A taste of Basque in Belgravia
In 1932 an Italian Futurist called Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published a series of recipes in a book called The Futurist…
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Spear's Year In Review 2014 ’ Food
From sushi to sumptuous sausages, Emily Rookwood shares the restaurants and recipes that spoiled us in 2014 For most of…
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Is Iran the next big luxury tourism destination?
It was thanks to the impeccable timing of Ramita Navai’s 2014 book City of Lies, which offers a portrait of…
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Hubert Zandberg explains what inspires his interior designs
If there is one figure who filters through late-20th-century design for the chic set, it’s Mark Birley. Hubert Zandberg, no…
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Spear’s Year in Review 2014: Art
It’s been a substantial year in art, not least in the continued growth of the market: sales from Christie’s and…
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We review the year in art as the market grows and galleries adapt, as well as who had the stand…
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Fresh food made from scratch at the Crown & Garter
First there were pubs. British pubs in the traditional sense served beer, ale, spirits and the food offering usually consisted…
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Festive treats from truffles to pop-ups
Now that December is in full swing you are officially allowed to embrace Christmas. That means it is time to…
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Hidden Gems Restaurant Review: Don Alfonso 1890
The Amalfi coast has a range of glorious, if at times scary, coastal drives and gorgeous scenery. Given the number…
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Three scotch whiskies to whet your palate
Scotch has taken a beating recently. The home of whisky seems to have passed its crown to the likes of…
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What Alice Waters means to me, by Sally Clarke
A sunny evening in Berkeley, California, in 1979. Along one of the leafy avenues of this prosperous and quiet neighbourhood…
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Sweet wines are the perfect winter warmer
There is nothing better at this time of year, as we speed yet again towards Christmas, than a fine dessert…
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Book review: Zeppelin Nights by Jerry White
London’s Blitz in the Second World War being so much part of common consciousness, one doesn’t often pause to think…
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Book review: War and Gold by Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Tory MP for Spelthorne, is the son of Ghanaian immigrants and was educated at Eton as a…
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Style watch: Rare Audrey Hepburn images to go on display
Audrey Hepburn photographed in Givenchy by Norman Parkinson, 1955 © Norman Parkinson Ltd In a little-known period of her early…
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Why are recreations of European towns popping up all over Asia?
The time is approaching 4pm and I am running late for afternoon tea. The cottage pie I ate earlier was…
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Britain wears a textile heart of class on its sleeve
There was a time when it seemed that Britain as a manufacturing country was dead. Received opinion was that we’d…
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Harley-Davidson blessed by two Popes goes to auction
A Harley-Davidson motorcycle signed by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and presented to Pope Francis in a spectacular blessing ceremony will…
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Review: John Smart – A Genius Magnified, Philip Mould & Company
Emma Rutherford cradles an 18th century beauty in her hands: ‘She’s the most expensive in the exhibition, she’s around £55,000,’…
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The erotic and the gastronomic meet at the South Place Hotel
You know you’re staying somewhere different when you slide open a drawer above the backlit mini-bar in your hotel room…
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