House Notes

Essays, anecdotes, confessions, recommendations, pictures, recipes and advice from the Gentleman’s Journal Clubhouse

Read
headline

Sous simple: Off-the-clock cooking

It’s not all sea vegetable comsommé and pumpkin seed emulsion. The UK’s top chefs reveal the surprisingly uncomplicated meals that they look forward to tucking into at the end of a long working week

Scroll
excerpt

Life’s a beach: on the Méhari safari

Is the simple French beach buggy the ultimate status-symbol car?

Listen
podcast

Fortune favours the brave — Tim Warrillow

Tim Warrillow - co-founder and CEO of Fever-Tree

Quote

"In few sports is your day’s play brought to such a crushing conclusion with a moment’s lapse in concentration."

Seen in: How is acting like cricket?

Read More
Overheard
topic

The curious tale of a Rolex “Single Red” Sea Dweller

Tom Bolt staked his rare Ferrari on this watch — but was the 1968 Rolex the remarkable timepiece he thought it was?

Read
headline

Sketch show

Images from Room Service, the LA-based artist's book of loose renderings on hotel notepaper

Scroll
excerpt

Schooner Scorer: the inside joke that became an international movement

In search of the perfect beer (and a deeper connection) with the social-media hit

Archive

excerpt

Life’s a beach: on the Méhari safari

Is the simple French beach buggy the ultimate status-symbol car?

headline

How to host

According to the people who really ought to know

excerpt

Inside the Guinness-hype industrial complex

Black and white and drunk all over

headline

Sous simple: Off-the-clock cooking

It’s not all sea vegetable comsommé and pumpkin seed emulsion. The UK’s top chefs reveal the surprisingly uncomplicated meals that they look forward to tucking into at the end of a long working week

excerpt

Schooner Scorer: the inside joke that became an international movement

In search of the perfect beer (and a deeper connection) with the social-media hit

excerpt

Feeling Bullish

How did a small pub in Oxfordshire become arguably the finest (and starriest) in the country?

headline

Sketch show

Images from Room Service, the LA-based artist's book of loose renderings on hotel notepaper

headline

The rise of 'Lifestyle Guy'

From San Francisco to Seoul, a stratum of men has arisen. Just as dogs come to resemble their owners, so this international cohort has come to resemble its consumer habits

headline

Yes, we Cannes!

At the world’s smartest film festival, no one’s watching the films

headline

Nothing Changes on New Year’s Day

Sushi, Dom Perignon, and low expectations: a recipe for a better NYE

excerpt

What’s going on at Nike?

Long venerated for championing the world’s greatest athletes, sporting dynasties and products, the Swoosh is now taking a bit of a tumble as the pack catches up…

headline

Atlantic crossing: Why can't New York do private members' clubs?