What we’re reading
Published 16 January 2026
Best breakfasts in central London
An up-to-date guide to the most important meal of the day, with suggestions suited to power breakfasts with colleagues as well as more leisurely brunching.
Three chefs on moving to Paris: how to break Paris – before it breaks you
It’s the dream but “does the reality match up to the romance”? The unvarnished truth from a chef, a baker, and a pastry chef. “The corrupt, toxic, bullshit famous chef shit left a horrible taste,” says one.
Yes, it will cost $1,500 to eat at Noma, L.A. René Redzepi explains why
Have you got a spare 1.5K knocking around? Then Noma’s spring pop-up might be for you! Why so pricy? The ticket price covers bringing in 130 staffers from CPH and covering housing, transportation and schooling. It’s not gone down well with everybody but Redzepi is clear he doesn’t just want “to feed the elite”.
What’s next for London’s most beloved caff?
This 1940s caff is a London landmark and a “stalwart of the London food listicle scene”. New owners Fevzi and Zafer Gungor, despite dropping the ‘D’ word [Dubai] in earlier interviews, sound like they have their heads screwed on. The clientele remains “a perhaps unique confluence of the haves and have-nots, the powerful and the dispossessed.”
That restaurant you love will close one day. What to do?
There is “a peculiar kind of grief” we feel when we lose a beloved restaurant so how to mourn? Writer Tejal Rao urges us to support restaurants “outside food’s algorithmic hype circles.”
