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THE WINTER 2013/14 RIVERLAMBETH & SOUTHWARK THREADNEEDLEMAN A tailor to bridegrooms, Teds and Skinheads AN ABC OF PARTIES Throw a 1920s bash like the ‘Flaming Youth’ WINTER ON THE SOUTHBANK Artisan markets, theatre and dance FOOD & DRINK • STYLE • CULTURE • FOR THE SOUL • PROPERTY THE cONTacT uS Editor A Webb [email protected] Sub Editor RIVER Chloe Hodge lambETH & SOuTHWaRk [email protected] Magazine Designers Milana Veselinovic Simon Wood Flavia Cabrera Original Magazine Layouts Lisa Tobin Contributors Chloe Hodge Jessica Cusack Joe Campbell Owen Rice Phoebe Vigor Scarlet Cummins Christian Thomson Gaynor Edwards Rebecca Lodge Publisher Chris Richmond EDITOR’S WORDS Commercial Sales Joe Campbell Dear Readers [email protected] WElcOmE TO REaDERS IN lambETH aND SOuTHWaRk 020 7403 8105 In our Winter 2013/14 issue we are pleased to be extending our distribution, readership and commercial partners THE RIVER further into the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. 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These were and Like us on facebook Tea for 2 at The London Bridge Hotel www.facebook.com/TheRiverMagazine Chris Meadows from south west London All of our content is now online at www.therivermagazine.co.uk Dinner for 2 at Olivelli Italian restaurant Betina Lorentzen and David McCormick from East WHEN YOu HaVE FINISHED WITH Dulwich THIS maGaZINE PlEaSE REcYclE IT 06 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • EDITORS WORDS Light bulb moments a speciality of the house. Full of bright ideas for interiors. retail • hotels • restaurants • bars • workplaces Tonik 208 Bermondsey Street London SE1 3TQ 0207 378 9670 www.tonikassociates.co.uk In The River 26 Cover image credits: Rambert Hush by Christopher Bruce. image credits: Rambert Dancer: Thomasin Gülgeç Hush by Cover Crickmay © Anthony WINTER 2013/14 FOOD AND DRINK FOR THE SOUL 10 The ABC of Parties 33 The Gyrotonic System 12 Temptation at Tentazioni 34 Another Planet: The Return of Mike Kellie 14 Hampers by Carmello and Maria 36 Detox Post-party 16 Gluten Free & Yule Log Recipe 38 Poets of Lambeth 17 Fresh from the market: Del Mercato BUSINESS STYLE 41 Underneath The Arches 18 Threadneedleman Tailors 43 The Pyramid of Shad Thames 20 Sold On Retail with Tonik’s Anne Horton PROPERTY 22 The RIVER Emporium 44 History in the Making: One Tower Bridge Part 3 CULTURE 49 Est. 1804 25 Giving it Both Barrels with Mike Gunn 26 Cover Feature: The Festive Season on Southbank 29 MediCinema & UFF Tea Merchants 30 Live at The Glad & Robin The Fog 31 Entertainments Listings 43 29 18 33 THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CONTENTS • 09 THE ABC of parties Join the ‘flaming youth’ and throw a 1920s bash 10 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK rs Dalloway, long white gloves Virginia • Long pearl necklaces, ornate Dishes Woolf’s brooches and fake diamonds and fictional stones character • Waldorf salad, stuffed mushroom • Feathered headdresses and and high- and devilled eggs flowers for your hair society • Miniature sandwiches, salmon • Pin hair up or braid into elaborate hostess, saw parties as profound mousse and cheese souffles styles or wear short, flapper-style events, a ‘gift’ to her guests, which • Caviar, oysters and asparagus • Make up with ivory loose powder, should have meaning for everyone. wrapped in pancetta raspberry lipstick worn to “Every time she gave a party accentuate the cupids bow and she had this feeling of being dark eyes Desserts something not herself, and • Chanel No. 5 – essential! that every one was unreal • Baked Alaska, layered chocolate in one way; much more real mousse cake and aspic deserts in another. It was, she thought, Interiors • Salted caramels, assorted partly their clothes, partly being chocolates and florentine cookies taken out of their ordinary • Art-deco and art-nouveau ways, partly the background, it accessories, and Tiffany lamp was possible to say things you copies Drinks couldn’t say anyhow else, things • Living spaces decorated silk and that needed an effort; possible to velvet pillows Bellini go much deeper.” • Ice sculptures - make your Pour 2 ounces of peach juice into own! Moulds available on a champagne glass, and slowly add Ring out the old and bring in the www.icecraft.com 4oz champagne new with a 1920’s style party of decadence and optimism, evoking the spirit of a period loved by all! Lighting The Bronx We recommend starting your Shake and serve: party planning by pouring • Chandeliers, vintage gas lamps 2 oz gin yourself a Bellini (peach juice and (try eBay) and Chinese lanterns 1/2 oz dry vermouth champagne) and beginning to pen 1/2 oz sweet vermouth out your invitations.... Table decorations 1 oz fresh orange juice Invitations • Try Bermondsey Square Antique Market for tableware, held on • Pale pink and white, or cream Bathtub Gin with gold text in a Champagne Friday mornings Combine 375ml water font • Centrepieces using ferns, flowers, silver ribbons and ostrich feathers and 375ml vodka in a large jar. • Gold painted branches, faux Dress Code for Men Add a pinch of dried jewels and candelabras juniper berries and • Fancily folded napkins and • Tux or black suit, white shirts, handful of citrus peel. decorative tablecloths (chenille snappy patent shoes, bow ties, Cover and store in a throws are ideal) cool, dark place for braces, and seriously flashy • Gold-rimmed white plates, napkin up to a week, shaking jewellery rings and elaborate silverware each day. • Top hats, fedoras, bowlers or • Carnival glass punch bowls, cut Pass it through a trilby’ s with hair slicked back glass designs and champagne strainer and drink beneath responsibly! coupes Dress Code for Music Women Great Gatsbys and flamboyant • A lively combination of swing, hot Flappers should remember to throw • Lace, satin, or silk dresses either jazz and The Charleston themselves into the party before in long conservative cuts or • For inspiration look online for Prohibition hits! fringed flapper-style tracks such as the Royal Garden • To keep warm, velvet evening Blues, Hot Hot Hot Dance and cloaks, long floaty shawls and West End Blues THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK • 11 TEMPTATION From the outside it is modest, on the inside it is romantic but when the dining starts it is other worldly by Owen Rice 12 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK eet Riccardo and sauce. But a sauce full of truffle Giacomini and parmesan, and a fresh pasta and that was flawless. Alessandro I don’t feed just Tentazioni celebrated its 16th Cattani. the body, but the year in September and the people The whole person with of Shad Thames have something to fortunate people of Shad Thames be immensely proud of here. When, who have shared in the secret of an ‘experience’ of due to a life threatening motor Tentazioni will know the unique Tentazioni accident Riccardo was forced to story of their extraordinary step out of the kitchen and put his person with an ‘experience’ of collaboration, their gentle modesty faith in Alessandro, a younger chef Tentazioni.” By the second course and their distinguished skills. he had been nurturing until this we had started to understand what When we visited Tentazioni ‘‘ time, the regulars of Tentazioni he meant. (Italian for ‘Temptation’) we asked must have moments when they The Jerusalem Artichoke soup Riccardo to put together a few thought this exceptional place poured at the table onto a bowl things for us to try. He then planned would lose some magic. Instead with a few flowers scented with and delivered what can only be an additional wave of seasoning, truffle oil, matched with a Sicilian described as an adventure in food another layer of expression and Grecanico white wine was my and wine. inventiveness has been added to partners idea of perfection. For me Each course came with a hand- the maturity of Riccardo’s proven the classic simplicity of our fourth picked wine to prepare the palette recipes. course was my favourite. Before and accompany the food. As each If you are a lover of food then you it was served we were given a emptied plate and glass was swept owe it to yourself to give in to this big-tasting Chardonnay from Sicily away by an elegant waiting team, temptation. Take someone special which surprised us and had us the sense of occasion grew, as did and surrender to a romance that guessing what food would be served the curiosity of what was coming Tentazioni has created with food.