Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021 title won by DeAille Tam from Obscura Shanghai

    DeAille Tam is a passionate chef interpreting Chinese cuisine with a fresh lens. DeAille Tam, executive chef and co-founder of Obscura in Shanghai, has won the title of Asia’s Best Female Chef 2021, sponsored by Cinco Jotas. As she strives to create a new identity for modern Chinese gastronomy, chef DeAille Tam isn’t … Read more

Top champagnes that are showing best this very moment: Top 10 champagnes for 2021

  For the tenth time, Champagne Magazine and wine information platform Tastingbook.com, put hundreds of champagnes in line and ranked the 100 best champagnes on global markets for 2021. After days of blind-tasting hundreds of champagnes, the final results were tabulated. Any champagne making it into the Top 100 in the rigorous tasting by the … Read more

Mix with the best this Christmas

Vermouths, bitters, fruit liqueurs – retro mixers are just the thing for a festive cocktail

Brown’s and top florist offer bespoke floral masterclasses

  Brown’s floral making masterclasses will run throughout 2021, ahead of each calendar month so guests will have the opportunity to master the art of flower arranging throughout the year. Brown’s, a Rocco Forte Hotel has partnered with one of London’s top florist, Ellie Hartley, together with Hambledon, one of Hampshire’s finest vineyards, to offer … Read more

Wyndham Grand Adelaide will become one of the tallest hotels in South Australia

    The South Australian capital has been experiencing a surge of investment, with new infrastructure projects such as the expansion of Adelaide Airport, the revamp of the Adelaide Oval, and now, the creation of one of the city’s tallest hotels. Upper-upscale Wyndham Grand Adelaide will become one of the tallest hotels in South Australia … Read more

Super-rich buying up ‘Downton Abbey estates’ to escape pandemic

Sales of £15m-plus English country homes breaking records as wealthy families ‘recalibrate their priorities’