Review: Green Man & French Horn, London [CLOSED]

"It’s all what you’d call 'hearty', with little to please a vegetarian. It’s St John in a beret, with some onions around its neck"

Review: Coya, London

Arjun Waney's take on Peruvian cuisine has been an overnight success. But is there substance behind the white hot scene?

Einstein on the Beach 1976-2013

Is it still the most modern five hours of theatre? Philip Glass' legendary opera has been revived for a world tour. We review its January 2013 performance in Amsterdam

The empire of Mr Chow

Review: Mari Vanna, London

"Is Russian cuisine, in fact, just Irish chow with a mink trapper hat on?"

Patti Smith Horses

How Robert Mapplethorpe's 1975 New York portrait changed the world of fashion

Review: Hawksmoor Air Street, London

"There were two women in the bar, with a pram, sinking cocktails. I sat down, saw the buggy and my eyes went on safari to the back of my head. If God had meant babies to join us for martinis, he wouldn’t have invented Starbucks"

The off switch | Bad design hotels

Lights turn on. Lights turn off. Why do the most luxurious of hotels go out of their way to make the simplest of things so very, very difficult?

Review: Red Farm, New York

"How did a West Village Chinese restaurant, serving Pac Man dumplings, become one of the most arduous places in New York in which to get a table?"

Review: Virgin Atlantic – New York (JFK) to London (LHR)

"It’s somewhat reminiscent of the bar in The Shining, rocketed into space "