The Kitchen Table

Recipes and stories

Things to cook, people to meet and a few things we have learned behind the counter.

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Nduja rigatoni with cherry tomatoes and burrata

2 Oct 2026

A twenty-minute supper: spicy nduja melted into sweet cherry tomatoes, bronze-cut rigatoni and a whole burrata torn over the top.

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Recipes

Nduja rigatoni with cherry tomatoes and burrata

2 Oct 2026

A twenty-minute supper: spicy nduja melted into sweet cherry tomatoes, bronze-cut rigatoni and a whole burrata torn over the top.

Read it →

Recipes

Dark chocolate and olive oil cake

17 Sept 2026

Our most requested recipe: a dense, glossy chocolate cake made with Arbequina olive oil instead of butter, in the oven in fifteen minutes.

Recipes

How to build a proper grazing board

20 Aug 2026

Three cheeses, something sweet, something salty and plenty of crackers: our counter team's rules for a board that disappears fast.

Producers

Meet the family behind our Coratina oil

9 Jul 2026

Three generations, eleven hectares of old Coratina trees near Corato, and olives pressed within four hours of picking. Hattie spent harvest week with them.

Producers

Marmalade season: a morning in the jam kitchen

5 Feb 2026

Every January the Seville oranges arrive at Gilliver Street. Here is how a morning in our jam kitchen goes, from the first cut to the last lid.

Guides

How to taste olive oil like a producer

15 Jan 2026

Warm it, smell it, slurp it. A five-minute guide to tasting olive oil properly, and what fruity, bitter and peppery really mean.

Recipes and stories

Nduja rigatoni with cherry tomatoes and burrata