Permit Room Portobello
When it comes to food, the menu is shorter than your standard Dishoom offering, but with dishes exclusive to the Permit Room, such as chilli-cheese naan bites, and fish chapali patties, as well as cinnamon-spiked French toast for brekkie. But what really makes the Permit Room special is the fact that it's home to a stunningly designed two-room apartment upstairs - yes, a Dishoom hotel. It's £700 a night, but could comfortably sleep four, with bouncy beds, a large living area and a view up Portobello Road that seems straight out of a Richard Curtis movie. It feels less like a hotel and more like your stylish auntie's west London bolthole, complete with fridge stocked with Mango lassi and a mini bar full of Dishoom's prebottled cocktails.
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FR Leavis will be turning in his grave. Reports from a test screening of Emerald Fennell's new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights suggest that the Saltburn director has moved rather a long way away from Emily Brontë's 1847 novel. In Dallas, Texas, the World of Reel website reported on a decidedly un-Victorian approach to the source material. The film apparently opens with a public hanging, and the condemned man ejaculating mid-execution. A nun then does something unmentionable to his corpse. There are, according to the website, several more masturbation scenes, some none-too-subtle visual metaphors (egg yolks running through fingers, dough being vigorously pummelled) and even a spot of BDSM as a woman is strapped into a horse's reins. Whether this is Catherine Earnshaw, the story's free-spirited heroine, or perhaps the luckless, charming Isabella Linton is unknown. Admittedly, it has been a long time since I read Wuthering Heights (I studied it for A-level in the early 1990s and have never gone back), but I do not remember anything to set my teenage heart racing. Fennell is known as a provocateur – Saltburn became notorious for one absolutely revolting scene involving Barry Keoghan and a bathtub – but she does not need to enhance her version of Brontë's novel with anything that is likely to get the purists hot under the collar. For Wuthering Heights is quite strange enough – in fact, I think it is one of the weirdest novels I have ever read. Certainly a lot of this is to do with the atmosphere. The Yorkshire Moors, which Brontë knew very well, is described as an untameable, unlovely place with no beginning and no end. It makes it seem as if the characters exist in some sort of deathloop – each generation burdened by the sins of the one before them. 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