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Life on the Nile

"To the shy or less than gregarious among us, the cruise sounds like hell on water"

A star is transitioned | The magnificent ascendance and significance of Jordan Gray

A star is transitioned | The magnificent ascendance and significance of Jordan Gray

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"Jordan Gray is a star in near-vertical ascent, and she’s bringing all of us with her"
<em>X</em> | A Q&A with Davey Davis on their futuristic New York queer noir

X | A Q&A with Davey Davis on their futuristic New York queer noir

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"Sexual perversion is so ingrained in the history of 20th-century queerness that it's the rule, not the exception"
Why I’ll always want to go to a Wagamama, wherever

Why I’ll always want to go to a Wagamama, wherever

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"I did a fashion shoot at the Lexington Street Chipperfield space. Every surface and frosted glass corridor was sleek and lovely"
Life on the Nile

Life on the Nile

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"To the shy or less than gregarious among us, the cruise sounds like hell on water"

Shifting Plates | The incongruity of Scotts

"Real life intruded in 1975 when the IRA bombed this swank symbol of the establishment, killing one diner and injuring 15 others"

Rebooting the country boozer | The Small Holding, Kent

"This place might have a past in pints and pickles, but the restaurant knows precisely what it wants to be today. There’s no flirting with pub snacks here"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich works her way through the best of the best BTG lists

"Yes, my first encounter was at Sheekey’s, the theatre district’s darling heart. But Henriot is at home in Hollywood’s Waldorf Astoria, Tokyo’s Restaurant Apicius and London’s Four Seasons Hotel at Ten Trinity Square as well"

Edible Edinburgh

"True, not every city centre has a bloody great fortress looming overhead whose cannon booms at 1pm (to wake the students, ha ha)"

Scandinavian heat at Scotland Yard | Ekstedt at The Yard, London

"Scotland Yard Hotel: a handsome but solid red brick townhouse where a sunbeam wouldn’t show its face for fear of getting itself arrested"

Is this the best restaurant in… Slovenia? | Grič, Šentjošt

"I'm reluctant to even tell you about Grič, wanting to keep this precious gem a secret all for myself"

The Catalan tapes | Almanac Barcelona

"So I got liver! Such a treat for a vegan!"

The Michelin stars are landing | Ossiano, Dubai

"High-rise dining and bottomless brunches come at a premium. Sandy salads, too"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich’s guide to midsummer sparkle

"I don’t want to read about a wine I can’t actually get"

Cooking the history books | El Llorenç Parc de la Mar, Palma

"This is a restaurant where tradition is (forgive me) baked in"

The worst waitress in London | Viva Dalston

"As we headed for the door she shouted '…AND DON’T EVER COME BACK… YOU RACISTS!'"

Somerset and match | Osip, Bruton

"There's no menu or catalogue of ingredients, and deliberately so. Merlin decided last year to forgo such a structure"

El Bulli’s eye | Fismuler, Madrid

"Three nationalities, all famished, feigning amiable smiles while waiting, praying, dying for food to arrive"

Simple pleasures | La Tasquita de Enfrente, Madrid

"A dumpy blonde in a leather jacket and jeans moved in from the downpour and took shelter beside me beneath the bar’s awning. She then proceeded to pull down her trousers and do, something"

This is not a French restaurant

Hélène Darroze at The Connaught received its third Michelin star in 2021, and retained it in 2022

Red carpets and undiscovered gems

"Where else can I savour the choices of often esoteric programmers whose idea of a great film is a far cry from mine?"

Effervesce Sense | Drink the farm dry

"For sure, no wine like this was ever served in the history of Illinois"

Stately home is where the heart is | Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire

"It’s not a knackering drive (you can take a helicopter), has many seductive historical details like fancy romantic-novel chandeliers, wooden balustrade gargoyles with boobs, aphrodisiac Valrhona Tulakalum dark chocolate fondant, what more could impress someone you like?"

Offaly good | Review: Osteria del Mirasole, Persiceto

"It was everything it should have been, flavoured with butter and the sex organs and protein-rich filtration system of a now pulverised poultry liver"

Le pop-up extraordinaire | Review: ADMO, Paris

"Golly. Chefs collaborating to celebrate European camaraderie. Trés Bon"

In like Flint | Review: The Flint House, Brighton

"I won’t bang on about anchovies now, it isn’t the place, but I’m a fanatic for them"

The best books of 2021

In a year defined by a sense of stultification, existential dread and a slender grip on sanity, there were some remarkable works of art

Normcore | Norman’s Cafe, London

"Yes, gimmee some of that carbohydrate overload, rivers of vegetable oil and gloopy cheesy-bean combos"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on all things Bond and Bollinger

"This summer, I popped into The Bloomsbury Hotel’s Coral Room to witness people so happy to be out of lockdown that the scene was literally Bacchanalia"

Brace! Brace!

'The Green Star means, well, I don’t actually know. Who does? The whole eco-green thing is a mainstream perversion right now'

Great white ways | Karen Krizanovich reviews The Shark is Broken

"In the programme, there are many lovely photos but one especially captures that time - him peeking under the covering of one shark, his father at the its head"