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Nothing says Easter like lashings of chocolate, but if you’re entertaining this weekend and want to pull out all the stops, then foil-wrapped eggs just ain’t going to cut it. We’ve hit up one of our favourite Mr & Mrs Smith tastemakers, Aussie celebrity chef Curtis Stone, to share a wicked dessert that’s sure to [...]
Indie music, street food and speakeasies have tempted us to trial a Texan city-to-city road trip, so this month, we mosey to edgy Austin and historic San Antonio in the Lone Star State, where everything is bigger – the tunes, the tastes, the tales. Austin is a city for the ears as much as the [...]
Kings Cross has long been Sydney’s after-dark playground: the place to party until the sun comes up. These days, though, the strip joints have been joined by sleek bars and restaurants, and visiting sailors are outnumbered by A-list night owls. Here’s our dusk-till-dawn agenda for Smith-style soirées… A weekend in Kings Cross is all about [...]
Like food? Like art? Like all things Flemish? Get thee to the National Gallery, and its accompanying eatery, the National Café. An exhibition celebrating the work of Jan Gossaert, a renowned Renaissance painter from Flanders, is currently on display in the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing. To celebrate its arrival, renowned chef (and fellow Belgian) Matthieu Beudaert [...]
Just in case yesterday’s sweetly mouthwatering NY ice-lolly postcard got you in the mood to book a trip to New York, we thought we’d give you a handy run-down of hotels within a lolly-stick’s throw of Popbar (not to mention brilliantly located – see our SoHo hotel map, right). Here’s Mr & Mrs Smith’s star-style [...]
Yes, it’s that time of year again, and if you haven’t already, you should (shameless link alert!) book a hotel in Marrakech. Yes, I’ve cut straight to the chase there. But I know you’ll all complain if I don’t elaborate a bit, so I’ll now give you a few reasons why you should want to [...]
For this month’s selection of summer sounds, our esteemed TuneSmith, Rob Wood, picks out a surprisingly uplifting medley of melancholia, and an album inspired by one of Smith’s top honeymoon hotels, the Maldivian paradise of Huvafen Fushi… ALBUM OF THE MONTH Boys Outside by Steve Mason When? You’ve exhausted Beta Band and Hot Chip Why? [...]
Just came across this wondrous collection of hotel door hangers posted by graphic designer Michael Lebowitz on his Big Spaceship blog and simply had to share. Not only do they form a truly beautiful retro graphic-design time capsule, they gave me a massive hit of nostalgia for ‘the old days’ of hotel travel (note, I [...]
