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Kid, London W1: ‘Fat, richness, sharpness, all in perfect balance’ – restaurant review

Our main course arrived heavy and somewhat intimidating, and left picked completely clean Earlier this month, a kind-of Turkish ocakbaşı opened on a corner in London’s Soho. The brains behind Kid are chef Sertaç Dirik and restaurateur David Carter, and I say “kind-of” because, yes, while it has a Turkish-influenced menu – sucuk with grilled peach, pide , börek , hummus, içli köfte with aged beef – and the whiff of live fire, nothing either of them does is ever remotely straightforward, hence the buzz around their new place. Carter founded Smokestak a decade ago in Shoreditch, a wild, Americana-tinged barbecue joint where, somehow, he made brisket in buns and peach cobbler old fashioneds London’s hottest ticket. Five years later, he opened Manteca , also in Shoreditch, a reimagining of the Italian trattoria for the 2020s, followed by Oma , his Greek-influenced Michelin-starred venture in Borough, and its little sister Agora, and all of them remain dependable places where you get serious bang for your buck. All of those influences – American smoke, Italian flair and Greek boldness – are present and correct at Kid. Dirik’s story, meanwhile, has about it elements of TV’s The Bear : a Copenhagen-trained chef cajoled home to bolster the family business and going on to create the hugely loved Mangal 2 in Dalston. What Dirik and Carter have in common, aside from reputation, is a love of setting fire to stuff, in a culinary sense rather than in a Prodigy’s Twisted Firestarter sense. Kid’s Galata mackerel is testament to this: it’s almost completely blackened and has an incredible hit of smoke in its flesh. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Grace Dent20 Sept

‘Vintage Violence’ Review: Eugene Kotlyarenko’s Blood-Splattered Rom-Com Is A Fun Crime-Fueled Trip Through Japan’s Denim Trade — Toronto Studio

Six years after his unhinged social media age horror Spree, writer/director Eugene Kotlyarenko takes a more optimistic approach with his action-packed rom-com out of Japan. In Vintage Violence, Carter (Cole Sprouse) is an urban explorer who finds a haul of rare denim in a mineshaft. When Izumi (Kiko Mizuhara) invites him to offload the merchandise […]

DeadlineDeadline•Glenn Garner18 Sept

Why the real AI apocalypse is already here – Stateside with Kai and Carter

A former Anthropic researcher’s apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence has led to a global panic that the technology might be the end of us all. At an event in Washington today to warn about the dangers of AI, US senator Bernie Sanders said that Congress has been ‘asleep at the wheel'. Oddly, Steve Bannon appeared at the same event. But is this response a distraction from the more immediate problems AI is already causing? Kai Wright and Carter Sherman are joined by Guardian tech reporter Johana Bhuyian to put this moment in context, and she explains why we should be cynical about industry calls for regulation Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Hosted by Kai Wright and Carter Sherman with Johana Bhuiyan . Produced by Tiara Chiaramonte engineered by Ivan Kuraev executive producers Jonathan Menjivar and Rachel Humphreys15 Sept
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