For a city constantly bursting with vibrant energy, it’s not surprising that Dubai has some of the most extravagant nightclubs you’ve ever seen.

Planning a trip to London over Easter and looking for somewhere sumptuous to sleep? Haute Living lets you in on the capital’s top five hotels

We’ve had the wind and rain and now it’s time for some fun in the sun. The capital is set for a warm weekend with temperatures hitting the 20s. And luckily for us London is packed with rooftop restaurants and bars that are perfect for al fresco eating and drinking when the sun finally shows up. Here’s five of our favourite rooftop hangouts

Dragon Boat Festival – one of the three most important Chinese Holidays, together with Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival – falls on the 2 June (the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar).

Also known as the Double Fifth or Duanwu festival, the event commemorates the death of Chinese poet, Qu Yuan, who lept into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C with a stone attached to his ankle.

Local people admired the poet so deeply that they took to the water to save him, in their boats. Unable to located Qu Yuan’s body, the Chinese dropped balls of sticky rice into the water so that the fish could eat the rice rather than the poet’s body.

Today Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by tucking into zongzi (sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves) and racing dragon boats.

Wondering where to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival in the capital? Panic not. Haute Time has done the hard work for you. Here’s the low-down on five of the best Chinese restaurants in town…

Can’t make it to the French Open at Roland Garros? Panic not. Haute Time has the low-down on five French restaurants in London that will make you go “oh la la!”

For a long time the vegetarian-dining scene in London was lacking a little zip. A frustrating number of the capital’s top restaurants either ignored vegetarians or else treated them with indifference – perhaps offering them a plate of pasta arrabiatta. The result? While carnivores cooed over their expertly prepared and beautifully presented entrees, their veggie counterparts were forced to get stuck into the bread bowl so as to stave off hunger pangs.

Fast forward to 2014 and fortunately – for the capital’s veggie contingent – it’s all change. London has followed in the footsteps of other cosmopolitan cities of cool such as Sydney, New York and LA and exploded with designated, upscale veggie eateries and raw food restaurants. All of whom serve up some of the most delicious dishes (sans meat) imaginable, helping to dispel the stereotype that veggie dining is Spartan and dull.

Here are five fabulous vegetarian restaurants in the capital that even the staunchest of carnivores will approve of…

The racing season is upon us! Royal Ascot begins today: expect five days of world class racing, pageantry, fashion and fine dining. Speaking of which Haute Time has the low-on the capital’s restaurants and bars that racing enthusiasts will want to gallop to before or after a trip to Royal Ascot Racecourse

With pubs shut circa 11pm, the capital’s nightclubs become one of London’s biggest draws. Whether you take your music seriously or just like to fling yourself around to a bit of Beyonce on a Friday night, you can rest safe in the knowledge that London is a clubber’s paradise. Here are five of the best in town…

The capital is set to experience high temperatures of 30 degrees this week with Thursday tipped to win the coveted ‘hottest day of the year’ title.

Looking to beat the heat? Nothing beats a cold ice cream, on a sticky summer’s day.

Absolutely everybody loves ice cream (as Walter Williams once sung: ‘I scream you scream, we all scream for ice cream), the origins of which date back to biblical times. Indeed legend has it that the Roman emperor Nero (A.D. 37-68) ordered ice to be brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings. However it wasn’t until the second half of the 21st century – when refrigeration became commonplace – that the ice cream business really began to heat up. In America, there’s even a whole month dedicated to the creamy concoction: sweet toothed President, Ronald Reagan, declared July to be ‘National Ice Cream month’ back in 1984, while also establishing the third Sunday of the month as ‘Ice Cream day’.

The popular dessert can be calorific, make no mistake, but being made from milk it’s also a good source of calcium: something we all need to help to reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Vanilla remains the most popular flavour, closely followed by chocolate but there’s also a whole host of more unusual offerings out there from smoked bacon and egg (Heston Blumenthal famous creation) to baked beans on toast – available at Moreli’s Harrods outlet in London.

Chances are that by now you’ll no doubt be craving the cold stuff and fortunately for you, dear reader, Haute Time has made it our mission to find the best ice cream in the capital. A copious amount of cups and cornets later, we can reveal the top ice cream scoops and shops in London town. Read on for the full low-down.