Restaurant Histories
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South London’s Best Old-School Caffs
Fried breakfasts with a side of wood panelling, antique light fixtures, and time-honoured signs
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How Police Racism Turned a Notting Hill Restaurant Into a Site of Resistance
The story of Frank Crichlow’s Mangrove restaurant is one of racism, police harassment, and Black resistance, recently depicted in Steve McQueen’s BBC film
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Pie and Mash Is Dead, Long Live Pie and Mash
G. Kelly is back open on London’s Roman Road after a two-year closure, temporarily arresting the decline of an East End tradition
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An East End Culinary Delicacy Nears Extinction
Ivy’s on Chrisp Street Market in Poplar once served 13 batches of pease pudding on a single Saturday. Today, one batch lasts a week
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Quaglino’s: A History of Restaurant Glamour
It is the restaurant where a British Royal first ate in public, it was immortalised in a Roxy Music hit and, naturally, Ab Fab’s Patsy and Edina loved it
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The Reimagining of a 150-Year-Old Soho Institution
A history of Kettner’s, which last month reopened under the ownership of Soho House Group
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Playing by the Rules at London’s Oldest Restaurant
Open since 1798, the very British establishment is a portal into the capital's culinary past
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The Story of London's Most Famous Bar
125 year old The American Bar was frequented by Ernest Hemmingway, Marilyn Monroe and Neil Armstrong
Boulestin: The Bloomsbury Set and 1920s Culinary Nostalgia
Xavier Marcel Boulestin's French restaurant is still a favourite among literary lovers and anyone with a predilection for oeuf en gelee