Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewRed king crabs are seafood royalty. How can this place dedicated to consuming them get it all so horribly wrong?
92 Wigmore Street, London W1U 3RD (020 3096 9484). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £150
Eating crab, like building kitchen extensions and sex, is very messy when done properly. You have to roll up your sleeves and abandon yourself to the mucky business at hand, with hammer, crackers and pick. Read More...
Netherlands This article is more than 9 months old‘It’s like hiding an elephant’: €171m feat of engineering creates museum under Dutch palaceThis article is more than 9 months oldPaleis Het Loo was built as lodge for man who became William III, king of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689
At first glance, William of Orange’s palace seems just as it was in the 17th century – a handsome Dutch baroque building set along three sides of a courtyard seemingly pockmarked with rain puddles. Read More...
The ObserverSexualityLettersLetters: beauty and desire can lie in unexpected placesAn article about sexual preferences, particularly with regard to lesbians and trans women, prompted an array of responsesAs a transgender person who spends a lot of time seeking the opinions of other trans people and activists, I think a majority of trans people, including myself, agree that nobody should ever feel pressured into dating someone, and that having a genital preference is not transphobic (“If a lesbian only desires same-sex dates that’s not bigotry, it’s her right”, Comment). Read More...
