By: Steve Dinneen

Life&Style Editor I'm the editor of CityAM The Magazine, and editor of the daily newspaper's Life&Style section. We cover food, wine, going out, culture, technology and travel. I'm also the head judge of our Toast the City awards that celebrates hospitality in the Square Mile. Find me on X @steve_dinneen

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Evolv: Revenue at Quaglinos, Coq d’Argent, Madison and Bluebird owner soars

May 8, 2026

The group behind restaurants including Quaglinos, Coq d’Argent, Madison and Bluebird has seen its earnings surge despite the challenges facing the hospitality sector. Evolv – formerly D&D London – saw revenue increase 20 per cent from £126.3m to £151.6m year-on-year, with Ebitda rising from £2.6m to £14.6m. Evolv reported a modest loss of £6.8m for [...]
Why there’s more to Sauvignon Blanc than your ‘standard’ Savvy B

April 29, 2026

Sauvignon Blanc remains anchored in the UK’s top three white wines and this fantastically flavoursome grape gets to celebrate its success with International Sauvignon Blanc Day on the first Friday in May. It can be enjoyed in many guises, so which one appeals to you? If you like a wine that makes an entrance and [...]
Punchdrunk Theatre founder: These video games changed my life

April 23, 2026

Punchdrunk is the company that put immersive theatre on the map. Since it was founded more than a quarter of a century ago, it has built a reputation for creating vast, intricate, freeflowing productions in which masked audience-members are allowed to roam freely through its spaces. Hits include The Drowned Man (2013), Sleep No More [...]
The Crime Lord: Peter Capaldi on the manosphere, London and rocking out with his band as he approaches 70

April 21, 2026

From Malcolm Tucker to Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi is one of the finest actors of his generation. Steve Dinneen speaks to him about masculinity, being a punk and why he can’t get enough of London Peter Capaldi has just finished a two-week tour with his band and he says he’s “knackered”. He does look a bit [...]
The mysterious media moguls behind London’s pink slime propaganda machine

April 21, 2026

Private jets, council estates and links to the Kremlin: Steve Dinneen goes looking for the owners of a pink slime propaganda machine Standing outside a squat, residential tower block on the outskirts of Harlow on a grey winter afternoon, it seems hard to believe this is the headquarters of a media organisation with links to [...]
Is The Killingworth Castle the best gastropub in the Cotswolds?

April 21, 2026

In these times of global turmoil, the humble British staycation holds more allure than ever, and you would be hard-pressed to find a better, more accessible option than The Killingworth Castle in the Cotswolds. This outrageously handsome 17th century inn and stables is one of those places that’s so old it would scramble the brain [...]
Pub of the week: The Walrus and Carpenter is pints perfection

April 17, 2026

We have opened nominations for the Toast the City Awards 2026. Each week we’ll be profiling some of the nominees: today it’s the Walrus and Carpenter, a pub like no other beside Monument. To find out more and to nominate your favourite bars, restaurants and hidden gems, visit the website here. “‘The time has come,’ [...]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Old Vic: A blistering revival

April 17, 2026

From his searing take on Othello at the National Theatre to his superlative Death of England cycle, Clint Dyer is one of the most distinctive voices in British theatre, deftly exploring and unpacking contemporary black culture. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the patients in his version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are [...]
The new V&A East Museum is a bold addition to Stratford

April 16, 2026

If the purpose of art is to provoke a reaction, the V&A East Museum manages that feat before you’ve even stepped across its threshold. Design studio O’Donnell + Tuomey’s £135m creation is a mad-looking thing, an impossible collection of angles and aspects, animalesque, squatting on its haunches beside Sadler’s Wells and overlooking West Ham’s London [...]
A Doll’s House at the Almeida: Thrilling, steamy and ambitious

April 14, 2026

A Doll’s House | Almeida | ★★★★☆ As Oscar Wilde probably never said, “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” I can’t think of a pithier summary of this propulsive, steamy, ambitious retelling of Ibsen’s most enduring play, A Doll’s House. In this thoroughly modern version by Anya Reiss, [...]

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