What we’re reading
Published 2 October 2026
A first look at The Horses
Farringdon and Clerkenwell haven’t been this hot since the ’90s when St. JOHN and Quality Chop House were the talk of the town. EC1 is the place to eat right now, says local resident and CODE founder Adam Hyman. Public House Group’s new one, The Horses, is yet another reason to gallop over.
Restaurateur Jeremy King: “Parenting is about love rather than stability”
The Times’ long-running ‘Relative Values’ feature this week is with restaurateur Jeremy King and his daughter Margot Hauer-King, founder of Peoples in New York. Don’t be put off by the headline; this fascinating, funny interview isn’t so much about his parenting philosophy, as about his approach to life.
How three young restaurateurs revived London’s oldest chophouse
What goes into opening a pub and restaurant in London in a 300-year-old building “with no shortage of structural skeletons in its closets”? The chaps behind new City of London opening Cloth Cornhill had their work cut out.
The Pignut & the Hare restaurant review – “Bargain of the century”
You’ll have to go to Yorkshire for chef Tom Heywood’s £50 menu (seven courses!), described by Giles Coren in The Times as “embarrassingly good value for cooking this careful, this precise, this deeply thought about”. Sounds like it’s worth it.
