City Notes
Had it with the Hilton? Sick of the Sofitel? Then read on, because Domus Civita, or town house, is the perfect place to stay if you like your hotel with a lot more history. In fact, this place has got history seeped in every porous volcanic stone of...
City Notes
I've got to hold my hands up here. The information we were sent on Nova Galeria Leme was, I must conclude, written in Portuguese and banged through the mangle of Google Translate before it reached us. I'd have had more idea what they were trying to...
City Notes
It's an exciting time for Singaporeans, who are in the midst of a food and drink renaissance thanks in no small part to the efforts of the team behind Open Door Policy, a newly-drafted bistro in the Tiong Bahru district. Cynthia Chua and Harry...
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Making wine in California. As ways to earn a living go, it would make all but the most devout tee-totaller's wish list, and when you add in one of the most aesthetically pleasing locations we've seen... well let's just say a change of vocation is...
City Notes
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, so they say. Following the success of the first Hatched restaurant in Singapore, designers outofstock were called in again to weave some more of their magic at a new sister venue on Holland...
City Notes
A taxidermy polar bear in Biggles-esque flying goggles anybody? Those watching Grayson Perry's recent Channel 4 three-parter, All in the Best Possible Taste, with a keen eye will recognise this home of former rave promoter James Perkins. From...
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With its colonial history, Singapore has always been a melting pot of styles and influences, so it's no surprise then to find a new Spanish tapas bar opening – in Chinatown. Speaking of empires, the driving force behind Equinas is hotelier and...
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There's something stressful inherent in the phrase 24/7, a feeling of rushing, of sleep-deprivation, a sense of the last resort. None of which you'll be experiencing at Duck and Waffle as you watch the sun rise or set over the city of London and...
City Notes
This isn't a hotel in a trenchcoat that leans nonchalantly against a lamppost smoking a Gauloises, indifferently attractive through understated magnetism, but rather one that kicks its legs up in the air to bawdy music, brazenly baring its frilly...
Stuff Crush
Bunny Yeager, despite the somewhat passive name, was a formidable force of the 20th Century, redefining the relationships between art and pornography, photographer and model, and women and pin-ups. Starting her love affair with the camera as a...
City Notes
As every student of Croatian history worth their salt will know, the old town of Split sits within the walls of 4th Century Roman emperor Diocletian's reign. But don't worry if you were smoking behind the bike sheds when that lesson was going on,...
City Notes
If it's true good things come in threes, then here at Caffe Streets in Chicago those things are the wooden ceiling, the overhead counter lighting and the backlit barista bar metal perforated panelling. Norsman architects went to town with marbled...
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
No matter what type of business you run, a clear and comprehensive digital marketing strategy should be at the heart of it. Companies are continuing to invest more and more into getting themselves noticed online, and if you aren’t up to date with...
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...