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The Royal Academy’s got a new restaurant, where the décor is as sumptuous as the menu.

During dark times, sales of affordable luxuries rise rather than fall as people splurge on treats to put a smile on their faces. So we decided to splurge on London’s most iconic luxury sandwich.

A must for deep pocketed collectors or ardent fans of Catalan’s most noted surrealist, for others The Unseen Dali: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures might not be worth much of an effort. It’s a small collection and, to be honest, we’re all pretty well acquainted with Sr Dali’s …

Capitalizing on success at their two year old Soho location, this second Inamo venture brings their “interactive ordering system” and “Oriental fusion” menu to Mayfair. With its living wall, water feature and Japanese garden feel, the new restaurant is an attractive setting to dine. The …

Photo by Christopher Burke, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, © Louise Bourgeois Trust “The Fabric Works” features more than seventy of Louise Bourgeois’s fabric drawings as well as four large-scale sculptures (rest assured there’s a signature Bourgeois giant mother spider for you to ponder). Made between 2002 and …

Photograph by Nic Wing Opposite the charming Connaught Hotel in the effortlessly chic Mount Street stands one of the great cigar stores of London: Sautter. Back in 1963, Desmond Sautter set up this cigar haven and decided that, to satisfy the demands of the many …

Photograph courtesy of London Marriott Grosvenor Square Harry Miles has been Head Concierge at London Marrriott Grosvenor Square for a quarter century. In our latest Ask a Concierge interview, Harry shares his experiences dealing with extravagant guests and what it was like to be a …

Photo / victor*f The London Library (the world’s largest independent lending library) has a sparkly new expansion. Go on, take a look. Impressive, no? Unfortunately, the gloss rather distracts from the grim news that the Library has a financial shortfall, caused by HMRC’s decision to …

Photograph courtesy of Paul Still Starting out with a presumed temporary gig as a night porter some three decades ago, Paul Still stayed on to work his way up the many flights of Mayfair’s iconic London Hilton on Park Lane to not only become its …

Maddox Club oozes with the elaborate decadence and extravagance you’d expect of a private members’ club in Mayfair. Not that many would know as you have to be a fully paid-up member to get in. From July, this will no longer be the case, though. …