Hilary Armstrong

2 weeks ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

Stevie Parle lives in the country. I have read about the chef’s beautiful off-grid cottage in Kent and drooled over pictures on The Modern House. Parle and his family live on a nature reserve, surrounded by woodland, where he picks wild mushrooms. He grows his own vegetables in the garden, keeps his own bees for honey and at one point even had pigs. It sounds idyllic. So it’s interesting that he should call his latest restaurant Town. Why call it that? What does it mean to him? To us?

3 weeks ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

Of all the frequently asked questions I am frequently asked, the most frequently asked of all is not “Have you been anywhere good recently?”, “What’s your favourite restaurant?”, or “What do you think of The Yellow Bittern?”, it is the rather dull “Where’s the best place to eat in South Kensington?” It is an enquiry that comes from both Londoners and out-of-towners. And I know why. Everybody passes through South Ken now and then.

3 weeks ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

Sport Padel, invented by businessman Enrique Corcuera at his holiday home in Acapulco in 1969, is the fastest growing sport in the world. Upwards of 30 million people play worldwide and the sport is on track to enter the Olympics for Brisbane 2032. Padel is a racket sport, best considered as a hybrid of squash and tennis, played on an enclosed rectangular court, roughly three quarters the size of a tennis court that’s split into two halves with a net across the middle. It’s played in pairs,...

1 month ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

Let’s hope Patrick Powell likes crumbing schnitzel, because he’s going to be doing a lot of it at One Club Row.

2 months ago | theglossarymagazine.com | Hilary Armstrong

New Openings The Lavery has all the makings of being one of the great new restaurants in London for 2025. Time will tell if it lives up to its promise, which starts with the beautiful bones of the building, a Georgian townhouse in South Kensington, that was once the home and studio of Anglo-Irish painter Sir John Lavery. The operation (which includes more than a dozen flexible events spaces) is led by an ‘A’ team comprising creative director Martin Cohen (Odeon, New York; L’Escargot London);...