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Napkin etiquette As soon as you are seated, place your napkin on your lap. It is acceptable to tuck your…
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Restaurant Review: Boopshi’s, Goodge Street
Austrian food is having a moment. For far too long German and Austrian food has been put in a box…
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Review: When Mac Met Cheese, Porchester Road
The trend, as I am far from first to point out, for restaurants serving one kind of food done exquisitely…
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3Cs Cider features Spear’s very own William Sitwell
Now before you start chuckling to yourselves, the 3Cs in 3Cs Cider stands for 3 Chaps who are making a…
ByRestaurant Review: Boopshi's, Goodge Street
Emily Rookwood visits the latest Austrian restaurant to hit London Austrian food is having a moment. For far too long…
By3Cs Cider features Spear's very own William Sitwell
3Cs Cider comes from three counties using more traditional British apple varieties, says Emily Rookwood Now before you start chuckling…
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Best contemporary short story collections
In recent years the short story has experienced something of a ‘boom’, with more collections being published, along with a…
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Food Friday: Angela Hartnett Makes Crab Linguine
Angela Hartnett, celebrity chef and Chef Proprietor of Murano Restaurant shows Spear’s how to make the simple Northern Italian dish;…
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Posher prime ministers, small budget deficits, report says
Do Eton and Oxbridge graduates make better prime ministers? That’s what research seems to suggest, with a new paper arguing…
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Football’s moral bankruptcy shames the globe and irritates fans
Football is in the throes of an identity crisis as big money, unsuitable owners and utterly inappropriate countries use the…
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Worst literary dystopia to live in?
Author: Aoife Moriarty Some of this genre’s most famous works – including Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four –…
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Zak Smith on why suspect tycoons and corrupt countries are making the beautiful game ugly Football is in the throes…
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Krug matches champagne with concertos in sparkling performance
If you haven’t made plans for tonight already, it’s time to head east. Forget the hipsters and their snazzy bars,…
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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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