What we’re reading

A first look at Chez Rose

Elizabeth Carter has the inside track on Spencer Metzger’s takeover of the former Little Social site. Row on 5 it ain’t; at Chez Rose, lunch starts at £30 and there’s a poulet roti to share with salad, frites, and morels for £78 that would make “a satisfying meal on its own.”

Good Food Guide

CODE Neighbourhoods: Mark Gurney of Levan’s Peckham

Mark Gurney runs one of Peckham’s best loved bars and restaurants. But where does he go in his time off?

CODE

Is niche dining fashion’s next frontier?

Vogue Business, behind the paywall, explores the growing demand from brands and their consumers for experiential luxury and dining experiences. “Gastronomy can be used as a tool for building emotional affinity and soft pathways to purchase.”

Vogue

New Malden’s new era

Jonathan Nunn’s makes a rare (paywalled) return to reviewing for a specialist pork restaurant New Malden. A good recommendation and an update on what’s what in New Malden, the UK’s strangely suburban Koreatown. The barbecued pork “measures up to anything that you might be served in London’s new-wave barbecue restaurants like Smokestak or Lagom”.

Vittles