Wellness
Long before family-focused wellness clubs became a London proposition, Cloud Twelve was combining spa treatments, complementary healthcare and childcare in a quiet Notting Hill mews. We went as non-members, and the massage was one of the best we have had.
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Notting Hill, Four Streets Deep.
Gold · Saucy Books · Notting Hill Bakery · The Lost Poet
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Portugal, Between Faro and the Sea.
3HB Faro · 2 Passos · The Campus · Pizzeria Casavostra · Faro Old Town
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East Devon, Off the Coast Road.
The Pig at Combe · River Exe Café · Beer Quarry Caves · Blackbury Honey Farm · Darts Farm
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West London, Worth Stopping For.
The Hawthorn · The Brentford Project · Hanwell Flight of Locks · Other Fold Sauna Co. · Everyman Brentford
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Singapore, Made by Hand.
Fumu · Raffles Singapore · Atelier KAI · Casa Mori · Nowhere Baths
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Peterborough, Not Just Passing Through.
Peterborough Cathedral · Flag Fen · Prévost at the Haycock · Old Station Quarter · The George of Stamford
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Barcelona, on the Outside.
Torre Melina · El Racó del Cargol · Bunkers del Carmel · Sant Pau · Can Travi Nou
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The North Cotswolds, Still at Work.
Dumbleton Hall · ROSI · Moreton Show · Hart Silversmiths · Hyll
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Andalucía, From the Field Up.
Casa La Siesta · El Disparate · Salina Santa Teresa · Palacio Villapanés · Torre Tavira
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Surrey, Beyond the Green.
Foxhills · Starling · Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden · Botley Hill Farmhouse · Beaverbrook
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France, Facing the Atlantic.
Hôtel Le Garage · L'Aillet · Maison des Paludiers · Fêtes de Bayonne · Villa Grand Voile
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Cloud Twelve
Cloud Twelve — Before Wellness Became a Family Affair
Long before family-focused wellness clubs became a London proposition, Cloud Twelve was combining spa treatments, complementary healthcare and childcare in a quiet Notting Hill mews. We went as non-members, and the massage was one of the best we have had.
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Naked & Famous
Naked & Famous — The Other Side of Portobello Road
Beneath zēphyr on Portobello Road sits a thirty-five-seat cocktail bar devoted to agave spirits and 1970s glamour. We have returned several times, drawn by the room as much as by a list that goes well past the conventional Margarita.
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The Lost Poet
The Lost Poet — Four Rooms, Four Personalities
No lobby, no restaurant and four bedrooms. At the top of Portobello Road, a local design studio has made something closer to a private townhouse than a hotel, and we stayed in the pink room on the first floor.
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Notting Hill Bakery
Notting Hill Bakery — The Bread You Already Knew
For more than thirty years its bread arrived on tables across London without anyone knowing whose it was. Now the bakery has a shop of its own, and a pain au chocolat worth crossing the neighbourhood for.
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Saucy Books
Saucy Books — Romance Gets Its Own Bookshop
A former technology executive built an independent Notting Hill bookshop around a single genre. Sixteen months later it sold out a black-tie ball at the Café Royal for the launch of one novel.
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Gold
Gold — Seven Years of the Same Good Idea
A Noughties nightclub impresario took a pub where the Sex Pistols drank, put a River Café chef in the kitchen and lit a wood fire. Seven years on, the best things on the menu are the ones that were there at the start.
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Faro Old Town
Faro Old Town — The City Behind the Walls
Behind Faro's monumental gateway lies a compact Portuguese city shaped by Romans, Islamic rulers, medieval kings, an English invasion and a devastating earthquake. The best way to understand it is on foot.
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Pizzeria Casavostra
Pizzeria Casavostra — All in the Family
A family business with roots in interiors and design has created one of Almancil's most enduring restaurants, where the wine comes from the owners' own estates and the vegetables from a plot a kilometre up the road.
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Hotels, restaurants and places worth the journey
The Lifestyle Edit is a travel and living publication built in numbered editions. Each Edit takes one place and covers it in five pieces — where to stay, where to eat, what to do, what is made there, and whatever else turned out to matter once we arrived.
Sections
Place
Hotels, restaurants and buildings worth the journey.
Movement
Gyms, lidos, courts and long walks, as they actually are.
Wellness
Spas, baths and recovery, judged on substance.
Living
Country houses, neighbourhoods and everyday design.
Experience
Festivals, shows, tours and days with a date attached.
Product
Kit, food and craft, tested against their own claims.
Reading
Books, bookshops and the longer ideas behind an Edit.