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Raining, raining – still raining. Oh well: getting your fill at a top restaurant in London is the way to transform summer in the city from so-so to sizzling. Seeing as, these days, Bethnal Green seems to be the centre of London’s universe, we’ve had a snoop around its latest hotspot, Viajante’s low-key sister bistro [...]
Happy Ice-cream Day! The third Sunday in July is all about celebrating the frozen stuff after Ronald Regan declared so back in 1984. But, after recently researching our latest guidebook (out this autumn), it’s Italy’s gelato in particular that has us especially excited…
So us ice-cream-loving Londoners are particularly happy about a couple of fantastic [...]
Summertime in Britain demands a good picnic and at this week’s prize-scooper, The Olde Bell Inn in Berkshire, you’ll get more than a selection of cold cuts. Try a fully fledged outdoor kitchen, manned by chefs who know how to cook up fine-dining feasts alfresco…
Style Inn-keeping with tradition
Setting Thames riverside village
Why this week? The kitchen [...]
The vogue for gorgeous wallpaper, pattern and print in boutique hotels – and homes – throughout the world owes a lot to the posthumous revival of Australian talent Florence Broadhurst’s dreamy designs. New Zealand-born, Sydney-based husband-and-wife team David and Helen Lennie (left) of Signature Prints can take credit for putting Florence firmly back on the [...]
Smith has just returned from a trip to India, where we discovered a bevvy of boutique hotels in Delhi, including the elegant Aman New Delhi. This handsome hotel is within striking distance of the city’s most fascinating monuments, so we slipped in a spot of sightseeing in Aman’s customised auto rickshaw.
One of Delhi’s most [...]
There may be more ‘cycles than students, but next time you’re in Cambridge, ditch wheels for water and head down to the river at dusk for a whole new way to see the city…
Step away from the academia at sunset and meet the local bat community instead. At around 8pm, nightly until the middle of [...]
Wills and Kate are conquering Canada and the States – if we were noble newlyweds we’d be South Africa-bound, honeymooning in colourful Cape Town, animal-watching on safari and sampling the fruits of the winelands. In this lust for sunshine, big game and glamour, our hotel of the week spotlight falls upon Rodwell House, a poised [...]
When it comes to our boutique hotels, we’re as proud as first-time parents. We’ll show you photos of them, sing their praises ’til we’re hoarse in the throat, and coax you to come visit, so you can see for yourself. We feel the same gush of love for our Smith reviewers – finding a more [...]
When we launched our debut collection of Smith boutique hotels in Sri Lanka recently, one name kept coming up. That of the country’s most famous architect, Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003). We’ve rounded up some of the world’s best boutique hotel designers before, but in no other place that Smith has delved for hotel gold, has one [...]
This month, we’ve got a whole new host of summer-ready sanctuaries, including three island hideaways on Santorini: the seven secluded Aenaon Villas, the all-white Avaton Resort & Spa and the neutral-hued Kapari Natural Resort (below).
Another trio debuts in New Orleans, as we reveal the fruits of our first foray into Louisiana – namely, Soniat House, [...]
