Archive - Episodes of My Pub Life & Desi Food Guide

Little Punjab, Crofton Park: 'To keep busy is important'

The Saleemi family talk Punjabi breakfasts, leaving Africa and boycotting Israel

Jul 15 •

David Jesudason

The Session #149: pub food

Let's talk about how (and why) Londoners can't escape Yard Sale Pizza

Jul 11 •

David Jesudason

Med Salleh, London: 'Kopitiam is homey'

Med Pang explains why his food is rich in influences. From Thai, Indian, Malay to Portugal

Jul 8 •

David Jesudason

'My wife had had enough of Deliveroo drivers turning up in the back garden'

Zubair Rahim didn't come from a food background but that freed him up to make smash burgers while offering desi-style hospitality

Jul 1 •

David Jesudason

June 2025

Everest Curry King, Lewisham - 'it’s how food should be'

Mahiban Sivarajah reveals the story behind one of the great Sri Lankan institutions

Jun 24 •

David Jesudason

Biryanish, Reading - food that lives on in the memory

Why British-Asians and those in the know travel far to taste Biryanish's kebabs and biryani

Jun 17 •

David Jesudason

Jay's Budgens: ‘how do you eat Indian food?’

The answer at this Brockley/Crofton Park shop is samosa after samosa after samosa

Jun 10 •

David Jesudason

Just A Bite: a meal worth clapping for

How a Denmark Hill food van serves the types of Indian meals NHS frontline workers love - and deserve!

Jun 3 •

David Jesudason

May 2025

Launching Desi Food Guide

It's time to hit the road again

May 30 •

David Jesudason

Island of friends: re-discovering Alex Samos

From Samoa to Britain via New Zealand, almost everywhere Alex visited he was loved. He lived a life of joy and optimism despite the racism he…

May 16 •

David Jesudason

Alehouse, Reading - my idols are dead

Great beers but more importantly a great bunch of locals who are ready to chat - the spirit of Wychwood Brewery's Hobgoblin lives on

May 2 •

David Jesudason

April 2025

Desi pub landlord - Southall (1976)

Photographer Dennis Morris has left a clue to the first desi pub in Southall, West London but the trail has now gone cold

Apr 25 •

David Jesudason

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