Dylan Jones may need to check through his acutely-observed new book

 
13 June 2013

The Londoner was leafing through GQ editor Dylan Jones’s acutely-observed new book, One Day about the Eighties, when it received the sad news that Rowley Leigh was no longer with us.

Jones, quoting food writer Lindsay Bareham, notes that in 1985 “Alastair Little, Marco Pierre White, Simon Hopkinson and the late Rowley Leigh all opened trendsetting restaurants within months of each other.”

Strange. The last time the Londoner checked, Leigh seems to be pretty lively down in the kitchens of Le Café Anglais in Queensway.

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