Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef
BY SLUTTY CHEFF
Thursday, JAN 29, 6:30 PM

An Instant Sunday Times (London) Bestseller.

A New York Times Best Nonfiction Book of Summer 2025.

A Vogue Best Book of 2025 So Far.

A Service95 Must-Read Book of 2025.

A hilarious, hot, and steamy account of coming of age in and out of the kitchen, from the anonymous chef and columnist, Slutty Cheff.

“It’s the two best things in the world: food and sex.”

Bored and burnt out from her corporate 9–5, Slutty Cheff quits marketing to chase what she truly loves: cooking. Thrown into London’s intense fine-dining world, she faces sixty-hour weeks, windowless kitchens, and being the only woman in the room—alongside the rush of flawless services, chaotic nights, and flirtations with dangerously attractive bartenders and chefs.
Tart is a raw, funny, and exhilarating journey of finding purpose, embracing pleasure and chaos, and living life wide open—perfect for anyone who likes to eat and f**k.

Content considerations: ​Sexual content, infidelity, alcohol and drug use, body-image and dieting talk, toxic relationships and emotional manipulation, casual misogyny and sexism, instances of harassment, and mild violence.

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Just like Tart throws you headfirst into the heat, hustle, and hedonism of London’s fine-dining kitchens, Tessier’s Electric Ladyland hits with wild energy and unapologetic flavor. This orange wine—an electrifying blend of Albariño, Picpoul, Riesling, Gewürztraminer, and a splash of rosé Grenache and Gamay—mirrors the book’s mix of sharp wit, raw honesty, and sensual chaos.

The texture is confident and unfiltered, much like our heroine ditching corporate life for a hotter, messier, truer one. And the blend of varieties, each fermented on its own before coming together, feels like the book’s balance of grit, humor, vulnerability, and desire.

At 12.5% ABV, it’s lively, crushable, and a little dangerous in that “oops, now we’re flirting with a bartender” kind of way. Perfect for a story about chasing pleasure, purpose, and the occasional hot chef.

Purchase the wine by the glass during Book Club Meeting!

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RAVES & REVIEWS

“[A] sexy, frank, delectable memoir… One of the delights of Tart is a vivid, vicarious sense of being young and in love — with food, with sex, with life and, most of all, with London itself. Tart is a book about appetites, elegant and refined at times, at others visceral and heartfelt and crude. It’s a Rabelaisian romp, a dive into no-holds-barred gourmandise. But it’s also a serious work; despite her rollicking spirit, Slutty Cheff isn’t kidding around. Her real subject is the intersection of work and love, and what it means to have a true calling. Whether hers is writing, cooking or both remains to be seen, but I’ll gladly stick around to find out.” --The New York Times​



“A young Anthony Bourdain which we haven’t seen in female food writing before—visceral, hedonistic and gutsy.” —Dolly Alderton


"A naughty romp... combining dysfunction and adversity with humor, ingenuity, glamour, grit and humanity." --The Wall Street Journal


“Tart is Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential meets Lena Dunham’s Girls, steaming with sweaty double shifts (in the kitchen and bedroom), devouring the city of London with a belly-deep sense of hunger. To be inhaled in one sitting.” --Vogue


“This memoir is a biting and hilarious romp through kitchens and adulthood from the anonymous British Vogue columnist behind @sluttycheff on Instagram. It’s a raw depiction of a young woman who ditches corporate work for the high-stakes kitchens of the fine-dining world.” —USA Today


“[Tart] leaves you hungry for more. More food. More sex. More Slutty Cheff.” —Air Mail


“There is one thing [Slutty Cheff] claims to desire even more than food: sex. Tart, her memoir, is a hedonistic tale of both [that] has been lauded as a feminine take on Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.” --The Economist


“Could there be a better summer book?... Tart was awesome, like smart, cool, edgy chick lit, and full of really delicious-sounding food. When it gets made into a TV show, I'm watching!” —Cat Marnell, New York Times Bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life


“If a 20-something, British Carrie Bradshaw narrated a London-set Kitchen Confidential, it might read something like Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef, an uproarious, unrepentantly lusty memoir.” —Shelf Awareness