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Despite our recent April Fool’s fun, David Cameron won’t be assisting with subsidised dirty weekends and you can’t really gatecrash Wills and Kate’s honeymoon, but you can still plan your own. For inspiration, look no further that our latest bunch of heavenly hideaways, from Newport in Rhode Island to Italy’s golden, glam Riviera di Levante… [...]
Earlier this week, Team Smith hotfooted it to New York’s Cooper Square Hotel – the edgy East Village stay looming over the Bowery – for lunch at the Trilby, its new Euro-style comfort-food eatery and bar. Taking its name from the tiny titfer so beloved of Frank Sinatra (and countless Hoxton hipsters since), this laid-back [...]
Stuffed Botswanian hyena, early-1900s chalkware carnival figurine or limited-edition LP with your latte, ma’am? Brooklyn’s Black Gold is a dark horse on BoCoCa’s sunny, stroller-packed main strip. This café in New York is a coffee shop cum cornucopia of carefully curated curios, perfectly out of place in the leafy, gentrified neighbourhood where Boerum Hill, Cobble [...]
We’re always on the hunt for new hotels to be the apples of our eyes, and this month is no different. Allow us to introduce our crop of corkers for March… We’ve been foraging in Italy once again, hand-picking Ca’ P’a – Casa Privata, a boho bolthole in Praiano on the Amalfi Coast. In Tuscany, [...]
Sweet Cali high: Road trip itinerary #1 – Gourmandise your way through the great outdoors, from San Francisco’s colourful streets to Big Sur’s sweeping coastline, with pitstops for pampering spa time and exhilarating fresh-air fun…
We’ve been on the road again this month, turning stones the land over to report back with a handful of new hotels. Ready to plan that holiday? You soon will be… First up, in Italy, we hit the Amalfi Coast: allow us to introduce Capo la Gala (left), an exclusive nautical retreat on the Bay [...]
The way to our hearts is through our bellies, and this week we’re dying to try the award-winning delights at the St Regis hotel in Washington DC. January detox, us? You’re having a laugh… Style Old-world wow Setting Right by the White House Why this week? Until the end of February, Smith members can stay [...]
Look at the States you’re in! Let our friends in luxury spa hotels sort out your pre- and post-holiday physique with their insider advice on top-to-toe perfection: we’ve grilled personnel from leading pampering parlours and spa stays across the Americas to bring you a healthful dose of detox and DIY tips just in time for [...]
This week we bring you not one, but two hotels worth hollering about: a double dose of metropolitan cool. Purveyors of haute hotels, the team behind Soho House has a way with super-stylish stays. Isn’t it time to find out what all the buzz is about at their Berlin and New York outposts? Style Boho [...]
We’ve got another cherry-picked handful of hotels for you this month, fresh from recent hideaway hunting in Italy, America and Shakespeare’s birthplace… Lately, we’ve been busying ourselves in Italy, for numerous reasons (truffle picking, pasta slurping, art collecting), but chiefly in the good, honest name of finding the land’s best hotels. Recent additions include Palazzo [...]
