Feature Published 19 December 2024
Unreserved: 2024 in review with Jimi Famurewa
The restaurant year generally ends, not with a bang or a whimper, but a prolonged, flailing frenzy. Sudden closures and rush-released openings offer a mixed picture of a twitchy industry; dining rooms roar and throb with paper-hatted Christmas party inebriates, blundering into storage cupboards on the way to the loos; WhatsApp groups called things like ‘Festive Dinner’ become inadvertent performance ...