Hello and welcome to the menu Monocle Radio's food and drink program.
I'm your host, Chiara Rimella.
Coming up, we meet the chef behind the Filipino upstart in London and kind.
Of honor a lot of the street food routes that we started from and make plates that were just honest
and generous and still capture the the essence of what Filipino cuisine is.
Also on the program, we tasting for listening and discovered the music of mushrooms.
There's something about realizing that your food is alive.
It's just putting this focus on what we're eating and realizing as we're chewing that this is life.
Plus, our in house wine expert crowns her wine of the month.
All that here on the menu on Monocor radio.
Many food businesses start as food cart experiments,
but when the time comes to find a proper bricks and mortar space,
they have to content with how much of their street food routes they want to keep.
For Rex the Goodsman,
that question felt particularly relevant as his approach
to Filipino cooking looks to celebrate the cuisine's inherently casual
and quick essence.
After all, his restaurant's name, Turo, Turo means point point in Tagalog.
It's the phrase used to describe food stalls in his home country.
In his recently opened restaurant in southwest London,