What’s your favourite brand of olive oil?
Citizens Of Soil: they’re all small-batch oils, sourced directly from the farmer and each one has its own character.
Food or drink item you always travel with?
Tea. I have bags in my handbag, my luggage, my rucksack. My favourite is Mariage Frères Marco Polo Rouge (£20, sous-chef.co.uk).
Restaurant you want to go back to?
Gallifet Kitchen in Aix-en-Provence, France. It’s only open during the summer, which makes it feel all the more special. It serves simply prepared food that you eat in the dappled shade of the trees.
Chef, food writer and broadcaster Rachel Khoo, 45
Top spot for drinks with a view?
Nothing beats sitting at the top of a mountain in a Gasthaus with a glass of Apfelschorle (sparkling apple juice) or a cold beer, especially when you’ve hiked there. The Lünersee walk in Vorarlberg, Austria, is a favourite of mine.
Toast topping of choice?
Melted cheese with a dousing of either hot sauce or Worcestershire sauce.
Condiment that improves any meal?
Chilli oil. I have a collection, and I recently discovered Third Culture Kat’s Kashmiri Chilli Oil, made from Kashmiri chillies from Pakistan. It’s so aromatic and flavourful.
Best place for pastries?
Le Choux in Notting Hill for its delightfully light, inventively flavoured choux buns. The seasonal strawberry one is especially good.
Best fish and chips in the UK?
In London, it has to be Toff’s in Muswell Hill. The batter is crisp, light and not at all greasy; the fish inside is flaky and perfectly cooked.
Coffee brand you rate?
Café Manon. I’m a little sensitive to caffeine, but its half-caffeinated beans still have the full flavour and are responsibly sourced.
Rachel rates Camden Market’s Holy Sheep
Favourite corner-shop chocolate?
Tony’s Chocolonely. The flavour combos always make me happy. Very Willy Wonka.
Boujiest thing in your store cupboard?
Homemade dried mangoes from trees I adopted through CrowdFarming (from £30, crowdfarming.com). The trees are named after my children and their harvest gets sent to us.
Favourite UK restaurant?
Gina in Chingford, east London, run by Ravneet Gill and Mattie Taiano. It’s warm, welcoming and the chocolate cake is legendary.
Best place to find authentic French food?
Bayley & Sage (various London locations, bayley-sage.co.uk). Its display of beautiful, fresh produce takes me straight back to going to the market in Paris.
What’s your Deliveroo order?
It’s not Deliveroo, but I love DabbaDrop, which is curry delivered in reusable stacking tins ready for you to heat. The new pumpkin masak lemak with pandan rice is right up my street (£22.50 to serve two, available London Zones 1-3, dabbadrop.com).
Butter of choice?
The Estate Dairy cultured butter (£3.50, ocado.com). It has a full, rich flavour with a slight tang.
Most useful kitchen utensil?
A heatproof silicone spatula for stirring, folding and scraping every last bit of batter out of the bowl.
You can only eat one kind of potato for the rest of your life – what is it?
Crisp-on the-outside, fluffy-on-the-inside chips, with mayo and Tabasco.
Go-to for cheap eats?
Holy Sheep in Camden Market for the pork-belly rice bowl, Jaffna House in Tooting for masala dosa and Wong Kei in Chinatown.
Favourite cheese?
Comté, preferably 24 months aged, when those little salt crystals start to develop.
Top foodie holiday destination?
Japan. The food culture runs so deep there.
The Smallest Restaurant In Paris: A Memoir by Rachel Khoo will be published on 12 May by Maison Khoo, £18.99. To order a copy for £16.14 until 17 MAY, go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937. Free UK delivery on orders over £25.
