Hello! It is Maddy's first edition. Sadly, Eric and I are both under the weather. Our weekend was Slow Horses and Lemsip. Anyway, here you are for this week.
Eat this week
The Horses. Oysters on ice upstairs and down at Public House Group's seafood pub on Ray Street. Smoked mackerel still arrives with the head on, spider crab toast at the bar. 26-28 Ray Street.
Kid. Sertaç Dirik's Turkish kitchen on Frith Street, open since 1 September. Wood-fire pide and braised goat kid in a clay pot. 53-55 Frith Street.
Waterhouse. Gabriel Waterhouse's modern Northumbrian tasting menu in a Victorian workshop on Ezra Street, after Bethnal Green. One sitting, book ahead. 7A Ezra Street.
Drink this week
Ebi Wines. Raku Oda's wine bar and shop on Rosebery Avenue. Walk-ins welcome; email [email protected] ahead if you are five to eight. 5a Rosebery Avenue.
Blinds. Natural wine in a former blinds workshop at 279 Hackney Road, bottle shop at the front. Tue-Fri from 4pm, Sat-Sun from noon, Sunday closes at 8.
Bar Blondie. Converted mews stable on Lonsdale Road with a long regenerative wine list and film posters on the panelling. Open Sunday noon-9pm. 19-21 Lonsdale Road.
See and do
Watt's Happening. New night at the Sebright Arms, Sunday the 20th, doors around 7pm. Solo sets, 18+. Tickets on Dice. 31-35 Coate Street.
CULT{URE}. With Sigils and Arrows of Time at Signature Brew Haggerston, Sunday the 20th, doors 6pm. East London rock trio, 18+. Tickets on Dice. 340 Acton Mews.
Koshun Nakao + Rieko Makita. First collaboration at SJQ, Sunday the 20th, 7.30pm. Piano and ambient in a quiet room. Tickets on Dice. 10A Bradbury Street.
Free this week
Strata. 1:4:9 open studio in Hackney Wick for London Design Festival, today 11-6. Pellet 3D-printed lamps and prototypes, free, no ticket. Unit 2B, Riverbank Wharf.
Kaymet Factory. Open House drop-in at 52 Ossory Road, the anodised-aluminium tray plant, today 10-5. Chop saws and a Bentley press still running since 1947.
A Kind of Exchange. Banknote waste turned into sculpture at the Bank of England Museum through Sunday the 20th, 11-4. Free, no ticket. Bartholomew Lane.
Favourite food of the week
Chicken in yoghurt at Afghan Kitchen. Eric and I got it on Deliveroo while we were under the weather. Still hit. Cash only, closed Sunday and Monday. 35 Islington Green.
This day in London
20 September 1989: Miss Saigon opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Lea Salonga and Jonathan Pryce.
Trivia
Hampstead is the deepest Tube station. The platforms sit 58.5 metres below the street.
Sport
Fulham host Manchester United at Craven Cottage, 4.30pm.
“I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.”
If you get the oysters or the chicken in yoghurt, tell us which one won.
Maddy and Eric
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