Hints and tips:
...Next month, Paris restaurant Mimosa will make its UK debut at The Langham hotel with five varieties: traditional, trout eggs with tarragon, poutargue, caviar and black truffle....
...For cocktails, it’s not cheap but the Artesian bar at The Langham hotel on Portland Place is lovely. It’s an extraordinary setting, with delicious drinks, and it’s really going to be up there....
...At Middle Eastern restaurant The Tent in Fitzrovia, chef John Javier similarly uses yuzu kosho in place of more authentic seasonings....
...creation at the head of the Marshwood Vale, and a yew-and-sculpture garden belonging to British furniture maker John Makepeace in Beaminster....
...But before he could be lured to balmier climes, he was offered a job as winemaker at Langham Estate in Dorset, south-west England....
...The government has sought to address the issue by refunding the cost of working visas to visiting backpackers but John Hart, executive director of Restaurant and Catering Australia, doubted this would be...
...Another area — a “golden triangle” of popular villages — extends up from Langham across the border into Suffolk, taking in Nayland, Stoke-by-Nayland and Higham....
...“My first placement was at the St George’s Hotel in Langham Place. The chef threw a sack of potatoes at me on my first day and shouted: ‘Peel them, c**t!’...
...InfraStrata is buying the site from Langham Industries and will pay the acquisition sum in four instalments, including £1.4m in shares....
...To loosen up the Queen, we would start with a stiff Negroni, like the ones they have at the Artesian bar in London’s Langham Hotel, with ice cubes the size of golf balls that never melt....
...Always, I am Neddy Merrill in John Cheever’s The Swimmer, moving endlessly from pool to pool, the delight of the blue an easy distraction from anything else less than perfect, anything troublesome, tricky...
...As the FT’s John Gapper points out, Barclays’ mouthy investment bankers have already had 33 years to show investors where the money is....
...But over breakfast at the Langham hotel in central London, he is carefully optimistic....
...It’s directed by John Tiffany, whose successes range from Black Watch to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and designed by the admirable Bob Crowley....
...John Godfrey: Payback time John Godfrey has managed to stay pretty hidden from view for the past 20 years. No wonder he’s publicity shy....
...Two observatory floors face off on opposite sides of town — Willis Tower’s Skydeck to the south and, to the north, 360 Chicago, on the 94th floor of the John Hancock Building....
...He did become a churchgoer until the mid-nineties, after listening to sermons online from people such as John Stott at All Souls, Langham Place. “I sat down and prayed,” he recalls....
...George William Langham Christie was born on December 31 1934, the second child of John Christie and the soprano Audrey Mildmay, who sang in the early Glyndebourne seasons....
...The Hong Kong IPO of Langham Hospitality Investments saw the shares slump 9.2%....
...To the west of its landholding towards Paddington is the Portman Estate, with 110 acres, and to the east, towards Tottenham Court Road, the Langham estate is the big player with just under 14 acres....
...This was London’s second-most expensive hotel (after the Langham, also recently restored), with lifts (or “hydraulic ascending chambers”), a Moroccan coffee room and one of London’s first revolving doors...
...This beautiful collection of old working buildings was owned by John Constable’s father and was the subject of some of the artist’s most famous paintings....
...I am enjoying a leisurely springtime ramble around the newly reconstructed Elizabethan garden of Kenilworth Castle with John Watkins, head of gardens for English Heritage, when he suddenly stops in his tracks...
...St James’s Hotel & Club, behind Piccadilly, is a former gentlemen’s club frequented by the likes of Elton John and Michael Caine....
...“Properties that are priced realistically will sell and good prices can be achieved in desirable village locations around towns such as Hailend, Langham and Layer-de-la-Hay” observes Beresford....
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