
A match on a dating app turned Kim Duke’s life upside down. In the three years since she met Sandeep Seesarun the chef and cookery writer has swapped south London for life on the south coast, set up her own restaurant, which would have been an impossibility in the capital, and got married.
Kim, 32, moved from her native Newcastle to London to study cookery at the University of West London, and went on to work at a string of fashionable restaurants — most recently she was head chef at Bao in Borough Market.