This summer, the duo behind the celebrated Michelin-starred restaurant and listening bar, Arkestra, which opened in Istanbul in 2022, opened Ritmo Zeytino, a three-month summer restaurant, bar, and artistic destination in Yalikavak, Bodrum, which marries vibrant, seasonal menus with cocktails, music and, under postcard sunsets, unrivalled views of both the coastline and the municipality. Set…
Renowned Los Angeles restaurant Gjelina opened at the 15th floor residency kitchen of New York City’s WSA, Manhattan’s venue du jour located at 161 Water Street in the Financial District last night. It marked the first service of a three-week summer residency for the Venice Beach-born restaurant, which is scheduled to reopen its site at…
Marie Mitchell’s debut cookbook – a project almost four years in the making – was published in the U.K. this month. Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen, Mitchell tells me over the phone, is a book about “change”. She says it’s much more than a cookbook: “It’s a springboard for having conversations, about how we move…
Across a walkway from Tottenham Hotspur’s giant London stadium, in a small third floor room of the old townhouse that houses the Sarabande Foundation, Leyman Lahcine is thumbing through some of his old sketchbooks. Ambient sounds from an old episode of Alex Rita’s NTS show tinkle in the background, while the minty-sweet legacy of palo…
Listening to Amy Winehouse’s Frank while burning the incense she created in collaboration with Apotheke, Paria Farzaneh is wearing a look almost all of her own creation: a blue mesh top with lace trim, military green balloon shorts, black tights, and a pair of Hoka slides. She holds a steaming cup of tea close to…
Rahel Stephanie is the Indonesian, London-based chef and food writing sensation behind the pop up brand Spoons, which she created, somewhat by accident, in 2019. Since then, she has flown. In April of this year, Stephanie released her debut zine, Pedas – a document devoted to the brand of Indonesian food culture she wants to share…
Step inside cake-maker extraordinaire Lily ‘Vanilli’ Jones’s east London home to see the books, bottles, pictures, and home furnishings that mean the world to her. Jones set up her bakery and cake business in 2008 just off Columbia Road in east London and has become best-known for her outlandish, extra and often towering designs, that…
This is neither a guide nor a series of restaurant reviews; instead it is a highly biased, very personal diner’s diary or a glutton’s journal chronicling the highlights of two and a bit days eating through New York and New Jersey. It takes in NYC new and old, and includes diner sandwiches, Trinidadian doubles, a Thai…