Avo toast not cocktails: Bill Granger changed how we socialise

Back in London after visiting my parents in the middle of nowhere (zone 5 of London, compared with my zone 2), I was excited to be reunited with my local coffee shop where the coffee is roasted locally, the loaves in the window are potato sourdough, and the milk alternatives — and froth artwork — come at no extra cost; I meet a friend there a few times a week.

But my 10am ritual might be very different if not for Bill Granger, the Australian chef and restaurateur who died this week, aged 54. I was eating breakfast when I read the news, which is only fitting, since Granger not only changed what women of my generation — millennials — eat for breakfast, he