He then became head chef at the Frith Street Restaurant and Euphorium before joining the Terence Conran owned Blueprint Café at the Design Museum in 1994.
[3] In January 2012, he took over as head chef at Quo Vadis in Soho,[2] replacing Jean-Philippe Patruno.
[3] Food writer Matthew Fort compared Lee to Jane Grigson and George Perry-Smith, and was pleased that he had brought his style of cooking with him from the Blueprint Café to Quo Vadis.
[4] Jay Rayner described Lee as "one of those rare phenomena in the London food world: a chap everyone agrees is a good thing.
Lee was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to the food industry.