What is Braise?

Braise is a London-based newsletter about food, restaurants, and the culture around them from me, Dominic Preston.

Here at Braise I review restaurants and cookbooks, share my own original recipes, and write sprawling essays about the ways food extends into my life beyond mere nourishment.

I’ve been a journalist for over a decade — a.k.a. longer than I care to admit — and when I’m not writing here, you can find me helping run things at the tech site The Verge, where I’m one of the news editors. Who else can you trust to recommend both your dinner and the phone to photograph it with?

Braise also features sporadic, original illustrations from my partner Vivian Liu, including the pretty little pot you’ll see in the site’s logo.

You can also find Braise on Instagram, or you can find me on Twitter.

Why subscribe?

Subscribe to get Braise straight to your inbox ASAP, with a free post every Wednesday with only occasional fail. These are usually reviews, covering the restaurants, cafés, bakeries, and other places out and about that I’ve eaten at.

Paid subscribers also get an exclusive post every other Sunday, a rotating slot which is where you’ll find my original recipes, cookbook reviews, best-of lists and maps (both for London and for other cities I know well, like my guide to Barcelona), and whatever essays strike my fancy. If you want more from Braise than to just know where I ate last week, then this is for you.

A subscription costs £4 per month or £40 for a year, and includes full access to the Braise content archive.