Nadia is cooking a Monday in Easton

Mondays are the day this place is shut, which for a lot of cooks is the only day they get to cook something that is not on their own menu. Nadia Okonkwo, who runs our fire and makes the puddings, is using hers on 21 September to take over the kitchen at a bakery in Easton for one night.

It is not a Marrow & Vine event. She is doing it under her own name, with her own menu, and we are not involved beyond lending her two trays and a lot of encouragement. I am putting it here because I would like it to sell out.

The food is Nigerian, mostly her mum's. Jollof done properly over a long cook, suya off a grill, moin moin, and a plantain thing she made for the staff meal in June that stopped conversation at the table. None of it is on our menu and none of it ever will be — it is hers, not ours.

Twenty-eight seats, two sittings, six and half past eight. Tickets are through the bakery, not through us. If you email here asking for one I will tell you the same thing.

Why we make the space for this. A short menu is a good discipline and a narrow one. Nadia has been on our fire for two years and she is better at it than I am, and a cook who only ever cooks one restaurant's food stops growing. If someone here wants a Monday to go and do something else, they get it, and we do not ask for anything back.

She is on the pass as usual on the Wednesday, slightly tired. Be nice to her.