Notes on a Napkin
Dan O'ReganNotes on a Napkin is a candid, irreverent dive into the realities of restaurant life, mixing industry truths with cultural commentary and a restaurateur’s POV of the beautiful chaos behind the scenes.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 65 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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Where the money goes: anatomy of a restaurant in 2026
A year ago this week I published a piece called Where the Money Goes — an anatomy of a British restaurant in 2025. I took a £25 schnitzel off the menu at Lapin, pork with peas and bacon and morels, and cut it open on the page. £4.16 of VAT....
In Praise of the Long Lunch
The midweek long lunch is, often, a dereliction of duties and reckless abandonment — a decision made in spite of responsibilities, in aid of one’s own wellbeing. Lunch, and more specifically the long lunch, and even more specifically, one i...
The Solo Diner
On hedonists, books, and the art of eating alone
This is the second piece in my regular column for Bristol Life magazine. It runs in print first — pick up a free copy if you’re local.Notes on a Napkin is a reader-supported publication. To...
Magpie Syndrome
On Saturday I took the train to London for a weekend of hospitality events. Off at Paddington, straight to Kiln — a restaurant I’d been somewhat lambasted for never having visited. Shameful. Now dutifully rectified. Restaurateurs can’t real...
Two is enough
When I opened BANK — before even — I was wary of the kind of gross overexpansion that so often takes people down. Buy, borrow, die. Leverage and loans, interest that cripples businesses and leaves suppliers and staff holding the hot potato....
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Bristol restaurateur behind BANK and Lapin. I write practical notes on flavour, people, pricing and wine, and a monthly column for Country Living and Bristol Life. Most posts are free.
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