It’s hip to be (pocket) square Product review of Rampley & Co’s pocket squares When is a gentleman’s handkerchief not a handkerchief? When it’s called a ‘pocket square’, of course. Drawing their design inspiration from the historical collections of the National Gallery, English Heritage and the Wallace Collection, among other arty institutions, Rampley & Co …
Punjabi By Nature – Iftar Buffet As another Ramadan sun sets on Dubai, approximately 10,000 eateries spring to life offering opportunity for hungry customers to break their fast. Many of these restaurants offer their own version of an Iftar dining experience, even if Iftar has no traditional place in their culinary schedule or culture. With …
AL-MAEDA RESTAURANT AT DOUBLETREE BY HILTON, JUMEIRAH BEACH – IFTAR BUFFET “Wanna go to Iftar?” Having arrived in Dubai post-Ramadan of July 2015, I had no idea what ‘Iftar’ was/is but I readily agreed to the offer, thinking it might be a newly released movie. For newbies to the Middle East and for the non-Muslims …
Kris Kros Lebanon – Aspin Commercial Tower, 106 Sheikh Zayed Rd – Dubai If ever you need a break from the racing lanes of Sheikh Zayed Road, make a pit stop at Kris Kros Lebanon, a roadside fast food diner on the Service Road near the Aspin Commercial Tower. But good luck finding a parking …
Gazebo (26 January 2016) / Kamat (30 January 2016) The formula says: one restaurant, one review. However, within days of each other, I had the good fortune to be invited to visit two adjacent Indian restaurants and have opted to write a neighbourly combined summary. Gazebo and Kamat are stalwarts of the local Indian restaurant …
Brunch… That’s the no man’s land between breakfast and lunch, right? It’s what Angela Lansbury from the 80s American TV series “Murder, She Wrote” would’ve called ‘elevensies’. So imagine my horror when my dear friend and owner of this blog, invited me to ‘brunch’, on a Tuesday at 9pm. Yes, you read that correctly … …
Time Waits For No Man Well, that year has flown by and what an interesting year it’s been for BASCA. The highlight for me has been getting out and about to meet you. BASCA is its members so putting a face to the names that appear on membership application forms is a real joy. A …
What more can be said about Ivor Novello award winner and BASCA member Kate Bush’s recent live performances at Hammersmith Apollo? Is there anything to top ‘perfection’?In the track ‘50 Words For Snow’, Kate lists fifty fanciful, fictitious and nonsensical words or phrases that Eskimos use to describe snow.As homage, Darren Haynes presents his Before …
Three songwriters – Charlie Dore, Emma Stevens and Jon Allen – took to the stage to combine performance of their songs, interspersed with discussion about the songwriting process. Each songwriter performed a powerful three-song set, before Sam York, our able compère, posed the questions. Following questions from the floor, instruments were left on the stage …
Nick Stephenson meets four songwriting legends to discover the story behind their songs. BARRY MASON was a leading songwriter of the 1960s, writing many songs in partnership with Les Reed. He earned numerous awards throughout his career including five Ivor Novello Awards. His songwriting credits include “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)”, “The Last Waltz” …
