The glorious lack of traffic on the A43 autoroute on our drive into the resort, the solitary snowboarder in the Jardin des Neiges, the gaping silence filling Plagne Montalbert village were instant clues that this would be a half-term ski holiday like no other. Â
A window display of âThe mountains are calling and I must ski!â t-shirts in a souvenir shop read like a cruel joke and the shuttered façade of British chef Phil Howardâs hallowed Union restaurant â culinary star of last season, shut ever since â remains a bitter pill indeed to swallow.
With ski lifts in France closed, embarking on a family ski trip â
Chelsea restaurant Elystan Street has launched a prize draw to support its front of house team.
Participants are asked to ‘tip’ either £100 or £250 into a staff fund to be eligible to win prizes including a cookery masterclass for six with Howard; a day out foraging with Howard; a tutored wine tasting for six with sommelier Charlotte Prescot; and a delivered meal for two.
Co-owners Rebecca Mascarenhas and chef Phil Howard are also running
‘At Your Service’ at their two other restaurants, Kitchen W8 in Kensington and Church Road in Barnes.
While it acknowledges the furlough scheme has saved jobs, it says its staff have been struggling to support families, particularly after the ruling that the service charge may not be taken into consideration when calculating the 80% on offer.
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Andy Beynon on his Hackney restaurant Behind, and what it takes to win a Michelin Star in just 20 days David Ellis
Last week’s Michelin star announcements made some long held dreams come true. Hélène Darroze had a crack running through her voice as she accepted her third star for her restaurant at the Connaught, 10 years after she earned its second. In 2019, Tom Brown’s Cornerstone was the bookies favourite to win its first; it was only last week they joined the club. Some had waited far longer, others are still waiting.
The chef Andy Beynon didn’t need the same patience. When he won the first star for his Hackney restaurant Behind last week, he’d been open just 20 days – and even that wasn’t one run.
Inside a Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign
A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation.
Fake Twitter profiles supporting Huawei, a Chinese company that faced government restrictions in the West.Credit.via Graphika
LONDON Edwin Vermulst, a trade lawyer in Brussels, did not think twice before he agreed to write an article for Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, that would criticize a Belgian policy that threatened to box the company out of lucrative contracts. He had worked with the company for years.
After the article was published Dec. 17 on a Dutch-language website, he moved on to other work. “That was the beginning and end of my involvement,” he said.