You know The Laundry — the Victorian building on Coldharbour Lane that spent 119 years as an actual working laundry before becoming one of Brixton’s most quietly brilliant restaurants.
This week, I sat down with Mel, the Kiwi chef behind it, to talk about why she preserved the photographs, the artefacts, the history — and why she believes places like Brixton don’t disappear, they recalibrate.