Craghoppers Pemba Jacket (Women’s) UK price: £120 Pros: A useful jacket with lots of pockets. Cons: Expensive. Verdict: Ideal for soft adventure. Rating: Available from: Craghoppers stores and online   Product Review   A summer walking jacket that is smart enough to double up as casual outerwear in the evening is what I was after.

Centrally placed in Piccadilly, this upmarket café serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Situated in a former luxury car showroom – hence the name – it was for 70 years a bank serving the nearby residents of Mayfair, before turning into this delightful, if sometimes noisy eating place.   With tiled black and white floors, high

Craghoppers NosiLife Darla L/S Shirt (Women’s) UK price:  £60 Pros: Light, well made, easy to wash and dry. Cons: Expensive, crumples easily. Verdict:  If you’re a woman who likes shirts, you may like this. Rating: Available from:  Craghoppers stores and online   Product Review   This shirt tries very hard.  It’s made with material permanently

The Lake of Menteith hotel in Perthshire has welcomed new head chef Graham Campbell to the fold, whose simple, quality-driven menu is already wowing the locals. Olivia Greenway reports.

Think Apartments Tower Bridge are about a 15 minute walk from London Bridge tube.   Finding somewhere to stay in London that’s clean, doesn’t bankrupt you and allows some room to swing that proverbial is hard.  Am I asking too much to want free Wi-Fi too and a place where I can work?  Well if I

Browns Hotel in Mayfair – think Lady Bracknell meets Paris Hilton – won the Best Tea award from the Tea Council in 2009; as a consequence, you may need to book a slot some weeks, or even months in advance to take tea in the afternoon, a quintessentially English tradition.   An endless supply of