The best restaurant in south London?

Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by Stephen in Clapham, Food

Success again for Adam Byatt nearly a decade after he made Clapham North a gourmet destination. Jennifer Sharp charts his progress

Spring sunshine streams through the window and Adam Byatt is a happy man. His restaurant, Trinity on Clapham Common, has the low purr of contented lunchtime customers; his first cookbook, How to Eat In, is published today; he has just chaired the judging panel of the Annual Awards for Excellence organised by the influential Academy of Culinary Arts; and on the weekend, he will brush up his street cred with a return to BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen, cooking and sparring with presenter James Martin. Not bad for a 35-year old from Essex who left school at 16 without much to show for it and, by his own account, was ‘a bit of a yob, a troublemaker’.