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Silo arrives in London
The world’s first zero-waste restaurant, Silo, arrives in London after closing in Brighton last June
The world’s first zero-waste restaurant, Silo, arrives in London after closing in Brighton last June
Chef Andrew Pern received a royal seal of approval for his new restaurant when the King and Queen unveiled a plaque to open York Minster Refectory at the beginning of last month.
You can probably find a food and drink festival somewhere in the UK on most weekends – and last weekend was no exception. An inspector finds some delicious eating at the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival at Snape Maltings, Suffolk.
The Nigerian tapas restaurant Chuku’s has launched a six-week campaign to save it from closure. The restaurant, in Tottenham, opened in 2020 to rave reviews, but successive lockdowns and the cacophony of other challenges over the last two years have left the venue in need of support.
For the last ten years, Edinburgh behaved like Glasgow’s highfalutin sibling when it came to food – the East did fine and fancy; the West did cool and casual. But more recently, the Clydesiders have been busy grabbing stars, and things in the Capital have started to mellow. Photographer James Porteous, an Edinburgh resident, gives us a personal tour.