Dining & Culture: London Bookmarks for October

What’s worth knowing this month across dining, cinema, art and literature.

Oct 2 • Danielle Newbold

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September 2026

Secrets & scandal from London's most storied dining rooms

Feuds, spies, stolen fortunes and spectacular falls from grace: five stories hiding inside London restaurants.

Sep 25 • Danielle Newbold

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6 restaurants that wrote London's dining vocabulary

Is it just me or do London’s most exciting new restaurants feel strangely familiar?

Sep 18 • Danielle Newbold

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When cooking becomes art

On intent, context, and the line between a functional meal and an artistic creation.

Sep 11 • Danielle Newbold

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Dining at KID on opening weekend

My thoughts on dcco group's fifth restaurant, and Sertaç Dirik's first central London kitchen.

Sep 8 • Danielle Newbold

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A former Michelin inspector shares the inside scoop on the job

We discuss how Michelin hires for the role, suspicious restaurant staff, why the mystique has survived the Instagram era, and more.

Sep 4 • Danielle Newbold

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August 2026

Carbone: How one restaurant completely lost its magic

Carbone was once the most elusive table in New York. Nine locations later, it's no longer aspirational.

Aug 28 • Danielle Newbold

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Noma reopens in Copenhagen at $700 a head and zero stars.

After a year of controversy, what does this new era signify for the five-time World's Best restaurant?

Aug 14 • Danielle Newbold

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These 6 London openings will be impossible to book this autumn

But I’m sharing them anyway. Plus practical tips for how to actually get a table.

Aug 7 • Danielle Newbold

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July 2026

Three restaurateurs share the real way restaurants get funded

Also inside: Bordeaux's 2026 vintage is at risk, dating advice from the Wolseley's founder, Marco Pierre White makes a lasagna & more

Jul 31

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7 London bakeries opened by Michelin kitchen pastry chefs

The chefs bringing fine dining precision to your morning pastry

Jul 25 • Danielle Newbold

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AngloThai, Reviewed: No peanuts, no rice, but still distinctly Thai

Inside John Chantarasak's Marylebone dining room, where British ingredients step in for Thai ones.

Jul 22 • Danielle Newbold

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