As Public Health Wales claims drinking spirits is bad for you, we rebut their frankly stupid study
On Tuesday, The Telegraph reported that a completely unscientific study by an organisation named Public Health Wales had...
New York hotel offers a Thanksgiving dinner complete with gold-flaked turkeys and bottomless champagne for £15,100
Late last week Guest of a Guest reported that a New York hotel is to offer a Thanksgiving dinner...
Canadian sues Sunwing Airlines because he was given sparkling wine instead of champagne
A cheapskate airline allegedly promoted a “champagne service” and then bamboozled at least 1,600 customers by serving them cheap sparkling wine.
Quebec based...
Jailbird billionaire Martha Stewart bizarrely suggests nobody except murderers should be in jail
Last week, Martha Stewart spent just over an hour talking to the Katie Couric Podcast. She spoke about her time in jail...
Jailbird billionaire Martha Stewart bizarrely suggests nobody except murderers should be in jail
Last week, Martha Stewart spent just over an hour talking to the Katie Couric Podcast. She spoke about her time in jail...
Matthew Steeples visits the Belgravia pub The Plumbers Arms and decries the death of the traditional British boozer
Last Wednesday, I happened to have to meet someone in Lower Belgrave Street, SW1 and since I...
Matthew Steeples selects three of South West London’s best pubs
The Duchess, 101 Battersea Park Road, Battersea, SW8 4DS
With works by the sniper-turned-snapper John Stoddart gracing the walls and around 40 gins to choose from,...
Clubbable sorts will love the opportunity to live like Nigella Lawson above Little House Mayfair
When the flatform trainer loving cook Nigella Lawson first split up with Charles ‘The Throttler’ Saatchi back in 2013, she...
Kentish salad company Southern Salads tosses 260 jobs to the wolves after going into administration because of Brexit
Illustrations of the likely negative impact of Britain’s decision to leave the UK are coming from far...
‘Sir Shifty’ filmed in debauched incident in Mykonos; he would do better to sip rather than spray his beverages
Sir Philip Green will forever be remembered as a man whose former company, BHS, collapsed with...
Matthew Steeples visits Boisdale of Mayfair with restaurateur Nicky Kerman – and samples a marmalade infused gin cocktail (or three)
Though most will recognise Boisdale for its tartan décor, traditional cuisine and fine malt whiskies,...
Study reveals drinking alcohol can improve memory
A study has revealed that those that drink alcohol after studying recall what they learnt better than those that don’t.
The University of Exeter set 88 drinkers a word-learning...
After a Chelsea chef who came out of nowhere named Michael Riemenschneider is revealed to be a “conman” in the ‘Mail on Sunday’, readers tell of his past form
As can only be expected of...
A statement from the owners of Trapeze Bar regarding the conduct of their now former general manager Jordan Wells
Yesterday, we reported on a story regarding a bar in the East End coming under fire...
Matthew Steeples takes tea in the delightful courtyard garden at Blakes Hotel in South Kensington, London
Blakes Hotel is synonymous with the now much overused description “boutique hotel” and is generally considered the world’s first....
David Pun gobbled his way through General Election 2017 and was captured on camera by a Mail on Sunday reporter
Mail on Sunday reporter Ned Donovan secured the photo of the evening on General Election...
A dream job for wine lovers; get paid to drink and drive your way across America
An Oregon winery is seeking a ‘Canbassador’ to join them on a roadtrip across America to hawk their range...
Scott’s in Mayfair to reopen after closing due to a mice infestation; Montpeliano remains open in spite of receiving a Food Standards Agency rating of zero out of five
Today, Scott’s restaurant in Mount Street,...
Herefordshire fruit farm for sale for £2.25 million
A 47.6 acre organic Herefordshire fruit farm is for sale for £2.25 million ($2.88 million, €2.69 million or درهم10.58 million).
Situated in the Malvern Hills, Hermitage Court at...
Party-loving David Pun finds fame in Queensway’s Food Basics Oriental Superstore for all the wrong reasons; for him, it’s a far cry from Harvey Nicks
David Pun is well known on London’s party scene and...
Northumbria revealed to be the county with the highest number of fines for women being drunk and disorderly for second year in a row
On Sunday, the Daily Star revealed “Northumbria has the highest number...
Firezza’s first “proper restaurant” in Dean Street, Soho offers gourmet pizza by-the-metre at remarkably reasonable prices; it is a must visit
Edin Basic can be credited with changing the way Brits order pizza. Prior to...
Former Toto’s site in Lennox Gardens Mews, Knightsbridge to become a “contemporary Japanese” restaurant named Dinings
In April 2014, just off Walton Street in Knightsbridge’s Lennox Gardens Mews, Toto’s prepared to reopen after a £3...
Spirits brands hike prices by upto 16% and blame Brexit for increasing their supply-side costs
Drink loving Brexiteers may have cause to reconsider their enthusiasm for Britain leaving the EU.
Since last year’s referendum, the price...
The closure of La Brasserie in Chelsea should send a signal to greedy landlords; their avarice is killing London
There are restaurants that come and go and there are ones that become institutions. La Brasserie...
Matthew Steeples suggests readers reject Donald Trump’s desperate plugs for an opportunity to win dinner with his own very sorry self
In the past twenty-four hours I’ve received four messages begging me to buy my...
As Donald Trump is criticised for dousing over-cooked steak in ketchup, we take a look at Theresa May’s preference for dining at the favourite restaurant of a paedophile and her lack of interest in...
Website sharing food hygiene ratings in UK restaurants surprisingly reveals that venues such as chichi Montpeliano in Knightsbridge and chain diner Gourmet Burger Kitchen in Haverstock Hill are amongst the worst in London
One would...
One-time West Sussex home of Lord Woolton, the man credited with “keeping the nation fed” during World War II, is for sale; it also belonged to the Kleinwort banking family and has gardens by...
Clangers overheard and snippets spotted by readers of ‘The Steeple Times’
Fridge cold love
In The Antelope pub on Eaton Terrace in SW1, two plain clothed policemen sat lamenting marital matters. One announced: “I’ve bought the...
Scene of a Dawn Ward shoving match Salmontini closes to makes way for a new restaurant by chef Nuno Goncalves; next door, hotel The Hari replaces its Pont Street restaurant too
Opened in September 2014,...
An invitation to attend a screening of Steven Berkoff’s first documentary; an “idiosyncratic tribute to his favourite Jewish deli”
For one night only on Tuesday 24th January at 7pm, acclaimed actor, writer and producer Steven...
