Victoria Stewart meets Shelby Davis, the 23-year-old Londoner who left a life at Centre Point for one in the kitchen (Image: Agnieszka Orzel) In the centre of a kitchen in Battersea stands a young woman dressed in a black chef’s uniform and apron, her head bent over […]
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London borough restaurant guides (London Design Guide)
In 2015 I was asked by Max Fraser, editor of a beautiful book called the London Design Guide, to write restaurant guides for 11 of London’s boroughs; an interview with chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton; and an essay looking at the reasons behind the London restaurant boom. […]
Why you should try an Airbnb sabbatical (Evening Standard)
If you want a break from feckless flatmates and lazy landlords why not try an Airbnb sabbatical? Victoria Stewart gets out of the rent race and crashes with strangers. (Image: Alex Lentati) Standing in the kitchen one Monday night I’m picking bits of aubergine off […]
A taste of Tokyo (Evening Standard)
With the volume of new Japanese restaurants opening in London and a major Japanese cultural expo on in the capital this weekend, foodie Victoria Stewart was inspired to head to the source (Image: Victoria Stewart) For a while, conversations among foodies in London were about […]
Alpine adventures in Chamonix (Evening Standard)
(Image originally published on Standard.co.uk) It is the classic childhood scene: child climbs up tree full of enthusiasm, gets stuck at the top and panics. “If you got up there you can get down again,” our parents would say, unhelpfully. And, somehow, you always made it […]