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Not a lot of people know this, but – let us share with you our little secret – Mr & Mrs Smith have been hard at work on a brand new, ultra-slick series of London hotel videos that will give you a Smith-style tour around some of the capital’s best luxury boutique hotels. You’ll have [...]
Never let it be said that we would turn down a friend in an hour of need. Especially when said friend is offering dinner. Travel blogger Heather Cowper (who so expertly guided the Smith blog around the gastronomic delights of Lisbon not too long ago, and penned a review of Hotel Avenide Liberdade to boot) [...]
Former fashionista Elizabeth Kiester gave up a crazy-glam-hectic New York lifestyle (complete with full Sex and the City trappings, requisite high heels and sashimi-platter lunch dates) to give something back to the Khmer people she’d fallen in love with on a trip to Cambodia. She sold her apartment, packed her bags and (quite literally) [...]
Though our hunt for hip hotels is ceaseless, every now and then something comes along and gets in the way. The best coffee in London for example, or the best steak in London, or the best bohemian book launch with cheese (yup, also in London)… Yesterday’s distraction was tea at the sumptuous Soho Hotel. Afternoon [...]
‘You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!’ (Percy Bysshe Shelley, letter to Maria Gisborne, 1820) It’s easy to fall out of love with London life [...]
‘In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival – almost one may call it – of afternoon tea… The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.’ (George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft) Is there anyone in the [...]
Despite being about as green-fingered as a camel, I managed to wangle a ticket to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London last Thursday. Along with rainbow-coloured buds and blossoms, wacky water features and gorgeous garden paraphernalia, there was plenty to please the horticulturally challenged. Personal highlights included clotted-cream-slathered scones, sherbet-y Pimm’s and Michael Michaud’s [...]
We love celebrating stylish destinations and we enjoy discovering local secrets. So this West London emporium caught our eye on Park-Life.org. Kensal Rise resident, Nelli Turner, the designer behind :bi la li: recently opened Lalï boutique, in the heart of Kensal. We say heart – the truth is, unless you’re paying attention when you stroll [...]
May is a festive month of bank holidays, cherry blossom, people attached to ribbons dancing around a pole and the Eurovision Song Contest. We like May. We’re heralding its arrival by joining in with the fun (hotel-shaped, of course)… This month, we sent our spies westwards to Cornwall to comb the coast in search of [...]
As the election looms closer, we swing-o-meter fans are thinking of new and inventive ways to see in results night. We’ve already told you about election events in London, including The Arch’s MP-faced eclairs and Brown’s Hotel’s Commons-related canapés, and now St James’s Hotel and Club wants to play… Anyone up for a bit of [...]
