Bruichladdich Luxury Scottish Whisky: A unique sense of place https://www.bruichladdich.com/ It is rare, in life, to find a product which speaks so loudly of its surroundings and the people who produced it. One might think of French perfume and the elegant boulevards of Paris perhaps. The finest tailoring is the preserve of the English with London’s gentlemanly Saville Row at its heart, and if you want the most exotic and flamboyant super-cars look no further than stylish Italians. With this in mind, it is naturally the rugged landscape of Scotland that springs to mind whenever the name whisky is uttered.…
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Luxury London Dining at the Holborn Dining Room, Rosewood Rosewood London 252 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EN, United Kingdom T: +44 20 7781 8888 www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/london Recently I entertained a beautiful lady to dinner at Rosewood London, after arlier on in the summer I had visited the hotel for the first time since its highly successful renovations. As part of London Collections I had attended Duchamp and Lutwyche shows and was really impressed by the mix of old school glamour but with such a contemporary décor. So it came as no surprise the fashion world had embraced it, its golden glows…
Mount Gay Rum, a taste of Barbados in Fitzrovia On being invited to taste Mount Gay’s superb selections of rum I was intrigued, as I have to admit – rather embarrassingly – to being something of a rum virgin. Until now, my very limited experience of the spirit began and ended in copious glasses of rum and coke one French holiday as a 15 year old in the Dordogne. However, I knew that it’s been the drink of choice for pirates, and until relatively recently, navy’s around the world have given a daily tot to their sailors as a matter…
Rémy Martin Summer Luncheon at 34 in Mayfair To celebrate the appointment of Baptiste Loiseau as their new appointed Cellar Master. Rémy Martin last week invited twenty selected guests to celebrate a special moment in the heart of Mayfair at the famous 34 Mayfair restaurant. Gentlemans Butler was one of the twenty. This was also a suitable moment to bid farewell to the renowned former Cellar Master,Pierrette Trichet, marking the first time in the history of Rémy Martin for both Cellar Masters to visit the UK side by side. The lunch was held at 34 in the heart of Mayfair,…
Chocolate Ecstasy Tours luxury London Chocolate Tour So you have just made a ton of female friends very quickly…What did someone say girls like chocolate …what more than !! …. STOP! STOP Michael this is a family show …. Chocolate is just one of those amazing subjects…yes it is …as children we adore …yes in everyone’s family photo albums (showing my age I know) there are usually photos of children with chocolate smudged around their face. I famously dipped chocolate fingers into tomato ketchup as a child, something that I d0 not do anymore I should add, then there is…
A “bee”licious Afternoon Tea The St Ermin’s Hotel Dear readers “This is the End” (yes James Bond or Adele live in me)… Our final Trilogy begins and as you know all good things come to an end but with sweets it’s even better! Chapter III: “Bee”licious Afternoon Tea… An afternoon “b”ea in the trendy St Ermin’s Hotel… This is 100% the spirit of « Bees and honey»!!! The Gentleman’s Butler Team was comfortably seated on velvet armchairs and ready to taste and enjoy a “Honey afternoon tea”. The place: A theatrical balcony overhanging the lobby hiding a secret…
JW Steakhouse Fine Steak Dining in Mayfair, London Why do you go for dinner, special occasion, meeting friends, business meeting, girlie lunch, boys night…..Whatever the reason it is good to have choice and in many ways The JW Steakhouse is the classic meeting of two great nations Great Britain and the USA. I recently visited Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel, located on London’s Park Lane in the heart of Mayfair. Interestingly I have a family connection, as I believe my god father was the hotel manager probably back in the 1970’s. Though it first opened in 1929, the hotel…