i. Biography
The Climb
Training at La Sorbonne Paris 3 placed Alex Jackson’s foundation outside the kitchen before he moved into the London dining scene. He then held the head chef role at Sardine in City Road, London until 2020, before taking the same post at Noble Rot Soho, London from 2020 to 2024.
Today
The clearest read on that 2020–2024 period is the length of the tenure itself. The name on Noble Rot Soho marked four years in the post, following a four-year run at Sardine rather than a brief credit on a menu.
Signature
Jackson’s cooking is identified with a narrow set of named dishes: roast chicken with morels, Vin Jaune and riz au pilaf; eggs ‘casino’; goulash; rabbit cooked in rose with cucumber, tomato and saffron; and girolles, courgette, ricotta, rosemary and farinata. The list points to range, but also to a kitchen that works through specific combinations rather than general style language.
Recognition
The public record around Jackson is built from appointments with dates, not from a separate list of awards. The sequence runs from Sardine, 2016–2020, to the Soho restaurant, 2020–2024, with Dock Kitchen and Rotorino also part of the London head-chef CV. Those posts are the recognition: repeated trust with the top kitchen title at named London venues, and then the Noble Rot Soho chapter that shaped his recent profile.
Profile updated July 2026
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Where did Alex Jackson train or study?
Alex Jackson trained at La Sorbonne Paris 3.
