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SCIENTOLOGY in london HOT TOTTY
Inside its capital ambitions
We reveal the city’s new sweet spot
Plus:
matthew parris The future of suncare and homoerotic vodka
jamie l l e b Fame, sacrifice and facing his fears
CONTENTS 5 Keep your hair on, it’s Charlize Theron in CAPITAL GAINS 6 Suitcase drama and designer graffiti in UPFRONT 8 Our MOST WANTED are Mulberry’s croc bag and shoes
SCIENTOLOGY in the spotlight 15 Autumn tans and wide stripes in STYLE NOTES 17 Californian colours and oar-right fashions in MEN’S STYLE 19 Why TOTTENHAM is the place to be 22 Well isn’t that swell, it’s JAMIE BELL 31 Feel sponge-tastic in BEAUTY 33 Introducing your new-gen SUNCARE 35 GRACE & FLAVOUR gets on the tapas trail at Sibarita 37 Soak up Mediterranean vibes with TART’s olive oil recipes 39 Boozy slushies in DRINKS 41 Design-savvy travelling in HOMEWORK 42 Matthew Parris’ MY LONDON 10
EDITOR Laura Weir
The ES team choose their five favourite London parks
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HOLLAND PARK ‘Go to Holland Park’s gorgeous Japanese garden for a spot of peace by the beautiful waterfall and cherry trees.’ Sophie Paxton, merchandise editor
REGENT’S PARK ‘It has to be Regent’s Park because it has giraffes. Well, the zoo does, but you can sometimes see them from the park!’ Helen Gibson, picture editor
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POSTMAN’S PARK ‘Postman’s Park is a tranquil little haven in the centre of the City of London. What makes it particularly special is the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, with beautiful ornate plaques detailing acts of bravery in Victorian London.’ Clara Dorrington, picture desk assistant
WANSTEAD PARK ‘There are 140 acres of woodland, ponds and open spaces here — perfect for dog walking, summer picnics and angling. Check out the Temple, a small museum run by the City of London Corporation that programmes regular events including family craft days, open-air theatre and musical performances.’ Andy Taylor, acting art editor
VICTORIA PARK ‘Oh Vicky P — the capital’s oldest public park and a perennial favourite complete with row boats, breakfasts at the Pavilion Café and a brilliant adventure playground.’ Niamh O’Keeffe, office administrator/editor’s PA
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Beauty editor Katie Service Deputy beauty and lifestyle editor Lily Worcester
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Contributing editors Lucy Carr-Ellison, Tony Chambers, James Corden, Hermione Eyre, Richard Godwin, Daisy Hoppen, Jemima Jones, Anthony Kendal, David Lane, Mandi Lennard, Annabel Rivkin, Teo van den Broeke, Hikari Yokoyama Group client strategy director Deborah Rosenegk Head of magazines Christina Irvine
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capital gains What to do in London by FRANKIE M c COY
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Hit mixes
What do the world’s best cocktails taste like? Find out as Claridge’s hosts New York’s The Dead Rabbit, voted No 1 at the World’s 50 Best Bars awards, thanks to its Irish coffees and infamous ‘psycho killers’ (Irish whiskey, Campari, white cacao, banana liqueur and absinthe, above). Just don’t ask for sex on the beach. 15-21 August (claridges.co.uk)
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claw show
Grab some crab — wild red king crab, to be specific — at new crustacean restaurant Fancy Crab, serving tempura crab claws, crab burgers and a whole king crab to be shared (or kept all to yourself, if you’re feeling shellfish). Now open (fancycrab.co.uk)
The big wheeze
Oxygen, you may have heard, is good for you. Reduce your stress levels and increase your productivity by getting more of it at a breathing session at Ham Yard Hotel (above) with Lululemon, led by expert Michael Townsend Williams. Tickets from £25. 14 August (firmdalehotels.com)
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Valley boy
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Big screen picnic
Pack a picnic and grab your favourite movie buff: Somerset House’s Film4 Summer Screen is back, showing everything from golden oldies to Oscar winners and cult classics (oh hi, Cruel Intentions) in the neoclassical courtyard. Tickets from £17. To 23 August (somersethouse.org.uk)
Stop what you’re doing and book tickets immediately to August’s hottest play, Against at the Almeida — a dystopian Silicon Valley thriller starring the brilliant Ben Whishaw (above). Tickets from £10. 12 August to 30 September (almeida.co.uk)
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South park life
Brockwell Park is festival central this summer — Saturday is the turn of newbie dance event Sunfall, with headliners Jackmaster and Theo Parrish. From £55. 12 August (sunfall.co.uk)
last chance: Epic Angels in America closes on 19 August — if you can’t get tickets, catch an NT Live encore at the Picturehouse, Barbican or selected Vue cinemas. (nationaltheatre.org.uk)
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Going nuclear
Charlize Theron (left) explodes on to cinema screens as spy Lorraine in the Cold War thriller Atomic Blonde, set in a Berlin where no one is to be trusted. As ever, she means business. Out now
look ahead: Ponder artists Black Quantum Futurism’s Time Capsules and Time Ghettos, an immersive performative reading at Serpentine Park Nights on 18 August. (serpentinegalleries.org)
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upfront Laura Craik on kids and carry-ons, Cate’s killer catsuit and statement sneakers
thor blimey, cate Some critics are calling her ‘the best Marvel villain ever’ — high praise — but we won’t get to see Cate Blanchett as Hela, goddess of death, until October, when Thor: Ragnarok gets its UK release. That it comes out on the same date as season two of Stranger Things amounts to more death and excitement than anyone can handle in a day. In a recent interview, inevitably, Cate (left) was asked about her exercise routine — rigorous on account of the unforgiving skin-tight suit her character had to wear and which she called ‘horrendous’, adding: ‘I get in shape, then I’m back to eating hamburgers.’ Thanks, Cate, for neatly summing up every woman’s attitude to exercise when the summer holiday season judders to an end. Bring on the burgers.
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Bag end: Karlie Kloss, and bottom, the celebrity fave Away case
Emily Ratajkowski travelling light
“If you charge people for baggage, what do you expect them to do? Lie down and take it, or strap up their toddler like a pack mule?” word up My eldest left primary school the other week. All the year-sixes came out with their shirts covered in messages, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the playground. To be fair, the stuff they wrote was a shade more imaginative than the graffiti being scrawled all over trainers this season. Some might say £586 is a bit steep for a pair of Reebok Instapumps (below) that say ‘I’m bored’ and ‘so good’, yet being a Vetements collab, it sold out straight away. The new Adidas Stan Smiths (above), meanwhile, bear the legends ‘nobody is perfect’ and ‘yes I’m crazy’, along with 1980s-style paint splodges and will set you back £257. Stephen Sprouse did it so much better: if you’re lucky enough to own anything from his 2001 collaboration with Louis Vuitton (or the rehash in 2009), now’s the time to dig it out again. If not, get creative with the permanent markers and do it yourself.
HOT Cara’s hair The evolving pixie cut just gets better and better.
NOT August instabragging Enough with the perfect sunsets, beaches and cocktails. We’ve all become holibores.
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ugust. The annual family holiday. The big Samsonite was broken, so I had to stuff all 342 of my dresses into a too-small case. The seven-year-old packed her Trunki, which fits approximately one shoe. ‘No liquids — yours is a carry-on,’ I told the 11-year-old. ‘It certainly is,’ she humphed, removing her suntan lotion. All kids take carry-ons, don’t they? Kids have few uses in life, but saving on baggage fees is one of them. EasyJet charges £45 to check in a bag at the gate; Ryanair charges up to £60. Yet a Ryanair executive recently had the temerity to criticise parents for ‘coming in with the kitchen sink’, saying he’d ‘seen two-year-olds wheeling a bag up to the plane as people try to take advantage’. Take advantage of what? Airlines’ cynical attempts to cash in on the perfectly normal procedure of having to travel with a suitcase? If you charge people extra for baggage, do you expect them to lie down and take it, or strap up their toddler like a pack mule? Even once you’ve sold a kidney for the privilege of putting two cases in the hold, there’s the stress of whether it will make it out on to the luggage carousel. Away, a new brand featuring Tile luggage tags, allows you to track your case via an app, wherever it might have strayed. Designed by two women (and tested by being thrown out of a threestorey window in New York), the cases also feature ‘magic’ compression pads that allow you to pack at least 20 per cent more stuff, while the carry-ons come with in-built chargers. They’re already a celebrity fave. If a model as tall and bounteously dressed as Karlie Kloss manages to fit her wardrobe in them, I can probably fit in my Zara clothes. Especially if I make the kids carry all my shoes on to the plane.
THE most WANTED
Purple haze: Mulberry’s latest dynamic duo dazzles in amethyst croc print MULBERRY small Amberley bag, £695; Dazzle jewel sandal, £595, in store from September (020 7491 3900)
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PHOTOGRAPH BY Natasha Pszenicki STYLED BY Sophie paxton
Above, Scientology founder, L Ron Hubbard; below, the Scientologists’ tent set up recently near the Westway Sports Centre; below right, Grenfell Tower
John Travolta Juliette Lewis
Elisabeth Moss
keeping the faith
I Left, Church of Scientology leader, David Miscavige; above and below, left, the Scientology church in the City of London; left and right, high-profile celebrity Scientologists
Scientology is back in the headlines, after followers set up a tent outside a Grenfell relief centre and an affiliate group was found offering anti-drugs lectures in schools. Is the world’s most controversial religion having a second coming, asks Emily Hill
n the days following the Grenfell Tower fire, when its blackened shell first stood out like a rebuke to the London sky, many victims took refuge at the Westway Sports Centre. Nearby, Scientologists dressed in yellow T-shirts pitched trestle tables and a huge yellow tent bearing the slogan of the S cientolog y Volu nteer M i n isters, ‘Something can be done about it’. They were offering massages to survivors. ‘I tweeted it because I was appalled,’ recalls The Guardian columnist, Dawn Foster, whose photograph of the scene went viral. ‘They had a lot of leaflets and were offering personality tests. People were shouting, “Why are you here? You’re parasites.” And, “Get out — pack up your tent”. I was there for about 10 minutes and saw about 20 people come up, all of whom told them to leave or shouted at them to f*** off. They were trying to defend themselves saying there are lots of Christians and people from the mosque, why shouldn’t we be here?’ But while other organisations offered food, cups of tea and clothes, at the Scientology tent victims were given not just water but leaflets, facemasks and a massage — delivered with one finger. Sarah Harvey, senior research officer for the Information Network on Religious Movements at the LSE, explains: ‘Part of what they were doing with the “massage” is what’s called an “assist”.’ This, she says, is ‘about their understanding of the human spirit’, which is at the core of the belief system developed by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard in 1952. The S cient olog y Volu nt e er M i n i st ers’ web sit e , scientologyhandbook.org, claims these ‘assists’ can ‘help a person confront physical difficulties’. Turning up in this way may sound like a desperate attempt to recruit new members — but the church’s involvement at Grenfell is something the media relations department for the UK church is proud of. It says that a team of 50 Scientologists were on the scene for more than two weeks. ‘We sorted many mounds of donated clothes, toys, etc, boxed them up and transported several tonnes of such boxes to storage facilities for distribution later,’ writes a Church of Scientology spokesperson, going on to add: ‘We gave out gallons upon gallons of water. We
sourced hundreds of facemasks… Leaflets were on display describing free online courses on tools for helping others and specifically giving disaster relief training.’ A list of individuals who were ‘helped’ with ‘assists’ (including a Catholic nun) was also provided. In fact, says Harvey, this is ‘something they’ve done for a long time’. In the wake of the 7 /7 bombings, for example, Scientologists offered police constables tea and biscuits outside Aldgate Tube station. But the headlines caused by their sudden appearance at Grenfell are not the first that the church has attracted recently. Earlier this year, the Evening Standard revealed that 35,000 schoolchildren had been exposed to lectures inspired by Scientology, in the form of anti-drugs talks by an organisation called Narconon. At the time, hosts — including Camden School for Girls and Brecknock Primary School in Camden — said that they were unaware of the link to Scientology and that teachers supervised the talks, which focused entirely on drug awareness. Noel Nile, president of Narconon UK, rejected criticism, saying, ‘We’re in the business of saving lives. The lectures are not concerned with religion. They’re popular and successful because they communicate a clear message which is easily understood by young people.’ But Narconon is not the only Scientology front group apparently targeting young people. In July, The Underground Bunker, the website run by American investigative journalist Tony Ortega, published an article claiming Scientology is shifting its strategy to make it all about ‘kids, kids, kids’. It pointed to a new website and social media platform allegedly set up by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an organisation affiliated with the church whose website describes its purpose as ‘providing information that a multiTom Cruise billion dollar psycho/pharmaceutical industry does not want people to have’. Called fightforkids.org, the new platform promises to ‘use innovative technology to create a global movement of advocacy and engagement for the love and protection of our children’. A spokesman for the
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Clockwise from above, Saint Hill Manor; documentary Going Clear; the Scientology shop on Tottenham Court Road
dropped. The church has repeatedly denied both that any abuse has taken place and that ‘The Hole’ exists, insisting such allegations are unsubstantiated. Then, in 2015, two films — Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie and Going Clear — shone an unflattering spotlight on the organisation. The latter concentrated on the origins of the movement and the alleged experience of those, such as Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis, who have since left the church. It also focused attention on the mysterious creation myth at the heart of Scientology, which it broadly characterised as: 75 million years ago an evil extraterrestrial overlord called Xenu lured his subjects in for tax inspections, froze them, shipped them to Earth, stacked them up near volcanoes and dropped hydrogen bombs on them, transforming them into ‘thetan’ souls which now get into our bodies at birth. Only L Ron Hubbard’s teachings can help us master these. And that can be a costly business, as the money needed to buy his books and invest in expensive courses can rapidly mount up. Steve Mango, an actor, told Theroux that he had spent $50,000 on Scientology instruction between 2009-2012. This last point makes the church’s appearance near the Westway Sports Centre all the more curious. The survivors were left so destitute they made unlikely marks for a religion associated with recruiting celebrities and raising money. The church insists its purpose there was ‘helping in any way possible to somehow alleviate the suffering by those affected and their friends and families’. Others suspect more cynical motives. ‘My view is it’s not something that they would want to do, other than the fact that it’s public relations and gives them a bit of kudos,’ says Graham Baldwin, a counsellor who has been observing the activities of Scientologists for the past 25 years. ‘It’s hard to see why they would do it for any other reason.’ For their part, the church stresses that ‘the only purpose of the Church of Scientology… is to help people.’ Certainly, if its aim was to generate positive PR, it failed. West Londoners were having none of it. ‘It’s actually a disgusting way to treat vulnerable human beings on that day,’ says Yvette Williams MBE, of the Justice4Grenfell campaign group. ‘It’s not the time and place for that.’
“The church insists its purpose near Grenfell Tower was ‘helping to alleviate suffering’. Others suspect more cynical motives”
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church said he was not familiar with the platform. Last year, the head of the church, David Miscavige, 57, unveiled Scientology Media Productions, an ‘advanced, multi-platform, totally reinvented and restored motion picture and television Fashion credits This is a swathe of studio’ in Hollywood. The church’s website describes SMP as ‘the nerve center spreading the church’s message to the world’. And according to The Times, in 2015, he also promised to make Scientology texts readable by more than five billion people. Meanwhile, the church is investing heavily in real estate. This year alone, its website documents four ‘grand openings’ of vast Scientology buildings in Copenhagen, Miami, Auckland and the San Fernando Valley. According to the Emmy-winning HBO documentary Going Clear, between 2006 and 2011 the church bought 62 properties in locations across the globe. In London, outposts include an enormous church in the City established in 2006; the former office of its founder in Fitzrovia; and a shop on Tottenham Court Road, which could be mistaken for a palm reader’s from the outside but looks like a sleek airport store on the inside. It also has a luxury compound HQ at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, West Sussex — once L Ron Hubbard’s personal home. All this activity is notable since it hints at a revival after almost a decade of apparent crisis. In the UK, the church used to claim it had 118,000 followers. But during the last census in 2011, only 2,418 people described themselves as Scientologists — a figure dwarfed by the number who designated themselves Druids (4,189), Wiccans (11,766) and Jedi Knights (176,632). The church insists this number is misleading, saying: ‘Many Scientologists are also Muslims and Christians… Well over one hundred thousand UK residents happily receive our church magazines. So the census figure does not tell you very much — particularly when Scientologist was not even listed as an option. In the past year we have had more people attending our UK churches for services than at any time in our history.’ Yet, despite a starry following that reportedly includes Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Elisabeth Moss, star of The Handmaid’s Tale and Top of the Lake, recent years have brought a number of high-profile scandals involving allegations made about the church. In 2011, The New Yorker cited claims made to Florida’s St Petersburg Times about physical abuse allegedly carried out by Miscavige. At the church’s Gold Base compound in California, it has been claimed that senior members of staff were sent to ‘The Hole’ — a pair of trailers where they were made to confess day and night and fight over the right to remain. Previous claims of abuse had reportedly so concerned the US authorities that the FBI is said to have started an investigation Scientology volunteers into Scientology on grounds near the Westway Sports Centre of human trafficking. Since religions and their practices are protected under the F i r st A mend ment , t he investigation has since been
GIVENCHY bag, £1,242 (givenchy.com)
style notes What we love now
FINERY dress, £149 (finerylondon.com)
EDITED by KATRINA ISRAEL CHLOÉ bag, £1,150 (chloe.com)
Tan go
THEORY bag, £305 (theory.com)
When it comes to incoming bag trends the big colour story for AW17 is tan, while vintage saddle style abounds from Theory to Givenchy. Time to get back on this horse.
VICTORIA BECKHAM bag, £1,195 (victoria beckham.com)
CLAUDIE PIERLOT shirt,£175 (uk.claudie pierlot.com)
RIVER ISLAND sandal, £32 (riverisland.com) Marc Jacobs Jacobs watch, £229 (houseof fraser.co.uk)
Say it with stripes
Horology heroes
Pre-fall’s maxim is the bolder the better, as stripes of all widths and angles clash with abstract abandon. Although undoubtedly retro, the look is clean-cut with a modern bent. No blurred lines here.
Remember how popular fashion timepieces were in the 1990s? Well, brands from Gucci to Marc Jacobs are investing heavily in the category again. With Frances Bean Cobain as label ambassador, the monochromatic Jacobs watch gives great face time. MONSE Pre-Fall 2017
Veronika Heilbrunner at Paris Fashion Week
InSTARglam
What is it about the 1970s that so appeals? The bouncy hair and svelte bronzed limbs? Metallic eyelids and glossy lips? From retro film stills to forgotten magazine shoots, rewind with @70sbabes
KITRI dress, £95 (kitristudio.com) WAREHOUSE top, £24 (warehouse.co.uk)
Getty; illustration by Jonathan Calugi @ Machas
Soru earrings, £140 (soru jewellery.com)
sister action
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Our search for statement earrings never ends, and British-Sicilian sisters Francesca Kelly and Marianna Doyle of Soru Jewellery’s designs — worn by the Duchess of Cambridge — hit the spot for summer nights.
Soru earrings, £245 (soru jewellery.com)
MARA HOFFMAN dress, £389, at matches fashion.com
ALTUZZARA skirt, £940, at matchesfashion.com
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MEN’S STYLE What to buy now
Big Ben’s bit on the side
by TEO VAN DEN BROEKE, style director OF esquire UK
Raey waffle-knit cashmere sweater, £295, at matchesfashion.com
Sunshine shades
Ben Machell is going through a right royal identity crisis
This is the one time of the year when it’s encouraged that you wear a bit of colour. The key, however, is to avoid anything too lurid. Think washed-out, sun-bleached tones with a touch of California cool. Here, to get you started, are a few of my key pieces.
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New Balance 247NB Perforated in salmon pink, £90, at size.co.uk
PATAGONIA T-shirt, £29.99, at consortium.co.uk
About Face
harry’s razor, £8; shave gel, £3.50 (harrys.com)
Monroe of London hair clay, £18 (www.monroe oflondon. co.uk)
At the end of 2016 the global men’s grooming industry was valued at about £38 billion. Unsurprising, then, that a plethora of men’s grooming brands has launched this year. Post-workout-focused Australian company LQD is bringing its no-nonsense products to the UK (try the Eye Restore serum). US shaving brand Harry’s (left) is offering a clever subscription service. And there is elegant, all-round grooming from Monroe London, whose products have been developed with Harley Street Skin Clinic (the moisturiser is super-hydrating and the packaging is beautiful). Hackett jacket, £495
Jonny Cochrane; Josh Shinner
Front row
This summer sees the marriage of two great British institutions: gentleman’s clothier Hackett and the Henley Royal Regatta. Following neatly on from Hackett’s previous partnerships with the London Rowing Club and World Sculling, the brand has created a special collection for the legendary boat race. Consisting of a range of natty striped shirts, a classic navy blazer and some race-ready striped chinos, the collection is now available online and from Hackett’s flagship store on Regent Street. (hackett.com)
Hackett trousers, £175
imple question, please don’t think too hard about it, just answer yes or no: do I look like a four-year-old? I don’t think I do. Or at least I didn’t until very recently. Only then the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went on a much-publicised, much-photographed trip to Poland with their kids, which is exactly around the time that people began to get in touch with me to say: listen, Ben, there’s no easy way of saying this but you look exactly like Prince George. To be honest, most of them — friends, family, colleagues — were a lot more gleeful than that. ‘Haha,’ they’ve been saying, pointing at a photo of his soft round face, neat side parting and puppyish brown eyes. ‘That’s you that is.’ It’s weird. I’m deep, deep into my 30s. I’m going grey. When I smile, my face creases into so many folds that I look like Alf the alien experiencing chronic pain. And it’s not that I mind getting older, I just kind of assumed that, as I aged, people might start to compare to me to, I dunno, mid-career Paul Newman or present-day Denzel Washington. I wasn’t really expecting common consensus to decree that, nah mate, you’re actually the spit of a cherubfaced future monarch.
“My gran tried to claim I was Gareth Gates at a restaurant to get a discount”
It doesn’t help that young George is often photographed looking either a bit tired or slightly overwhelmed, my two go-to expressions. Nor does it help that I am physically incapable of growing facial hair. And I should probably change my hairstyle and stop buying clothes that, come to think of it, do look a lot like the gear he wears. But I’ve always liked my Enid Blyton couture and, frankly, I resent having to change it. It’s not the first time this has happened. My life during the early Noughties was made a living hell by the existence of Gareth Gates, a dimpled pop singing man-boy from Bradford. My own gran tried to claim I was him at a restaurant in order to get a discount. But such is the fickleness of fame that Gates soon faded away and I was able to move on. But Prince George? He’s here for the long haul. He’s going to be King. So I’m going to have to Hackett adapt. Perhaps, over the next couple of years, crewneck I’m going to gain a lot of weight and lose my jumper, £85 hair? You never know. Fingers crossed.
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Tottenham hotspot
Warehouse living on Fountayne Road
It’s got the clubs, the bars and a blossoming creative scene — no wonder Tottenham is being hailed as the new Hackney, says Sirin Kale
Helen Gibson
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aturday night and the dance floor of brand new nightclub Five Miles is packed. Cult garage night Joyride is being held at the vast warehouse -style venue for the first time and, as the DJ mixes the classic garage track ‘God Made Me Phunky’ by Mike Dunn into the more recent house offering ‘Equation’ by Palms Trax, bodies clad in vintage Moschino and boxfresh Adidas slam against one another in approval. You might be forgiven for thinking this is some hip basement club on Kingsland Road. But this, in fact, is Tottenham: the area that looks set to steal Hackney’s status as the cultural and nightlife centre of London. Because while it might previously have been best known for its football team or as the place where the London riots of 2011 began, Tottenham has changed dramatically. ‘There are definite parallels between what’s happening in Tottenham now and what happened in Dalston in 2009 or 2010,’ says Deano Jo of Five Miles who, having opened both The Alibi bar and Rita’s restaurant in Dalston, is well placed to comment on any similarities. He wants Five Miles to be more than just a warehouse rave spot. Already it sells coffee during the day and the Affinity Brew Company makes beer in a shipping container behind the venue — but Jo, 31, wants more. ‘I like to think of Five Miles as an incubator,’ he says. ‘We want there to be a culture of people coming through, building up their craft, and going on to bigger and better things.’ Outside, what Jo describes as an ‘ecosystem’ is springing up around Five Miles’ space on
Concrete beat: Styx on Ashley Road Hot to Tott: above, al fresco entertainment at Styx; left, Craving Coffee; below, a performance night at Styx
Go with the flow: Five Miles club
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Inside the artists’ homes on Fountayne Road
Markfield Road. There’s industrialstyled coffee shop Craving Coffee, while multiple artists’ studios are housed in an adjacent complex (techno DJ Randomer and record label PC Music are both based there). ‘People around here make music, then feed it to promoters who play it to people,’ Jo says, explaining how Five Miles books DJs to perform at the club. Tottenham’s rebirth began just around the corner from Five Miles on Fountayne Road, where the area’s original warehouse community began to Putting the gather 10 years ago: a network finishing touches to Five Miles of creators to whom the area’s cultural redevelopment owes its greatest debt. Among the former occupants is 31-year-old Joshua Nawras, who co-founded Rift — the immersive theatre company best known for its 2014 production of Macbeth in the An art show at Bones & Pearl Balfron Tower in Docklands studio on Markfield Road — and more recently events space and bar Styx on the rapidly regenerating Ashley Road, a 10-minute walk north of Five Miles. The name Styx is partly a reference to the river in Greek mythology, but is also a pun on the idea of being away from it all. ‘We’re out in the sticks,’ Nawras smiles. Maybe so. But situated on Ashley Road, Styx has neighbours as interesting and diverse as any city centre. There’s the 1950s ambulance repair depot that has now been converted into artists’ studios; radical set designers Block9 (who’ve worked with the likes of Lana Del Rey and Skrillex); theatre company Punchdrunk ’s headquarters; and the cavernous inclines of Stronghold Climbing Centre, London’s largest indoor bouldering space. Much-feted designer Martine Rose recently showed her menswear collection at the latter, with fashion editors disembarking from Ubers in clacking heels. Since opening in 2015, Styx itself has hosted local grime legend JME and electronic artist Four Tet. ‘We’ve got a nice little crew,’ says Nawras of the five local businesses that operate out of Styx, name-checking Special brew: ‘Abs, who does crochet swimwear’ and roti shop Island craft beer from Social Club, which is housed in a brightly painted Redemption sh ippi ng conta i ner w ith a corrugated iron roof. ‘It really feels like the beginning of a community here. There are breweries and clubs and artists’ studios. That’s something that couldn’t happen in Hackney any more. Hackney is too expensive.’ In fact, Tottenham is evolving at such a rapid pace for many of Martine Rose’s show at Stronghold the same reasons that Hackney Climbing Centre did in the late Noughties. Both
have large ethnic minority populations and strong cultural heritages: specifically when it comes to Artists’ studios and living urban music and space on Fountayne Road grime, with Skepta hailing from the area’s Meridian Walk estate. Tottenham also still has plenty of affordable postindustrial buildings like those on Fountayne Road, which attract artists and creators in need of cheap space. A plethora of independent businesses has sprung up near here. Two minutes away on Norman Road is Lovenpresents, a pizzeria/bar/art space; a little further up the road is Chicken Town (offering a healthy spin on fried chicken) and the Blighty India Café. And then there is Redemption, Tottenham’s first brewery, whose beer is stocked in six local pubs. ‘We were drawn here because there was more industrial space and the transport links are good,’ explains 44-year-old founder Andy Moffatt. When Redemption started in 2009, around half of the units in its industrial estate were taken; now all of them are full. And as a result of its success, Tottenham has become the craft beer hotspot of London — fellow brewer Beavertown is based a short walk away at Lockwood Industrial Park and will soon be joined by brewer Pressure Drop, which is opening a 6,000 square foot facility there.
“It really feels like the beginning of a community here. There are breweries, clubs and artists’ studios. That’s something that couldn’t happen in Hackney any more” The local authorities, too, have encouraged the area’s redevelopment — particularly after the London riots. Not everyone is happy — Haringey’s Development Vehicle has attracted controversy for selling off council assets and social housing to developers — but £1 billion of public and private funding is being pumped into Tottenham. If Crossrail 2 is approved, Tottenham Hale will also become a major transport hub. And, crucially, there is the nightlife. Unlike Hackney Council, Haringey is still willing to give out prized 4am licences to venues in the area (both Styx and Five Miles have one). It’s much easier to throw parties in Tottenham than Hackney nowadays. ‘We got tired of putting on events in Hackney, because nowhere could get a late licence, and there’s a lot of competition,’ says JP Scott, the promoter behind the recent Joyride night at Five Miles. ‘But in Tottenham it’s much simpler.’ Deano Jo agrees. ‘In Hackney the opportunity would never arise for a 4am licence in 2017,’ he says. Inevitably, with gentrification will come the same developments of expensive flats that have sprung up in Hackney, pricing out some local residents. But right now, this is the hottest spot in London — and Tottenham is thriving like no other neighbourhood.
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du jour He shot to fame playing a young ballet dancer from an impoverished mining town. Now he’s a bona fide Hollywood star with a string of blockbusters under his belt. Jamie Bell talks to Patricia Nicol about fatherhood, anxiety and falling for his new wife, Kate Mara PhotographS BY jesse laitinen stylED BY rose forde
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t has been 17 years since Jamie Bell pirouetted his way into the public’s affections as Billy Elliot. He was just 13. Now, those numerals are reversed — he is 31. ‘Don’t remind people of that,’ he stage whispers, grimacing in mock horror as he leans back in his chair, apparently unrecognised, at St John Bread and Wine in Spitalfields. ‘People are saying, “Where’s that kid gone? What’s he doing?” Also, people look at me and think, “S***, that means I’m getting old if he’s into his 30s, and he’s even got a kid, too.”’ Bell’s not just got a kid. He’s already got one marriage behind him, to Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood, mother of his adored toddler son — and he has just entered into another with House of Cards actress Kate Mara, of whom he talks rapturously. He has also racked up an impressively diverse filmography, encompassing major blockbusters as well as indie projects. Aged 17, Bell moved to the US for roles in Peter Jackson’s King Kong in 2005 and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers the year after. Not everything he has appeared in has been met with an enthusiastic
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reception — and Fox Studios’ Fantastic Four proved a colossal turkey (‘no, seminal, seminal,’ he murmurs, grinning). But he played the title role in Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin and he’s also worked with hotly tipped directors such as David Mackenzie (Hallam Foe) as well as Lars von Trier in Nymphomaniac Vol II. Lately, he seems to have embraced more independent films, which perhaps suit his quirky English sensibility better. When he turned up to work on his latest film, 6 Days, a tense drama that recreates the 1980 London Iranian embassy siege, he says: ‘The director Ding dong: [Toa Fraser] had cast these very large Bell with men around me and I couldn’t help but his new wife, Kate feel dwarfed. I’m a 5ft7in jug-eared Mara Englishman. It felt a little overwhelming.’ The film starts with a BBC voiceover from the time, reporting that ‘the last decade has seen a renaissance in international terrorism’, as, on screen, six armed Arab men enter a Kensington property and take all 26 people within it
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hostage. Given the recent terror attacks in London and Manchester, it feels strikingly pertinent. Bell is cast as Rusty Firmin, the SAS soldier on the ground who led the eventual storming of the embassy, freeing all but one of the remaining hostages and killing five of the six terrorists. This was the moment that defined the public’s perception of the little-known SAS unit as a crack, kick-ass corps. Bell plays Firmin as taciturn, watchful, tightly wound — only just a goodie. ‘My character becomes someone who really overcompensates for a seeming lack of masculinity by being the most willing to express violence.’
You can still see the sweet, hopeful boy who played Billy Elliot in the lean-looking man in a Rag & Bone polo T-shirt and hear a trace of Teesside in Bell’s mid-Atlantic accent. But home is Hollywood now. ‘It was probably the smartest thing I ever did to get over there,’ he says. Vanessa Pereira, the long-term manager who he thinks of as family, went too. She is here now, sitting with the film’s publicist at a far table. At one point, they send across a bowl of fresh peas in their pods. ‘It’s because she’s worried I’m not eating,’ says Bell fondly. True enough, the smoked mackerel on sourdough, ordered with scrupulous politeness from the waitress, sits untouched before him. ‘I’ll eat afterwards. I’m a very messy eater,’ he explains. Besides talk of occasional longings for ‘stodgy British food like mince and potatoes’, you sense little nostalgia for Billingham, where Bell spent his early years with his older sister and single mother. He has never had a relationship with his father. Last summer, filming took him back to London. His mother came south to help with childcare. Does he get up north much? ‘No.’ And does he sometimes think about what his life would have been like without Billy Elliot? He grimaces slightly. ‘It’s a terrifying prospect because I don’t know how to do anything else. I would still be in that town, maybe.’ On Twitter, Bell is critical of Donald Trump, and urged Brits to vote Labour in the recent general election. What did he think about Teesside voting for Brexit last year? ‘Did it really? I’m so out of touch with British politics. It’s tricky, because I’ve really laid roots across the world. My son is here [in LA], he’ll be going to school there and I work there a lot. And it’s just impossible to make that divide feel any smaller.’ His son has just turned four. So far, he and Wood,
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“The director cast these very large men around me and I couldn’t help but feel dwarfed… I mean, I’m a 5ft 7in jug-eared Englishman”
In Defiance with Daniel Craig, 2008
Bell, left, in Flags of Our Fathers, 2006
Bell’s debut as Billy Elliot
With his Bafta for leading actor in Billy Elliot
In The Eagle in 2011
who also started out as a child actor, have kept his name out of the press. ‘I think it’s because of my own association with childhood exposure,’ says Bell. ‘Not that anyone’s ever been particularly invasive with me — I go around with relative ease — but it’s just a poppa thing to think, “No, no, no”; that’s a different side of my life that no one sees. ‘I never watch any of the movies I’ve done. I never take any of it that seriously, but without question the thing I’m proudest of achieving is my son. I’m obsessed. Every moment I spend with him I fall a little bit more for him. It’s almost kind of painful,’ he says, laughing embarrassedly. ‘That thing when you are falling into something so unconditionally.’ If anything, the experience of becoming a parent has made him more understanding of his father, who left before he was born. ‘It’s difficult raising a child,’ says Bell. ‘It’s really stressful. It requires a lot of you. You have to sacrifice your life and some people don’t want to do that. It’s not particularly noble, but I could see why the easier thing is to leave.’ Would he walk? ‘F***, no.’ He admits to sometimes wondering how his own absent father figure might inform his parenting. ‘You can’t be thinking, “I’m doing this because no one ever gave me this experience.” The thing is not to love from a place of anger because that is potentially devastating.’
“the thing I’m proudest of achieving is my son. I’m obsessed. Every moment I spend with him I fall a little bit more for him”
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He and Wood first got together in the mid-Noughties after shooting a Green Day video. She then went out with Marilyn Manson. In 2011 — the same year she first spoke publicly about being bisexual — they were reported to have rekindled their relationship. They married in October 2012 and had their son in July 2013, but announced their separation 10 months later. Now they co-parent 50/50. ‘It’s tricky enough when you’re actors who are together. The kid is just going to have to get used to going here, going there,’ he says, clicking his fingers back and forth. ‘Once he’s in school there will be sacrifices when it comes to choosing work.’ The ex-couple ‘thankfully’ get on well. ‘As kids from divorced parents we understood very quickly the importance of maintaining a good relationship. I think that is also a generational thing: we learned from our elders that it’s better if you have to share a space with someone to be able to look them in the eye. If you succeed, the kid succeeds.’ Although the film flopped, Bell has the press tour of
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Fantastic Four to thank for getting him together with co-star Kate Mara. The pair had moved in the same social circles for years in LA (they even once kissed for a screen chemistry test, though neither of them got cast), yet when they did get together it felt inevitable. ‘There was an instant connection, like we’d known one another forever. It was obvious very quickly that we were going to get married.’ Bell and his wife come from very different backgrounds. Mara and her sister, fellow actress Rooney Mara, are scions of American football’s first family, an Irish-American dynasty. Her paternal family founded and co-own the New York Giants; her mother’s family, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Her late grandfather, Wellington Mara, is regarded as a key architect of the modern National Football League and Super Bowl. The ball is even nicknamed ‘The Duke’ after him. ‘It’s not just like they bought the teams; they are the teams,’ says Arsenal fan Bell, who got an American pal round for a briefing before he watched his first game with the Maras. ‘They’re an incredible family, so loving, connected and together. They’re functional. It’s kind of an amazing surprise to know that stuff really exists. I come from a broken home... But to see parents who are together, who have raised four children, with no sign of splitting up, is a joy to watch.’ He says Mara has never vaunted her footballing heritage. ‘She doesn’t walk with a sense of privilege,’ he says. ‘She’s carved out a name for herself, just as her sister has. All of her siblings are successful in their own right. I really admire that.’
“my general resting position is one of critical anxiety. I’m unnerved by the scenario of raising a family in this world” For 6 Days, Bell did a bootcamp with a former SAS unit. ‘It was scary,’ he says. ‘People firing blanks at you and throwing smoke grenades. It’s all about engulfing your enemy with loud, aggressive violence, which is really not me at all,’ he giggles. His wiry physique is not a legacy from that shoot, however, but in preparation for a new movie, Skin, in which he plays a character based on Bryon ‘Pitbull’ Widner, one of America’s most violent and well-known white supremacists. I wonder how he feels about raising a family in this world. ‘My
general resting position is one of critical anxiety,’ he says. ‘I’m genuinely unnerved by the scenario.’ He hopes there will be another Tintin film. Meanwhile, he is branching out into producing. Teen Spirit, a Cinderella pop musical written and directed by his friend, actor Max Minghella, already has Elle Fanning signed up as its star and financing from the team behind La La Land. In this new age for musicals, might we see Bell dance on screen again? ‘I could do a Fred Astaire biopic, maybe,’ he suggests. He would like to do theatre in London, but it is not a city where he feels at home. ‘It’s overwhelming to me,’ he says. ‘I don’t have a mastery of it, or know any of the cool places. I only ever go to Dean Street. It’s embarrassing, like, this is the first time I’ve been in Spitalfields.’ Since the film’s publicist is approaching, looking anxiously at his watch, it seems unlikely there will be time for getting to know Spitalfields better today. Still, you hope Bell at least gets to eat his lunch. ‘6 Days’ is in cinemas later this summer
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beauty by katie service
box of tricks The dabbest hands use egg-shaped blending sponges
In egg box, from left, WUNDER2 Wunderblend professional complexion sponge, £5.95 (wunder2.co.uk). LOTTIE LONDON blend and snap sponge, £5.50, at look fantastic.com. REAL TECHNIQUES Miracle complexion sponges (set of four), £17.99, at boots.com Out of box, clockwise from left, B. latex-free blending sponge, £4.99, at superdrug.com. SPECTRUM lilac unicorn tears wonder sponge, £5, at beautybay.com. BEAUTY BLENDER Summer Fling kit (set of three), £40, at selfridges.com
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BEAUTY AENEA Modern Shield, £95 (aenea cosmetics.com)
INTEGRATIVE BEAUTY All Day Long cream, £89 (integrativebeauty.co.uk)
Solar POWER
There’s more to suncare than SPF. A new wave of products promises to teach your skin to protect — and repair — itself. Rebecca Newman hails a beauty revolution
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ear sunscreen. We know we should. God knows, weary beauty writers keep telling us. But do we? Every day? The truth is, until now sunscreens have tended to be a bit basic. Where other elements of skincare have seen relentless innovation, sun cream has largely continued to do the same thing: act as a filter that sits on top of the skin, absorbing or reflecting harmful rays of light. Some products do this beautifully; many more cause breakouts, weep into the eyes, or simply stop working. Even the best (Heliocare, Skinceuticals, Avène) do not necessarily fit well with our day to day existence, in which the pace of life doesn’t encourage stopping to reapply. But things are changing. There’s a buzz around the idea of ‘resilience’ in beauty — ie using products to help your skin work better. In the place of oily white lotions that sit on the surface of your face, a new generation of sun creams is now encouraging the skin to fortify its natural barrier, and work to fight sun-related damage from within. It’s about time: a recent study found that 80 per cent of skin ageing is attributed to UV radiation. Skin cancer is rising in the UK, with more than 2,000 deaths each year. To understand how the nextgen creams work, it’s worth pausing a moment to ask: what is sun damage? ‘When UV radiation from the sun reaches the deeper
levels of our skin, a cascade of free radicals is triggered that causes damage to all skin cells, breaking down collagen and elastin, turning down production of moisturising molecules such as hyaluronic acid and causing mutations in DNA,’ says cosmetic dermatologist Dr David Jack. Of these, DNA damage is perhaps the most scary: while less collagen and elastin means more wrinkles, the replication of abnormal cells might in time lead to melanoma. Several new launches focus on catching DNA impairment and halting it in its tracks. One is Oclipse Daily Sheer. Made by scienceled brand ZO Skin Health, this contains a complex which helps protect and repair DNA that has broken down. The cream also time-releases antioxidants to help shield the skin from free radical damage, effectively providing an internal ‘sun hat’ for 12 hours. New range Aenea focuses on epigenetics — the way our gene (and DNA) expression can be deformed by environmental stresses. Aenea’s Modern Shield goes one step further, activating the skin’s own antioxidant protection, so the skin neutralises free radicals before they cause damage to a cell’s DNA. Dr Jack has just launched his own line, Integrative Beauty, with the goal of twinning nutrition and topical creams. ‘The All Day Long cream and the oral supplements work together,’ he says. ‘The ZO SKIN HEALTH Oclipse Daily Sheer, £57 (zo-skinhealth.co.uk)
BEA SKIN CARE Solar Defence supplements, £32 (bea-skincare.com)
cream acts almost like a serum: it has potent levels of vitamins C and E, as do the supplements.’ He even prescribes taking the supplements at certain times to support the skin. ‘My SkInfusion supplement is designed to be taken during exercise when the blood supply to the skin is highest, to deliver the maximal doses of vitamins C and E. New research is proving that this combination of antioxidants has a tremendous effect against degradation by free radicals.’ Bea Skin Care has also created a range of Solar Defence supplements, which include calaguala leaf extract. ‘The plant originates from South America, where it has long been used to treat skin conditions,’ says founder Bianca Estelle. ‘Research has proved it has natural photoprotective properties, and daily use results in a resilient complexion.’ This isn’t to say you have to take a supplement. You can also eat your way to sun health. Cosmetic dermatologist Rachael Eckel points to the value of lycopene, found in tomatoes. ‘Taking twoand-a-half tablespoons of tomato paste for 10 weeks made subjects 40 per cent less susceptible to sunburn,’ she says. None of this is (yet) reason to ditch the SPF. But because these products work on so many levels, they mark the beginning of an era when putting cream on once a day is enough, whether you are in front of a screen all day or sitting by a window, and your sun cream may actually make your skin younger looking and more beautiful.
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feast
grace & flavour Grace Dent plots a revolution and, in the meantime, finds Sibarita: a blissful tourist-free bolthole in Covent Garden
“Britain has endured so much bad tapas that its heart has hardened, but to this I say go to Sibarita”
Ambience food
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any of you will be aware of my longmooted plans, come the revolution, to raze Covent Garden Piazza to the ground and tarmac over it in a bid to prevent my Northern family visiting the Punch & Judy pub. In the People’s Republic of Gracedentonia, any busking performance artist found daubing themselves into a slapdash Charlie Chaplin shall be imprisoned and their juggling implements impounded. The charming quintet performing Vivaldi shall be banished, replaced by Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats on vinyl. Only then shall I be free of meeting my cousins there at 5.30pm in July for a pre-Stomp rendezvous. With this in mind, I now have a secret, blissful Covent Garden bolthole for the civilised that, contractually, I must tell you about. Believe me, I wouldn’t if they weren’t standing over me with expressions that say they’ll replace me with a writer called Crispin Foppingly-Blott who’s roaringly earnest about food waste. So yes, on to Sibarita on Maiden Lane. Sibarita, this great, warm-hearted, gorgeously priced, delicious little restaurant just off the main hubbub of Covent Garden, which takes reservations and offers brisk, cheerful service. Sibarita, which will get you tipsy and feed you and make you feel like you’re on holiday — in sort-of Tarragona, but maybe Perpignan and could-be Buenos Aires, dining in a backstreet neighbourhood bar — when you’re more accurately on a deadline on a rainy August day in London and considering buying a duffle coat. Sibarita is from the Victor Garvey stable; the brains and cooking prowess behind Encant and Bravas Tapas. Garvey is a sleekly
sibarita 7 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, WC2 (020 7497 0999; sibaritalondon.com)
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Spinach croquetas
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Torta del Casar
£11
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Roasted almonds
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Tuna tostada
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Chicken chilindron
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Fried artichokes
£6.50
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Padron peppers
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Ice cream
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Glasses of Cillar de Silos
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Glasses of Torre de Barreda £10.40
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understated hospitality hurricane, shaking up London’s food scene, creating genuinely, God’shonest-relaxed places with fabulous wine and tapas worth trekking across town for. Tapas, obviously, is not on trend. Britain has endured so much bad faux-Catalan tapas in the past 30 years that its heart has hardened. But to this I say go to Sibarita and order the spinach croquetas (if they are on the menu that day): made of a doctored creamed spinach and smooth béchamel that will make you purr. Well they made my toes curl joyously anyhow. Sibarita positions itself as a place for wine, cheese and charcuterie, which is a vast understatement, as everything off piste from that is very good too. A baked, runny Torta del Casar sheep’s cheese arrives with radish and carrot on tiny, playful medieval spikes. It transpires that a jar of humblesounding Marcona almonds is laced with smoked paprika and Valencian orange zest. We eat an excellent spicy slant on a tuna tostada, then a plate of chicken ‘chilindron’, marinated and spliced with serrano ham salpicon. And then there are Spanish wines by the glass and Tetilla, Garrotxa and Murcia al Vino cheeses with Hedone sourdough, if you like. Sibarita’s head chef Krisztian Palinkas is a talented, imaginative presence. Even Sibarita’s drab-sounding ‘fried artichokes’ turn up crisp and deliciously booby-trapped with a rich saffron aioli. The dark-chocolate ice cream is pleasing, spot-hitting and sprinkled with sea salt. I popped in at 7pm to meet a friend for a quick bite and a glass of Cillar de Silos 2014 and was somehow still there at 10.15pm drinking Torre de Barreda 2012, having ordered at least seven plates, and at some juncture made friends with half of the restaurant. I am not typically a ‘speak to other tables’ woman, but Sibarita oddly lends itself to it. Garvey’s new project will be a bigger, bolder place on Dean Street called Rambla, opening this summer. If Sibarita is full, as this is the peril of talking about it, try booking there. This man knows what he’s doing. Come the Grace Dent revolution, he’ll oversee the catering.
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tart london Jemima Jones and Lucy Carr-Ellison use wonderfully
flavoured olive oil to make a trio of summer fish dishes
Bowled over: the Tart girls hit Majorca’s streets for beautiful new crockery
Jemima Jones (left) and Lucy Carr-Ellison
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hat could be more Mediterranean than the ancient, majestic olive tree? It’s a marvel, producing baskets piled high with fat fruit despite growing in inhospitable, arid ground — a real gift from nature. We love olives, which is lucky as they grow around both of our families’ Mediterranean homes. Jemima’s place in Provence produces around 150 bottles of olive oil a year, while Lucy’s family has one of the oldest olive mills in Majorca, which hasn’t been used in 300 years. Whenever we’re asked for our favourite ingredients, top quality olive oil is always the first thing we say. It’s funny to think how easy it is to buy the good stuff now: we remember having to drive across town with our parents in the Nineties to a specialist Greek store on Queensway, or waiting for a trip to the River Café for its own fabulously intense, emerald green olive oil. Recently we visited Casanova & Daughters in Covent Garden for an olive oil tasting: an hour spent sampling spoon after spoon of delicious oil, each with its own unique story. We both ended up buying a bottle of the smooth, fruity and decadently peppery Santagatese. It’s a really special oil, to be saved for last-minute drizzles and sourdough dunking — and these three summery fish dishes. You don’t have to use the Santagatese, but make sure whatever you do use is a very good quality extra virgin. It really does make all the difference.
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Sea bass, sea bream and john dory crudo
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Place the sliced fish on a plate. Sprinkle with the herbs and either tomato, chilli or radish. Drizzle generously with olive oil, squeeze over the lemon or lime and sprinkle with sea salt. Serve straight away.
For the sea bream 1 sea bream fillet, thinly sliced 4 mint leaves, chopped 1 red chilli, deseeded and sliced Extra virgin olive oil ½ lime Sea salt For the John Dory 1 John Dory fillet, thinly sliced 2 sprigs of dill, chopped 2 radishes, finely chopped Extra virgin olive oil ½ lemon Sea salt
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In the MIX
FEAST
Homoerotic vodka and porn star rum? Douglas Blyde gets stuck in
Frozen ASSETS
A childhood drink with added alcohol — what’s not to love about this summer’s trend for slushies, asks Frankie McCoy
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lushies have evolved from the neon, sugar syrup puppies of your childhood, where a toohasty slurp both drained the ice of its coloured sweetness Super-chilled: frozitas and left you clutching at Tienda Roosteria your forehead with the dreaded brain freeze. perfect summer serve,’ says London bartenders are development manager now making some Gemma Moore. ‘It’s a fun, seriously grown-up refreshing grown-up boozy slushies that contain a slush puppy.’ The Camino healthy dose of alcohol frosé is far from a mere glass and interesting flavours of frozen Echo Falls blush, — and won’t dye your though — it combines Ice to meet you: Street Feast’s tongue bright blue. Tempranillo rosé with frosé and tequila colada Although a frozita or strawberry puree and two at The Curtain hotel’s Tienda Roosteria Belsazar vermouth rosé, which ‘brings a (thecurtain.com) might leave you slightly different flavour dimension; adding a fruity, sparkling: the drink comes topped with a floral, honeyed richness to the serve’. sprinkle of glitter. ‘We wanted to keep the Sophistication aside, Moore asks: ‘Who drinks fun and playful — a glittery slushie doesn’t love a glass of rosé in the sunshine, does just that, plus they are dangerously and even more when it’s ice cold?’ easy to drink without being too strong, so go “We wanted to keep the ahead and have more than one — or five,’ say Iain Griffiths and Kelsey Ramage of drinks fun and playful — a Trash Tiki, the brilliant drinks company glittery slushie does just that” that designed the taqueria’s drinks list. Its frozitas are based on the rosita, a classic Can’t choose? Head to Street Feast tequila drink with Campari, vermouth and (streetfeast.com), where slushie angostura bitters — kind of like a tequila machines are pumping out 2,000 negroni. The glitter-topped frozita, they cups of frosé (a mix of rosé, say, is ‘a light, fun version of that’. lemon, pomegranate and Summer is all about fun, sweet and strawberry) and tequila slightly trashy drinks, so head to Foxlow for colada (Patron, pineapple an Aperol spritz slushie (imagine an Aperol and coconut) every week Solero) or anywhere in London that serves across all its sites. Warning: Pink and be merry: frosé — the oh-so-basic summer drink of they might be delicately Camino’s frosé frozen rosé wine, which drink snobs love to sweet and innocently pastel hate but is too fun and wickedly delicious to coloured, but one too many ignore. That’s why Camino in King’s Cross will leave you with brain freeze (camino.uk.com) has a full-on dedicated that has nothing to do with frosé bar this summer. ‘For us frosé is the quick-sipping crushed ice.
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lli Hietalahti, CEO of One Eyed Spirits, was an acclaimed but bored ad man when he made his foray into the drinks trade in 2015. The result was Ron de Jeremy, whose name, he tells me as we chat at his summer house near Fiskars in Finland, ‘started as a bar joke. Ron being Spanish for rum, it took seconds to work out the most famous Ron was Ron Jeremy.’ When it transpired the porn star liked the idea of fronting his own rum, Hietalahti ‘jumped for it’. He recently started producing Tom of Finland vodka (£24.95, masterofmalt. com), named after Touko Laaksonen, the Finnish artist known for his stylised homoerotic fetish art and whose nickname was Tom of Finland. United by the mission to advance the ‘courage, freedom and creativity’ embraced in Laaksonen’s art, Hietalahti befriended the Tom of Finland Foundation, run by Laaksonen’s ex. The bottles carry bold iconography. ‘If you look at Laaksonen’s men, they’re always happy, and I wanted something like that,’ says Hietalahti. However, he notes, ‘packaging doesn’t matter if the drink is Male shot: One Eyed s***’. Hence the vision for Spirits’ vodka a 100 per cent organic spirit, crafted by Finland’s second oldest family business, Lignell & Piispanen. ‘Mostly wheat with 5 per cent rye, a very Finnish ingredient, bringing pepperiness then aniseed.’ The creation of the vodka coincides with the biopic Tom of Finland (opening at Curzon Bloomsbury, 11 August), which features brand ambassador Niklas Hogner as Kake, Laaksonen’s idealised sexual expression of a man. Sunlight strikes the bottle. ‘People ask us, is that Freddie Mercury on the label?’ muses Hietalahti. ‘It’s not… but in a sense it is.’ @ToFVodka
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HOMEWORK
Marylebone compact mirror, £50 (aspinaloflondon.com)
BY LILY WORCESTER Moderna eye mask, £40 (sundays london.com)
by mb towel Honeyco dler, £98, A an h at n Jo com at amara.
Majolica cornflower washbag, £22 (designersguild.com)
Panama currency case, £195 (smythson.com)
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BON VOYAGE In-Between Days dry shampoo, £2.99 (hm.com)
Whether you’re jetting across the Atlantic or catching the Eurostar to Paris, why not make a statement while doing it? From Jonathan Adler’s honeycomb beach towel to Majolica’s cornflower washbag, there are plenty of ways to stand out from the crowd on your travels this year. To add a further pop of colour to your travel kit, look to Globe-Trotter’s collaboration with London-based artist John Booth. This collection of lanyards, wallets, passport holders and keyrings is embossed with vibrant patterns, perfect for spotting your bag on a crowded carousel. Case closed.
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Nobile purse spray, £90 (acquadi parma.com)
Bespoke in-flight case, £295 (anyahind march.com) Pure-Castile Soap in hemp rose, £2.15 (drbronner.couk)
Daya c throw ashmere t , £44 9 (oyu ravel na .co m) Instax camera by Fujifilm, £79, at urban outfitters.com
Lisbon: Here’s Why, £4 (shop. herblester. com)
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my london
matthew parris as told to lily worcester
Home is… Derbyshire, where I was an MP, and Limehouse, where my flat is.
What do you collect? The postman leaves lots of rubber bands (above) behind, which I started wrapping around a walnut. It’s now nearly the size of a football. I wait excitedly for the postman in the hope that he will drop some. It has become an important part of my life.
Last play you saw? The Goat by Edward Albee at the Theatre Royal Haymarket (above). My partner [Julian Glover] and I were taken out by Anji Hunter, who was Tony Blair’s assistant. We had a marvellous evening but the play was dreadful, such foul language. Damian Lewis was good but there was too much shouting.
What would you do if you were Mayor for the day? Devise an extremely complicated pricing scheme that records the roads you’ve driven on and charges accordingly. If you want to go around Trafalgar Square you’d probably pay about £15. We could do away with a lot of congestion by charging more at rush hour. I think Sadiq is a great figurehead for London — not too much grandstanding, which Boris [Johnson] and Ken Livingstone were a little guilty of. I’m proud that we have a Muslim as Mayor of London.
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The writer and former Conservative MP enjoys a bourbon at the Savoy, is partial to a wayward swim in the Thames and is proud to have a Muslim Mayor of London If you had to be locked in a building overnight, which would it be? I could happily spend the night wandering the London sewers. I went once with Peter Bazalgette, a descendant of the man who designed them [Joseph Bazalgette]. It doesn’t feel particularly dirty — it’s not as if you stand aside as everyone flushes their toilet and you get washed away. I’m like a kind of human sewer rat. Biggest extravagance? Bulk wholesale light-bulb orders.
Favourite discovery? Swimming in the Thames. That’s now illegal! When I passed 60 I thought it was really time to try. I got someone to signal to me from the other side that there were no ships coming but it was a mistake to go before the tide had turned — I was swept a mile upstream and had to run home in my pants. Who is your hero? My professional hero was Sir Keith Joseph (below), Margaret Thatcher’s mentor and one of the last people who managed to be both a deep thinker and a successful politician.
Favourite spot for a nightcap? The American Bar at the Savoy (above). I’m a very keen bourbon drinker. Who do you call when you want to have fun? I have more fun with Julian than anyone. We’ve been together for about 20 years, and we’ve had a civil partnership for 11 years. Parris writes columns for ‘The Times’ and ‘The Spectator’ and presents the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Great Lives’
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Favourite shop? I’m only interested in buying light bulbs, so I would say that my favourite London shop is Tower DIY [on Commercial Road, E1] and my second favourite is Screwfix.
Best piece of advice? My father’s advice that most problems — if you don’t do anything about them — just go away within a few days or weeks.