April 18th, 2013
Every year, from April to August, Fortnum & Mason offer rooftop visits to see their hives, followed by a tasting of a selection of their honeys, accompanied by champagne. Tastings are held in The Crypt, 120 feet below the rooftop hives.
Thursday 25 April at 4pm
Friday 3 May at 4pm
Thursday 6 June at 4pm
Friday 14 June at 4pm
Friday 5 July at 4pm
Friday 26 July at 4pm
Friday 9 August at 4pm
£35 per person
Fortnum&Mason.co.uk
February 15th, 2013
Monday 4th March 2013: Head Chefs from Scott’s & Harry’s Bar will be donning their whites and joining industry greats like Pierre Koffmann, Marcus Wareing and Angela Hartnett to raise money for Leuka. Quite simply, 20 of London’s greatest culinary artists want to help create a better future for patients with leukaemia by raising money for treatment and research, and specifically for the specialist leukaemia centre at Hammersmith Hospital.
For more information visit Who`s Cooking Dinner
February 13th, 2013
Head Pastry Chef at 34, Alice Hall, has pushed out the culinary boundaries to create a signature Cru Virunga chocolate bombe with a difference. Available at lunch and dinner from 8 to 22 February, customers of 34 will be able to try this chocolate sphere covered with red glitter dust, filled with Turkish delight ice cream, Turkish delight jelly and chocolate crackle crystals, and served with candied rose petals and hot chocolate sauce.
January 28th, 2013
Where is it?
Set just off Berkeley Square, with Hyde Park and Park Lane to the west and Green Park to the south, Mount Street is Mayfair’s answer to Chelsea’s King’s Road.
Why Go?
Mayfair’s shopping artery and one of London’s finest residential areas since the 18th century, Mount Street has long attracted some of the capital’s best retailers for fashion, art, antiques, food and wine. There are also specialist businesses such as Purdey and William & Son, the gun and rifles makers, and the Mount Street Printers. Today, you’ll also find edgier designer brands – such as Lanvin, Paule Ka and Louboutin – next to a traditional butcher, a stationer and various restaurants, including the legendary Scott’s.
What will I see?
Aside from the chauffeur-driven cars snaking up the street and the throngs of wealthy foreigners on their daily expenditure exercise, Mount Street still attracts old-school London. One of the capital’s finest hotels, The Connaught, anchors the area and as if this wasn’t enough luxe, there’s even a couple of exclusive members’ bars, George, and Harry’s Bar. The perfect village vibe is further enhanced by the delightful Mount Street Gardens, created in 1889 from the former burial ground of St George’s, Hanover Square.
The Backstory
The area takes its name from Mount Field, said to be a remnant of Civil War fortifications erected to protect London from the advances of the Royalist army.
1720s Mount Street is the longest single road owned by the Grosvenor Estate and was best known as the main thoroughfare from Central London to Tyburn, to watch public hangings.
1885 James Trant Smith is chosen as the architect to build a U-shaped development of shops, houses and chambers in the red brickwork style of the Arts & Crafts movement.
1900s Mount Street becomes a fashionable shopping district.
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January 14th, 2013
Streaming live to the Curzon Mayfair on Saturday 19th January is The Met Premiere of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda. David McVicar directs the company premiere of the second opera in Donizetti’s famous trilogy of operas about Tudor history.
Joyce DiDonato sings the title role of the defiant Mary, Queen of Scots. South African soprano Elza van den Heever makes her Met debut as Mary’s formidable rival, Queen Elizabeth I. Maurizio Benini conducts a cast that also includes Francesco Meli as the Earl of Leicester, Joshua Hopkins as Cecil, and Matthew Rose as Talbot.
November 25th, 2012
Tuesday 11 December at 6pm
Perfect for festive entertaining, learn how to make the perfect Christmas cocktails with the bar team from 34. Learn how to make house favourites including Journalist, a blend of Beefeater gin, dry & sweet vermouth, Cointreau, lemon juice and Angostura bitter and Brooklyn, with Sazerac rye, sweet vermouth, Amer Picon and maraschino liqueur.
Tickets £10
To book, call 020 7499 6843. themountstreetdeli.co.uk
November 6th, 2012
On Wednesday, 7 November, London's truly timeless shopping arcade in the heart of Mayfair will be hosting a Christmas Bazaar in aid of the Ormiston Children & Family Trust.
The boutiques will throw open their doors and guest stalls will be tempting visitors with wonderful Christmas gift ideas, including The Mount Street Deli’s Christmas hampers and signings of the new J Sheekey recipe book “Fish” by Tim Hughes.
Tickets cost £20 and all proceeds will be going to Ormiston.
For more information and tickets, email josie.barwick@ormiston.org or call 01473 705030.
November 1st, 2012
Tuesday 13 November at 6pm
Learn the art of home-curing with Adam Coghlin.
One of the city's leading 'Young British Foodies' (YBFs) Adam is an authority on home-curing and smoking different meats and fish and will be teaching guests how to do this easily at home. Just in time for making gifts for Christmas.
Tickets £10
To book, call 020 7499 6843. themountstreetdeli.co.uk
October 11th, 2012
The home of the Dukes of Wellington, Apsley House at Hyde Park Corner is known as Number One London because it was the first house encountered after a ride through the fields of Knightsbridge. In fact its postal address is 149 Piccadilly. When the 7th Duke gave the house to the nation in 1947, the family retained the private rooms, which they still use today. Apsley House is the last great surviving London town house – and the only house managed by English Heritage in which the original owner's family is still alive. A banquet is held there on June 18 every year to celebrate Wellington's victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.
October 6th, 2012
Tuesday 9 October at 6pm
Join Hugh Padfield from The Bath Soft Cheese Company for a tasting of their award-winning British cheeses.
Hugh's family has been making an array of soft, hard and blue cheeses from their farm in Kelston, Bath for three generations, using traditional techniques.
Taste cheeses including Bath Blue, Kelston Park and Wyfe of Bath, all accompanied with a glass of wine.
Tickets £10
To book, call 020 7499 6843. themountstreetdeli.co.uk
