7 of the best jazz clubs in Barcelona: where to hear a live set tonight

7 of the best jazz clubs in Barcelona: where to hear a live set tonight

The Raval's jazz club reopens this month. Here is which door to knock on, and on which night.

6 of the best beach clubs in Bodrum: the three that closed, and the six worth the boat

Half the names on every Bodrum list have gone. Here is what replaced them, and which bay keeps which month.

The best Italian restaurants in Hong Kong: three stars in Central, and a lunch in Wan Chai

The room everyone quotes has changed its name and was never on the floor the guides give it. Seven kitchens, with the level, the street and the price of getting in.

A guide to Venetian seafood, and where to eat it

The Rialto fish market opens Tuesday to Saturday from about 07:30 and shuts on Mondays and Sundays, when there is no fresh fish on sale anywhere in the city. That single fact organises a Venetian week.

Abu Dhabi's best restaurants with a view, and what the view costs

The highest room in the city charges AED 95 to stand in it, and hands half of that back across the counter. Five views worth the trip, and one that has gone.

An Easter egg? No, she'd prefer these

The Easter egg was a jewel before it was a confection, and for one family it was never anything else. The House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, made eggs for the Russian tsars Alexander III

Travel

7 of the best jazz clubs in Barcelona: where to hear a live set tonight

The Raval's jazz club reopens this month. Here is which door to knock on, and on which night.

6 of the best beach clubs in Bodrum: the three that closed, and the six worth the boat

Half the names on every Bodrum list have gone. Here is what replaced them, and which bay keeps which month.

From breakfast to brunch: Vienna's best

Small marble-topped tables, Thonet chairs, alcoves, newspaper tables and Historicist interiors. The Austrian inventory of intangible cultural heritage lists Viennese coffee house culture in exactly those terms.

The Grand Lodge of France

The Grande Loge de France is housed in a former Franciscan convent behind the Batignolles, bought in 1911, on a street few Parisians could point to. It is not open to walk-in visitors.

Fashion & Style

An Easter egg? No, she'd prefer these

The Easter egg was a jewel before it was a confection, and for one family it was never anything else. The House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, made eggs for the Russian tsars Alexander III

The transforming bag by Momodesign

One bag that becomes three is a design problem before it is a fashion one, and Momodesign solved it in nylon and PVC. Carry it on two shoulders and it is a backpack.

Watches

Bulgari's new Swiss mechanical watches

Bulgari was founded in Rome in 1884 by Sotirios Voulgaris, and for the century that followed it was a jeweller. The watches came late. The marque entered horlogerie in 1977 with the BVLGARI BVLGARI,

Dress like you're on Mad Men

AMC's Mad Men returned on 25 March 2012 with a two-hour premiere, 'A Little Kiss', and the clothes did as much talking as the script. The fifth season opens on Memorial Day 1966 and runs into the

Hotels & Restaurants

The best Italian restaurants in Hong Kong: three stars in Central, and a lunch in Wan Chai

The room everyone quotes has changed its name and was never on the floor the guides give it. Seven kitchens, with the level, the street and the price of getting in.

A guide to Venetian seafood, and where to eat it

Abu Dhabi's best restaurants with a view, and what the view costs

The highest room in the city charges AED 95 to stand in it, and hands half of that back across the counter. Five views worth the trip, and one that has gone.