Stevie Parle

Stevie Parle went to Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland when he was sixteen and has been cooking professionally ever since. He has worked in some of London’s top kitchens, including The River Café, Moro and Petersham Nurseries.

In 2009, together with his ex-River Café co-chef, Joseph Trivelli, Stevie created The Moveable Kitchen, once- or twice-monthly secret supper parties that moved about London, with the Evening Standard outing them as 'London's hottest young chefs'.  In the same year, Stevie found a permanent home at The Dock Kitchen, his own restaurant situated in designer Tom Dixon’s Portobello Docks showrooms. The restaurant has been given four stars by Fay Maschler in the Evening Standard and five stars by AA Gill who descbribed the dishes as 'faultless' in the Sunday Times.  Stevie was named Young Chef of the Year by Observer Food Monthly magazine in 2010.

Stevie's first book, MY KITCHEN: REAL FOOD FROM NEAR AND FAR, is a collection of his favourite recipes from his travels across the globe and was published by Quadrille in 2010.  It has been shortlisted for the Andre Simon Award and he is now working on THE DOCK KITCHEN COOKBOOK, which will be published by Quadrille in 2012.  Stevie also writes a weekly food column in the Saturday Telegraph Weekend section.

Now 25, Stevie Parle lives with his wife Nicky and son Sam on a beautiful red barge, Avontuur, moored on London's River Thames beside Hammersmith Bridge.