Simon Davis

Simon Davis is a journalist, broadcaster and entrepreneur based in London. A graduate of Manchester University, he first worked for Keith Floyd in his Devon pub then as a film runner in NYC, a writer on the Telegraph Magazine and then to LA as the paper’s Bureau Chief. Senior writer on Conde Nast Traveller followed and then features editor of the Evening Standard. He now runs events and publishing business Swiftsure Projects LLP, focusing on food-related events such as the London Restaurant Festival and launches MasterChef Dining and the Great British Tea Festival in 2014. His latest project is The Rosebery, a 1966 Routemaster restored and converted into a cocktail bar and dining room and featured in Vanity Fair and on Channel 4. For the BBC he presented Tales from Europe with Kirsty Wark and Living With Modernism and Living with the Future. For Channel 4 he was Gordon Ramsay’s sidekick in Ramsay’s Best Restaurant and most recently presented Country House Rescue. He is married, has three children and lives in London and the Cotswold’s.