What we’re reading
Published 25 September 2026
City Eating Guide – Edinburgh
An essential and up-to-date local’s guide to one of our favourite cities, with top spots for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a pint. Bookmark it for your next trip.
Where do the A-list eat now?
“What makes a showbiz restaurant?” asks Ajesh Patalay in the FT. Not the food necessarily. But if star-spotting is your thing, read on for hot tickets in Los Angeles, New York and London including some ’90s classics that are enjoying a revival.
A tale of two cities: what can London learn from a New York dinner service?
Writer Ben Drinkwater examines the fashion for nostalgia at Oslo Court and Le Veau d’Or and finds in the Brits a failure “to reconcile the pleasure of service with the society that created it”.
The case of the stolen phallus, and other tales of restaurant theft
“The impulse to steal cuts across age, income and sobriety,” according to this article in the New York Times about the rise of restaurant theft. There are solutions, all imperfect, including tracking devices, museum putty, and social media manhunts. No one ever said running a restaurant was easy.
