Sweet perfection – Artist David Shrigley makes tea at Sketch, London
Sweet perfection – Artist David Shrigley makes tea at Sketch, London
Afternoon tea has been given a delicious twist by artist David Shrigley, as part of a two-year residency at Sketch. The Turner Prize-nomin...
Cuisine and charm at Carmine, Umbria
Nestled at the foot of Monte Tezio, central Italy, the newly renovated Chiesa del Carmine, a luxurious eight-bedroomed farmhouse, is available for hire. Carmine looks out across the glorious Italian country...
Tea for Choo at The Berkeley, London
The Berkeley Hotel in fashionable Knightsbridge, synonymous with style and glamour, is proud to announce its first ever collaboration with British luxury fashion accessory brand Jimmy Choo, with the launch of t...
It’s time to visit Geneva – Glass travels to the Hotel d’Anglettere, by Lake Geneva, right in the heart of Europe
It’s time to visit Geneva – Glass travels to the Hotel d’Anglettere, by Lake Geneva, right in the heart of Europe
Hotel d’Anglettere has to be the most perfect place to stay while enjoying a relaxing city br...
Regent Street treats us to a very fashionable night out
Regent Street showed us a night out on the town yesterday evening that isn’t going to be forgotten too soon. Fashion was the focus so naturally we were all ears, eyes and the rest for the once annual #FNO, or F...
Perfectly Situated: The Savoy and London Fashion Week
There are few hotels as iconic and delightfully British as the Savoy, a Fairmont Managed Hotel. Celebrating its 125th anniversary this season, this Fairmont-managed hotel is enjoying a much-deserved renaissance...
A melange of metropolitan chefs
Chef Tong Chee Hwee grew up in Malaysia and he remembers the delicious meals his Hakka grandmother used to cook before he went to Singapore in 1982 to take up his first job in a kitchen. His talen...
Locatelli pizza pops up in Marylebone
Sometimes just a mouthful of what you can’t afford is enough, like Ralph Lauren socks or Stella McCartney underwear. It’s near enough to the real thing to feel its warmth without the burn of a huge bill. Now an...
Summer on the smiling coast of Africa
It’s 6.30 in the evening, an hour before the sun sets over the Gambian coast – locally described as the smiling coast of Africa – and I’m passing time in a car park. Admittedly the car park of the stylish f...
Fishwives and knitted herrings
Swan House is classic Hastings. Go past the Tourist Information centre and Iceland, keep walking to Argos and George Street, then climb up some narrow, cobbled steps to Hill Street. Swan House is ad...
An altar to Chinese cuisine on Worship Street
It’s hard to believe that such a mountain of exquisite, authentic and surprising Chinese tastes could exist on east London’s unassuming Worship Street, but it does, and it’s extraordinary. HKK is...
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...