Choosing to capitalise on the fact that eating competitively is part of our job, in this column deputy editor Molly Codyre documents all of the best things she’s eaten each week, both at home and out and about around London
In our rejection of small plates and sharing dinners, London diners have created an environment where a restaurateur feels justified demanding we spend £40 on a pie and drink wine at lunchtime
Spending extended time outside of the capital this month, Molly is forced to reconsider the state of dining in London and its enduring influence elsewhere
As New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells announces his departure from the job on health grounds, Molly interrogates the pressures women in food face to maintain a particular body image
As a swathe of second and third restaurants take the capital by storm, Molly investigates why the year's hottest new openings all seem to be younger siblings
As one chef shares a post celebrating his all-white, all-male kitchen team, Molly looks at where she won't be eating, and the importance of diversity in the restaurant industry
As a date night reignites Molly's love for dining out, she muses on what makes the perfect romantic restaurant (spoiler: it's not all candlelit corners and moody music)
After two weeks of endless plates of dips, grilled fish and too much feta, Molly Codyre reflects on the simple joy of Greek food and the perfect holiday meal
Molly joins the chef and owner of BiBi takes as he takes his staff on a trip around Southall – an area of London with a large Indian population – to educate them on the cultural context of the food they cook and serve in Mayfair
As energy prices soar, an increasing number of new openings are turning their backs on electricity and gas in the kitchen in favour of cooking over fire. Molly Codyre looks into why
As an all-male, and almost entirely white line up of new Michelin-starred chefs was unveiled last night, Molly Codyre asks why the guide continues to overlook their female counterparts
This week, Molly made use of her home kitchen more than those of London's restaurants. In advance of our home cooking issue, she pens a defence of a good night in
A notorious commitment-phobe, Molly is easily seduced by restaurants that keep things lively with a meal that takes place across a procession of spaces
This year saw a multitude of new restaurants cropping up around London, but which ones managed to cut through the noise? The Foodism team choose their favourites, and consult some chefs for their picks, too
Sitting at a bar counter on your own is a time-honoured tradition, and when it's with that most salacious and saline of cocktails, all the better, says Molly
This week, Molly ruminates on the value of great restaurant service, and ponders her predilection towards people-pleasing with waiting staff in a hard time for the hospitality industry
On a trip to mix with the globe's foremost bartenders at the World's 50 Best Bars awards in Barcelona, Molly is reminded of London's giant cultural footprint in the global drinks-making scene
In a city with as rich and varied a restaurant scene as London, trying to summarise it for visiting loved ones can feel like an unmanageable task. This week, Molly Codyre tries her best to answer this question when her family finally make it over from New Zealand
An exercise in contrasts, Margate is a town with a thriving food scene that has somehow still held onto its roots. This week, Molly eats her way around it and digs out the best places to visit
At modern music festivals, you're just as likely to get gnocchi at 10am as you are a Michelin-starred meal for dinner. This week, Molly looks into how festivals got quite so gourmet
The supper club and pop-up scene has long swept through London, but seems to be having a moment right now. So what exactly do they bring to the city's dining landscape?
This week Molly's life flashes before her eyes as she eats a monstrous oyster, and it gets her thinking: with molluscs taking over menus in the capital, where might you find London's best oyster?
After spending a fair amount of the month by the sea, Molly returns to London to find joy on the Toklas terrace and a menu anchored in history at A. Wong
With the cost-of-living crisis affecting so many people, restaurant dining feels like a luxury that a lot of people simply can't afford, in stark contrast to a home life of freezer dinners and budget woes
From a thought-provoking lobster pasta to a masterclass in cooking over fire and a quick trip to York, it has been a big fortnight of eating for staff writer Molly Codyre
This week, pizza slices and sidewalk sandwiches abound as Molly reflects on her five days eating around New York, and how visiting the Big Apple made her appreciate London more than ever
In advance of her trip to New York City, London seems to show off for Molly Codyre as she takes an impromptu trip to Mangal 2, feasts on winter tomatoes at Brawn and orders more plates than the table can fit at Singburi
It's a week of good food for staff writer Molly Codyre as she finds happiness in the Bentley's seafood cocktail, visits three Kudu sites in one go and has an incident with a pint-sized cheese grater
This week, Molly kicks off a cheese fast with, er, cheese, dives into Carousel's Goila Butter Chicken residency and finds inspiration in a local lunch spot
