The Weekend Opener
from Andrew Tuck
Why restaurant design has us all feeling like sitting ducks
Dear restaurant designer,I hope that you don’t mind me dropping you this note out of the blue but I wanted to have a word about the humble topic of seating. You see, you have…
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Playing to the gallery
A phone call: do I fancy seeing Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery? It’s a 09.45 slot on a Saturday. The answer is a simple, “Yes, please”. It’s good having a…
That’s a wrap
This was 2024… Hong Kong for The Chiefs conference – a line-up of amazing speakers and life stories spilling out on stage. There’s an after-party hosted by the dapper menswear player Mark Cho at…
Good times unleashed
Bye! This morning, a little against the odds, we are driving south. Leaving London and heading back to Mallorca for a triumvirate of key dates (well, in my book anyway): my birthday, Christmas and…
Greece on a plate
1On Tuesday afternoon I was taken to lunch in Athens. Now that’s a nice sentence. It was nudging past 20C as we walked to the restaurant and the warm winter sunshine was making the…
Bear in mind
I watched a 15-second video on social media (give me a break, we all have weak moments) of men in a boat in Arctic waters saving a polar-bear cub. They help the furry bundle…
Down to business
On Thursday, when I checked the messages on my phone, I saw that there was an update from the on-the-ball organisers of the Greece Talks conference. Its content was precise and clear. “Andrew, the…
Best of pluck
The new issue of Monocle: The Entrepreneurs is out and, of course, we would like you to purchase a copy or, better still, become a subscriber, so that you can receive all our magazines.…
Inside scoop
How our homes look somehow feels important. Done well, they can reflect our tastes and the times that we move in. We buy interior-design magazines, visit endless stores in search of the most apposite…
Perfect Zen
After filing last week’s column from Tokyo, I still had a whole weekend in the city up my sleeve before I would have to return to base camp. You don’t mind joining me for…
From Tokyo with Lovots
1Last weekend we went to stay with friends of decades’ standing in deepest Wiltshire, a bucolic part of England that’s as beautiful as the Cotswolds but without the coach tours. They live in a…
