 He returned to college after the war, and then spent two years in Paris teaching at the Sorbonne, where his interest in French cuisine blossomed.Returning from France, Perry-Smith headed for Bath, and was employed teaching French at Kingswood School, but he did not enjoy it.When a cafe in Bath known as "The Cellar", the entrance to which was through an old coal store, came on the market, Perry-Smith and his partner, Kit Hammond-Spencer, bought it and opened a restaurant.