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Clapton via Cagliari: A Trip to Leo’s

Opened last year by Jules Porter, Lauren Johns and the chef Giuseppe Belvedere, Leo’s is one of our favourite London neighbourhood restaurants. 

Belvedere, who made his name cooking great food at other East London institutions like Brawn, P. Franco and Bright, oversees an unfussy menu that draws on Sardinian cuisine and British ingredients. They do great pasta, an Italian-ish Sunday lunch, bistecca cooked over a wood fire. Jules and Lauren take care of the lovely dining room. They know a lot about wine. It’s a place you’d be happy to have at the end of your road. 

We recently paid them a visit to find out a bit more. 

A Conversation with Aaron Levine

A casual conversation that started over a drink at New York’s Corner Bistro, we’re excited to launch a first-time collection with our friend Aaron Levine— a menswear multi-hyphenate with years of experience and impeccable taste—loosely inspired by everything you might need for a few days on the move.

The Last Seat

I love eating and drinking alone. Sure, a guest, a date, a ‘companion’ as reviewers primly call them, is a lovely thing to have, so the entire event is a collaborative celebration, coloured by conversation and interaction. But go solo and all that is stripped away. You have no choice but to concentrate on what you’re consuming, on your thoughts and on your surroundings. A review written alone has an entirely different timbre to one where someone else was present. Meditative, forensic, inward- looking, maybe too focussed.  An accompanied review is emotional, a solo one analytical.  And once you get adjusted the solitary vice, there’s only one place you want to sit. And that, without wishing to sound like some gin-ruined barroom existentialist, is ‘The Last Seat’.  

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