Hints and tips:
...So the Green Park debut of Kwānt, a venture from former Savoy head bartender Erik Lorincz, is as surprising as it is exciting....
...The Sunday roast is the work of God by way of James Sharp, inventor of the gas stove. Churchgoing is what fixed weekly roast dinner in the British psyche....
...How could I possibly be in Liza Minnelli’s suite in the Savoy Hotel and Sammy Davis Jr walks in? I feel quite removed from the reality of it....
...and spinel Coronation ring, POA Fortnum & Mason Fortnum’s Coronation Restaurant box of 90 teabags, £150 Turnbull & Asser cotton shirt, £250 Crockett & Jones leather Pembroke shoes, £810 Dents cotton Savoy...
...Pinter Theatre, London As we take our seats for Ivo van Hove’s staging of A Little Life, we seem to be in recognisable territory: gathered around an all-purpose open living space, on which the cast, led by James...
...What else is the making of a James Bond film?...
...However, incoming directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick seemed a little cowed to be taking over the reins, and the distended howl on the Ghostface...
...It now has its English-language premiere in the West End, led by James Norton, fresh from his outstanding performance in the BBC TV series Happy Valley and swapping arch villain for victim....
...That’s when I’ll meet my wife at Savoy Society, a lively spot. Or we’ll go to the rooftop bar at the Perry Lane Hotel....
...In 1976, James Sherwood, an American-born London-based shipping container magnate, bought the Cipriani hotel in Venice and began buying 1920s and 1930s Orient Express carriages....
...Mark WakefieldManaging Director, Walton St James Knut WyldeGeneral Manager, The Berkeley Ninai ZarachFounder, Manicomio and Canto Corvino...
...For now his salons are well staffed, and James says he makes sure he spends time at all three sites: “I know everyone who works for me,” he says....
...I also recently discovered The Savoy in London – I usually stay in Soho, but the views of the Thames made my Covid quarantine very manageable....
...When Il Borro’s previous owner, Duke Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, decided to sell, Ferruccio seized the opportunity. Following his purchase in 1993, he launched a major restoration....
...Other founder members included the late Teddy Goldsmith, elder brother of Sir James, and James Osborne, uncle of George....
...James Walker, a resident since 2017 at Royal Wharf — a new development in east London made up of more than 3,000 flats and townhouses where Ballymore is managing agent, though not the freeholder — said he...
...(Collcutt & Hamp also designed the New Adelphi off the Strand, which Pevsner described as “savagely ungraceful”, and the riverfront of The Savoy.)...
...It’s almost 20 years older than Raffles in Singapore and the Savoy in London, and nearly 30 years older than the Ritz in Paris....
...Hidalgo turned the city into a giant construction site and ground traffic to a halt, it’s just too time-consuming to cross the Seine to the Left Bank for lunch at political favourite Lapérouse, or Guy Savoy...
...The books on my bedside table are Ritz and Escoffier by Luke Barr, which tells the story of the invention of the modern luxury hotel in late-19th-century London (people didn’t eat in public before the Savoy...
...This was part of the refurbishment of Claridge’s, a trophy picked up when Blackstone bought the Savoy Group 21 years ago....
...Although James Abbott McNeill Whistler created some of the most well known and adventurous paintings of the late 19th century, an illuminating exhibition at Compton Verney in Warwickshire invites us to focus...
...Anglophile society artist James Tissot comes closer to Impressionist concerns with modern life....
...There were places like the Savoy and the Ritz, both of which were attached to Escoffier, the granddaddy of French cuisine....
...Not long ago, he had the rare pleasure of mixing a Martini Vesper exactly as James Bond ordered it in Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, using vintage gin, vodka and a bottle of Kina Lillet aperitif from 1967...
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