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Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week up to 5th April 2026 London Standard Teal, Hackney David Ellis marvelled at the “astonishingly, masterfully good” debut restaurant from high-profile chef Sally Abé, finally free to do her own thing as boss after head chef stints at the Harwood Arms, […]
Star female chef Sally Abé is going it alone for the first time, having been the head chef at numerous high-profile restaurants. The ex-wife of Matt Abé of Bonheur: Sally made her name at the Harwood Arms (pictured above… oh my those pies were good) before channeling the girl-power of the suffragettes at The Pem […]
Fulham Football Club have signed three more top chefs to boost the match-day culinary offering at Craven Cottage – although team manager Marco Silva would doubtless prefer three new players for his football squad. The latest additions to the club’s high-powered line-up of chefs are Sally Abe, Judy Joo and Ben Murphy, who have joined […]
Chef Sally Abé is joining The Bull in Charlbury, the Cotswolds pub from the dynamic Public House group, operators of The Hero in Maida Vale and The Pelican, Canteen and The Fat Badger in Notting Hill. Sally left the Pem last month, having established her reputation as head chef at Brett Graham’s Fulham pub the […]
Two prominent female chefs announced their resignations this week – Lisa Goodwin-Allen, executive chef at Northcote in Lancashire, and Sally Abé of the Pem in London. Lisa is stepping down after spending 23 years – more than half her life – at Northcote, the Ribble Valley institution where she has also acted as host chef for Obsession, the […]
Booking is now open for the 2023 edition of Obsession, the gastronomic festival hosted each year by Northcote hotel and restaurant near Blackburn in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley. The event runs over 17 nights from January 20 to February 5, and features 20 leading chefs. Star guest chefs include Portugal’s Ricardo Costa of the Yeatman Gastronomic […]
