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Sally Abé first opted to pursue cooking as a potential vocation at the age of 18, having enrolled on a hospitality business management and culinary arts degree at Sheffield Hallam University – but does reflect the culmination of an incredible early career that previously saw her work under Gordon Ramsay at The Savoy and Claridge’s; and later at The Ledbury with Brett Graham; and Elystan Street with Phil Howard.
Abé joined the kitchen of Graham’s Michelin-starred Fulham gastropub in February 2017, and has ensured that it has retained the Michelin star the pub first won in 2010. Her love of cooking game has proven to be the perfect fit for the game-focused pub, with dishes on her current menu including venison scotch eggs, faggots, and roast Muntjac deer. However, she has also helped drive The Harwood Arms forward in the making of its own charcuterie and using fruit, vegetables and herbs grown in its rooftop garden in her dishes.
In 2021 she left The Harwood Arms to open The Pem - a name inspired by suffragette Emily Wilding Davison – at Conrad London St James and also oversees the food at the hotel’s The Blue Boar Pub.
