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'The rear, kitted out with the comfiest-looking armchairs, made me lust after a manicure'
Blush + Blow
The blurb Blush + Blow started out as a seed of an idea in the mind of make-up artist, beauty blogger and entrepreneur Bridget O’Keeffe. Aiming to combine her skills...
'ROKA is the place to bring the food snob who values substance over style'
ROKA Mayfair
...pond of Brandy Alexander. As with the furnishings, it’s all in the details. In a nutshell While I am usually dismissive of anglicised Japanese food, ROKA is the rare instance...
The Fringe Facts
Forget mermaid hair, this summer the biggest hair trend is to go back to bang-basics—which is also thankfully much easier to maintain! We asked three hair salon experts for the...
Fashion Focus
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Child’s play
With this year’s Secret Garden Party themed ‘Childish Things’, culture as a whole seems to have adopted a fondly regressive outlook this summer, from the V&A’s temporary display The Alice...
Fashion Focus
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'A tempting array of revamped classics, with a predictable focus on meat'
ROBA bar and restaurant
Mon–Sat 7am–10.30pm, Sun 7.30am–10.30pm The blurb ROBA is named after its robata grill; aiming to be a focal destination of the growing Paddington food scene, the menu combines Head Chef...
Bailiffscourt, West Sussex
...on the coast at Climping, West Sussex. Lady Moyne was passionate about ‘the medieval style’, so they commissioned architect and antiquarian Amyas Phillips to create their fabulous folly using as...
Shavata Brows & Beauty, Chiswick
The blurb The first Shavata studio opened at Urban Retreat Harrods in 2004, and the brand hasn’t looked back since, with studios opening in Harvey Nichols, Debenhams and House of...
Natalie Allen
When did you realise you definitely wanted to open Sweet Things, what was the lightbulb moment? I was a Project Manager in the City, with a great passion for food...
Sahar Meghani
What prompted you to come up with Trunkaroo; how was the idea born? Trunkaroo is a monthly subscription delivering hands-on art and “STEM”-based (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) projects for...
My West London Life
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'Kojawan looks out over the city in pretty fantastic fashion'
Kojawan
Wed–Sat 5pm–2am, Sun 11am–2am The blurb Billing itself as a ’21st century izakaya’—a sort of informal Japanese sake bar for after-work drinks and food, a bit like a gastropub—Kojawan ‘takes...
