More from: Joycelyn Shu
Pleasure September 2017
The Best Burgers in New York City
The Rake chooses its favourite patty-and-bun combos from the veritable meat market that is New York City.
Icons July 2016
La Belle et la Bête: Birkin & Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin were the golden couple of their generation, and their grand amour continues to inspire and fascinate.
Pleasure May 2016
EATING EUSKADI
Whether you want to eat your way through Michelin temples of haute gastronomy, salt-of-the-earth establishments proffering classic Basque fare, undiscovered gems in the culinary landscape, or a plethora of pintxo…
News March 2016
For A Muse of Fire
Previously in the shadows, the muse—she who inspires “the brightest heaven of invention”, as The Bard put it—has stepped out once more and blossomed into a style and pop-cultural icon.
Style January 2016
Heure d'Ici et Heure d'Ailleurs: A Tribute to the Jet Set
A certain Cholly Knickerbocker came up with the moniker for an impossibly glamorous and unimaginably affluent social group no longer constrained by mere geographical boundaries and plodding voyage by sea. The sky…
Pleasure October 2015
Rebel with a Cos: Chateau Cos d'Estournel
From the legend of its very founding to its iconoclastic architecture, nothing about Chateau Cos d’Estournel has ever been conformist.
Pleasure October 2015
WHITE HOT
This year marks the 25th anniversary of White Heat, the landmark cookbook that immortalised the young Marco Pierre White as the original enfant terrible of modern British gastronomy.
Pleasure September 2015
Arzak & Arzak, San Sebastián
Juan Mari Arzak, the founding father of nueva cocina vasca, and his daughter, Elena Arzak, continue to push the boundaries of Basque gastronomy at their family restaurant in San Sebastián.
Pleasure September 2015
Le Grand Blue: The Blue Bar in the Berkeley Hotel
A night on the town at The Blue Bar, possibly the chicest lounge in London, will leave you feeling anything but melancholy.