Before Covid her restaurant, Core, would have been booked out for months. Now, after the Zoom award ceremony Smyth had a pizza and went to bed
The day after Clare Smyth won three Michelin stars, becoming the first British woman to do so, she drove to her restaurant, Core, and felt “quite emotional. It’s what I’ve worked for my whole life”, she says. But it was a bittersweet moment.
On Monday night, when she joined the online ceremony, she was at the restaurant in Notting Hill, west London, with her husband and a couple of her 45-strong team – the rest were on Zoom. They celebrated with champagne and a pizza and were in bed by midnight.
