The days when being taken to the top of the Oxo Tower or the Park Lane Hilton were as exciting as it got are long gone. While we’re never going to be Tokyo or New York, London’s increasingly thrusting ...

Oblix at The Shard: this upscale restaurant sizzles with style From the buzzing bar to the dining room with breathtaking views over London, Oblix knows how to do destination dining. We pay it a visit ...

LONDON -- Rainer Becker, the founder of Zuma and Roka, might have gone for fireworks with his food when he decided to open a restaurant on Level 32 of the Shard. Instead, he's gone for subtlety -- and ...

An interactive sommelier station will be one of the features of Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney's new restaurant, Oblix, when it opens in The Shard in London in spring 2013. An interactive sommelier ...

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What? The cool, more informal sister bar & lounge to Oblix restaurant at the top of The Shard. 'Breath-taking' doesn't even cover it. What's the crowd? Cool media types, small groups and couples. A ...

The pleasure derived from eating in a restaurant depends on many things, only one of which is the quality of the food. The conviviality – or otherwise – of the service plays its part, as does the ...

On the 32nd floor of the mighty Shard, amidst an impressively mixed crowd – business, multinational business, couples, and one chic pensioner having a baked potato with a stunning view – C, my beloved ...

Less than a week before the opening of Oblix on the 32nd floor of the Shard, Rainer Becker is experiencing a little last-minute vertigo. ‘I’ve lost nearly five kilos, it’s been so intense,’ says the ...