Sally Abé gets ready to open her first solo restaurant with Teal in Hackney

After heading up the kitchen at The Pem, Sally Abé's next role was taking over the food at The Bull at Charlbury (by the team behind The Pelican), but now she's back in London with her first solo restaurant, Teal by Sally Abé.

The restaurant, according to Abé, is "about celebrating the best of British food, its history, its flavours, and its stories, while championing women, supporting good causes, and building a restaurant that feels rooted in its community".

As to how that appears on the menu, it'll kick off with snacks like devils and angels on horseback, while bigger dishes include:

• Dorset crab royale, English peas and lovage
• Haunch of deer, pickled walnuts and cavolo nero
• Cornish mussels, Jersey Royals, cauliflower and sea kale

As for desserts, there will be a raspberry marshmallow teacake, marmalade ice cream sandwich and a Penny Lick. The latter was a 19th-century ice cream sold for a penny. It won't be quite that, but it's still a pretty affordable £1 with proceeds from any sold being donated to the Hackney Food Bank.

Sally is opening in what is a tricky East London location. This is the site that was recently vacated by two great restaurants - Sesta and, before that, Pidgin. So here's hoping that the chef will be able to make the space work for her. It does sound like it could be getting a bigger revamp than we saw in the restaurant's journey from Pidgin to Sesta, and she's working with her sister on the redesign.