Guest Recipe: Philippe Agnello’s Berber Crepes
Pancake Day may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to enjoy delicious crepes throughout the year. Try…
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The Berkeley’s Marcus Wareing shows how hotel dining has gone from stuffy to sought-after
The hotel dining room has many faces – it can swing wildly between your grandmother’s front room and a beautifully…
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The Dorchester offers soirées in the kitchen – where all good evenings end
As that very catchy Ikea advert said ‘you always end up in the kitchen at parties’. Although I doubt the…
ByGuest Recipe: Philippe Agnello's Berber Crepes
Pancake Day may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to enjoy delicious crepes throughout the year. Try…
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The Berkeley's Marcus Wareing shows how hotel dining has gone from stuffy to sought-after
Hotel restaurants, much like hotel bars which have transformed from their formative days as watering holes into chic retreats, are…
ByThe Dorchester offers soir’es in the kitchen – where all good evenings end
The Dorchester’s private dining room already offers great access to the heart of this busy working kitchen. However, if that…
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Cartier watches experience an uptick in fortune
Author: Spear’s Editorial HAUTE IN THE COLD If you found yourself in Paris this winter, you might have had occasion…
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The attractions and dangers of investing in the luxury sector
The luxury sector is predicted to register significant growth over the next ten years with a recent study from the…
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Forget the water skiis, it’s all about flyboarding
Debuting at the jetski World Championship in 2012, flyboarding is an adventure water sport that is yet to fully enter…
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Gaziano & Girling reinstates the quintessential English gentleman’s shoe
BROGUE TRADERS Shoes can be quite a giveaway. France’s president, a certain Monsieur François Hollande, learnt that the hard way:…
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Shinola brings unexpected luxury to downtrodden Detroit
MOTOWN ARTISTS Jacques Panis had a whizzy job working in tech in Dallas. Big money, big house, big car. But…
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London’s oligarchs needn’t fear sanctions over Crimea
From restaurants in Knightsbridge to estate agents in Mayfair, London is addicted to Russian money. After the crash of 2007,…
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London’s trays of caviar and Krug-filled ice buckets have begun to shake under the ominous rumbling of Russian tanks on…
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London becomes leading destination for fine dining
London and Paris have the best fine dining restaurants in the world, according to the Elite 100 Restaurants 2014. Both…
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Forget Cary Grant or George Sanders – the Duke of Windsor is last century’s style guru
TWEED TRAILBLAZER I am occasionally asked who I regard as my greatest influences in dressing. In early days as a…
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Jo Malone on the sweet smell of success
Spear’s Young Turk Awards 2014 British businesswoman and perfumiere, Jo Malone, gives a thought-provoking speech at the Spear’s Young Turk…
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How to tell the finest Venetian wines from canal water
Any traveller in Italy knows what an ancient country it is. You can’t wander down a street without stubbing your…
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A prestigious private member’s club in Oporto keeps the British connection alive
PORT AND FIVE-STAR BOARD In the Unesco-listed historic centre of Oporto on the bank of the Douro, crumbling houses tiled…
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Cruise around in style with Vredestein tyres
Vredestein started out as a bicycle tyres manufacturer in the Netherlands over a century ago. Fast forward to 2014 and…
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The 250th anniversary of Ruinart rose is the perfect excuse to pop open some bubbly
Champagne is often thought of as an ‘occasional’ wine — you crack open a bottle to mark a special occasion.…
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