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   30 Sep 2026 · 56 min

   Creating the Modern British Bakery w/ Anna Higham

   Today’s episode of the Vittles podcast is an interview with baker and pastry chef Anna Higham , the owner of the lauded Quince Bakery and Clementine, a café opening soon in Islington. Higham’s story is as rich and varied as her bakes. Her career spans some of the world’s most famous kitchens, beginning with the Gordon Ramsay Group in London. After moving to New York, she spent time at the legendary Gramercy Tavern. While in the city, the mentorship of Claudia Fleming would prove formative for Higham, and when she returned to London in the late 2010s she brought with her a focus on provenance…

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   28 Aug 2026 · 54 min

   How Restaurant Influencers Work w/ Stephen Buranyi

   Today’s very special episode of the Vittles podcast is with journalist and editor Stephen Buranyi , who spent six months reporting and investigating the world of restaurant influencers for our Issue 3 cover story, titled ‘Who’s Paying for All of This? When he set out reporting at the beginning of this year, Stephen, an experienced reporter, soon realised the London restaurant influencer industry was much more tight-lipped than he’d anticipated, more discreet ‘than the civil service’. ‘I found in general here people did not wanna talk,’ he tells us in today’s conversation. ‘I think there’s a…

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   26 Jun 2026 · 35 min

   Community, Authenticity and Virality w/ Logma's Farsin Rabiee and Ziad Halub

   Today’s episode of the Vittles podcast is a joint interview with Farsin Rabiee and Ziad Halub , the duo behind Logma, the Iranian-Iraqi bistro cafe, which opened close to London Fields at the end of last year. Earlier in the spring, Rabiee and Halub began opening one evening a week, on Wednesdays, for a communal, supper club style dinner service, which is Logma’s genesis. However, its sandwiches — or in the words of Hester van Hensbergen, who reviewed the café last month, ‘gargantuan pitas filled with lamb kofte or aubergine’ — have since taken the ‘Goldsmiths Row Riviera’ by storm and…

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   2 Jun 2026 · 47 min

   The Staying Power of Koya w/ Shuko Oda

   Today’s episode is an interview with Shuko Oda , the co-creator and executive head chef at Koya, the Japanese udon noodle restaurant with sites in Soho, the City and Hackney. When Koya arrived at 49 Frith Street in Soho, a whole 16 years ago, it replaced Alistair Little, the mighty influential temple of modern British cuisine. Since then, Koya itself has become a huge part of the modern London restaurant, revolutionising how Londoners think of Japanese food. It was the brainchild of former City trader John Devitt who, inspired by Paris’ Kunitoraya, installed Shuko alongside head chef Junya…

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   2 May 2026 · 53 min

   Behind the Scenes of London's Most Influential Restaurant Group w/ Songsoo Kim

   Good morning and welcome back to The Vittles Podcast! Today’s episode is with Songsoo Kim , head of sourcing and development for the Super 8 group, one of the most influential restaurant groups in London. They’re behind Basque restaurants Brat and Mountain, headed up by Tomos Parry, as well as Kiln and Smoking Goat, the modern Thai-inspired restaurants in Soho and in Shoreditch. Last month, the group opened Impala, perhaps the most anticipated new restaurant to arrive in London in the last 12 months. Four years in the making, it is chef Meedu Saad’s first solo project but a restaurant which…

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   26 Mar 2026 · 55 min

   What happens when a restaurant wins a Michelin star? w/ Joké Bakare

   Good morning and welcome back to The Vittles Podcast. Today’s episode is a conversation with someone who is very close to our hearts at Vittles : Joké Bakare , the chef behind the West African restaurant Chishuru. We first encountered Joké in 2020, when she sent Jonathan a pandemic care package of Nigerian condiments, which led to us publishing her first piece of food writing . We couldn’t have predicted what happened next. That year, Chishuru transformed from being a supper club into a restaurant inside Brixton Market, a delayed effect from winning a competition in 2019. During the course…

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   15 Feb 2026 · 54 min

   Why Does Anyone Open a Restaurant? w/ Ravneet Gill Taiano

   Today’s episode is a conversation with Ravneet Gill Taiano who you will either know as a judge from Junior Bake Off , the founder of hospitality recruitment platform Countertalk, the author of Pastry Chefs Guide . Or, if you’ve been paying attention during the last 12 months, you’ll have seen that Rav, together with her partner Mattie, opened Gina Restaurant in Chingford in June. One of the things that has always marked Rav apart from her peers is that she’s made an effort to promote transparency in hospitality, seeking to shed light on an industry that is often shrouded in mystery or…