What we’re reading

A first look at Keller, a destination disguised as a simple neighbourhood restaurant

“There’s long been a feeling,” writes Elizabeth Carter, “that Whitstable’s cool credentials have waned in the face of stiff competition from Margate further along the coast.” Is Keller, from the folk behind the Fordwich Arms, what the seaside town needs to course-correct?

Good Food Guide

CODE Neighbourhoods: Dinner for One Hundred’s Peckham

In the latest instalment of CODE Neighbourhoods, CODE heads to Peckham to hear about founders Jake Bucknall and Jacob Stuttard’s favourite places to eat, drink, and get their pictures framed.

CODE

Alasdair Gill: Cooking, ketamine, and the death of my dad

AA Gill’s son, Alasdair, has written a memoir, Knives and Spoons: A Chef’s Story of Kitchens, Addictions and Mayhem. Prepare for a brutal read. On reading his father’s own memoir, he writes: “It was my story but decades before, by someone I thought I never resembled… It was proof that survival, somehow, was hereditary too.”

The Times

Appalachia, London N1: ‘The chicken is like Sunday dinner on performance steroids’

London’s diners can count themselves lucky to have a restaurant serving pretty much the only Appalachian food this side of the Atlantic from grits and collard greens to cornbread madeleines and fried green tomatoes.

The Guardian