Jessi is eating a bowl of dahl when I go in and asks if I mind him eating. Having seen how crazy busy it gets at Daughter in law from the minute the doors open at 5 o’clock, he should definitely be having that dahl. There won’t be a moment to breathe until much later in the evening. We have the chat and then I’m about to leave when Jessi insists I have a cocktail. It’s a new one they’ve been experimenting with; Negroni with coconut cream. Then he brings out a couple of oysters to have with it and ceremoniously squeezes a lime wedge that has been dipped in black lava salt. Then he brings me Batata Vada, a mustard, curry leaf and potato croquette. Delicious. I pop my head into the kitchen to say good bye and thank you. Jessi looks disappointed, telling me his head chef, Jimmy (who I’ve spoken to before at Bomba) is just making me a ball of happiness, a mouthful of crunchy, creamy, sweet, sour and spicy and some scallop ceviche. Here you have to picture me standing in the kitchen eating delicious food and feeling a bit like a rock star while the other chefs were surely thinking, who is this woman?
