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Miércoles, 04 Diciembre 2024 03:50
An invitation to lunch at Caviar Kaspia was, once upon a time, an offer you simply didn't refuse.
Providing, of course, that the bill was on someone else.
Because caviar, smeared on blinis or piled high on baked potatoes, sure didn't
come cheap. There may have been other things on the menu,
but no one paid them much heed. This was all about lashings of the black stuff.
Caviar Kaspia's signature baked potato and caviar: ‘there are few better dishes on earth…only the price, at just under £150, is ridiculous'
Caviar Kaspia popped her final tin about two decades back.
And that site, hidden down a smart Mayfair mews, was taken over by Gavin Rankin (who used to be the boss), and transformed into
the brilliant Bellamy's. It prospers to this day.
Kaspia, on the other hand, went quiet. Until last year, when she reopened
as a members' club in another Mayfair backstreet. But a £2,000 a year membership fee proved hard
to swallow, meaning the doors were opened to the great unwashed.
Which is how we find ourselves sitting in a rather handsome - albeit near
empty - dining room, lusciously lavish, under the stern gaze of a stern painting of a very stern man. The soft, crepuscular gloom is broken up by the glare of table lamps, indecorously bright, while a
loud soundtrack of indolent, indeterminate beats throbs
in the background. The whole place is scented with gilded ennui.
Our fellow diners are two young South Korean women of pale,
luminescent beauty, clad in diaphanous couture. They don't
speak, rather communicate entirely via camera phone.
Pose, click, check, filter, post. Immaculate waiters hover
in the shadows.
We sip ice-cold vodka, and eat a £77 caviar and smoked-salmon Kaspia croque monsieur that tastes
far better than it ought to. Next door, a large table fills with a glut of the noisily,
glossily confident.
We're looked after by a wonderful French lady of such effervescent
charm and charisma that had she burst into an impromptu performance of ‘Willkommen', we would have barely blinked.
Baked potatoes, skin as crisp as parchment, insides whipped savagely hard with butter and sour cream, are a study in tuber art.
A cool jet-black splodge of oscietra caviar, gently saline, raises them to the sublime.
Only the price, at just under £150 each, is ridiculous.
But there are few better dishes on earth. I'd eat this every day if I could.
But I can't. Obviously. That's the problem with caviar.
One taste is never enough.
About £200 per head. Caviar Kaspia, 1a Chesterfield Street, London W1; caviarkaspialondon.com
★★★★✩
My favourite luxury dishes
Tom's pick of the best places to splash the culinary cash in LondonTom's
pick of the best places to splash the culinary cash in London
The Ritz
Beef wellington sliced and sauced at the table (£150) and crêpes suzette flambéed with aplomb (£62): Arts de
la Table is edible theatre at its most delectable.
theritzlondon.com
Otto's
Come to this classic French restaurant for the canard or homard à la presse (£150-£220 per person);
stay for beef tartare (£42), foie gras (£22) and poulet de bresse rôti
(£190, two courses).
ottos-restaurant.com
Sushi Kanesaka
Piscine perfection comes at an eye-watering £420 per person, sans booze.
But this 13-seat sushi bar shows omakase dining at its very finest.
dorchestercollection.com
Min Jiang
The dim sum is some of the best in town. But don't miss the wood-fired Beijing duck (£98) - crisp skin first, then two
servings of the meat. Superb.
minjiang.co.uk
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Nothing signals the start of winter quite like the return of the Fair Isle knit.
Once considered ‘ugly' knitwear we'd only pull out from
the back of our wardrobes as an alternative to a Christmas jumper (especially the red-nosed
reindeer kind à la Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary)
or for a winter sport holiday (specifically for après-ski), the Fair Isle jumper has
now become somewhat of a fashion statement.
The knit is named after the small, eponymous Shetland Island in Scotland and uses a traditional knitting technique to create those distinctive patterns
with multiple colours. It was brought into vogue by an earlier Prince
of Wales (later Edward VIII) in the 1920s, and has remained
a casual wardrobe staple for members of the Royal Family, including Kate Middleton, whose jumper collection includes at least three different
Fair Isle designs.
Kensington Palace
Another fan of the nostalgic knit is Alexa Chung, who recently layered a Fair Isle vest
by Molly Goddard over a light blue button-down in a snap for Instagram.
The It-girl previously also wore a V-neck vest from Cotswolds-based knitwear brand Cooking Apple, and sported a chunky Fair Isle
crewneck with white, straight-leg jeans, black loafers and an oversized, black leather blazer to ring in the festive season at
private members' club in London last year.
A host of designers have dropped Fair Isle-inspired knits
for AW24, proving the multicoloured jumpers have
become a timeless investment. If, as in our case, that £1,885 cashmere turtleneck from Loro
Piana is a little out of your budget, there are countless options on the high
street. The cropped cardi from Hush certainly caught our attention, as
did the Fair Isle knit that was featured in the John Lewis
Christmas advert.
John Lewis
Scroll down for our pick of the cosiest patterned knits to shop right now.
The best Fair Isle knits for AW24
£49, John Lewis
£46, Next
£115, Nobody's Child
£140, Hush
£50, Gap
£179, Holland Cooper
£35, M&S
£94.99, Superdry
£79, Albaray
Miércoles, 04 Diciembre 2024 03:23
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Miércoles, 04 Diciembre 2024 03:17
Briton Matthew Smith, the partner of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries,
leaves court in Central Islip, New York on December 3,
2024
The partner of the ex-CEO of the Abercrombie and Fitch clothing line pleaded not guilty Tuesday in US federal court to charges of
sex trafficking and interstate prostitution and was released on $10 million bond.
Briton Matthew Smith, the ex-CEO Mike Jeffries and their fixer James Jacobson allegedly used a
"casting couch" ploy to groom aspiring male models to attend sex parties at which victims were plied with alcohol and drugs.
After his arrest in October in Florida with Jeffries, Smith was held in custody in New
York. Smith appeared in court Tuesday in Central Islip on Long Island, to the east of New York City.
Smith pleaded not guilty and was released on a $10 million bond put up by
Jeffries and his family, said a statement from the US
attorney's office for the eastern district of New York.
An AFP photographer saw Smith leave the courthouse with what appeared to be
a large electronic surveillance bracelet attached to his ankle.
Le Britannique Matthew Smith, compagnon de l'ancien patron de l'enseigne
américaine de mode Abercrombie & Fitch, Michael Jeffries,
sort du tribunal fédéral de l'est de l'Etat de New
York, à Central Islip, le 3 décembre 2024, après avoir plaidé non coupable de trafic sexuel et proxénétisme
Another hearing is scheduled for December 10 for Smith, Jeffries and Jacobson.
Jeffries, 80, was released on a $10 million bond in late October.
Jeffries, who served as CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch from 1992 to 2014,
is accused of creating and maintaining a ring that recruited young men to have sex with him and Smith.
Prosecutors allege that between December 2008
and March 2015 Jeffries, Smith and Jacobson used a combination of "force, fraud and coercion" to traffic men in a sprawling prostitution enterprise.
Charging documents detail 15 anonymous victims, but prosecutors suggest
the scale was probably much larger and have appealed for witnesses and victims to come forward.
Prosecutors say young men were taken to the New York home
of Jeffries and Smith and to hotels in Britain, France, Italy, Morocco to have sex
with them.
Jeffries faces the prospect of life in prison if convicted.
Jacobson also pleaded not guilty to the same charges as the other defendants and was released on half
a million dollars bond in October.
Miércoles, 04 Diciembre 2024 03:14
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