Let the choirs of archangels, angels, seraphim and cherubim (and all the others) cry forth “Hallelujah!”, for it is once again white truffle season, that time of year when we spend vast fortunes on an underground fungus that looks like a mummified testicle but, when thinly shaved, releases a transcendent and heavenly smell that takes…
Category: Secrets from Behind the Scenes
The Professional Kitchen - Behind the Scenes
Thanks to the recently departed Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, we’re all pretty familiar with the idea of the dark and dirty side of a professional kitchen, the rampant sex, drug taking and alcohol abuse. Stories of Marco Pierre White making Gordon Ramsey cry and of Tom Aikens branding the hand of a trainee employee are…
The Rule Of Three Monkeys - Vibrators, Holidays, Handcuffs & Doggy Fun
Welcome to the second in our series of articles looking at the behind-the-scenes comings and goings that people in the arts and hospitality have had to experience. If you’ve had some strange or funny experiences from behind the scenes at work, and you think it should be shared, contact us and we’ll do so. The…
Things Humping in the Night
Welcome to the first of a series of articles looking at the behind-the-scenes comings and goings that people in the arts and hospitality have had to experience. If you’ve had some strange or funny experiences from behind the scenes at work, and you think it should be shared, contact us and we’ll do…
Behind the Scenes at Glyndebourne
Since it’s inception in 1934 under John Christie, the Glyndebourne Opera festival has been a highlight of the British summer social season and a favourite among opera lovers and performers worldwide. Known for producing some of the best operas out there and pushing the bounds of what’s possible, it’s not often that you get to…
Homeslice: Q&A with the Masterminds behind the Creations
For a long time I have raved about Homeslice, the pizza restaurant that started as a street stall before setting up as bricks and mortar on Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden. Now it has expanded to open a second restaurant on Wells Street, Fitzrovia, a third in Shoreditch, and it’s fourth has just opened in…