EDITIONSS

The chef behind Café Cecilia on his new cookbook,
why breakfast matters, and the trouble with
trendy sharing menus.

When he was a child Max Rocha looked forward to Sunday mornings with his father, the designer John Rocha. Their routine took them to the petrol station, as Rocha puts it in his Dublin accent (he has lived in London for the last decade-plus; his sister, the designer Simone Rocha, also lives there now), for a car wash and they’d eat sausage rolls while the car got its bath. “We’d sit there and have a real moment together while the water’s flying. It was like me and dad were hanging out,” he recalls now.