You’ve got to hand it to Silvio Berlusconi. It’s not as if Italy’s many estimable virtues haven’t always gone hand in hand with a certain moustache-twirling naughtiness: a Machiavelli for every ...

Pippa Middleton's friend Charlie Gilkes, who co-created the Italian-themed bar Bunga Bunga, has won a contract to open bars near the new American embassy in London. Tim Walker. Edited by Richard Eden ...

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The immersive Italian restaurant and bar concept will be trading in its current guise until Saturday 5 April before it is closed for its transformation, with plans to reopen this autumn. While parent ...

A unique night at legendary venue Bunga Bunga is set be unleashed on hardy Battersea night owls. Harking back to the roots of the Roman capital, the new night, the Roman Empire of Bunga Bunga, ...

We now have ultimate proof that Silvio Berlusconi's favorite passtime has firmly entered the international lexicon. The Telegraph has a review of a new Italian restaurant in London, with the catchy ...

Berlusconi is gone, the Euro is in peril and David Cameron has ensured that we’re increasingly distant from our mainland brethren. But whatever the feeling in Westminster, down in Battersea Europe is ...

What’s the best way to celebrate National Pizza Day, which falls on February 9? (Yes, it’s a real thing). Should you go out with friends and eat your bodyweight in pizza? Perhaps you could try making ...

Sitting opposite skyward-facing telescopes and within touching distance of an antique Martini sign in a room called L'Osservatorio, their confession was a tad foreseeable. Charlie Gilkes, 27, and ...

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X FACTOR 2016 runner-up Saara Aalto looked loved-up as she celebrates her 30th birthday with fiancee Meri Sopanen in London. The Finnish singer got a kiss on the cheek from Meri for photographers as ...