Good morning, New York.
And good afternoon, London.
Today, we have another London Edition of Feed Me, guest edited by Montague Ashley-Craig. Monty used her powers — eavesdropping, a stacked Rolodex, and curiosity for what’s behind the city’s closed doors — for good this week to kickoff fall. Hopefully we can organize some kind of Feed Me London gathering before 2027…
Today’s newsletter includes: London’s newest luxury hotel will open with a Major Food Group restaurant, cult skate brand Palace is getting a supersized store, The Row continues to be a patron of the arts, tickets for this weekend’s pie pageant at Hackney School of Food, Apple is investing in its London-based events spaces, The Observer’s newest columnist isn’t afraid of stirring up controversy, Jim Waterson on his two-year Substack anniversary (with some advice for publishers), Chanel’s VIP kitchen is hiring, and Sharmadean Reid teases some good news for Americans.
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FOR YOUR CALENDAR
🥧 Max Rocha (Cafe Cecilia), Panayiota Soutis (The Goal is to Eat), and Rahel Stephanie are three of the six judges at the upcoming Pie Pageant this weekend. Tickets are £10, and include two slices of pie. (September 26)
📚 The next Soho Reading Series is in a couple of weeks. Participants include Hannah Crosbie, Stacey Yu (author of Kitten), and Chris Power (columnist at The Observer). Tickets are £12. (October 9)
📺 Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime is screening at the London Film Festival. (October 11)
📖 The London Literature Festival (curated by Dua Lipa) includes conversations with Michael Lewis, Patti Smith, and Zadie Smith. (October 20-November 1)
🥃 Big Bitter (Campari) has deemed this week Negroni Week. This list can be a starting point, but I’m curious where you think is the best Negroni in London.
Today’s Water Cooler was assembled by Montague Ashley-Craig, who I met in London at a Feed Me party.
London restaurants are moving back into town. After years of London’s most interesting restaurants opening further east and south, there’s been a noticeable swing back to the centre. Impala opened to critical acclaim earlier this year; Mangal II’s Sertaç Dirik has swapped Dalston for Frith Street with Kid; and Dumbo has followed its first London site on Bethnal Green Road with a second on Berwick Street. Nearby, the team behind Peckham’s Levan is opening its first central London restaurant, Cassette, in Covent Garden. Central London’s big landowners have been engineering this kind of thing for a while — much of central London is controlled by a handful of estates, which actively curate their mix of restaurants and shops. Maybe it’s finally working. At least these places are easier for everyone to get to.
Palace is supersizing in Soho. The London skate brand closed its Soho flagship on Monday ahead of a move to a new (undisclosed) multi-floor location nearby. It’s been a big year for Palace: after opening Manor Place, its skate/football/community space with Nike inside a disused Victorian public bathhouse in South London, it collaborated with Nike again on an official England collection for this summer’s World Cup.