These movers and shakers will soon be headed from London's Guildhall to Singapore...
LUXE lovelies, have you seen the just-announced winners of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2012? Time to refresh that must-eat-before-you-die checklist… But wait, there’s more. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the World’s 50 Best academy has just announced the exciting news that next year will see the launch of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, sponsored by S. Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, to be held in Singapore at the end of February 2013. More details to come, but best get your chopsticks ready!
And the winners are...
Dear ravenous hearts, time to tame those grumbling tummies — live from London, the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2012 results are in! Will Noma savour its third consecutive win? Has our hometown Hong Kong scored more than one spot on the list? Click through for the full list of winners!
In The Huffington Post: A Conversation with LUXE City Guides Founder Grant Thatcher
BY The LUXE Editors
Not Baz Luhrman...
Hello, poppets! Clued-in Claras will already know the story of how LUXE City Guides came to being, but what do you know about the man who started it all? Well darlings, simply point your cursors to The Huffington Post, where you’ll find a fun little Q&A with LUXE Founder and Publishing Editor, Grant Thatcher. What does he chat about exactly? From being mistaken for Baz Luhrman to how the world could do with less of elevator sex in films – you know, the usual. TTFN!
In The Huffington Post: A Word from Grant Thatcher, Regional Chairman for The S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants
BY The LUXE Editors
Amber, Hong Kong's first restaurant to grace the top 50
Dear hearts, long-time readers will already know that LUXE‘s founder and Publishing Editor, Grant Thatcher, is also the Chairman of the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Academy panel for the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy. But for the poppets who are new to LUXEtasy.com, Grant has whipped up a quick blog for The Huffington Post to take us through the eating, drinking, and voting process for the W50Best as votes start coming in for the 2012 list, to be announced next April. So, which restaurants do you think should be included?
Happy birthday to us!
Dear hearts, can you believe WE ARE 9! Time has literally ka-boomed by! Since our last birthday, we’ve welcomed LUXE Stockholm and LUXE Amsterdam to the family, as well as our brand new babes Little LUXE Hong Kong and Little LUXE Singapore, mobile app LUXE Niseko, a slew of new editions across the board to our print guides and updates to our mobile apps, and there’s plenty more to come. But we wouldn’t be anywhere without our divine Leggy Lovelies the world over who continue to inspire us and keep us on our tip-tapping toes. So, as a huge THANKS to you all, we’re offering a smashing 30% off ALL our guides and box sets – just enter the code LUXEISNINE at checkout to score. The sale ends in 48 hours, so get shopping quicksticks! See, there are advantages to getting older.
From us all at LUXE, Happy birthday everyone! Live, laugh, LUXE!
Hello poppets, ever wondered how Mr. Grant Thatcher, founder and Publishing Editor of LUXE City Guides, came up with the brilliant idea of bringing fun and fabulosity back into travel, and stripping it down to its stylish core? Well, you’re in luck. This week in Reuters’ Business Traveller section, Grant talks about his “lightbulb moment”, and how a “piece of folded card” came to rock the steady boat of travel publishing.
Ever wondered about the man behind LUXE City Guides? Want to see and hear him in action? Well, here he is, Mr. Grant Thatcher , founder and Publishing Editor of your favourite travel guide, interviewed by Richard Quest of Quest Means Business on CNN.
Clued-in Claras who’ve been reading our blog since day one would have already read our very first LUXElife Q&A featuring Grant, and now’s your chance to find out even more about how the magic happens.
For more LUXE goodies (you’re insatiable!) pop over to the LUXE mothership, where you’ll find all sorts of juicy nuggets, including our online store, Hotel & Villa Collection online booking engine, destination reports and mobile app store.
As Regional Chairman for The S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants‘s Academy (and Founder and Publishing Editor of LUXE City Guides), Grant Thatcher writes a word about Hong Kong‘s gastronomic delights for The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Regional Spotlight.
The LUXElife Travel Q&A
Hello, gorgeous
Who are you, and what are you wearing?
Grant Thatcher, Publishing Editor of LUXE City Guides – in this picture I’m wearing a William Cheng shirt and a rather natty summer suit I had made in Singapore for the princely sum of US$150. The tailor didn’t make it into the guide ultimately as the trews were a tad skimpy on the knackerage, but hell, for 150 sobs you can’t say fairer for a knockabout jack n’ slacks.
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