The closure of Le Gavroche
In the early 1970s, I was fresh out of catering college in Chichester, West Sussex, and was managing (with a bit of cheffing) a restaurant in Battersea Park Road in London. It was a French restaurant called La Grenouille, famous for introducing Le Cassoulet, Confit of Goose and Duck (proper ‘confit’ – preserve – not…