Born and brought up in Sydney in a family of food lovers, Trish Hilferty began her cooking career in the mid-1980s working in various hotel bistros. After travelling and working along Australia's east coast, Trish moved to London. Here, she 'switched sides', learning the restaurant trade from the front of house at Braganza. Trish returned to cooking, eventually ending up at the Brackenbury with Adam Robinson. After time back home and further travelling, she returned to London to work at the Eagle, London's first gastropub. After two and a half years there and another sojourn in Sydney, she set up the Fox Dining Room in 2001, which scooped the prestigious 'Tio Pepe London Gastro Pub of the Year' award in 2005. She is the author of the genre-defining Gastropub Classics, Lobster and Chips (winner of the Best Single Subject Food Book at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2005) - and republished in paperback as Fish and Chips, Game and has contributed to Big Flavours & Rough Edges, and Real Pub Food (Absolute Press).
