Mr Fogg’s City Tavern, which is part of Inception Group, the hospitality group owned by Charlie Gilkes, was crowned the best pub in the City of London earlier this month at the National Pub Awards.
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Some chefs are big, oversized personalities who fill rooms and kitchens alike with the force of their charisma and chutzpah. Other, no less talented and able, figures are quieter, and prefer to let their cuisine supply the fireworks, rather than their presence. Chef Raymond Ma, who is the international head chef of the world-renowned Aqua group, is far from the shouty and dramatic character you might imagine. Instead, he's friendly, polite, refreshingly down-to-earth and keen to discuss his latest and greatest innovation for the restaurant group: crystal sushi. We meet in the Broadgate Circle home of Shiro Sushi, and Ma is as accessible and intelligent as you would expect a chef of his calibre to be, with his insights undercut by a wry sense of humour. He's worked as a chef for twenty years now – not that you'd know it from his youthful appearance – and combines the weight of experience with an enthusiasm for the craft that has clearly remained undimmed. He's in