The Upgrade by SUITCASE Magazine has joined forces with Krug Champagne to bring you a glass-clinking celebration of creativity, collaboration and culinary greatness. Catch up with chef Michael O’Hare and Mark Sansom, Editor of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants and Bars, who discuss the future of fine dining, the changing face of luxury and why microgreens have no place on the mountains.

To many in the UK, fungi are the stuff of fairy tale, associated with witchcraft or psychedelics. Embarking on a mushroom-foraging expedition and tucking into a wild forest feast in rural Sussex, we get a taste of Britain’s untapped culinary landscape.

Bath salts, slippers and the pyjama’s we’re wearing all Christmas. Here’s what we’re coveting in our carry on this month…

Just a 90-minute drive from London and accessible only by boat, Osea Island's forage-and-feast restaurant, recording studio and wellness offering attracts hedonists, creatives and those looking to looking to bask in its remote location.

Office parties and “friendsmas” may be a no-go this year, but we’re frankly looking for any excuse to get out of the pyjamas we’ve been living in since March. And this, dear reader, is your chance to win a much-coveted £500 Lisou voucher.

In the first of our trio of winter specials, we’re discussing the B-word – and no, we don’t mean Boris or Brexit. We’re talking about burnout, a word that strikes fear into the hearts (read: invoices) of freelancers and creatives across the globe. We’re joined by Chris Penn, the co-founder of Birch – the UK’s hottest hotel opening of 2020 – and The Coven founder Sapphire Bates who share their tips for working from home, defining work-life boundaries and beating burnout.

Meet London-based Priya Ahluwalia, the Indian-Nigerian designer putting community back in fashion.

Winter blues? We prefer ours in the sapphire shades of Cornwall’s Atlantic coast. That’s why we’re offering you the chance to win a three-night, self-catered getaway for you and up to five friends in Porthcothan Bay.

Stomping across Hampstead Heath, rambling through Hackney Marshes or stretching your legs along the Jubilee Greenway, we’ve trampled across the Big Smoke to discover London’s best walking routes.