Despite having a good career in London, and having authored two cookbooks, Kim knows that opening her own restaurant would have been an impossible dream in London. In Hastings her rent on the restaurant is £1,100pcm. A similar sized space in Lewisham would be three times the price, she said. “And the produce we can get here, for the price we get it at, is incomparable to London.”
London leaver: Our Hastings restaurant dream would have been impossible at London prices
