With the on-trade one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, Isabelle Gray talks to UK restaurant owners and chefs to find out how a Hospitality Minister would help their businesses.
West Country-born chef Harriet Mansell has relaunched her Lyme Regis pop-up Robin Wylde as a permanent restaurant that shines a light on the region’s local ingredients.
Harriet Mansell had some ideas about what she wanted to call her first restaurant, but one thing for sure was that she didn’t want it to be named after herself.
“I sometimes tell people I didn’t want my ex-boyfriend to know I was back in the area,” says the West Country-born chef with a chuckle. “In reality, though, it just would have been too conventional to put my own name on the door.”