Paul Ripley joins Rick Stein's Seafood Bar in Falmouth as head chef
Paul Ripley has joined Rick Stein's Seafood Bar in Falmouth as its new head chef. Twenty years ago, Ripley left London to work in Cornwall for Rick and Jill Stein as head chef at their flagship Seafood Restaurant. After 11 years in Padstow, he left and opened his own restaurant, Ripley's in St Merryn, where he achieved a Michelin star. He then became chef and landlord of the St Kew Inn in 2008, a St Austell Brewery pub in Wadebridge.