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Cheering blast from past at St Pancras Grand

10.09.08
Roast lamb, fish and chips – and salad cream. St Pancras Grand serves decent British food that even the French might enjoy.... more

He's 61 with a penchant for lovers half his age, so who are the women who 'Dance with the Devil?'

04.09.08
Charles Dance has acquired the sort of unenviable love-them-and-leave-them status that has led his showbiz chums to dub him Dance With The Devil.... more

Jason Byrne levels things out

28.08.08
Jason Byrne was on showstopping form with his reflections on the problems of keeping romance alive on the opening night of Pimms Summerfest.... more

Toy-boy boasts. Taunts about drink. And a very wounding confession... Marco's divorce boils over

27.08.08
A very public war has broken out between Marco Pierre White and his wife Mati who now passionately hate each other as much as they once passionately loved one another.... more

Free culture in London

13.08.08
In these straitened times, the first sacrifices are the theatre, concert tickets and art gallery visits, right? Wrong.... more

Knight of passion in the park with Iolanta

04.08.08
Wonderful though the music is, characterisation is wooden in Tchaikovsky's one act Iolanta, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Best Comedy Festivals

04.07.08
Comedy is big business at this year's rock festivals, with better-than-ever line-ups - making this the summer of laughs.... more

Bird-catcher steals Magic Flute show

30.06.08
Simon Callow's new staging of The Magic Flute for Opera Holland Park looks amazing with the singers making the most of the opportunity to sing in English.... more

La Fille du Régiment saved by cast

05.06.08
La Fille du Régiment seems undernourished but the production is blessed with a singer whose voice is bright, clean and agile.... more

Il Trovatore not dampened by weather

04.06.08
There may have been gipsy curses on the weather but Il Trovatore stormed to success in its opening night at Opera Holland Park.... more

Favourites and forgotten gems in Il Trovatore

03.06.08
Opera Holland Park offers a thrilling opportunity for a far wider audience to see and hear Il Trovatore.... more

Get out there – 20 ways to enjoy the summer

30.05.08
This is a golden, sunburned age of outdoor entertainment in London. Get out there. Buy a ticket. Crack open a bottle of something cold. Enjoy.... more

The right outlook at Byron

19.05.08
Byron heaves with energy, enthusiasm and eternal optimism. It's the sort of place where Boris's Londoners will go, says Mark Bolland.... more

Tenors for a tenner as opera seeks new fans

07.04.08
Thousands of opera tickets will be available at £10 and 1,200 will be given away free to young people aged nine to 18 in an attempt to attract new audiences. ... more

Proper grub at Byron

06.02.08
The thing that sets Byron apart is attention to detail, from proper staff training, to bread baked by a proper baker in the East End.... more

London by air, land and water

14.09.07
The 10th annual Thames Festival takes place this weekend, and a giant balloon art installation will mark the launch of London Fashion Week. ... more

A relaxed local

21.08.07
The Prince of Wales's refit year was not surprising and kept a look that has grown to be very familiar to the contemporary pub goer.... more

Fashion Week to lift off with sky of balloons

14.08.07
A cloud of moving light will be launched into the skies over Holland Park to mark the opening of London Fashion Week.... more

Plenty to enjoy at plodding La Traviata

30.07.07
Elaine Kidd's staging of La Traviata, updated to a chic café society 1920s, is a gentle affair, though with much heartfelt emotion from Kate Ladner's statuesque Violetta.... more

Sex and death in Italy

30.07.07
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

Rain fails to dampen new Rossini production

04.07.07
The performers of Barbiere di Siviglia battled against the elements and the singers were forced to concentrate on being heard above heavy rain... more

A very exotic bloom in the park

04.07.07
The songs may be familiar but the opera, Lakme, an exotic fantasy about religious oppression in Imperial India, is fairly unknown... more

Chorus of approval in park

06.06.07
Verdi's Nabucco opened the 2007 season at Opera Holland Park and David Wakeham offers a performance of genuine stature in the lead role... more

Something to sing about

04.06.07
Opera Holland Park has gone from strength-to-strength since Anne Sophie Duprels' arrival in 2000, but the French soprano insists its success is down to teamwork.... more

Best restaurants for Mother's Day

15.03.07
It's Mother's Day on Sunday and time to spoil your mum rotten. From posh tea and scones to the perfect Sunday roast find out where to wine and dine your mum in style.... more

Restaurant fined over 'organic food' lies

18.12.06
A restaurant popular with Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and Gwyneth Paltrow has become the first in the country to be fined for falsely claiming to use organically farmed meat in its meals.... more

Sitter turns tables on Freud

06.10.06
One of Lucian Freud's subjects has taken a remarkable, intimate photograph of one of Britain's greatest living artists at work.... more


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