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The No 6 chef talks to Emma Henderson about hard graft under Gordon Ramsay, helping youngsters into catering and his burgeoning foodie empire in Cornwall
How did you and your wife Emma come to run No 6 in Padstow?
I’d been in the Gordon Ramsay Group in London for six years, and then from there I went onto Proteus with Marcus Wearing and I was coming to the end of my time there and I wasn’t really sure about what I wanted to do next, and I was thinking about working abroad. Then I met somebody who knew Padstow very well.
I had actually been there the year before, completely coincidentally, and had dinner at Rick Stein’s seafood restaurant. When I was walking around the village, I actually peered in through the window on No 6 which was boarded up and for sale. I didn’t think anything of it and had a typical weekend in Padstow as everybody does.
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