by Hannah Kane | Feb 2, 2015 | Lifestyle
Award-winning British wine expert Jane Parkinson is giving her industry a much-needed facelift. Forget the pretentiousness and elitism you might associate with the wine trade; as one of a savvy new breed of young wine writers, Jane’s goal is to show the public that...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 20, 2015 | Lifestyle
January – by all means, the worst month of the year. Not only are you on a post-Christmas comedown, during which you are forced to accept that watching sixteen hours of telly and eating calendar chocolates all day is not acceptable behavior, but it’s also the start of...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 19, 2015 | Lifestyle
ICEBAR’s Tom Hunter gets to grips with rum My New Year’s resolution for 2015 is to try new things and have fun breaking the rules every now and again. With cocktail-making there’s over a century of classic recipe rules and mixing methods to choose from, but at...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 10, 2015 | Lifestyle
January: it’s the time of year when we get bombarded with over-complicated diet plans, unrealistic fitness regimes and cringe-inducing self-help slogans. No thanks – we’ve barely recovered from NYE. Here at PHOENIX we believe that being healthy...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 1, 2015 | Lifestyle
DJ and London legend Disastronaut does lunch London is the global capital of lunch. If we’re treating ourselves to a proper midday feast, we want bright, flavourful dishes that feel indulgent but that won’t leave us with a trace of guilt – financial...
by Hannah Kane | Dec 16, 2014 | Lifestyle
The Beautiful Ugly, And The Philosophy Of Cool I was meant to write a column about war this issue, but ultimately I decided I wouldn’t do it. At least I wasn’t prepared to try and make sense of such a complex and emotive topic in the space of 700 words or so. But I...