Sally Clarke’s Kensington Thanksgiving

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In the Wine Room downstairs at Sally Clarke’s Kensington restaurant, now celebrating its 40th year, the lights are low, the flower arrangements are a fire of autumn colours and the scene is set for a Thanksgiving feast. 

Clarke trained in Croydon, then Paris, before working for Prue Leith and Caroline Waldegrave in London. But the thing that changed everything…