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Whittling down a list of London’s best breakfasts is a tough task. For every artery-furring fry-up, there’s a city-best eatery catering to bleary-eyed commuters, early morning meetings and wide-awake, workshy gadabouts. It’s not just eggs, avocado and bacon, either; whether you’re after fiery Far Eastern fare, sweet-spicy Nordic comfort food or muscular British grub, all tastes are catered for. Breakfast isn’t just the most important meal of the day – with restaurants like the nine below serving up a plethora of near-perfect dishes, it might just be the best. Set your alarm an hour early and get to it. Regency Cafe London is crammed with greasy spoon cafés, but few of them come as classic as the Regency. This out of time, out of place Pimlico prince, with its iconic sans-serif signage, dowdy cream tiling and sea of formica table tops, attracts everyone from cinephiles (it featured in 2004’s Layer Cake ) and art buffs visiting the nearby Tate to local labourers and itinerant foodie...

Your pouting for dear life, squeezing in the cheekbones, squinting those eyes like Jon Kortajarena doing a sudoku and yet when your mate turns the camera around you see an image of your constipated, bloated, and worryingly wired face. And that’s before you’ve clocked your old-man hand limping in the corner looking as awkward as a dithering turtle. How do the cover-models do it then, a knock-out photo time and time again? Well, genetics help (duh!) but so does knowing how to pose for photos, tricks of the trade that can help turn you into the man you’ve always wanted to be (on Instagram anyway). So in order to prevent you cringing at yet another picture of yourself, we have collected these tips with the help of some experts so you can take a good photo from well before the camera clicks till your raking in those Instagram likes at the rate of street style maestro Garcon Jon. Before The Photo It’s the night before your big shoot, or you know a party where cameras are going to be i...

The kettlebell does it all. Beyond the bog standard swing you see in every fitness class, the versatility in weight and movement type it provides allows you to target every fitness goal with true intent. In fact, a study conducted by the American Council on Exercise revealed that high-intensity kettlebell training can tear through nearly 20 calories per minute. While maintaining that speed over an hour workout would be impossible, it’s clear how the weightloss potential can stack up over 60-minutes. Take the speed down a notch, switch the exercises and you are also able to craft lean muscle – you know, the type you actually want. Not only that, the tensing of your middle required to perform kettlebell exercises safely and correctly helps build six-pack abs (while also stripping away the fat covering them), giving you good posture and protecting against back pain and injury in the process. Of course, that variety is only useful when harnessed effectively. Attempting to switch up yo...