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Inside Amazon’s new smart salon in Spitalfields Rosie Fitzmaurice I’m sitting in front of a mirror surrounded by QR codes, with a spaceship-like silver shower cap on my head. Slightly startling plumes of steam are rising above me. This is all perfectly normal, my stylist Nadia assures me. It’s part of the Steam Wash treatment, which is attempting to rejuvenate my parched lockdown locks. I’m here to preview Amazon’s first ever hair salon, where it plans to showcase the...

May 19th 2021 09:32 It’s been a long and difficult 18 months for the beauty industry, but with retail stores and salons re-opening in May, the focus is now on getting back to business, and engaging consumers whose habits might have changed during lockdown. So, how is the industry responding, and what trends will we see drive beauty retail in the months ahead? Integrating social elements into ecommerce According to Accenture research, consumers are now four times more likely to purchase thei...

Published: 1:08 PM May 19, 2021    Japanese udon noodle and tempura restaurant chain Marugame Udon is set to open its first European restaurant in Spitalfields. - Credit: Marugame Udon The world’s largest udon noodle and tempura restaurant chain is opening its first European site in Spitalfields this summer. Japanese giant Marugame Udon will open the 4000sq ft restaurant straddling Middlesex Street and Widegate Street, near Liverpool Street Station, in July. The 4000sq ft restaurant stradd...

Two people have been arrested as part of early morning raids in Woodford Green and Bushwood investigating alleged people smuggling in and out of the UK.

Yet more places to eat and drink: 70 bars and restaurants open now It’s just days until we can once more sit in a restaurant and dine like civilized human beings, albeit socially distanced ones. But where to book? To help you make this most difficult of decisions, we’ve collected a bumper list of 70 places to meet up with friends and support the hospitality industry. With spots across London, there is something for everyone in our eating and drinking extravaganza. Latest B...

Yotam Ottolenghi to open first new deli in six years Yotam Ottolenghi will open his first new deli in six years in Marylebone this June. Located on Marylebone Lane, it will be the fifth deli in the group, joining those in Spitalfields, Belgravia, Islington and Notting Hill and will be its most central deli location to date.  The space will continue the art gallery aesthetic of the other delis with a no-reservations communal dining area as well as a couple of tables...

Netflix has announced that there is another true crime coming – this time being about the London nail bombings in 1999. Nail Bomber: Manhunt will be a documentary film, and is being released later this month. Over three successive weekends between the 17th and 30th April in 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated in Brixton in South London, at Brick Lane in Spitalfields in the East End, and at The Admiral Duncan pub in Soho in the West End. Each bomb contained up to 1,500 nails a...

Ever fancied Persian food? A new delivery service has launched in south-west London.  After its big opening on April 29, Noushe Joon is bringing authentic, family-inspired recipes to customers in Battersea and Clapham.  Launched by Rea Shahroudi and Mo Ali Shirazi the business hopes to adapt classic flavours to a modern palette.  The recipes on the menu have been developed by head chef, Ashkan Ashtari, who has worked in a number of high-profile London restaurants, including The ...

Ever fancied Persian food? A new delivery service has launched in south-west London.  After its big opening on April 29, Noushe Joon is bringing authentic, family-inspired recipes to customers in Battersea and Clapham.  Launched by Rea Shahroudi and Mo Ali Shirazi the business hopes to adapt classic flavours to a modern palette.  The recipes on the menu have been developed by head chef, Ashkan Ashtari, who has worked in a number of high-profile London restaurants, including The ...

The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Hana Miletić Hana Miletić, Materials, 202, Hand-woven and Jacquard-woven textile (burnt orange recycled wood fibre, carrot and dahlia- coloured eri silk, dark apricot recycled polyamide, recycled nylon, recycled plastic thread, and white polyester), 30 x 24 x 2 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 x 3/4 in.). LONDON .- There is a micro-political dimension to weaving for Hana Miletić, who employs this process as a method of slowing down production. She sees it as an...