Portrait of Kevin Tickle
i. Biography
Kevin Tickle is a Cumbrian chef who was head chef at The Forest Side in Grasmere, where he helped launch the restaurant in February 2016 and led it to a Michelin star within eight months of opening. Before Forest Side, he spent about nine years in Simon Rogan’s Cumbrian kitchens, including L’Enclume as sous chef and head forager, and Rogan & Co. as head chef. He later left The Forest Side in August 2019 to pursue new projects, and since 2020 he has been co-owner and chef at Heft in High Newton with his wife Nicola Tickle.
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