The Sunday Times - UK (2022-02-13

Why you^

should try...

Ethiopian

cuisine

If you’ve decided 2022 is the

year you go flexitarian then

Ethiopian cuisine could

be your happy place.

Traditional recipes are often

meat-free, and there are dozens of dedicated

restaurants opening around the country. Try the

misir wot (red lentils cooked with red onions, garlic

and Ethiopan berbere spice) at Beza, a new

restaurant in London rapidly gaining a cult

following. Beza Berhanu, who grew up in Addis

Ababa, opened the 25-seat restaurant six months

before the pandemic and there are already queues

around the block for a table. Another recent

opening is Gursha in Dublin, which claims to be

Ireland’s first Ethiopian restaurant and hosts

supper clubs that almost always sell out. For

guidance on where to go and what to order follow

the @ethiopianfoodie on Instagram or pick up a

copy of the award-winning cookbook Ethiopia:

Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa.

Reclaim the crazy cat lady!

Turbo-kitsch cat iconography is everywhere at

the moment. And not just in womenswear —

a floor-length robe with a huge pixelated cat on

the front also showed up at the Loewe menswear

show. The mood? Less “sexy Halloween cat”,

more Florida retirement village. Gucci, the

Vampire’s Wife and Miu Miu — miaow miaow

— are the category leaders in camp cat merch,

although Balenciaga is selling a £450

T-shirt that simply says “I love cats” next to

some cat memes. You’re welcome.

The new Beverly Hills:

Back Bay, Boston

The Back Bay neighbourhood of Boston (population

19,588) has been named the second most expensive zip

code in America (losing out to Atherton, California).

The median house sale price is now $5.5 million —

eclipsing Beverly Hills’s 90210, where it’s a mere $4.125

million. We’re guessing Hollywood’s Boston brat pack

— Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg — have a

few friends around the residential tree-lined streets.

The main shopping avenue is Newbury Street, where

Ermenegildo Zegna just opened a flagship boutique.

The store is inside the historic Newbury Hotel, which

has had a serious renovation — the restaurants (right)

are by the group behind Michelin-starred Manhattan

hotspot Carbone, and suites are by the design firm that

did the five-star Carlyle hotel in New York. Nearby is

the Mandarin Oriental (far right), which also had a $15

million refit. Gordon Ramsay has opened a restaurant

inside — his first in Boston — full of haute New

England-style food: $28 lobster roll, anyone?

LOEWE

From top:

white tee,

£200, MSGM.

Black tee, £135,

the Vampire’s

Wife. Cropped

tee, £450,

Miu Miu. Bag,

£485, Gucci

6 • The Sunday Times Style