Tanya Gold Tanya Gold

Rivea: a London annexe to the world’s maddest expensive restaurant

With the super-rich I can never tell whether the joke is on us or on them

issue 07 February 2015
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Rivea (stupid name) is in the bowels of Bulgari in Knightsbridge, a hotel which looks like a vast Virgin Upper Class lounge. It sits opposite One Hyde Park (stupid name), an apartment block which looks like a vast Virgin Upper Class lounge and which I am fairly certain appeared two weeks ago in a very silly television show called Silent Witness, in which a plutocrat was murdered with scented gas after being chased by the FSB.

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