Ham hock, Guinness bread, grilled mackerel: recipes from the Cafe Cecilia cookbook

Dishes from the acclaimed London restaurant including its famous deep fried bread and butter pudding. Plus chef Max Rocha on the pressures of sudden success The great fear of the first-time restaurateur is that your big opening will be a bust. A lesser concern is how you’ll react if it’s an instant, massive hit. That’s the situation Irish chef Max Rocha found himself in after opening Cafe Cecilia in August 2021, in a white-walled space next to the Regent’s Canal in east L