THE MAN BRINGING CHELTENHAM TO THE SQUARE MILE NEXT WEEK March 9, 2011 IN 18 months, Simon Parker Bowles’s Cornhill restaurant, Green’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar, has become a firm City favourite, mixing time-honoured qualities – simple but sumptuous food, clubby surroundings, a very well-stocked cellar – with a theme that reflects Parker Bowles’s own particular passion: horse racing. The Runner Bar takes its name from the sport, [...]
THE MAN BRINGING CHELTENHAM TO THE SQUARE MILE NEXT WEEK March 9, 2011 IN 18 months, Simon Parker Bowles’s Cornhill restaurant, Green’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar, has become a firm City favourite, mixing time-honoured qualities – simple but sumptuous food, clubby surroundings, a very well-stocked cellar – with a theme that reflects Parker Bowles’s own particular passion: horse racing. The Runner Bar takes its name from the sport, [...]
Ski like an amateur, race like a professional February 5, 2012 THREE, two, one, the race countdown began, as my heart knocked treble-time. With my ski racing bib on, adrenalin pumping, I was staring down a steep, crisply-groomed slope, preparing to race it in my first ever downhill speed run. Then the horn sounded and I was off. I skated a few steps to pick up [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK September 18, 2011 SIX SQUARE Mile brokers spent last Tuesday afternoon locked in back-to-back meetings – a lengthy lunch meeting at The Door Oyster Bar & Grill on Cornhill, that is, where the party remained until 6.30pm in the evening. The steak and oyster specialist is a new addition to the Square Mile dining scene, so the diners [...]
City business map re-drawn November 13, 2011 THE traditional areas where business sectors have operated for decades are changing as companies hunt for affordable and convenient office space, according to new research published today. While the City has always been the hub for banks and insurance it is also becoming a magnet for IT firms and the changing makeup of the area [...]
RAPID RESPONSES October 27, 2011 Big after the Bang Reading yesterday’s comment by Terry Smith, I can’t help but reflect that there were very few, if any, “Terry Smiths” working at the top of firms in the City before the deregulation implemented in the Big Bang. For better or for worse, the gentleman’s club of the Square Mile has been [...]
New York kicks off crackdown November 15, 2011 City of London restarts legal action against protest camp THE CITY of London yesterday vowed to press ahead with plans to evict protesters from its land, hours after US police tore down a connected campsite in New York. Legal efforts to move the St Paul’s protesters are set to resume, without the explicit support of the [...]
City office take-up stays low October 16, 2011 THE TAKE-UP of new office space in London’s Square Mile this year could drop to its lowest since 2003 as economic uncertainty continues to dampen demand, property consultant Cushman & Wakefield has warned. Research published by the firm today shows that leasing activity in the City and the Docklands rose more than 73 per cent [...]
City office take-up stays low October 16, 2011 THE TAKE-UP of new office space in London’s Square Mile this year could drop to its lowest since 2003 as economic uncertainty continues to dampen demand, property consultant Cushman & Wakefield has warned. Research published by the firm today shows that leasing activity in the City and the Docklands rose more than 73 per cent [...]
MONUMENTAL NEW BUILDING September 12, 2011 Rockspring Property Investment Managers has secured planning consent to redevelop an 80,000 square feet office in the City of London. The fund manager, together with its development partner, Charterfield Asset Management, will push ahead with plans to revamp Centurion House, the well-known 1980s building next to The Monument in the Square Mile and replace it [...]