The original branch in Spitalfields was a reinvention of the traditional British steak house, specialising in carefully sourced beef from The Ginger Pig.
She grew up in Berkeley, California where her parents, Lindy and Richard Grossinger, ran an independent publishing house specialising in alternative health and spiritual titles.
Guantánamo has just won the aptly named Three Percent prize for translated foreign fiction, thanks to the midwifery of Soft Skull Press, a small New York publishing house specialising in controversial subjects, and Tim Mohr, staff editor at Playboy magazine.
Is this the way society treats their heroes who sacrificed their lives for others?" The medal was offered to a prominent London auction house specialising in militaria, Dix Noonan Webb, by an Indian collector understood to have bought it from the Delhi dealer.
The upheavals at Capuchin Books, a lively paperback reprint house specialising in lost classics, have so far not affected the prospects of at least one recent gem, its relaunch of Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, a Victorian precursor to Taxi Driver.
Tenov is a young, independent publishing house, specialising in titles that examine the traditional disciplines of art and architecture through the ever-shifting prism of contemporary culture.
Given the type of fare that art houses specialise in, patrons take in a steady diet of films about foundering string quartets, courageous Afghan songbirds, iconoclastic pedagogues, the French.
He left in 2004 to found Symsource, one of the few dev houses specialising in Symbian still in business today.
"There's a really good cross section," says Kerry Taylor, a former Sotheby's auctioneer who founded her own house specialising in the sale of vintage fashion in 2003.
"Our alienation from Europe is partly to do with the fact that we don't read much European literature," says Susan Curtis-Kojakovic from Istros Books, a publishing house specialising in south and east European authors.
