{"id":6029,"date":"2026-04-04T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/6029\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:13:15","slug":"teal-by-sally-abe-review-by-david-ellis-astonishingly-masterfully-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/6029\/","title":{"rendered":"Teal by Sally Ab\u00e9 review by David Ellis: Astonishingly, masterfully good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it is: writers need deadlines, stand-ups a short leash and the best plays are not those improvised. Is cheffing art? It takes creativity and attracts heavy drinkers, which seem to be the two main qualifications. But chefs don\u2019t benefit from boundaries as sculptors do. Take Sally Ab\u00e9. She trained in the military brigades of the Savoy, Claridge\u2019s and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/going-out\/restaurants\/the-ledbury-london-restaurant-review-notting-hill-b988417.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Ledbury<\/a>, before leaving the Harwood Arms to consult on a five-star hotel. Piles of cash may have drawn her, but there was also a dangled promise of doing what she liked. Trouble is, hotel groups do not work like that. Budgets are tight and supply lines long established: you must work with what they\u2019ve got, colour strictly between the lines. One day, at a pub wedding, Ab\u00e9 welled up in frustration, despairing of it all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So it is: writers need deadlines, stand-ups a short leash and the best plays are not those improvised.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[374,3288,3287,27,1397],"class_list":{"0":"post-6029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-british","9":"tag-cuisine","10":"tag-david-ellis","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-restaurant-reviews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116347325786808247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}