Chuku’s may be London’s first Nigerian tapas restaurant, but it has always been about more than just food. Sibling duo Ifeyinwa and Emeka Frederick have built an immersive experience: a cultural portal to Lagos in Nigeria via Tottenham in London, England. 

When I design, the first thing I consider is how your senses relate to the object; stimulation has to follow function. Bold Kitchen is a collection of plates and bowls, designed for food storage, preparation and serving.

Koya, which means hut or little house in Japanese, is a fittingly and perfectly sized restaurant space on Frith Street in Soho, which specialises in the best udon noodle dishes; an ‘udon-ya’.

There is something about a humble yet nutritious seasonal veg stock simmering away in this elegant pan that gives me an unexplained feeling that everything is going to be alright that week…

My mum gave me this bean stringer when I first moved to London, years ago. It's a funny little gadget - trims and strings your beans in one swift pull…

“It is a simple, functional and intuitive object which has always lived on the blue tiled windowsill in my parents kitchen. I love how the design catches the pips.”

At Plate Talks, in keeping with our plate designs, we have begun a new series of stories called 'Object Recipes' that are designed to explore and celebrate the object culture in cooking, eating and sharing food.

Holly O’Neil is an illustrator and creative sharing her time between London, and Bahrain where her family live. Here, through beautiful words and illustrations, and a recipe from her grandfather, she documents the plurality of her notion of home…

In response to my desire to nurture commensality (the act of sharing food) amongst strangers, I founded Plate Talks, a project which uses the social role of communal dining as a tool for breaking boundaries and initiating new conversations.

While the old proverb states that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, in this day and age this old-fashioned stereotype can most definitely be extended to the idea that food is the way to most peoples hearts…