Meet Pete Jeary A.K.A Shaky Pete

I joined in 2008 and on my first day ended up arriving four hours late. I’d been to Thailand for a month, on the last day we found a place that sold Seagram’s gin for £2 a bottle; needless to

Part-Time Vegetarians

School dinner mounds of greying green beans, waterlogged cauliflower and mushy carrots, a small pile of sweetcorn (from a tin?) and a dollop of (delicious) creamed spinach. No butter or sauce, but ketchup, horseradish and three different kinds of mustard

The Hawksmoor Story

It was an inauspicious start. A few days after signing a 20-year lease on a failing Turkish restaurant at the wrong end of a traffic-clogged street in East London, a bank loan we desperately needed fell through. On the same

Hawksmoor in the Limelight

The reviews are in… You may have heard that Hawksmoor New York has been a hit. Even The New York Times asked and answered: “Does New York need a British steakhouse? Yes, if it’s Hawksmoor.” Elsewhere, Eater declared it, “New York’s