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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
During the last six months, we have been investigating the world of London’s restaurant influencers - where they came from, how they became so powerful, what they get paid, and where they're going next. The investigation, by Stephen Buranyi, is now online: www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/who-is-pay...
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Who is Paying for All of This?
How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi. Collage by Cold War Steve
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Jonathan Nunn @jonathandnunn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
wrote about super 8 - the group behind smoking goat, kiln, brat and mountain, and arguably the most influential restaurant group in the country right now - and whether it’s new restaurant impala can escape the template of being just another ‘super 8 restaurant’ www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/same-impala
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Same Impala?
Super 8’s sixth restaurant amplifies all the group’s strengths, and some of its flaws. Words by Jonathan Nunn. Photographs by Cole Wilson.
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Jonathan Nunn @jonathandnunn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
london is one of the greatest food cities in the world. for the last few years, i’ve been writing this for @vittles.bsky.social: a guide to everything interesting about eating in london right now, from fine dining to diaspora restaurants. i hope you enjoy it! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-vittle...
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The Vittles 99: The Full List
By popular demand.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Today’s newsletter is an investigation by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob into the expansion of Gail’s, and how it relies on low-paid migrant workers (particularly from Gujarat) to sustain its rate of growth. Thank you to every Gail’s worker who talked to us. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w...
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'We're just a bakery': Does Gail's rely on low-paid migrant workers to further its expansionist vision?
The economics and migration behind the Gail’s expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.
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Karl McDonald @karlusss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Wrote for Vittles about Irish cuisine in London - our ambivalent relationship to our own food, the Yellow Bittern, the Devonshire, posh chicken fillet rolls, deep-fried rabbit, the Blaskets diet and being a country of Europe instead of Britain's mirror. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/trial-and-...
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Trial and Éire
On the new Irish cuisine in London. By Karl McDonald. Photography by Michaël Protin.
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I'd really like you to read this landmark investigation for @vittles.bsky.social on curry awards. "I haven't been so entertained editing something in a long time" @jonathandnunn.bsky.social said www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-curry-...
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The Curry Awards Omertà
How deciding who serves the best curry became big business, by David Jesudason.
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Naomi Duguid @naomiduguid.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Excellent piece in @vittles.bsky.social about the civil war in #Manipur and the Kuki-Zo people's food open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
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"This is our Indigenous food"
Makepeace Sitlhou investigates the meanings food takes amid an ongoing civil war. Photographs by George AK Neihsial.
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“This is our Indigenous food". This @vittles.bsky.social piece by Makepeace Sitlhou on preserving Kuki-Zo food in the midst of conflict in Manipur is excellent. (The cuisine also overlaps with what we Burmese eat, which I guess is unsurprising!) open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
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"This is our Indigenous food"
Makepeace Sitlhou investigates the meanings food takes amid an ongoing civil war. Photographs by George AK Neihsial.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
From this scorcher by Hester van Hensbergen www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-re...
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Vittles Reviews: Long Live The Pasta Boyfriend!
"It’s rare for things to be this bad this soon." Hester van Hensbergen on Jordon Ezra King’s residency at Isla. Photographs by Michaël Protin.
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Friends of Pudding @friend2pudding.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
one under-discussed james bond scene is when roger moore cooks a lady a quiche. I think very regularly about which bonds cook what - fundamentally i feel strongly than brosnan's bond's go-to would be coq au vin. Beyond that very hard to say. Dalton Bond probably some kind of hash
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is just fantastic!!! A @vittles.bsky.social magazine!!! I've thought of Vittles as a magazine for the last couple of years and suspected this would happen - it had to happen! open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
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Vittles Magazine: Issue 1
Our first print magazine, now available to pre-order.
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Very proud to open the first @vittles.bsky.social magazine with a ‘barnstormer of an investigation’ on curry awards
Vittles first edition cover 'Fun' was our watchword when compiling Issue 1. Food can be many serious things in disguise - class, economics, migration - but it is also absurd, a testament to the extreme lengths to which humans have gone in order to make things delicious. Issue 1, therefore, is filled with charlatans, hustlers, frauds, arguments and gossip. It opens with the most entertaining piece we've ever published: David Jesudason's barnstormer of an investigation into the organisations that run Britain's various curry awards — a long-read so full of animosity (and uncles) that it also wins the dubious honour of being the first essay we've had to fully legal. In a dispatch from Karachi, the great Sanam Maher has written about the family who first brought sushi, kicking and screaming, to Pakistan, dispelling the myth that South Asian food is all about tradition and your grandmother's time-honoured recipes.
Meanwhile, Aaron Timms, our finest critic of the absurdities of modern food culture, sends a scathing report from New York on the exploits of four of our ludicrous privately-educated exports - the food influencers Eating with Tod, Jolly, Topjaw, and Thomas Straker
- and their attempts to crack America.
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Jonathan Nunn @jonathandnunn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
we’ve been working on this for the last six months - it’s a dream project and dream line up. thanks so much for the last five years of support that has made it possible!
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We’re moving into print! Vittles Issue 1, our first ever print magazine, is now available to pre-order. vittlesmagazine.myshopify.com/products/vit...
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Aaron Vallance @1dish4theroad.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"What is the word for recipe, in any case, in Efik or Ibibio languages? To say it in English is to identify yourself as a stranger, and to immediately feel the breeze preceding a slamming door.." Loved this brilliant piece by Yemisi Aribisala @vittles.bsky.social.👇 open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
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'There is no recipe, take it or leave it'
Yemisí Aríbisálà on why there are so few Nigerian cookbooks. Illustration by Hannah Ekuwa Buckman.
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Jenny Linford @jennylinford.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A fascinating, thoughtful look at influentual cookbooks that changed food culture in Britain, by Ruby Tandoh for @vittles.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
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15 Cookbooks That Changed Everything
The most influential British cookbooks of the last 75 years; for better, or for worse, by Ruby Tandoh.
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Paula Forbes @paulaforbes.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
i'm just an ex-cookbook blogger, phenomenally jealous of the vittles cookbook sunday supplement
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Too Many Cookbooks: A Vittles Sunday Supplement
By Jonathan Meades, Yemisí Aríbisálà, Rosa Lyster, Ruby Tandoh, Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher Mirza, Marie Mitchell, Rachel Roddy
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Rachel Roddy @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A fat and full Sunday supplement from @vittles.bsky.social. I have contributed a piece about a cookbook I would like to see translated.
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Kavey 😁 @kavey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Excellent selection of pieces on cookbooks! Really love the way Ruby Tandoh thinks and writes about the influential books she has selected. And the piece on books that aren't available in English or haven't been published in the UK is fascinating too.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
And finally, Ruby Tandoh has compiled Vittles’s own list of 15 cookbooks from the last 75 years that changed British food culture - for better or worse. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/15-cookboo...
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15 Cookbooks That Changed Everything
The most influential British cookbooks of the last 75 years; for better, or for worse, by Ruby Tandoh.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
We asked ten of our favourite writers and cookbook experts, from Anissa Helou to Rachel Roddy, to recommend a cookbook that has not been translated or published in the UK. The result is this odd, singular and brilliant compilation of beloved cookbooks! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cookbooks-...
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Cookbooks in Translation
A compilation of great non-English cookbooks, by Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher Mirza, Marie Mitchell & Rachel Roddy.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Rosa Lyster reappraises Caroline Blackwood’s acidic cookbook Darling, You Shouldn’t Have Gone to So Much Trouble and is a welcome antidote to the current trend for the saccharine in cookbook publishing. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/machiavell...
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​​Machiavelli in the Kitchen
Rosa Lyster on cooking to win, inspired by 'glamorously unpredictable witch', Caroline Blackwood. Illustration by Jess Nash.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“In Calabar, food is high calling plus seduction plus enterprise plus social mobility” Yemisi Aríbisálà writes about recipe gatekeeping, the reluctant tradition of Nigerian cookbooks, and the complicated reasons why there are so few of them. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/there-is-n...
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'There is no recipe, take it or leave it'
Yemisí Aríbisálà on why there are so few Nigerian cookbooks. Illustration by Hannah Ekuwa Buckman.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Jonathan Meades reviews one of the most conceptually interesting cookbooks of the last few years - Alex Jackson’s Frontières - and interrogates the book’s relationship to the oeuvre of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/reinventin...
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Reinventing the Hexagon
Jonathan Meades on Alex Jackson’s Frontières and the French food resurgence. Illustration by Alex Christian.
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Jonathan Nunn @jonathandnunn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
this one is our gift to cookbook nerds!
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Our first Sunday supplement is out today and it’s all about cookbooks - why we love them, why sometimes we don’t, and the feeling there may be too many. Five essays and guides, featuring Jonathan Meades, Yemisi Aribisala, Rosa Lyster, Ruby Tandoh & more! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/too-many-c...
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Too Many Cookbooks: A Vittles Sunday Supplement
By Jonathan Meades, Yemisí Aríbisálà, Rosa Lyster, Ruby Tandoh, Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher Mirza, Marie Mitchell, Rachel Roddy
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Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Was delighted to do this interview with the maverick Jonathan Nunn in his equally maverick @vittles.bsky.social about my life and work as the restaurant critic for the Scotland edition of @thetimes.com
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“‘I will not leave even if they bring a bulldozer and bury us.’ she added. ‘Let it be our tomb.’” Today’s essay by Manal Shqair is about nomadic-pastoralist communities in Masafer Yatta in Palestine, and Israel’s destruction of their food sovereignty. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/starving-p...
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Starving Palestine
Israeli colonialism and the struggle for food sovereignty in Masafer Yatta. Words by Manal Shqair. Photographs by Ali Awad.
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Jonathan Nunn @jonathandnunn.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
at the end of last year i had a small break from restaurants for my health and sanity, but am back this week in @vittles.bsky.social writing about six london restaurants i really liked (and one that i really hated) www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/six-of-nunn
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Six of Nunn
Six restaurants to go to and one to avoid, by Jonathan Nunn
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
For @vittles.bsky.social i wrote about my two most formative male influences: my father and Rick Stein www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/rick-stein...
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Rick Stein’s Oddity
John Merrick on the strange allure and bumbling anti-charisma of Rick Stein. Illustration by Alex Brenchley.
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Matthew Curtis @totalcurtis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Started my Monday as I do most days: reading in bed with black coffee. Just devoured this essay, absolutely brilliant.
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Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Our latest newsletter by Momtaza Mehri is a cultural and personal history of local beverages — Shani, Hamoud Boualem, Watani camel milk, Raqay, Vimto, Lucozade, Tizer, Supermalt — and their grounding familiarity in a world of Diet Coke. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chugging-a...
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Chugging Away
Momtaza Mehri writes about beverages as affective transportation through three drinks.
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Jonathan Nunn @jonathandnunn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
here’s my annual round up of everything good and bad in london food (and food media) this year, which is mainly a catalogue of charlatanry from restaurants, critics, influencers, tod, topjaw etc that have delighted and infuriated me www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-best-a...
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The best and worst of London food (media) in 2024
2024: The Year in Charlatanry. Vittles Review of the Year, part 2.
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Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
When @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social asked me to write about Christmas with Delia for @vittles.bsky.social, thoughts also turned inevitably to Christmases past. What does Delia provide, alongside all the failsafe recipes? Absolution from Christmas melancholy! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...
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You Can’t Go Wrong With Delia
Brian Dillon on Christmas with Delia. Illustration by Seb Tanti Burlò.
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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I have absolutely loved all the reactions to this: from Poles in Britain, Poles in Poland, Poles in other parts of the world, first-generation migrants, second-generation migrants, British fans of polski skleps, East Europeans who use them...
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Kasia Tee @kasiatee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Excited to have this piece into the world for my bsky debut ✨
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Caroline Hennessy @bibliocook.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Loved this.
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Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Beautiful history of the Polski sklep in @vittles.bsky.social today by @kasiatee.bsky.social and Marta Zboralska www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...
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