Food & Drink
Cotta: Refined Food for the Discerning Londoner
Londoners are choosing their food the way they choose their wine
Read the back of a jar and you’ll probably find an ingredient you can’t name. More of us are reading the small print now, the way we already read a wine label.Research published in the British Medical Journal links eating more ultra-processed food to over thirty damaging health outcomes, from heart disease to depression and early death. What goes on our plates is becoming as considered as where we choose to eat out.
Who actually made this?
It’s a fair question. And it’s becoming a more popular one. The answer tends to change how we feel about the food we purchase. Think of the fishmonger who knows which boat it came from, which morning, which water. That intimacy used to be a luxury available to the few. More of us want it as standard.Arjun’s Kitchen makes Butter Chicken and Malabar Fish Curry fresh for each order. Le Petit Moulin Traiteur, a French kitchen, prepares Bisque de Homard and Boeuf Bourguignon in the classical tradition. Bermondsey Gut Kimchi catalogues its ferments from 000 to 006, Kkakduki and Spring Onion Pa Kimchi among them.
All sell through COTTATM, a new marketplace app for artisanal pantry goods and hand crafted meals, which launched in London in July 2026. Its goal is to offer a kind of specificity that tells you someone cares.
“People are already very particular about where they eat out,” says COTTA’s CEO and founder Mabar Abduljawad. “We wanted to bring that same awareness to what they order in. It’s for those who care about the quality and the passion that goes into the preparation.”
COTTA delivers to Kensington, Chelsea, surrounding areas (e.g. Marylebone & Notting Hill), and a growing range of other West & SW London postcodes, with further areas to follow. 200+ foods, from independent chefs, artisan makers and producers across the city.
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The Cotta app is available on iOS and Google Play. Learn more at cottavita.com
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