Tanya Gold

London

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Northern Europe doesn’t get salads: Claro reviewed

1 day ago | spectator.co.uk | Tanya Gold

Claro is at 12 Waterloo Place, St James’s, and, when I tried to find out what it used to be – it has the energy of a bank – I found an advert from the Crown Estate offering the lease for a ‘retail or wellness opportunity’. 12 Waterloo Place was pictured in pen and ink, with a woman holding a yoga mat idling past, and a woman in cycling shorts hanging back. I wonder why the Crown Estate is pushing wellness, which I think is being rich, bored and female while not dying.
From tutting and cosy crime to losing at the World Cup... as Gloucestershire cheese rollers win international recognition, TANYA GOLD reveals what makes us truly British | Daily Mail Online

4 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tanya Gold

In anxious times, it’s essential to have a national culture to unite around. Almost everyone agrees with that, but – and this is the perilous part – we cannot always agree on what that national culture should be. It’s almost 13 years since the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, when it was summarised as the NHS, the Spice Girls, London taxis and, thanks to the inclusion of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian infrastructure.
Smart even for Chelsea: Josephine Bouchon reviewed

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Tanya Gold

Josephine is a Lyonnaise bistro on the Fulham Road from Claude Bosi. It is named for Bosi’s grandmother and is that rare, magical thing: a perfect restaurant. Bosi runs Bibendum (two Michelin stars, and in Michelin House) and Brooklands at the top of the appalling Peninsula hotel (two Michelin stars).
Smart even for Chelsea: Josephine Bouchon reviewed

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Tanya Gold

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments When you feel love in a restaurant, you are in the right place, even in Chelsea Josephine is a Lyonnaise bistro on the Fulham Road from Claude Bosi. It is named for Bosi’s grandmother and is that rare, magical thing: a perfect restaurant. Bosi runs Bibendum (two Michelin stars, and in Michelin House) and Brooklands at the top of the appalling Peninsula hotel (two Michelin stars). He opens a second Josephine this month...
A creche for nepo babies: the River Cafe Cafe reviewed

4 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Tanya Gold

The River Cafe has grown a thrifty annexe, and this passes for democratisation. All restaurants are tribal: if dukes have Wiltons, ancient Blairites have the River Cafe. It is a Richard Rogers remake of Duckhams oil storage, a warehouse of sinister London brick, and a Ruth Rogers restaurant. Opening in 1987, it heralded the gentrification of Hammersmith, which has stalled now that Hammersmith Bridge is closed to traffic and sits dully on the Thames, a bridge of decline.
A creche for nepo babies: the River Cafe Cafe reviewed

4 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Tanya Gold

The River Cafe has grown a thrifty annexe, and this passes for democratisation. All restaurants are tribal: if dukes have Wiltons, ancient Blairites have the River Cafe. It is a Richard Rogers remake of Duckhams oil storage, a warehouse of sinister London brick, and a Ruth Rogers restaurant. Opening in 1987, it heralded the gentrification of Hammersmith, which has stalled now that Hammersmith Bridge is closed to traffic and sits dully on the Thames, a bridge of decline.
A psychotherapist reveals the most common reason behind adultery

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tanya Gold

In June 2021 Juliet Rosenfeld placed a classified ad in a handful of respectable publications asking: ‘Have you had an affair?’Within days the leading psychotherapist and writer had received scores of replies, ranging from the familiar to the bizarre. The result is Affairs, a book that Rosenfeld intended to write in a year but which was so complex it took five. It is the book of 2025. It involved hundreds of hours of research and interviews and tells the story of five affairs in shocking intimacy.
Hollywood loves a cause, except when the cause is Jewish - The Jewish Chronicle

1 month ago | thejc.com | Tanya Gold

In the perfect Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder Tugg Speedman, an action star loosely modelled on Tom Cruise, played by Ben Stiller, fronts an ad campaign to save the panda, presumably because he likes its colour scheme. It's a mockery of the Hollywood fashion for spurious, self-serving, and ultimately performative political activism: later, Speedman kills a panda, and wears it as a hat.
A great-day-out cafe that’s good value: Kenwood House reviewed

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Tanya Gold

The immaculate bourgeois socialists of north London – that is not code for Jews – like to eat and drink in the former servants’ quarters of Kenwood House, because this is a mad country. Kenwood is beautiful. It is Hampstead’s best house, standing at the top of the heath, near the head waters of the River Fleet, the river of the journalists. Further down the hill the immaculate bourgeois socialists gambol in the swimming ponds, which is apparently a fashionable thing to do.
A great-day-out cafe that’s good value: Kenwood House reviewed

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Tanya Gold

The immaculate bourgeois socialists of north London – that is not code for Jews – like to eat and drink in the former servants’ quarters of Kenwood House, because this is a mad country. Kenwood is beautiful. It is Hampstead’s best house, standing at the top of the heath, near the head waters of the River Fleet, the river of the journalists.