Hoedown and meat up
Hoedown. Meat-up. Shoreditch has a new southern States restaurant and late night music spot, The Blues Kitchen. The spacious, saloon-style spot serves up filling Texan bbqs: piles of choice and your choice ...
Roberto Cavalli opens the Cavalli Ibiza Restaurant & Lounge
Now that Roberto Cavalli’s newest Restaurant & Lounge in Ibiza is officially open, you’ll know where to find Glass next time we are nearby the Mediterranean Island’s mega marina. Situated on the most exclus...
A fire, fjords and ferries
The fire that broke out in the town of Ǻlesund in western Norway in 1904 became an act of creative destruction. There was one unfortunate fatality but the other 10,000 inhabitants, escaping the co...
The food of new America
The collection of tables between the Gramercy Tavern’s grand bar and its imposing entrance way are some of the most coveted in New York. It’s on East 20th street, amid a particularly beguiling sea of high...
Kurobuta pop-up stays up
London’s Little Beirut has a new resident, and it’s Japanese. The run of Middle Eastern restaurants and shisha cafes that stretches between Marble Arch and Paddington is now the permanent home for last year...
Get carried away with the Chloé Package at the Mandarin Oriental HK
Fancy something fashionably fashionable by way of Mandarin Oriental this summer?  Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental, which placed among the top 11 hotels in the world soon after opening its doors in 1963, is glad t...
Chic becomes Dublin
The born-again, post-austerity Dublin – small but perfectly formed – is a cornucopia of elegant places to be, from stylish hotels to quality restaurants and lovely, lovely things to buy – plus lots to gaz...
10 years at Petersham Nurseries
This month the botanical treasure-trove that is Petersham Nurseries will be celebrating its 10th year. Overlooking the London Thames in Richmond, the garden centre had a humble start back in the 1970s before cl...
Glass attends the opening of Alain Ducasse’s Rivea in London
The French and Italian Rivieras have proven a romantic escape from reality for urbanites for decades. At Rivea, Alain Ducasse’s newest culinary endeavour, an hour or two of that same, hazy escapism can be enj...
A sojourn in Sardinia
If you feel your life is somewhat lacking in the romance stakes, an Italian trip abroad might be just what is in order. But if the bustling cities and tourist hotspots of the mainland aren’t your firs...
Alfresco dining encouraged by Reiko Kaneko
Since establishing her design studio in 2007, British-Japanese designer Reiko Kaneko has created tableware in simple elegant forms produced in English fine bone china. Only five years in and she’s carved a nic...
Escape to Ireland
Dotted across Ireland are grand houses built by the recipients of land handouts when Oliver Cromwell dispossessed the original Irish owners and rewarded his own officers. The new landlords evolved into a cl...
Breakfast at the Shard
Bed is the best place for breakfast, but eating it up the tallest building in western Europe with views across London could promise a close second. Aqua Shard, from Hong Kong’s Aqua Group, is a re...
London in Bloom at Sake no Hana
walking around most cities at this time of year blossom trees are proudly in bloom, and aplenty so. To celebrate one of the most popular seasons in the Japanese calendar, Sakura at Sake no Hana has brought the ...
Eat chicks for Easter
There’s a revolution happening in east London. A call for an end to the dude food movement of big meats and big potatoes, burgers the size of buildings and body parts so intimate it’s enough to ma...
Chiltern Street – London’s hottest strip
It's always a pleasure to explore Marylebone’s charming streets and stumble upon a hidden gem like Chiltern Street. Recognised as a highly desirable address, ever so quietly assured of it’s own class, style, an...
Brief encounters at the Pullman
In the first of a series of tales that begin from a Pullman Hotel in a number of locations, we explore the relationship of artist and patron and how a serendipitous meeting in a lobby or bar might...
Easter eggs from Nobu London
This Easter, Nobu London will give the classic chocolate egg a Michelin-star make-over. Executive head pastry chef Regis Cursan has created three Japanese designs in milk, white and dark chocolate, all from...
Maria Zahle at the Rooftop Cafe, London Bridge
Floating out at sea like a message in a bottle the understated and hidden Rooftop Cafe confidently bobs along in London Bridge beside the Giant massive ship that is HMS The Shard. Akin to a siren calling to her...
HYSTERIA show of new work opens in Soho, London
Opening next week in one of Glass Magazine’s favourite Soho haunts, the exquisite French patisserie Maison Bertaux, all-female art collective HYSTERIA show their latest collection of work alongside that of inte...
Cockles and Champagne
To be tired of London’s restaurants is to be tired of life but this truism may have something to do with the way new restaurants are constantly opening in the metropolis, forever offering something novel fo...