How Russian banyas became the go-to for elite networking - and the best ones to try out now
The Bath House The Russian invasion of London and the Home Counties hasn’t had much impact on daily life in the capital, unless you’re a consigliere-type lawyer, or run a concierge company that panders to oligarch whims. After all, we’ve been drinking vodka here for centuries, and caviar (or as anglicised White Russian aristocrats used to call it, ‘fish jam’) has been a delicacy since the Revolution. But that could all change with the banya-fication of the capital. A banya is a Russian alternative to a Turkish bath, though where the Turks favour marble and massages, the Russians a...