It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
It’s a wrap
London seems like a brave new world after touching down from Venice
Crepuscular perfection
There’s a new Tuscan restaurant in town — and it’s a success
Smoking hot beefcake
Lisa Hilton enjoys a surpisingly good dinner while ogling the snowboard instructors in Andorra
Artistry in the kitchen
Calmly brilliant cooking rescues a vogueish restaurant full of underwhelming art
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
Miserable minimalism
Lisa Hilton says a prime spot near the kitchen is no compensation for a bewilderingly bad evening
Shots with everything
Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars
The Piedmontese job
Enjoying the silky and lean Italian Fassona beef in Turin and Kensington
Studio: The Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
Collapse of the cordon sanitaire
The success of nationalists is shaking European politics
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
