Entries from August 2009

August 29, 2009

Via Graça

This place has easily the finest views of any Lisbon restaurant over Mouraria to the Baixa, so it is heartening that the management has not rested on its laurels and let the quality of the food or service slide. Less in your face than some of the city’s other upmarket restaurants, Via Graça maintains its [...]

August 21, 2009

Edinburgh University Contemporary Music Ensemble

Edward Harper conducts the ensemble in a performance of MacMillan’s Raising Sparks.

August 12, 2009

The Spritz

You cannot leave town without sampling the favourite tipple of Venice’s workers. Invented when the city was under the rule of the Austrians, the Spritz comes in several different styles all guaranteed to leave you feeling funny in the ferry on the way home – half a glass of sparkling white wine, with a green [...]