Entertaining
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This year's best luxury Christmas hampers for festive celebrations
The best Christmas hampers are a classic gift for a reason: everyone loves receiving a basket of beautifully curated pantry fillers just in time for the festivities. Here are our top picks for 2024
By Rosie Conroy Published
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Welcome to the party: the Wallpaper* Entertaining Issue is on sale now
Welcome to the December 2024 Wallpaper* Entertaining Issue: from haute hosting to decadent dressing and a rendez-vous with Italy's powerhouse design families
By Bill Prince Published
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The best design-led cocktail shakers
If you like your drinks shaken not stirred, these are the best cocktail shakers to take your mixology skills to the next level
By Rosie Conroy Published
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The best cocktail napkins for party season
From monogrammed minis through to hand finished Italian linen squares, these are the best cocktail napkins for parties.
By Rosie Conroy Published
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Celebrate Día de los Muertos at one of London (and the world’s) finest Mexican restaurants
Día de los Muertos will arrive at KOL in Marylebone on 2 November, with a collaborative menu including dishes from the chefs behind Endo at The Rotunda to The Connaught, wrapped up with a mezcal fiesta
By Tianna Williams Published
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Mark’s Club’s interior refresh brings British countryside charm to the heart of Mayfair
Located in a classic Mayfair townhouse, Mark’s Club unveils its new interiors, from greenhouse extensions to a new open-plan layout full of trinkets and charm
By Tianna Williams Published
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Yes chef! Take a seat at the chef’s table for Claridge’s decadent new supper series
Claridge’s presents a new supper series with The Good Food Guide, inviting top chefs from across the British Isles to take over the kitchen for one night only
By Tianna Williams Published
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Frogs legs to fromage: Café François is London’s newest French canteen, serving up all the classics with a contemporary global twist
The founders of Mayfair's Maison François have opened a new addition, Café François. The Borough-based canteen offers an array of French classics from dawn to dusk
By Tianna Williams Published
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Dramatic and immersive, Dosa dishes up Korean cuisine with a moody flair
The Mandarin Oriental Mayfair welcomes Dosa, a new Korean restaurant by Akira Back
By Melina Keays Published
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Fortnum & Mason goes mad for mushrooms with a fun series of autumnal events
Fortnum & Mason kicks off the autumn season with a series of masterclasses, supper clubs, and panel discussions which explores the world of fungi, mushrooms and microorganisms
By Tianna Williams Published
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Cinnamon buns to deli delights: fill your boots at Toklas Bakery’s first Harvest Festival
Toklas Bakery hosts its first Harvest Festival which offers the best of Britain’s producers, hands-on workshops, and new pastry flavours ( on 21 September 2024)
By Tianna Williams Published
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Fashion designer Simone Rocha on her perfect restaurant experience
Simone Rocha, among creatives invited by Wallpaper* guest editor Laila Gohar to share meaningful dining memories, recalls happy evenings at a mountainside haunt near Nice
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Mourad Mazouz on how the fusion of high art and haute cuisine has kept Sketch at the pinnacle of London dining
'Opening the restaurant felt like something we’d drawn over and over again': Sketch founder Mourad Mazouz tells Wallpaper* about the importance of artistic and culinary fusion
By Ben McCormack Published
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Taste the trilogy of Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage Champagnes
Moët & Chandon presents ’A Tale of Sublimation’, a trilogy of Grand Vintage Champagnes which represents the journey of harvesting and growing of the grapes, and the declaration of vintage status
By Melina Keays Published
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Food writer, Tamar Adler on her perfect restaurant experience
Guest editor Laila Gohar has asked friends and creatives to share their perfect restaurant experience. Here, chef and food writer, Tamar Adler recounts a momentous meal for a happy occasion
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Designer India Mahdavi on her perfect restaurant experience
As part of Laila Gohar's guest editorship, she asked friends in the industry and her wider creative circle to relive their perfect restaurant experience. Here, designer India Mahdavi recounts a perfect night dining under the pitch-black Egyptian sky
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Embrace evenings in with Serax’s new tableware, perfect for a cosy season of dining
Revealed at Maison & Object in Paris, Serax’s tableware collections in collaboration with artists, designers and architects are sure to make you want to dine in
By Tianna Williams Published
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Guest editor Laila Gohar: ‘Your nicest porcelain should be used whenever you can – every day is an occasion’
For the October 2024 issue of Wallpaper*, chef and artist Laila Gohar takes the reins as one of three guest editors, choosing to examine the social cohesion that is provided by the meals we eat – and the places that administer them – as a means of explaining her own drive to share and entertain
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Published
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'Moroseta Kitchen' is a new recipe book offering a glimpse into the Puglian countryside
'Moroseta Kitchen - A Window Into The Puglian Countryside' by Giorgia Eugenia Goggi is based on the essence of eating in Italy, rooted in farm to table seasonal recipes
By Tianna Williams Published
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The first taste of SirDavis whisky: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter enters the spirits business with a bang
SirDavis is a brand new American whisky founded by Beyoncé, developed in partnership with Moet Hennessy. Last month our resident spirits writer, Neil Ridley, sworn to secrecy, was amongst the very first people in the world to try it…so what did he make of it?
By Neil Ridley Published
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Why bread is back on the menu
Gone are the days of carb-avoidant diets dominating restaurant menus. Food Critic, Leonie Cooper, celebrates the return of pillowy, inventive bread as London's stand-out dish
By Leonie Cooper Published
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Birley Chocolate hits the sweet ’n’ chic spot in London’s Chelsea
The new Birley Chocolate shop, a sibling to Birley Bakery, is a confection of colour as delicious as its finely crafted goods
By Melina Keays Published
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The London tequila bars well worth a shot
Our resident spirits writer Neil Ridley explores London’s best places to enjoy the finest agave-based spirits
By Neil Ridley Published
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New Glenmorangie whisky nods to nature, with botanical artist Azuma Makoto
Glenmorangie unveils ‘Glenmorangie Dr Bill Lumsden x Azuma Makoto 23 Years Old’, an extraordinarily rare limited-edition whisky that embodies the wonder of the natural world
By Melina Keays Published
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These Paris cocktail bars are a perfect mix
Exploring the best cocktail bars in Paris, our resident drinks writer Neil Ridley discovers a perfect mix
By Neil Ridley Published
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Eight of the best Chinese restaurants in London right now
Our food critic's picks of the best Chinese restaurants in London, serving up a wealth of regional wonders in the chicest of contemporary surroundings
By Ben McCormack Published
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American food classics: recipes for a contemporary culinary salute
We salute American food classics, from a hot fudge sundae to crab & corn chowder
By Melina Keays Published