Top chef swaps the glitz of The Ritz for fashionable Coatbridge café

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From The Ritz to The Dorchester, accomplished chef David Lake has cooked for the rich and famous in some of the country’s most swanky hotels.Now, discerning diners are sampling his undisputed passion for quality food from the booths of a humble eatery in a sleepy residential street – in the unlikely locale of Coatbridge.Call it a café, a deli, a bistro or a restaurant, David concedes that the moniker that best defines his first foodie venture with wife and silent partner Maggie “all gets a bit blurred.”The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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