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Taj Mahal at sunrise

Travel review: India’s Golden Triangle in luxury

Touring three of India’s most alluring cities – Delhi, Agra and Jaipur – in the five-star comfort of the ITC Hotels chain.

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The Taxidriver burger

Restaurant review: Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Islington, N1

Gourmet Burger Kitchen is by now familiar to most Londoners. The first restaurant was opened in Battersea back in 2001 by three Kiwis with a mission to treat the humble burger with more respect. Now there are more than 25 branches across London and dozens more nationwide.

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Interiors of the refurnished Rosas Thai Restaurant in Spitalfields, London.

Rosa’s Thai Cafe: From street stall to restaurant

Rosa’s started life as a humble street stall in Brick Lane seven years ago where its reputation for authentic, fresh and punchy Thai food grew to such an extent it allowed the husband and wife team to go on to open three restaurants in the capital.

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Lord's Tavern

The Lord’s Tavern: Great food at the famous home of cricket

Standing in the shadows of the world’s most famous cricket ground, most people will have stumbled upon the Lord’s Tavern before or after a match.

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The apartment in the Rambla del Poblenou

Travel review: the Catalan capital, Barcelona - city of Gaudi and Modernism

The bustling tree-lined pedestrianised promenade of the Rambla del Poblenou makes the perfect travel base for families and offers a chance to see a slice of the real Barcelona, away from the Plaça Catalunya tourist trap.

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The Mile High cabin crew welcome passengers

Restaurant review: Mile High, a secret location in London, W1

Pop-up restaurants are ten a penny these days and immersive theatre is so on trend it’s becoming common – but what if you combine the two?

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Ravioli is the star of the show at Latium

Restaurant review: Latium, Noho, W1

»A decade is a long time in the restaurant game, particularly on the unforgiving streets of Noho, so it is no mean feat for Italian eaterie Latium to celebrate its tenth birthday.

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Andaz from the outside

Travel Review, Andaz, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch, London

Standing outside Liverpool Street station looking at the former Great Eastern Hotel, it’s really quite bizarre to think that a Grecian-style Masonic Temple - apparently attended by Jack the Ripper - lies behind four bricked-up windows.

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The pineapple stuffed with crab is a Cuban classic

Restaurant review: Cuba Libra, Islington, N1

Cuba Libre recently received the prestigious accolade of best Cuban restaurant in the UK – and with it sitting right on my doorstep it seemed remiss not to give it a go.

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The airy, well, lit dining room

Restaurant review: Bistro Bruno Loubet, Clerkenwell, EC1

Thinking back, I realise I had heard great things about Bistro Bruno Loubet, but they had slipped my mind prior to eating there.So I was a blank canvas as we settled down in a romantically lit corner table over a glass of champagne.

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Mash isn't short on Art Deco opulence

Restaurant review: MASH, Soho, W1

As a rule, the Danes are not normally associated with steak. Bacon, maybe, possibly even pastries, but not really beef.

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Rotunda, as you'd expect, is round Pic Danny Elwes

Restaurant review: Rotunda, King’s Cross, N1

Kings Place, the enormous glass monolith that looms over York Way, is known as home to an arts centre, theatre and left-leaning newspapers.

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York Minster

Travel review: York

It was founded more than 2,000 years ago by the Romans, became the capital of the Vikings’ northern kingdom and was sacked by the Normans after mounting a failed rebellion.

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Lucas Rosselli, one, from London, inspects a model landscape of London made from 2,186 sugar cubes. Picture: Geoff Caddick/PA Wire

Sweet! London skyline made out of sugar cubes

It might look sweet, but a sugar cube recreation of London’s skyline is not for eating.

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