RESTAURANT KING CLAIMS RAMSAY BID IS A GAMBLE September 20, 2011 THE jury is out as to whether Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen – the One New Change venture dubbed “the acceptable face of high street food” – will prove a hit. “Whatever anyone says about Gordon, he knows what people want and he is incredibly resilient,” said restaurant expert Simon Davis, speaking at last night’s [...]
GOODMANS RAISES THE STEAKS IN MAYFAIR August 23, 2011 CONTINUING the theme of the boom in the City’s resurgent restaurant scene, as reported yesterday, The Capitalist hears steakhouse Goodmans is plotting not one but two launches for November. One is a traditional Goodmans restaurant on the South Quay at Canary Wharf to complement the City and Mayfair venues. The other marks a new direction [...]
JAMES MURDOCH PUT ON HOLD BY BROOKS’S GENTLEMEN’S CLUB August 8, 2011 BROOKS’S in Mayfair is one of the oldest and most reputable gentlemen’s clubs in the country, founded in 1764 by four Dukes and with a cast list of former members that includes William Pitt the Younger and Lionel de Rothschild. As you can imagine, joining the ranks of the exclusive all-male preserve is not straightforward. [...]
INDIAN CITY OASIS SEEKS WINE-LOVING RESIDENTS August 31, 2011 BENGALARU is becoming one of the most important global centres for technology and India’s most developed city. So the IT capital formerly known as Bangalore was the obvious choice for the latest multimillion-pound scheme from Vinay Kapoor, the president and chief executive of Westcourt UK, who contributed to the design and development of the World [...]
INDIAN CITY OASIS SEEKS WINE-LOVING RESIDENTS August 31, 2011 BENGALARU is becoming one of the most important global centres for technology and India’s most developed city. So the IT capital formerly known as Bangalore was the obvious choice for the latest multimillion-pound scheme from Vinay Kapoor, the president and chief executive of Westcourt UK, who contributed to the design and development of the World [...]
JP Morgan confirms London as its EU headquarters December 20, 2010 INVESTMENT bank JP Morgan has confirmed it will base its European headquarters in London, at 25 Bank Street in Canary Wharf, from 2012. The announcement is a major vote of confidence in London as a leading financial services centre and will come as a relief to policymakers. The bank has paid £495m to acquire more [...]
JP Morgan confirms London as its EU headquarters December 20, 2010 INVESTMENT bank JP Morgan has confirmed it will base its European headquarters in London, at 25 Bank Street in Canary Wharf, from 2012. The announcement is a major vote of confidence in London as a leading financial services centre and will come as a relief to policymakers. The bank has paid £495m to acquire more [...]
JP MORGAN HUNTS FOR A NEW OFFICE November 23, 2010 JP MORGAN Chase has edged closer to shelving plans for a new headquarters in Canary Wharf, which has already cost £300m in fees. The bank is understood to have singled out the former Lehman Brothers building on Bank Street (pictured) as an alternative. JP Morgan and Canary Wharf Group declined to comment.
The gastropub kings with their sights set on the City August 17, 2011 IF you’re the sort of person who appreciates London’s classier pub offerings, the chances are you’ve been a customer of Tom and Ed Martin. The brothers, a pair of gangly good eggs who exude bonhomie and serious business ambition in equal measure, are the operators of an impressive number of the capital’s upper echelon public [...]
LEGAL FIRM BROADENS RECRUITING HORIZONS August 1, 2011 CITY INTERNSHIPS are notoriously hard to come by. But not for regular readers of The Capitalist such as Ratidzo Chinyuku, who wrote to Taylor Wessing partner Martin Winter asking for a work placement after reading about his charity work in her homeland of Zimbabwe in this column on 12 April. Following her successful appeal, the [...]