001 Front 1 May2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 16:16 Page 1 N o. 7 6 THE MAGAZINE J U N 1 9 TRAVEL LIVING FOOD & BOOZE One man’s quest to cure a fear of Why your next home improvement Line of Duty star flying, from Xanax to hypnotherapy project should be a lawn on your roof Martin Compston takes a trip down memory lane as he TYCOONS AND THEIR TOYS imagines his What it’s like to party hard on a £33m sports yacht with its own jet pack perfect last meal BRET EASTON ELLIS: OOPS I SAID IT AGAIN The author who can’t stop offending millennials talks Trump, ‘corporate wokeness’ and tweeting drunk 002-003 DPS 23 May 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 13:30 Page 1 PanoMaticLunar LONDON Wempe, New Bond Street Watches of Switzerland, Oxford Street Watches of Switzerland, Knightsbridge Watches of Switzerland, Regent Street Harrods, Heathrow Airport, Terminal 2 MANCHESTER Ernest Jones, St Ann Street YORK Berry’s, Stonegate EDINBURGH Chisholm Hunter, Princes Street GLASGOW Chisholm Hunter, Argyll Arcade 002-003 DPS 23 May 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 13:31 Page 2 W 004-005 DPS 23 May 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 17:46 Page 1 This award- winner has the critics gripped. 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The CO2 figures shown, however, are based on the outgoing test cycle and will be used to calculate vehicle tax on first registration. 004-005 DPS 23 May 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 17:47 Page 2 008 FPA 23 May 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 13:32 Page 1 Elegance is an attitude Kate Winslet La Grande Classique de Longines www.longines.co.uk 007 Contents 23 May 2019_Layout 2 30/05/2019 16:12 Page 1 E D I TO R ’ S I n S I D E LETTER T H I S I S S u E s the dust settles on the collapse of the Jamie Oliver empire, the only people getting much sympathy are the staff and the suppliers Awho’ve been left out of pocket. The business model involved rolling out the same low-margin, high-turnover, sub-Pizza Express formula in as many locations as possible, desperately hoping that we, the idiot public, would 22. be so dazzled by the face of a celebrity that we’d lap up whatever Above: Line of Duty star Martin Compston; Below: The beauty of Costa Rica; The best new places to eat was placed in front of us. Jamie’s Italian in Cardiff remains the worst restaurant in which I’ve eaten, FEATURES REGULARS somewhere so lacking in love and attention that social services should 34: THE SPIRIT OF BARBADOS 20: BUSINESS LUNCH have been called many years ago. We fly to the home of Mount Gay The best places to eat in and around It goes without saying, of course, rum to discover the secrets the City, from Bao’s steamed buns that the food business is tough – you’d behind this golden elixir to Brigadiers’ fine Indian cuisine be better off investing your money in virtually any other industry if you want 42: BRET EASTON ELLIS 22: LAST SUPPER America’s most hated author on Line of Duty star Martin Compston to see a return (any industry apart from Trump, the state of the world and why tells us what he’d eat for his final journalism, that is). To run a successful he’s beyond caring about criticism meal on earth, including a juicy steak restaurant you need an impossible, alchemical combination of passion 54: DIVE TIME 24: CHEF’S TABLE and luck and business acumen and Retro is back and that means a host Aggi Sverrisson invites his mentor more luck. It needs obsessive of sumptuous throwbacks to the Raymond Blanc for tea at his Mayfair attention to detail and a mastery of glory days of diving watches restaurant Texture everything from interior design to supply chain management. 66: FEAR OF FLYING 69: FREQUENT FLYER It affects as many as seven per cent of Sick of being a shuffling zombie? A The new Bob Bob Cité in the us – our reporter sets out to cure his cure for jetlag may be afoot – so Cheesegrater has all of this and more, extreme aviophobia once and for all long as you’re not scared of needles as you can read in my review on P31. Indeed, members of our new City A.M. 92: LONDON’S LOST RIVERS 88: OFFICE SPACE Club need never want for a top-quality Deep beneath the ground are hidden We visit Liverpool Street’s chic new meal again. For a membership fee of networks of water known to only a co-working space to sample the just £240 a year, you’ll receive handful of people – until now relaxation pods and curated scents exclusive offers at dozens of restaurants in the City and beyond, including those owned by our very own columnist Mark Hix, who this issue talks about how vegans make chefs better (P28). You can also receive a host of discounts at Vivek Singh’s Cinnamon Collection, whose new Spitalfields ‘tropical terrace’ is reviewed on P20. There’s never been a better time to eat in the City – and there’s nowhere better to read about it than right here. 70. 20. – STEVE DINNEEN 7 008-009 DPS 23 May 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 17:48 Page 1 WWW.WILLIAMANDSON.COM WandS City AM Magazine March28 indd 1 008-009 DPS 23 May 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 16:14 Page 2 THE PERFECT DESTINATION FOR TOWN & COUNTRY LIVING 21/03/2019 10:59 010 CONTRIBUTERS 23 MAY 2019_Layout 1 30/05/2019 16:11 Page 1 CONTRIBUTORS ADAM HAY-NICHOLLS is one of the MARK HIX is City A.M. The Magazine’s SCARLET WINTERBERG is City A.M. country’s leading motoring journalists, regular food columnist and author of The Magazine’s luxury travel cruising around the world’s most new book Hooked: Adventures in columnist. Each issue, she shares glamorous cities in cars most people Angling & Eating. His restaurants insider tips and frequent flyer only see in Park Lane showrooms. This include HIX Soho, Tramshed and Hixter information to help you get the best issue he straps into the tank-like Bankside. He talks about why he loves from your work trips. This month she Mercedes G-Wagen – P50 vegans on P24. tries to find a cure for jet lag on P69. RAYMOND BLANC is one of the MARTIN COMPSTON has gone SIMON THOMSON is City A.M. The world’s top chefs, having tutored more from teen acting sensation in Ken Magazine’s booze expert, specialising Michelin star chefs than any other man Loach’s Sweet Sixteen to prime- in dark spirits. He also writes film and alive. He pops in for lunch with his time staple, with his latest show theatre reviews for City A.M. This issue protégé and friend Aggi Sverrisson at Line of Duty gaining critical and he visits Barbados to drink rum (P34) the Icelandic chef’s Marylebone popular plaudits. He tells us what and writes about how Cognac has restaurant Texture – P24. he’d eat for his last supper on P22. moved with the times (P40). 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