They like new stuff but they want it to be good. And they don’t mind a queue. Zoe Williams looks into London eating, millennial style
Zoe Williams
Zoe Williams has been a columnist on the Guardian since 2000 – previously, she wrote a column for the London Evening Standard. In her ceaseless endeavour to smash the system, she contributes to various magazines and news weeklies, including In Style, Stylist, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, The Spectator and Grazia. Broadcasting includes Question Time, the Daily Politics, The Politics Show and Newsnight for the BBC; Dispatches and the Channel Four News for Channel Four; All Out Politics and Sunrise for Sky News; and appearances on the Today programme, Any Questions, Woman’s Hour, PM and the World Tonight for BBC Radio Four. She writes the motoring column for the Guardian
She was 2014’s Restaurant Reviewer of the Year, 2013’s Print Journalist of the Year for the Speaking Together Media Awards, 2011’s Columnist of the Year at the Workworld awards and is the author of three non-fiction books, Get it Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics, The Madness of Modern Parenting and Bring It On, Baby.
A complete history of London tapas
From cheap and cheerful to ‘a surfeit of plain deliciousness’, Zoe Williams follows the rise and rise of the small plate
Restaurants: what does regionality really mean?
Zoe Williams finds the restaurants which distill the very essence of the ancient counties of Kent and Cornwall It’s always been fashionable for London restaurants to have some kind of regional connection. I think they think it makes them sound grounded and authentic. The curse of setting up a restaurant that looks remotely fun, in a city that feels remotely …
