April Lily Partridge (born 1993) is a British chef. She is currently

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in London. Partridge is from

Chingford Chingford is a town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The town is approximately north-east of Charing Cross, with Waltham Abbey to the north, Woodford Green and Buckhurst Hill to the east, Walthamstow to the ...

. She worked for two weeks in the

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kitchen in Pall Mall at the end of her

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. She won the London heat of the nationwide Rotary Young Chef competition. She placed in the top four and won a day in The Ivy's kitchen. She stayed there, eventually earning an Ivy scholarship. Partridge attended

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on a professional chef scholarship and aspires to become a

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. In 2012, while she was commis chef at the Ivy, Partridge received the Hot Talent award as part of Hotelympia. She was named Best Young Chef in the Observer Food Monthly Awards in 2014. Senior chef at the Ivy, Gary Lee, has described her as "more methodical, artistic, hard working and consistent than some boys with 10 years' experience... She might be better than me."

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1993 births Living people British chefs People from Chingford {{Chef-bio-stub