Nº 25: Rob Hinchcliffe
The writer and founder of Londonist shares his guide to the city and beyond: from Loose.fm to London's best magazine.
We’re back with London’s biggest fan, writer Rob Hinchcliffe. Read on to find out what he’s into, and if you’re new here, hit subscribe for secret recommendations once a week.
Rob Hinchcliffe is a writer and editor who can’t stop writing about London. He founded Londonist.com and now edits London in Bits.
☞ KIT: The Ricoh GR camera I'm holding in the photo (even though the photo was taken in a photo booth!). This is the GRII so it's a few years old but the size is perfect for sticking in your pocket and it's a beautiful camera.
☞ RESTAURANT: Russel Norman's Brutto is a thing of beauty. A proper traditional Italian trattoria with napkins draped over the lampshades and everything. But next level food and a bar you could sit at all day. Plus it's dog friendly.
☞ READING: The Fence is the smart, funny, acerbic magazine that London should be producing loads of but for some reason struggles to. It looks lovely too. This article on London’s Worst Tesco is top class journalism.
☞ USING: RSS readers. I'm showing my age now, but I've been building and pruning my RSS feed since the early days of the internet and I'd be completely lost without it. My hope is that everyone leaves Twitter once it's Muskified and starts blogging and using RSS readers again. Bliss.
☞ EATING: I’m really happy that we seem to be catching up with the US in our determination to take the sandwich to the next level. Dom’s Subs are doing heroic things with bread, and in Crystal Palace (where I live) there’s Chatsworth Bakehouse, who are tiny but mighty.
☞ WATCHING: Netflix's algorithm makes it hard to find the great, slightly weirder stuff sometimes. John Was Trying To Contact Aliens is a 16 minute documentary that genuinely made me tear up.
☞ SECRET RECIPE: I'd never eaten a Rolo yogurt until I heard you could freeze them. Now my body is at least 60% Rolo yogurt. Advice: If you stand opposite the Roundel sign on the Tube platform there’s a good chance that’s where the doors will stop.Hates: Wheely suitcases. Coffee in anything that’s not coffee. Booze in anything that’s not booze (booze in coffee is pretty much my worst nightmare).
♪ LISTENING TO: Loose.fm. I'm biased here because I have a show on there every month, but even if I didn't I'd be telling people to listen to it because it's the kind of independent, eclectic community radio station that we need more of.
☠︎ HATES: Wheely suitcases. Coffee in anything that’s not coffee. Booze in anything that’s not booze (booze in coffee is pretty much my worst nightmare).
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