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Monica Galetti on 130 Primrose, the London restaurant tackling homelessness

Monica Galetti on 130 Primrose, the London restaurant tackling homelessness

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free On one side of the street, an advertising agency: well-fed, well-paid people heading out for lunch. On the other, a queue stretching down the pavement – a couple of hundred people waiting for a meal at a soup kitchen. For Michael Brown, the contrast became impossible to ignore. “We’d be off to go and get a seven-quid sandwich from Pret,” he recalls. “And we passed the soup kitchen daily… one day I just said, ‘What are we doing?!’” That moment – that small, uncomfortable realisation – set in motion what would eventually become 130 Primrose, a glamorous new restaurant in north London built on a simple but ambitious idea: that employment, not charity alone, can be a route out of homelessness. 130 Primrose sits in north London – a stylish neighbourhood restaurant and stepping stone into work (130 Primrose/Supplied) The premise is straightforward. Recruit people …