Cardiff-based chef Lee Skeet is riding high on the success of his brand new seafood and wine bar Jackson's when we catch up just days after its grand opening and a few weeks before his newly-located Cora is introduced to the world once again.
"It was good," he tells me of Jackson's opening. "We couldn't have had any more customers than we did. Because we've been working on it for a few weeks doing all the building, sometimes we thought 'oh, what if no-one comes'." But he couldn't have been more wrong. He explains how the bar was brimming with people all day and that was simply through personal posts on his social media and word of mouth.
"We didn't invite anyone. Nothing was for free or [we didn't have] PR or anything. It was just customers coming in! It was really busy and no-one had ever worked here before... it went well!"
