Vittles Magazine
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A food and culture magazine. https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/
The @vittles.bsky.social 451 Great Restaurants to Try in London - Google Map is a thing of beauty. I've spent the afternoon adding recommendations to my map so when in deepest Dalston or out in Hounslow I'll have somewhere new to try. Subscription needed for access - worth it for this alone.
Back home from delivering the first 200 leaflets in our local by-election Green campaign & find this beauty on my doorstep. Earlier than I was expecting it but no less welcome for that. @vittles.bsky.social @jonathandnunn.bsky.social
Making my @vittles.bsky.social debut with my pitch for everyone to please go to eat at Deluxe Manna so we can all finally agree that Congolese cuisine is the best in all of Africa thank you for coming to my TEDTalk. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/451-great-...
451 Great Restaurants to Try in London
Six of One returns with a fully updated, absolutely stacked Vittles Restaurants map.
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Published today: a joyous exploration of what was once the UK's best desi pub davidjesudason.substack.com/p/glassy-jun...
Glassy Junction, Southall: the definitive history of ‘London’s first Indian pub’
Let’s go for a glassy
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wrote about super 8 - the group behind smoking goat, kiln, brat and mountain, and arguably the most influential restaurant group in the country right now - and whether it’s new restaurant impala can escape the template of being just another ‘super 8 restaurant’ www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/same-impala
Same Impala?
Super 8’s sixth restaurant amplifies all the group’s strengths, and some of its flaws. Words by Jonathan Nunn. Photographs by Cole Wilson.
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diabolically good headline for today's @vittles.bsky.social restaurant review that could apply to either institution cited www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/same-impala
Same Impala?
Super 8’s sixth restaurant amplifies all the group’s strengths, and some of its flaws. Words by Jonathan Nunn. Photographs by Cole Wilson.
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I’ve spent the last year investigating how the UK's broken employment tribunal system lets rogue bosses evade justice. But this is the craziest case,by far. A restaurant chain that lost 21 tribunal claims over several years, yet never paid a single one🧵 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Meet the restaurant boss who flouted judges’ orders for years
Jason Wells’ restaurant chain has cheated workers, lost 21 tribunal claims – and not paid a single one
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We were lucky enough to partner with the UK's best food publication @vittles.bsky.social for this investigation. Here's their version of the story: open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
Hospitality has a wage theft problem
The restaurant chain that lost twenty-one tribunal claims – and didn’t pay a single one. Words by Emiliano Mellino and Ero Partsakoulaki
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Emiliano Mellino@mellino.bsky.social · 4mo agoI’ve spent the last year investigating how the UK's broken employment tribunal system lets rogue bosses evade justice. But this is the craziest case,by far. A restaurant chain that lost 21 tribunal claims over several years, yet never paid a single one🧵 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Hello friends. I wrote a piece about martinis and my late father for Vittles. Hope ya dig it 🍸🫀 substack.com/@vittles/not...
Lessons in Mixology
Alice Slater on her quest to perfect her martini recipe, beginning with childhood instruction from her father
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This, from the great @vittles.bsky.social, is a fascinating read: open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
Food for the People, By the People
Stella Swain on the forgotten history of the Land Settlement Association, a government-funded scheme of collective smallholdings operating in the mid-twentieth century
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Thus is a brilliant piece of writing. People ask me where labour history writing is. It's in journals like this.
Martin D.B. Brown@martindbbrown.bsky.social · 5mo agoJamie Oliver and the British food problem www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/bad-people...
Terrific @vittles.bsky.social series on UK Chinatowns - here, a smart article on how Chinese students in the UK have transformed them www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-new-ch... - for a delicious spin on UKHE, for a change
How Chinese Students Transformed British Chinatowns
The New Chinatowns. Words by Barclay Bram. Photographs by Chan Yang Kim.
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The @vittles.bsky.social Chinatown project I guest-edited is out! No other neighbourhood has undergone a greater transformation. We have essays on who Chinatown is for? Have students reshaped UK food culture? And ofc a bumper guide on the best places to eat: www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-vittle...
The Vittles Chinatowns Project
A special ten-part supplement about Chinatowns in the UK and how they’re changing, guest-edited by Angela Hui.
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Reading my new essay — on mould, eating disorders, and Trans Kids Deserve Better — at the @vittles.bsky.social issue two (Bad Food) launch tonight at Horse Hospital.
I was very glad to be asked by @vittles.bsky.social to contribute to this weekend’s Six of One - Myanmar Special. I did so for two main reasons www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/six-of-one... (1/2)
![Six of One - Myanmar Special
The best places to find Burmese food in London, by MiMi Aye, David Jay Paw and Ned Sedgwick.
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Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood
Grain of Terror
Why is the Western world so afraid of reheating rice? Joe Zadeh reports. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath
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I simply love to be able to commission essays like @luketurner.bsky.social piece on 'ratting' – a perverse eating practice he developed working in restaurants at the turn of the millenium. Illustration by Antoine Cossé In today's @vittles.bsky.social (free) www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/i-once-ate...
‘I once ate a fly thinking it was crispy carbonised meat’: On Ratting
Luke Turner on an eating habit he developed while working in restaurants in the late 1990s. Illustration by Antoine Cossé.
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I've written about how my troubled relationship with food was helped by "ratting" – the decadent habit of restaurant staff scarfing customers' abandoned food, and one that gives a thrill in the domestic kitchen. The ratter, you see, is hornier than most... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/i-once-ate...
‘I once ate a fly thinking it was crispy carbonised meat’: On Ratting
Luke Turner on an eating habit he developed while working in restaurants in the late 1990s. Illustration by Antoine Cossé.
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Sex and food at the LRB Bookshop with a discussion by writers Sheena Patel and Lauren J Joseph whose work is in the new issue of @vittles.bsky.social magazine! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vittles-2-...
Vittles 2: Lauren J Joseph, Sheena Patel, & Odhran O’Donoghue
A discussion of the relationship between food and the erotic, to celebrate the second print issue of Vittles
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london is one of the greatest food cities in the world. for the last few years, i’ve been writing this for @vittles.bsky.social: a guide to everything interesting about eating in london right now, from fine dining to diaspora restaurants. i hope you enjoy it! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-vittle...
The Vittles 99: The Full List
By popular demand.
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This was *delicious* when I had it earlier this year – if you are after a weekend baking project, I highly recommend Chloe's mushroom stroganoff focaccia ! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chloe-rose... @vittles.bsky.social
Chloe-Rose Crabtree's Mushroom Stroganoff Focaccia
A recipe for fluffy focaccia with pockets of richly flavoured mushroom stroganoff. Words by Chloe-Rose Crabtree. Images by Georgia Rudd.
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Vittles magazine has an interview with me discussing the Michelin Guide in their latest edition (on Substack or by print subscription at £45 a year).
My new essay on mould, disorder, and trans life in the UK is out now in issue two of @vittles.bsky.social : www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-is...
