Noelly

Location:

London, UK

Best meal I ever ate:

huge fruits de mer with local white wine in Biarritz

My current drink of choice:

cool Beaujolais

I really wish I could:

be a pub chef!

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

rare bavette steak, tomato, soy and tarragon butter, chips, watercress, green bean and shallot salad.

My favorite comfort food:

Macaroni cheese

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

The Havelock Tavern, London; The Earl Spencer, London; Chez Albert, Biarritz; Ristorante Happy Days, Bisceglie, Puglia; Del Frisco Double Eagle Steakhouse, New York

My most tattered cookbooks:

Cooking Without Fuss, by Jonny Haughton, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, by Simon Hopkinson; The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, by Marcella Hazan; The French Menu Cookbook, by Richard Olney