A white plate piled high with cooked mussels, the orange flesh nestled in the blue shells, with chunks of bread soaked in butter, garlic, and the cooking juices.
Mussels with bread soaked in garlic butter | James Hansen

It’s wet, it’s cold, it can feel pretty grim. But it’s also the perfect time for comfort food. From charred jerk chicken, nobbly mince pies, chubby mussels in garlic butter, and perfect baleadas, here are 13 of the best to eat in the capital right now.

Eater editors and writers share the comfort food they frequently turn to — right now, tearable jerk chicken, fat mussels, and elite mince pies — as the cold draws in.