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    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Our insider guide to Vancouver’s best hotels
      Star power: Rosewood Hotel Georgia

      This longtime favourite of music and Hollywood royalty (plus the odd real prince or two) marries 1920s elegance with haute gastronomy

      The living room of a suite in Vancouver’s Rosewood Hotel Georgia, with a green-velvet sofa, white walls, a blond-wood floor and a marble fireplace with a TV screen above it
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Our insider guide to Vancouver’s best hotels
      Chill-out zone: Shangri-La Vancouver

      Retreat into a five-star, Zen-like cocoon in the city’s tallest tower

      The Vancouver cityscape, with the building in which Shangri-La Vancouver is housed towering above it. There are mountains in the background
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Our insider guide to Vancouver’s best hotels
      Plush hour: Wedgewood Hotel & Spa

      A hit of country house-style luxury nestled amid the skyscrapers of downtown Vancouver

      The dark-wood-panelled, country-house-style lobby at Wedgewood Hotel, Vancouver, with a large chandelier and roaring fire
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Our insider guide to Vancouver’s best hotels
      Welcome to the pleasuredome: Paradox Hotel Vancouver

      Let loose in a hedonists’ playground that is proudly over the top

      The Paradox’s spiral staircase
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Our insider guide to Vancouver’s best hotels
      ‘An urban resort’: Fairmont Pacific Rim

      Make like the Canadian PM and check into the place widely regarded as Vancouver’s smartest stay

      A view of the bay and mountains beyond from Fairmont Pacific Rim
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Our insider guide to Vancouver’s best hotels
      Way to grow: The Douglas

      Sybaritic meets sylvan at a chic, sustainability-focused spot that evokes Vancouver’s ancient origins as a vast forest

      A bedroom at The Douglas hotel, Vancouver, with polished concrete floor, pillars and ceiling, from which hangs a large square light, and with floor-to-ceiling windows looking over other high-rises
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Eating and drinking in Vancouver
      Full of beans: a guide to Vancouver’s stellar coffee scene

      The Canadian city is synonymous with great java. Our writer returns to her hometown to find out what’s brewing  

      Vancouver Cold Brew; Rhubarb Bun; Almond Croissant; Asparagus & Brie Quiche and Latte at Novella Coffee Bar, Vancouver
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Fitness in Vancouver
      Vancouver by bike: six easy-riding routes 

      At Lycra speed or a more leisurely pace, discover the city on two wheels via these interconnected cycleways that take in seaside scenery, historic Stanley Park and cool Kitsilano  

      Cliffs with trees at the top to the left of the Stanley Park Seawall; the sea is to the right
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Eating and drinking in Vancouver
      Vancouver’s most mouthwatering classic Cantonese restaurants

      The Canadian city is one of the best places in the western hemisphere for authentic Cantonese food, in charmingly old-school eateries. Here’s where to find them

      A selection of at dishes at Chef’s Choice Chinese Cuisine
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Eating and drinking in Vancouver
      Hip hops: an introduction to Vancouver’s groundbreaking craft beer scene

      Welcome to the home of Canada’s microbrewing revolution

      A moustachioed bartender at Vancouver’s Strange Fellow Brewing wiping down the bar. Behind him is a large board listing all the drinks and food available at the bar
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Vancouver travel
      Vancouver with the FT

      Explore • Eat and Drink • Exercise • Experience • Enlighten

    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Eating and drinking in London
      The best pubs (and a wine bar) in London’s West End

      From hundreds of contenders, our tireless correspondents select their top 10 watering holes in the UK capital’s playground

      The Audley Public House in Mayfair, London: a Victorian-style pub with an orange, pink and blue ceiling painted by the late Phyllida Barlow
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Eating and drinking in Milan
      FT readers: your favourite bars in Milan

      Top spots for an aperitivo, from a rooftop eyrie to a secret speakeasy and a flower shop that moonlights as a watering hole. Cin cin!

      A negroni filled with ice cubes and a slice of lime on a marble counter at the Camparino in Galleria bar and restaurant in Milan
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Things to do in Milan
      Brave new world: an architecture tour of central Milan

      The city has long been a byword for forward-thinking building, from the Neoclassical glories of the world’s first shopping mall to Modernist masterpieces galore

      The glass dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, in a photograph taken from inside the gallery, below the dome
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      Cities on screen
      Milan’s cinematic style

      A muse to the greats of Italian film’s Golden Age, this urban beauty continues to inspire cineastes

      Annie Girardot and Alain Delon in Visconti’s 1960 film ‘Rocco and His Brothers’
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Things to do in Milan
      FT readers: your Milan highlights

      From the roof of the Duomo to a canalside club, taking in gorgeous villas and green spaces, here are some of your favourite places to hang in the city

      The ornate interior of the San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore church, Milan
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Eating and drinking in Milan
      Caffè society: where to drink coffee like a local in Milan

      It’s the fuel that powers this fast-paced city. The FT’s Milan correspondent shares five of her favourite places to find it at its finest

      A waiter serving coffee on a silver tray at Taveggia 1909, Milan
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Fitness in Milan
      Running in Milan: five great routes

      From beloved landmarks to showstopping starchitecture via lush green spaces and a main waterway, these runs reveal everything that gives the city its grande brio

      Joggers running alongside Milan’s Grand Canal
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Tips from the top
      My ideal day in Milan: Gildo Zegna

      The chair and CEO of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group loves to lose himself in the city’s abundance of artistic and historic treasures, as well as its urban oases

      Gildo Zegna at the Ermenegildo Zegna Group’s Milan headquarters
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Eating and drinking in Milan
      Power dining: the restaurants where deals are made in Milan

      The lowdown on the top tables in the Italian finance and fashion capital

      Seafood and pasta dishes on a table at Al Mercante restaurant, Milan
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Milan travel
      Milan with the FT

      Explore • Eat and Drink • Exercise • Experience • Enlighten

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Tips from the top
      My perfect weekend in Paris: Le Collectionist’s Max Aniort

      The co-founder of the luxury villa rental company on his favourite spots for everything from groceries to cocktails in his ninth-arrondissement neighbourhood

      Max Aniort – a bearded, spectacled man in a beige jacket, grey tee-shirt and white trousers – sitting on a chair in a Japanese restaurant in Paris
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Shopping in Zurich
      Markets watch: the magic of Zürich’s food, flower, flea and antique stalls

      A byword for abundance, quality, craft and cosmopolitanism, the city’s many regular street markets also tell Switzerland’s story

      Three photos of items to be found in Zürich’s street markets: vintage stopwatches, imitation roses and old books
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Things to do in Copenhagen
      Cycling culture: a two-wheeled art tour from Copenhagen

      A bike route that heads out of the Danish capital to take in leading museums, via sea-swimming, deer-spotting and modernist landmarks 

      A male cyclist riding on a bike path along a sea wall near the Louisiana modern art museum
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Tips from the top
      Six of chef Hélène Darroze’s favourite Paris restaurants

      The international superchef’s go-tos in the capital for Vietnamese, Italian, Japanese and, of course, the finest French food

      Hélène Darroze in chef’s whites sitting a round marble table
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