Dock Kitchen Iranian Pistachio, Cucumber and Grapes Soup

STEVIE PARLE burst onto the London food scene in 2009 with his restaurant Dock Kitchen.

Hitherto he’d been living on a houseboat on the Thames, working at the River Café, Moro and Petersham Nurseries.

He was one of the first to do pop-up dinners, but when he found the long canal side wharf warehouse — an ex Victorian goods yard with a massive terrace — on Kensel Rise, he put down deeper roots, it was just too perfect to abandon.