Pritchard + Ure

25/04/2026

22/04/2026

The book and writer featured in this article is amazing. How, how, had I not heard of her before. I am ashamed. Do yourself a kind favour, buy the book, sit comfortably and be prepared for an approximately three to four hour total immersion that you will not regret. You may not realise why, or what, but it is, now and again, I see, the reason books and writers exist. I have not stopped thinking about it for almost twenty four hours. Genius.

Riley has always skewered cruelty with shattering exactitude. What’s new in this story of two old friends in London is the delicacy she brings to moments of tenderness

17/04/2026

My latest book recommendation will be Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton - if you can't wait for me to finish the review, don't care either way what I think, or cannot make into our shop to buy in person then you can always pop over to our bookshop org site and support either us and/or other independent bookshops.

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/woman-in-blue-douglas-bruton/7778703?ean=9781914148682&next=t

17/04/2026

25/03/2026

I have rarely seen this put better - for me personally the last twenty years has been about stories - stories of supplies, growers, farmers, people toiling away against the odds because of a passion, an attempt at doing something different, going against the grain, against the odds, supporting the lives and well being of people, animals, the environment, and our story like that of everybody else I know that has run small independent (truly) restaurants like Pritchard & Ure , coffee shops, delicatessens, food stalls, and so much more has always been about this, never about just money, so a huge cheer for all of us that do this and all of you that support us - more than ever we need different, unique, outside the box thinking, to say no to the homogeneity, bland, profit seeking and ultimately destructive alternatives. We continue to do what we do with love and for love.

25/04/2024

That special moment when a regular and charming customer who discovered you for your bread and butter business (not literally) and then just got, saw, sensed, what more you try to create and decided to donate to the greater whole - this is why we work so hard at the periphery of an excellent food and drink space - to add and discover what more it means to both be and visit a restaurant. It cannot be just to eat.

16/12/2023

EVERY London location from EVERY novel, on one chart.

16/12/2023

This is what we’re doing on Sunday evening. You’re very welcome to join us.

17/11/2023

Yesterday was probably my longest single session of writing. I was determined after two weeks of not writing to get the Substack post out and I did, just, late last night. Here it is and if you like it please do sign up as a follower. https://bit.ly/49EmTBa

29/10/2023

Reflections on a difficult week, very relatively speaking.

12/10/2023

Number four in a series of the names that did not make it and maybe the last ?