EDITORS LETTER

The winter I ate the Alps. A lunch voucher was the unassuming start of something that, little did we know then, would take over a year of our lives.

Coaxing restaurants worthy of slope time out of locals wasn’t easy. We all have a favourite little place to take

friends, family, the dog or the person nearest at any given time. It could be the Hideaway on the river up from Hampton Court where the chicken waffles and French 65s hit you right with the views on a lazy mid-morning. The Barrafina buzz whisks you to the side streets of Barcelona drooling in Gamba Roja and Txakoli by the glass. Or the time-stopping ease of the winter garden in Rules over a Naughty Mac and Grandma’s drapes. The spots you’ve fallen in love with and want to share but just not with everyone.

As an antidote to the pace modern living has given us, we wanted to create a little haven of longness. For those who don’t need to rush themselves on holiday, those who don’t have time to eat overpriced armpit crust. Those who want to wear lunch as droolery and take a little time off from, well, the other parts of their day.

That’s the reasoning behind this Paper at any rate. To share a little of the things we love, to make a little of your time in the mountains, on the train, in the office, a little longer, lusher and lazier. And if you do find yourself wandering where to go for lunch whilst lingering on the side of the mountain then you can look up the long lunch list and have a fabulously easy time.

I hope you like lunch.

Words: Joe Englert

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