What’s the worst thing that can happen? Workers say they’re most scared of spilling food on their suit at work November 9, 2015 No matter where you work, there’s always going to be those uncomfortable moments you just can’t escape from. Calling your colleague the wrong name, getting caught slating your boss, being fired in front of the entire office for slating your boss, the list goes on. But what’s the worst thing that can happen to you [...]
Smith & Wollensky is the latest of the upmarket American steakhouses to cross the Atlantic November 4, 2015 WHAT? Renowned for its USDA Prime slabs of cow, Smith & Wollensky is the latest of the upmarket steakhouses to find its way across the Atlantic. WHERE? A ground floor and basement inside the historic Adelphi building, this spot looks for all the world as if a small chunk of 1930s New York has been [...]
Turkish Delight: a culinary journey through one of the world’s most diverse nations November 13, 2015 When most people think of Turkish food, they imagine kebabs and Turkish delight. In reality the food of this vast nation is among the most vibrant and diverse in the world, drawing influences from the olive-scented villages on the Aegean coast to the dusty towns near its border with Syria. The epic landscape – the [...]
From the Personal Savings Allowance and Dividend Allowance to the Help to Buy Isa, how can savers make the most of their Isa this tax year? March 15, 2016 The world of Isas was once a sleepy one. At every Budget, the chancellor would typically increase the amount you could contribute each tax year by some measure of inflation. You had a simple choice between putting that money into a cash or a stocks and shares Isa (or a slightly restrictive combination of the [...]
Index Ventures backs Daniel Gandesha’s tech start-up Property Partner March 23, 2015 Index Ventures, the venture capital firm behind Just Eat and Candy Crush Saga-maker King Digital, has given £5.2m backing to a crowdfunding platform that allows retail investors to tap into the UK’s residential market. Property Partner, founded by the ex-head of startup investment at BSkyB Daniel Gandesha, gives smaller backers the chance to invest sums [...]
Just-Eat prices shares at top end of range in IPO April 3, 2014 Just-Eat has announced it’s pricing its London Initial Public Offering at the top end of its range, at 260p per share. The London-based online food takeaway business is offering 138.5m shares. Based on the offer price, it’d reach a market capitalisation of £1.47bn. The shares being sold represent 24.6 per cent of Just-Eat’s equity. It’ll [...]
Just-Eat float will have no retail component March 17, 2014 City AM has learned that the float of fast food website Just-Eat will have no retail component. Retail investors will be able to go through brokers who've put in an institutional bid, but there'll be no direct access to the initial public offering (IPO). This mirrors Poundland's recent IPO, which also lacked a retail component. [...]
Just-Eat set to become a public company March 17, 2014 Fast food site Just-Eat has confirmed its intention to float in London and hopes to raise as much as £100m from its primary offering. SM Trust, Index Ventures, Vitruvian Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Greylock Partners are expected to sell some their shareholding in the offer. Just-Eat, which was founded in Denmark in 2001 and operates [...]
Damien Hirst restaurant Pharmacy 2 review: Why this Pharmacy is a cure for your foodie ills March 8, 2016 I feel like I should start this review with a personal anecdote about Damien Hirst. Everybody seems to have one, like the time he pulled his foreskin through a hole in his trousers, pretended it was a blob of chewing gum and got people to try to brush it off. My anecdote would recall a [...]
Jose Mourinho is a runaway train and should admit he has been wrong if he is to turn around Chelsea’s miserable season November 3, 2015 They are just four words but, if he is going to resurrect Chelsea’s season and his hopes of staying in charge beyond the next few days, Jose Mourinho may just need to utter them. “I’ve got it wrong” is where he ought to start, because I think this season’s mess is one of his own [...]