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Kinfolk magazine: issue 3

I’m in love. With a magazine. How did this happen? Kinfolk started as an online but moved to print and iPad extremely quickly. I know myself from running an online magazine that these are not simple projects. They require heart and soul to get it off the ground. I’m pleased to say though that my own magazine gets more readers than most print magazines, ahem.

So, Kinfolk, yes. It is beautifully crisp and clean, so elegant. In their words “Kinfolk is a growing community of artists with a shared interest in small gatherings.” They recognize that there is something about a table shared by friends, not just a wedding or once-a-year holiday extravaganza, that anchors our relationships and energises us. Rather poetic, don’t you think?

Every element of Kinfolk, from the features, photography, and general aesthetics, are consistent with the way they feel entertaining should be: simple, uncomplicated, and less contrived. Kinfolk is the marriage of an appreciation for art and design and a love for spending time with family and friends.

kinfolk magazine issue 3

kinfolk magazine issue 3

I’m head over heels.

Issue 3 out now… shop.kinfolkmag.com/product/volume-three

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Bompas & Parr

Bompas & Parr design spectacular food experiences with a distinctly architectural edge. Exploring how the taste of food is ‘altered through synaesthesia, performance and setting’ Bompas & Parr also design and manufacturer bespoke jelly moulds and kitchenalia. Truly marvellous!

Sam Bompas & Harry Parr have worked with architects including Lord Foster and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners designing jellies for a 2000 person Jelly Banquet at UCL, provided expertise for Heston Blumenthals recent series Feast and worked with the ICA to transform Peter Greenaways The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover for a scratch n sniff event introduced by the director. Quite the career for making jelly, wouldn’t you say?

bompas parr jelly mongers

bompas parr jelly mongers

The lovely people at Crane.tv took some time out to meet one half of Bompas and Parr. Here, Sam Bompas explains their latest venture, a pop-up gum factory open to the public, and talks about making magic with food – including a gin cloud. Yum.

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Melrose and Morgan’s fantastic shop

Melrose and Morgan is a grocery shop and kitchen providing a range of seasonal foods, hand-prepared with premium ingredients.

I am such a fan of Melrose and Morgan, and every time I get the opportunity to be in Primrose Hill, I head to their beautiful shop to see what they have on offer that day.

There are always fresh pasta salads, or sausage rolls and some really delicious chocolate brownies.  For foody friends, it is a great gift shop, offering boxes of Toffee, or their famous cotton bags.

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During the summer, they offer picnic bags, although these are very pricey so I have never bought one. Whilst I leave colleagues to head off to Morrison’s (yuck), I disappear down the canal one stop to rummage in their fridge for some Jimmy’s Farm sausages (yum).

With a new store in Hampstead, they are only going to grow bigger and bigger. Please Melrose and Morgan, open in Marylebone so that I can enjoy you daily!

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Fish & Chip heaven

The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake, but this fish & chip shop appears to have no connection to the famous and superbly grand vessel, yet it attracts an audience worthy of one.

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Photo courtesy of bowbrick

 

I have lived in Marylebone for 7 years now and never tire of the Golden Hind’s tasty fish suppers. Opened in 1914 by Mr Esposito (an Italian) and passed through two further Italian owners and one Greek owner up to the current, also Greek, owner Mr Christou (since 2002) this central London fish restaurant has stood the test of time.

Its original art deco fryer now sits at the rear of the cramped dining room but is sadly only used for storage. You can see the Greek influence in the Feta Fritters yum that they serve up as main courses.

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Photo courtesy of Claire’sWorldofPictures

 

If you have a penchant for the art deco, or fish & chips then this is a place not to miss. You do have to wait for quite some time, even on a weekday as the place is small, but it is worth the wait. Either that, or do as I do and invite friends around to the flat to sit with them on my lap.

Update
Mr Christou tells me that The Golden Hind is expanding next door in the next few weeks, so the queue’s may go down but more room to get in and eat those Feta Fritters. Thank you Mr Christou.

The Golden Hind
73 Marylebone Lane, London W1U 2PN

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