Table Talk

Town vs clown

Claudia Savage-Gore baulks at the idea of decamping to the shires

Lovely legs, madam

Thomas Woodham-Smith on the sexed-up fantasies of the antique dealer

Five go mad for fish and chips

Lisa Hilton enjoys a seaside hike, a bracing swim and lashings of warming tea in West Sussex

Dancing into Fall

Hannah Betts selects a fabulous, gloom-defying autumn wardrobe

Track rate

Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels

American nightmare

Lisa Hilton reluctantly samples a Five Guys burger in Milan and regrets it

Bullfighting à la mode

Christopher North says French aficionados are more demanding than the Spanish

Bad taste of PC foodies

Cultural appropriation in cooking is wonderful, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Go on, go to seed

Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson

A crisp House white

Christopher Pincher on the wine of Westminster