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Forbes
2 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Forbes
6 Must-Visit London Restaurants This Month
Twenty8 Nomad London Some people get seasonal allergies. We, in the UK, seem to get seasonal appetites. Thankfully, with London shedding its raincoat and stepping into early summer, it's the perfect time to make plans that don't revolve around desk lunches and Deliveroo. New restaurants are launching, terrace pop-ups are fighting for your rosé-all-day loyalty, and if you time it right, you might even make the long stroll to a dessert stop without needing a coat. This month's line-up is quietly chaotic (I ate too much great food recently, what can I say). We've got a Michelin-starred chef in their Knightsbridge comeback, a Mediterranean terrace that wants to be your entire personality for the next two months, and a chocolate-cum-cookie shop in Kennington that's already halfway to cult status. For every must-visit spot listed below, my instructions are simple: plan now, go hungry, and thank me later. Tom Brown at The Capital Where: Knightsbridge Why now: The Cornerstone chef's back — this time, with a 12-course tasting menu set inside his prestigious former hotel home. What to expect: The £125 menu is full of clever, confident moves — mussel and beetroot 'charcuterie,' cuttlefish masquerading as ravioli, and a chocolate dessert laced with caviar, olive oil, and capers. Dishes are refined but never polite, taking all the risks Cornerstone didn't have the backing to take. Expect seriously sensational cooking. Vibe: Understated luxury, big flavours, no posturing. 108 Brasserie's Maison Mirabeau Terrace seafood platter Where: Marylebone Why now: The terrace has had a French Riviera makeover — and the rosé's flowing accordingly. What to expect: Fresh seafood, serious rosé, and just enough sunlight to pretend you're on the Côte d'Azur. Go for seabass crudo or burrata-stuffed crispy gnocchi if you're snacking; level up with the butterflied sea bass or a seafood platter if you're staying a while. Strawberries and cream are on standby for dessert, and the sensational rosé list includes Mirabeau's 'Pure,' 'La Réserve,' and sparkling 'La Folie.' Basically the perfect way to spend a day with friends. Vibe: Day drinking done chic. Twenty8 NoMad London Where: Covent Garden Why now: The team behind NoMad London has launched its most ambitious concept yet: an ultra-luxe bistro channelling old New York glam What to expect: Set in a reimagined Victorian palm court (designed by Martin Brudnizki, naturally), Twenty8 delivers on both phenomenal British produce and big-theatre flair. The menu leans hard into elevated comfort food — seafood towers, dry-aged Galician steak, that infamous foie-gras-stuffed chicken — while the martini list reads like a liquid history of New York's cocktail canon. Vibe: Big on Instagramability, bigger on flavour and service. Nine Lives taco Where: London Bridge Why now: A brilliant bar made better by bargain tacos and a terrace that's finally open again. What to expect: Every Tuesday chef Ramón Ramos serves £3 tacos inspired by those from his hometown of Guadalajara — best paired with £10 Champagne cocktails under the disco ball. Throughout the week, you can also expect a new experimental cocktail menu shaped by 2025 trend forecasts, a fresh outdoor space for spicy margs in the sun, and a custom hi-fi sound system that takes the 'listening bar' brief seriously. If you know, you know. Vibe: Underground in all the right ways. Estiatorio Milos' fish market Where: St James's Why now: Because sometimes only grilled octopus and a £50 sea bass will do. What to expect: Impeccably fresh seafood, flown in daily and displayed on ice like edible sculpture. Greek minimalism on the plate and in the room — think white linen, an unbelievably friendly and skilled staff, plus a dining crowd that looks like they summer in Hydra. Don't miss the paper-thin zucchini and aubergine tower, stacked high over saganaki cheese and finished tableside with wild thyme honey. Vibe: International money, Med-light diet, the best mineral wine mandatory. Chocolate Dino Company cookies Where: Kennington Why now: Because your inner child deserves it. What to expect: It started as a lockdown brownie delivery service and now turns out some of London's best cookies from a low-key Kennington spot. Thick, gooey, and properly indulgent, the cookies come in rotating flavours (red velvet and chocolate orange are personal faves), often still warm from the oven. There's coffee, brunch and bagels, too — but let's be honest, you're going for the cookies. Vibe: Neighbourhood gem you can order to your door. No notes.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lightstar Stands with America's Farming Families to Defend Rural Property Rights, Agricultural Resilience, and American Energy Independence.
Call Congress today and tell your Senators to keep America's farming families strong and rural communities resilient by preserving the investment tax credits. BOSTON, May 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightstar reaffirms its unwavering commitment to America's farming families as federal proposals threaten to undermine a vital farm viability and succession planning tool for America's farmers – the long-standing technology neutral investment tax credit (ITC). Recent language passed by the House on Thursday May 22, including a 60-day construction requirement, would kill hundreds of solar projects, which many farming families rely on for retirement and financial independence. This move jeopardizes the financial stability and future of rural communities across the nation, undermining a proven model that supports productive agriculture and energy independence. "Our farmers rely on the financial stability of solar projects to keep their land productive, diversify their income, and future-proof their businesses against growing economic uncertainties," said Lucy Bullock-Sieger, Chief Strategy Officer at Lightstar. "Stripping the ITCs away is more than policy change. It's a direct threat to American livelihoods, our food system, and energy security. Lightstar stands united with our landowners across the country — do not jeopardize their futures." For years, the ITCs have empowered family farms to adopt agrivoltaics, a dual-use agricultural-solar model that allows continued farming while generating local renewable energy. This innovation enables farmers to steward their land, weather unpredictable markets, and support new generations in farming, all while delivering over $600 billion in private investment and supporting 270,000 jobs nationwide. The ITCs have a demonstrated 400% return, projected to expand the U.S. economy by $1.9 trillion over the next decade, according to the American Clean Power Association. Tom Brown, CEO of Lightstar, emphasized, "If the United States wants to ensure a secure American energy pipeline – the Senate must safeguard current solar investments which have already drawn down significant capital expenses. Abruptly cutting off the investment tax credits undermines the stability of a high-performing industry, jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in private investment." Lightstar's mission is rooted in supporting rural property rights, fostering long-term partnerships, and promoting responsible land use. Lightstar is committed to designing solar projects that operate in harmony with agricultural activity, ensuring that land remains in agricultural operation through innovative agrivoltaics. Without the investment tax credit these projects cannot move forward. "The Senate must act to protect responsible solar and block the House ITC provisions," added Bullock-Sieger. "Canceling the investment tax credit in 2025 means canceling the futures of thousands of farming families and jeopardizing our energy security as a nation. We need more food and energy, not less – and farming families should be able to deliver both for America." Tell Congress to keep American Energy Incentives in place for America's farmers. Act now! You can support America's farming families, visit: For Farmers:Farmers in Support of American Energy Incentives Add your company to the sign-on letter today to help defend Solar and storage tax credits: For Farming Organizations:Farming Organization Letter - Defend Clean Energy Incentives About LightstarLightstar develops, builds, and operates community solar projects that deliver lasting benefits for landowners, their land, and local communities. With a focus on environmental stewardship and long-term partnerships, Lightstar empowers America's rural families to thrive in a changing world while protecting the legacy and productivity of their land. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Lightstar Renewables, LLC
Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Tom Brown restaurant review: ‘To my relief, I enjoyed this hugely'
I was looking forward to this place immensely. I loved Tom Brown's cooking at Cornerstone in Hackney Wick — I remember oysters pickled briefly in gherkin vinegar back in 2018 when it opened, cured monkfish slivers with lime pickle and coconut, potted shrimps on a warm crumpet (years before the full-scale crumpet invasion of top-flight dining) and cider-braised cuttlefish on lentils — and reckoned it would be the perfect match for the bouji dining room at the Capital, the famous old Knightsbridge hotel. Especially as Tom was so good with fish. The Capital was fishy, I recalled. I went with Andrew Lloyd Webber back in 2012, when Nathan Outlaw was at the stove, or at least over the door. They were calling it Outlaw's
Telegraph
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
William Sitwell reviews Tom Brown at The Capital: ‘A monument to the dull and misconceived'
It all sounds glorious. On paper. The prodigal son returns. Tom Brown, a chef from Cornwall, had his big break at The Capital Hotel when fellow West Country stove-meister Nathan Outlaw hired him to lead the kitchens. Then Brown went east, that essential pilgrimage for chefs who must head for London's E postcodes, where they collect checked shirts, beards and tattoos. And for Brown that meant Cornerstone, a celebrated establishment of seafood and tasting menus, where he showed his mastery of fish cookery with refined plates against a backdrop of industrial modernity. And he's back, now the main man at the Knightsbridge hotel, a chic vestige of spenny grandeur on Basil Street, round the corner from Harrods and opposite a block containing some of the world's most expensive doctors and shrinks. It's in a room of some 26 covers, a small area – more private dining space than restaurant – with fantasy forest splodges on the walls and carpets, and what look like giant sea urchins lit up in gold hanging from the ceiling. With its cluster of obliging staff at the entrance, a sweet little bar, and besuited and elegant service, the restaurant strikes one as a discreet place for elicit rendezvous. In which case one wouldn't want that wrecked by having it firmly put on the map by a big-name chef. So relax, because it won't be. The Capital's lush confines don't do the food, when it's firing, any favours. Because Brown's occasional culinary brilliance, amid this upscale drawing room vibe, just melts into oblivion. The Capital has tried out a vast number of cheffy names in this place; the last time I ate here was some 20 years ago when Frenchman Éric Chavot had a go – and his cheeky, jolly, bouncing and jocular self also clashed with the room. So having pottered along nicely in recent years as a decent brasserie keeping its hotel guests happy, it gives the big-name gambit another go and in comes Brown. We went for the six-course lunch menu, with the staff kindly letting us mix in the odd dish from the three- and eight-course ones, starting with raw oyster taken from the shell and laid on some apparently hot – but not – seaweed cream on a fried little wedge of bread. It was a fresh taste of the sea with some crunch but came surrounded by decorative, undressed salad leaves that were a waste of the toil of cultivation and a spot on God's earth. Then came a plate of 'charcuterie': horrid cod mortadella; equally rank bresaola of salmon – it might be a way to age beef, but it simply tired this fish; and their salami – three slices of orange fishy mush which looked like squashed goldfish and smelt like the stuff you feed them with. Roast chicken abutting bass in a green wrap of leek was a clever combo, but the undercooked white asparagus looked like a dead man's protuberance and it wouldn't suit a morgue let alone this dining room. My mango pud was an artistic delight covered in sugar spun as a scallop shell. But my pal Monty's chocolate and caper number in a large swirl of olive oil was just that – a flavour combo so offensive it should be banned under the Geneva Convention. Half-starved and fresh out of captivity, I would still swerve this monument to the dull and misconceived.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Richmond find their aura as rebuild roars ahead of schedule
The two clubs that won all four AFL premierships between 2017 and 2020 squared off Sunday in a clash that didn't look particularly enticing when the fixture was released last November. Heading into 2025, there were predictions of winless seasons and comparisons with the darkest days of Fitzroy. But the game between Richmond and West Coast boiled down to a last-gasp tackle. It was the kind of tackle that was supposedly given its last rites a fortnight ago, a tackle that saw a goal-bound but moribund fourth gamer ambushed like a cheetah on an impala. These things are a mix of technique, speed, luck and, most crucially, will. Tom Brown had all four in spades, and Richmond had another win. Back in early March, if the Tigers' coach, players and supporters had been offered three wins by Mother's Day, they wouldn't have hesitated in accepting. All they really wanted was to be as competitive as possible, to get some games into their draftees, and to steal four points here or there. They've achieved all of that already. Hell, they achieved that in their first game against Carlton. Throw in an unexpected victory over a not entirely beloved triple-premiership coach now at the Suns, and a hard-fought win over the Eagles, and the Tigers have much to be positive about. After a rapid decline and the occasional greatest hits concert, the club pinned its future on last year's draft. They sold hundreds of tickets to watch the event at Punt Road despite the event's reputation for being a tough watch. But 90 minutes into the telecast, Ben Dixon was on my list, and Richmond had the nucleus of what it hopes will be its next premiership team. The Tigers only selected homegrown kids, and most of them were from the same school competition, but they didn't exactly play it safe. A lot of those picks were risky. One had suffered multiple concussions. One had torn an ACL. One missed three months with a fractured back. Most of them were tall. It's hard to predict what tall kids at that age are going to be like in half a decade's time. They take longer to develop than a Nick Watson or an Isaac Kako. They can be total busts or suddenly improve out of sight. The draftees we've seen so far have all been good, and a few of the better prospects are still in the shed, but the older players have impressed just as much. It would have been easy for a few of them to phone it in, to collect their cheques, and to offer a bit of grudging guidance. Instead they've provided what has been lacking at other rebuilding clubs – premiership experience, physical and verbal protection and what the coach calls 'the footy chip'. In their season opener against the Blues, it was the mid-tier bracket of players, the ones who didn't play in the flags, who got the Tigers across the line. In the win over the Eagles on Mother's Day, it was the veterans leading the way. It was Toby Nankervis, a blunt instrument and a bone rattler, exactly the sort of captain a young team needs. It was spearhead Tom Lynch, who has barely been sighted for three years, but who is so important structurally, physically and verbally to the side. And it was Kamdyn McIntosh who ran in straight lines and patrolled his wing with a tradesman's alacrity. And then there is coach Adem Yze, who was on a hiding to nothing last year. As a player, he had a charmed run with injuries. But his team was gutted ahead of his second season in charge. He's renowned for his tactical acumen, but all he could do was coach effort, spirit and pressure. Then he lost one of the competition's most exciting players, a recent best and fairest, and two of the most popular players from the Tigers' golden era. The fact that Yze is not a forceful media personality – certainly not like his predecessor – has worked against him. He was even criticised for not exhibiting sufficient gravitas went announcing the captaincy in February. It was claimed he lacked 'aura'. What the hell do we want from a coach? Yze has to drag his side off the bottom of the ladder, teach a bunch of beanpoles how to play the game, and defend one of his best players in Noah Balta who is now subject to a curfew. Apparently he also has to project himself like Tony Soprano berating his capos. At so many other clubs, the concept of a 'rebuild' is a protean one. From month to month, depending on results and the coach's PR skills, it's either a rebuild, a re-stump, a re-wiring or a total re-do. Richmond haven't had to worry about that. They have been upfront about what they are aiming to do and what we should expect. They've already covered their line, exceeded all expectations and given every indication they're a team for the long haul. This is an extract from Guardian Australia's free weekly AFL email, From the Pocket.
