space in the hands of fashion brand House of Vans. Abandoned by British Rail, the underground space was acquired by The Old Vic Theatre...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...