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Celebrating Carnaby Street cool

04.02.10
It's 50 years since one Soho side-street started to take off as London's hippest shopping destination. Jonathan Prynn joins the celebration... more

Diners spend big to help top restaurants beat recession

08.01.10
London’s restaurants prove that diners are still splashing out for the best gastronomic experiences... more

Male scarfology - why men are wrapping up warm this winter

30.11.09
They might not wear a winter coat but men have taken to scarves with a vengeance — indoors and out. Luckily, they’re so nice, they’re good for a steal, says Olivia Cole ... more

Babbo is daddy of a price for an Italian

05.11.09
Maybe to avoid possible future confusion, London Babbo could be renamed Papi.... more

A ballroom built on a lake, ice-sculpted swans and the Bolshoi Ballet

28.09.09
The worlds of business and entertainment came together in spectacular fashion at the weekend in one of the most extravagant wedding parties London has ever seen... more

Strictly glamour as David Walliams and Kate Moss take to the floor

28.09.09
There's always a couple of jokers on the dance floor at weddings. At this bash they just happened to be Kate Moss and David Walliams... more

Three of London's best restaurants for brunch

31.07.09
Brush shoulders with the stars at London's best restaurants for serious brunchers... more

Clubs tycoon sees recession as chance to expand empire

15.06.09
Restaurants and clubs tycoon Richard Caring is planning a huge expansion of his empire in its Mayfair heartland... more

Exclusive: Richard Caring's restaurant empire

12.06.09
The restaurant world did not know what had hit it when Richard Caring started buying up London's most revered establishments, including The Ivy, Le Caprice and J Sheekey... more

Carluccio's sags as takeover talks cease

26.05.09
Shares in Italian cafés and delis chain Carluccio's slumped more than 14% after takeover talks with a possible bidder fell apart... more

Bidder gets a taste for Carluccio's takeaway

05.05.09
Coffee and pasta chain Carluccio's revealed that it has had a takeover bid, sending the shares soaring... more

Taxing the rich achieves little and breaks a pledge

27.04.09
The other evening, after work, I popped into the grocer’s down the road. I needed Nurofen. Ahead of me in a queue were two men and a woman. They were together and they were buying Special Brew. They were already drunk, so much so they could barely speak. ... more

Tories have a ball as Labour donor bankrolls their night at Annabel’s

06.02.09
Restaurant millionaire Richard Caring, who has financed the Labour Party, has started donating to the Conservatives... more

I foresee Lena times ahead

31.12.08
New Italian restaurant, Lena, in Shoreditch serves perfectly good food but it has chosen the wrong place at the wrong time.... more

Oysters at J Sheekey are worth shelling out for

24.12.08
J Sheekey has expanded by turning what used to be a secondhand bookshop into an oyster bar. It’s about the most convincing seafood bar in town, says David Sexton.... more

Jamie Oliver and other restaurateurs defy credit crunch for 2009

22.12.08
Three of London's leading restaurateurs plan ambitious openings next year and in 2010 despite the economic downturn... more

Oyster bar Scotts is voted the pearl of London restaurants

19.12.08
Mayfair dining room Scotts has been named restaurant of the year in a leading industry magazine's awards... more

Bidders on start line for US embassy site

04.12.08
Bidders line up to buy the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square and turn it into what could be the most prestigious hotel and residential development in the world... more

Food

08.10.08
The credit crunch is going to be a test for restaurateurs as the capital's increasingly educated diners become more picky not only about the menu but the price tag attached to it. ... more

Social London

08.10.08
This is the heart of the social scene, with the names that make the social circuit turn and add the glitter to the parties the capital does so well ... more

US embassy will move to Battersea

02.10.08
The American Embassy is to quit Grosvenor Square, the Evening Standard has learned... more

Ivy venture features host of works by leading artists

23.09.08
It is the exclusive new club which is carefully shunning publicity for its well-connected patrons... more

Best of the brasseries

21.08.08
A trio of French brasseries have been named as the perfect gastronomic solution to the credit crunch... more

Watch the rising of the Moon

14.05.08
Alan Yau's latest Chinese food venture, Cha Cha Moon, combines great value with superb attention to detail, says Fay Maschler.... more

£450m Ivy owner beats TV chefs to become richest restaurateur

25.04.08
Richard Caring, the tycoon who ploughed much of his rag-trade fortune into leading West End dining rooms and clubs including The Ivy, has been named London's wealthiest restaurateur... more

Soho House expands to 'Bed and Brasserie'

22.04.08
Soho House is expanding its empire with a boutique "bed and brasserie" in the heart of Soho... more

A good old fashioned grilling

12.03.08
They've turned the clock back at The Grill to serve up the best of traditional British fare with lashings of style.... more

Not quite fluent in French

05.03.08
Côte is the first of a proposed new restaurant chain from the men behind Strada, but it needs to get more authentically Gallic, says Fay Maschler. ... more

Gamble at Aspinalls

12.12.07
A series of excellent first courses are on offer at Alberico at Aspinalls, a restaurant housed in a Mayfair casino.... more

Space on the fifth floor

07.11.07
Shoreditch House is on the top floors of a converted biscuit factory, where the waiter conveyed real enthusiasm for the food.... more

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