GATHERINGS

Christchurch

ivoting. It’s the 2020 zeitgeist. But chef Alex Davies, owner of Gatherings restaurant in Christchurch, was pivoting long before it became the manoeuvre du jour. His first bout of ‘rethinking everything’ came at age 18, when he followed his parents to New Zealand from the UK. Having no idea what to do, “I enrolled in a chef course simply to make friends”. He ended up loving it. Then, in 2012, in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes, he responded to the