I moved to London about 20 years ago, and I always lived east. I lived in Brick Lane, then Bethnal Green and latterly in Stoke Newington. I moved to Borough Market in January last year, two months before I opened my restaurant here.
It was such a mad time before the restaurant opened, I was spending all day, every day at the site. We needed to do all the menu development and we did it all out of my flat. Testing all the dishes, overseeing the kitchen installation, picking the paint colours, tasting wine. It was a hive of activity.
