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| Chef Jocky Petrie - Heston Blumenthal's Genius - Gordon Ramsay's Temper & The Reality Of Working At The Craziest Restaurant In The World! | 10 Mar 2025 | 01:03:14 | |
Today we're joined by one of the most in demand chefs in the world in the genius Jocky Petrie who's overseen operations for both Heston Blumenthal and Gordon Ramsay globally, whilst casually also creating some of the most famous dishes in the world whilst he was Head Pastry Chef at The Fat Duck during its golden era. Today on the podcast we uncover his incredible story which has taken him from a remote village in Scotland to working at the craziest 3 Michelin Star restaurant in America to eventually becoming Heston's right hand man where he created some of the most famous dishes in the world. After 10 years pushing the culinary boundaries with Heston, Chef Jocky ended up being put in charge of Gordon Ramsay's business empire globally and additionally landed the role as Sous Chef on the multi-award winning TV show 'Hells Kitchen'. He now finds himself back working alongside Heston, as he's pushing the boundaries of food innovation once again, as they once more plan to be the greatest restaurant in the world. This is a truly fascinating interview, so please sit back, relax and enjoy. ----------- Please leave us a great rating and a comment and share it with your friends - it really helps us grow as a show. If you're in the industry and are looking for the greatest POS system in the world than look no further as Blinq are tearing up the rulebook—no long-term contracts, no hidden fees, and no per-device charges. Just £49 a month for unlimited devices and 24/7 UK-based support that’s always there, in person when you need it. Built for hospitality, by hospitality, blinq is the fastest, easiest POS system on the market—so intuitive, anyone can use it. And while others take weeks to get you up and running, with blinq, you’re live in just 2 hours. Join the hospitality revolution today & use the code GOTOBLINQ to get your first month free - https://blinqme.com/ Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep31: Lloyd Morse - How He Created The Best Restaurant In Edinburgh - Why He Never Settled At The River Cafe & Rejecting Christoph Waltz! | 06 Mar 2025 | 00:58:48 | |
Today we're joined by the legendary owner and Exec Chef of the most popular restaurant in Scotland in The Palmerston, the wonderful Lloyd Morse, to hear how he's created such a successful venture in Edinburgh and uncover some of his war stories from his career so far. We sat down to a delicious and incredibly boozy supper a couple of weeks ago and managed to prize out his greatest tales from; his time working alongside his mentor Skye Gyngell when they opened Spring together, why he never enjoyed his time at The River Cafe, how he structures a menu and his love for nose to tail cooking, the importance of working on a farm, the night he rejected Christop Waltz, Noel Gallagher's awful jokes, his younger days working at a terrifying Michelin starred restaurant in Australia, his hatred for certain items which should never be on a menu, the secrets to managing a team, why he never wanted to open a restaurant in London, the importance of properly training younger chefs, his love for shitty Hawaiian pizzas, why pissy livers are the greatest thing to eat in the world and much much more.... -------- Please leave us a great rating and a comment and share it with your friends - it really helps us grow as a show. If you're in the industry and are looking for the greatest POS system in the world than look no further as Blinq are tearing up the rulebook—no long-term contracts, no hidden fees, and no per-device charges. Just £49 a month for unlimited devices and 24/7 UK-based support that’s always there, in person when you need it. Built for hospitality, by hospitality, blinq is the fastest, easiest POS system on the market—so intuitive, anyone can use it. And while others take weeks to get you up and running, with blinq, you’re live in just 2 hours. Join the hospitality revolution today & use the code GOTOBLINQ to get your first month free - https://blinqme.com/ Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep22: Romy Gill MBE - A Valentines Day Nightmare Involving Grace Dent & Matt Tebbutt - Ready Steady Cook Secrets & How Fay Maschler Changed Her Life! | 03 Feb 2025 | 00:51:34 | |
Today we're honoured to be joined in the studio by the wonderful Romy Gill MBE who's an award winning food/travel writer and broadcaster and was the owner and Head Chef at Romy’s Kitchen, and In 2016 she was appointed an MBE in Queen Elizabeth’s 90th Birthday Honours List. On this podcast we discuss; her incredible journey from West Bengal to the UK, her memories of 1000 mile picnics to the Punjab as a kid, the magic of Tiffin boxes, why she can never emulate her mothers cooking, why she thought she was getting punked when she got an MBE, the struggles of opening a restaurant in the UK, a nightmare Valentines Day service involving Grace Dent and Matt Tebbutt, how a Fay Maschler review changed her life overnight, the secrets to cooking great Indian food, why Dishoom changed the game in the UK food industry, secrets from Ready Steady Cook and much much more..... ------------- Please leave us a 5 star rating if you enjoyed the podcast and a written review, it really helps us to grow and of course share it with anyone you think would love it as much as you hopefully have! Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Romy-Gill/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ARomy%2BGill Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep21: Emily Roux - Why She Refused To Take Over At Le Gavroche - The Pressure Of The Roux Family Name & How Cancellations Are Ruining The Industry! | 30 Jan 2025 | 00:41:17 | |
What a joy it is to be joined by the incredibly charming and wonderfully talented Emily Roux at her restaurant Caractère, which is celebrating its 5th anniversary and this year hoping that they may have just charmed the Michelin inspectors enough to win their first star. Emily is joined in the kitchen with her husband Diego Ferrari (Ex Head Chef at Le Gavroche) and they are creating some of the best dishes in London. Today we were lucky enough to sit down with her and properly uncover all her stories from her career so far and find out about the pressures of growing up with the Roux family name. We discuss everything from; the delights of French supermarkets to why she chose not to keep Le Gavroche alive to false claims of nepotism by jealous onlookers to the rudest customers she's ever had to how cancellations are ruining the restaurant industry and much much more....So sit back, relax and enjoy. ------------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep20: Niklas Ekstedt - The Brutality Of Working At El Bulli - Hiring An Unknown René Redzepi & How He Made Cooking Over Fire Sexy Again! | 27 Jan 2025 | 00:59:51 | |
Today we're truly honoured to be joined by one of the most famous Michelin starred chefs in the world in Niklas Ekstedt, who's inspired a whole culinary movement by opening his restaurant 'Ekstedt' in Stockholm in 2011. Niklas decided to get rid of all modern appliances; ovens, grills, microwaves, sous vides and replace them purely with birchwood fuelled fires. This creates a significantly increased amount of challenges for his cooking but also forces him to be creative and innovative to the point where he's invented some of the most famous dishes in the world. Today he takes us through his incredible journey from; growing up in rural Sweden to travelling to America to work for the late Charlie Trotter in Chicago and then onto being an early employee for El Bulli. He hated his time at El Bulli so greatly that he eventually walked out and headed back to Sweden to set up his first restaurant at just 21, where he employed a certain gentleman called René Redzepi. Niklas shares with us some of the most entertaining stories from these times but also some incredible advice on how to get the most out of your talents. He's a pure joy to listen to. ------------- Please leave us a 5 star rating if you enjoyed the podcast and a written review, it really helps us to grow and of course share it with anyone you think would love it as much as you hopefully have! Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep19: Seb Vince - From Selling £1 Ciabattas On Portobello Road To Creating The Best Pizzas In The UK! | 23 Jan 2025 | 00:53:05 | |
Today we're joined by Seb Vince, the owner and genius chef behind the most sought after Pizza brand in the country 'Breadstall' to celebrate his incredible career thats taken him from the advertising boardroom to selling cut price ciabattas on Portobello Road to eventually creating the best pizzas in the UK. We discuss everything from; how he came up with his award winning dough, the magic of the pizza industry, angry customers, stoner delivery drivers, his huge move opening up in Soho, the secrets to his success, getting banned from Rosa's, the best city in the world for a foodie weekend, his thoughts on his competitors, how he learnt his trade selling bread on market stools with his dad, why he gave up selling coffee and pastries for Pizzas, what he hates about the industry, his favourite restaurants to eat out in and much much more..... --------------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep18: Tim Hayward - Why Food Critics Have Gone Soft - How A Generation Forgot How To Cook & The Impending Death Of Restaurants! | 20 Jan 2025 | 01:09:31 | |
Today we're joined by the Financial Times food critic and multi-award winning food writer, author and owner of the famous Fitzbililes cafe's Tim Hayward to uncover his fascinating story and unpick his varying views on the industry. Tim has a fascinating life story which takes us from; working in the deep-south as an illegal alien working as a line chef in various diners to writing comedy for BBC Radio 4 alongside Armando Iannucci to becoming one of the most respected food writer and critics in the world. In this interview we uncover; why food critics have gone soft since covid, the hardest reviews he's ever written, why natural wine has a huge marketing problem, why you should never put a certain something on your bacon sandwich, how he turned around Fitzbillies from bankruptcy into a thriving business, the impending death of restaurants, how Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay made men finally fall in love with cooking, why he would never have his own Substack, why he's tempted to buy The Regency Cafe, what its like working in diners in the deep-south, why you should never do anythign for free, the secret to cooking the perfect steak, his favourite restaurants and much much more..... --------- Please leave us a 5 star rating if you enjoyed the podcast and a written review, it really helps us to grow and of course share it with anyone you think would love it as much as you hopefully have! Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI25 for 25% off everything from us. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep17: Christina Soteriou - Learning How To Have 'Big Veg Energy' - Holistic Health Hacks & Why Lima Is The Best Foodie City In The World! | 16 Jan 2025 | 00:33:02 | |
Today we're joined by Ex professional chef & viral foodie sensation Christina Soteriou, to uncover her incredible career to date from; working at some of London's top restaurants to setting up MOBs sister page Bunch to creating the most sought after Tahini in the country to debunking some abusive food based myths thrown at her to celebrating her brand new incredible cookbook 'Big Veg Energy' and much much more.... ----------- Order 'Big Veg Energy' here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Veg-Energy-Plant-based-people/dp/1529902347 Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep16: Martyn Odell aka Lagom Chef - Cooking At London's Top Restaurants - Becoming A Viral Cooking Sensation & The Magical Ingredient That Improves Every Dish! | 13 Jan 2025 | 00:59:19 | |
Today we're joined by the most entertaining Chef to ever post on socials, the wonderful Martyn Odell aka Lagom Chef who burst onto the scene with his hilarious cooking videos a couple of years ago and now has a loyal following of over 1.5 million disciples. Martyn worked professionally as a chef for over 10 years, working his way upto be sous at some of London's greatest restaurants including his favourite place he ever worked the magical; Andrew Edmunds. He then went to what he describes as 'The Battersea Dogs Home For Chef's' called 'The Underground Cookery School' where he spent 5 years getting drunk, causing mischief and teaching everyone from Hen Do's to Bankers how to cook, with some hilarious stories shared. It was then onto work for the infamous Joe Wickes orchestrating his rapid rise to success, before leaving to go and educate the masses on his real passion which is making better use of food waste. Martyn is an absolutely hilarious guest and it was a pleasure to be able to sit down with him and uncover his greatest tales, so sit, back, relax and enjoy. ------------- Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI25 for 25% off everything from us. Please subscribe and leave us a comment, and if you enjoy the podcast please listen to our audio only podcast that we bring out each Thursday whereby we interview the top chefs in the UK and beyond - https://link.chtbl.com/Vg8g3qpb Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep15: Elliot Hashtroudi - London's Most Exciting Young Chef On Creating A French Culinary Masterpiece In 'Camille'! | 09 Jan 2025 | 00:50:17 | |
Today we're joined by Londons most exciting young chef in Elliot Hashtroudi for an incredibly delicious and very boozy lunch at his award-winning French restaurant Camille in Borough Market. The food is beyond exceptional and so are Elliot's stories and opinions, as every drink goes down, we get more passionate about the various topics discussed from; the dark side of Borough Market to the overuse of Flatbreads on menus to why Camille is the only restaurant in London that properly does nose to tail dining to why other restaurants have to stop 'pretending to be French' to how he bullshitted his way into his first job in the kitchen to memorable life advice from the legendarry Fergus Henderson and much more...... Sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast and make sure you go and dine at Camille, trust us you'll be hard pushed to find a better plate of French food anywhere in the country! -------------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 15: Chef Calum Franklin on; The Challenges Of Setting Up A British Restaurant In Paris, The Dark Side Of Addiction & How He Made Pies Sexy Again!! | 06 Jan 2025 | 01:00:57 | |
Today we're joined by one of our favourite guests of all time in the delightful Calum Franklin, who currently oversees 2 incredible restaurants in; The Public House in Paris and The Georgian in Harrods. However, he's best known as The King of Pies, having gone viral all around the world during lockdown when he was showcasing his creations from his Pie Room kitchen at his award winning restaurant The Holborn Dining Room. Calum's had an incredible career working in some of the finest restaurants in the country, from the glory days of working at The Ivy cooking for the likes of; Al Pacino and Axl Rose to arguing with angry American OAPs at Borough Markets famous Roast. However it hasn't all be plain sailing, as he suffered for many years with a serious alcohol addiction that nearly cost him his life and shares with us the experience that had on his mental and physical health. Plus we hear about the trials and tribulations of opening a British Brasserie in the heart of Paris, how he recovered from a shocking review from Jay Rayner, why he's so passionate about extinguishing bullying from the kitchen, the magic of resurrecting London's oldest dining room in The Georgian and much much more..... ------- Order award winning meats direct to your door from Swaledale Butchers - https://swaledale.co.uk/ Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI25 for 25% off everything from us. Check out Square's an all-in-one restaurant tech solution here - www.square.com Please subscribe and leave us a comment, and if you enjoy the podcast please listen to our audio only podcast that we bring out each Thursday whereby we interview the top chefs in the UK and beyond - https://link.chtbl.com/Vg8g3qpb Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep14: Chef Will Bowlby - Running A Failed 'European' Restaurant In Mumbai, Surviving An Attack On His Life From An Armed Stalker & Creating The Multi-Award Winning 'Kricket' Group! | 02 Jan 2025 | 00:39:31 | |
Today we're joined by the co-founder of the ridiculously successful Indian inspired restaurant group Kricket in Will Bowlby to hear about his incredible journey that's taken him from learning his craft under the legendary Rowley Leigh at Le Café Anglais to being given an incredible opportunity to go move to Mumbai to set up a European restaurant and all the ridiculous unforeseen challenges which came with that including; nearly being killed by a stalker outside his flat, having to constantly change his menu to meet the needs of the locals and the joys of fighting off a deadly parasite. However it was in India where he fell in love with the local food and so upon returning back to London 2 years later he went and did an apprenticeship under Vivek Singh at The Cinamon Kitchen and learnt the basics of Indian cooking. 6 months later he set up the first Kricket restaurant in a 15 cover shipping container in Pop Brixton and after stunning reviews from the likes of Jay Rayner, Will now oversees 6 individual restaurants and 2 Bar's in London and today he shares with us his secrets to such success. ----- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep30: Jeremy King OBE - Britains Most Successful Restaurateur on; Go-Karting with Princess Diana, His Secrets To Success & Why His Investors Screwed Him Over!! | 03 Mar 2025 | 01:08:36 | |
Today we're joined by the greatest restaurateur of his generation in Jeremy King OBE, the genius behind the success of such places as; Le Caprice, The Ivy, The Wolseley, J Sheekey, Brasserie Zedel, The Delaunay and much more. For the first time ever he reveals his ind epth career story from working the floor at Joe Allens in the late 70s to becoming the most successful restaurateur in the world to his feud with Richard Caring & his fallout with his Thai investors he reveals it all. Plus we hear delightful memories of his intimate friendship with Lucian Freud, his plans to reopen the iconic Simpsons on the Strand next year, his days gokarting against Princess Diana, how he made The Ivy the coolest restaurant in the world in the 90s, the terrifying day he was chased by his psychotic head chef with a meat cleaver, recalls his rudest ever customers, reveals why you should never giveaway a majority in anything, gasps over the most shocking sexism he's ever witnessed and much much more... Plus he reveals all his secrets to industry success and what it takes to make money in todays market, so sit back, relax and enjoy his genius. ------ Please leave us a great rating and a comment and share it with your friends - it really helps us grow as a show. If you're in the industry and are looking for the greatest POS system in the world than look no further as Blinq are tearing up the rulebook—no long-term contracts, no hidden fees, and no per-device charges. Just £49 a month for unlimited devices and 24/7 UK-based support that’s always there, in person when you need it. Built for hospitality, by hospitality, blinq is the fastest, easiest POS system on the market—so intuitive, anyone can use it. And while others take weeks to get you up and running, with blinq, you’re live in just 2 hours. Join the hospitality revolution today & use the code GOTOBLINQ to get your first month free - https://blinqme.com/ Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep13: Jon Spiteri - The Genius Restaurateur On How He Created London's Great Restaurants Including; The French House, St John & Sessions Arts Club. | 30 Dec 2024 | 00:55:06 | |
Today we're joined by arguably the most successful restaurateur in the country in Jon Spiteri who has created such institutions as The French House in Soho, St John in Farringdon and latterly Sessions Arts Club. He takes us through his colourful career from working at Joe Allen's in the 70s as a waiter, to winning mixologist of the year in Australia, to mastering the art of hospitality in America before returning to the UK where a chance meeting with Fergus Henderson changed his life and London's restaurant scene over night. We hear about the hardships of setting up such famous institutions, the challenges of convincing diners to trust 'nose to tail' in the early days, the art of the long lunch, Jons close shaves with alcohol and drugs, the secrets behind hospitality, the main challenges facing the industry and much more.... ------------ Order award winning meats direct to your door from Swaledale Butchers - https://swaledale.co.uk/ Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Check out Square's an all-in-one restaurant tech solution here - www.square.com Please subscribe and leave us a comment, and if you enjoy the podcast please listen to our audio only podcast that we bring out each Thursday whereby we interview the top chefs in the UK and beyond - https://link.chtbl.com/Vg8g3qpb Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep12: BONUS EP - Appetite Special With Founder James Green & Serial Entrepreneur Steve Varsano. | 26 Dec 2024 | 00:21:18 | |
Happy Boxing Day to you all and we hope that you all had a fabulous Christmas, today we bring you something slightly different as we sit down with Appetite co-founder James Green and serial entrepreneur and founder of 'The Jet Business' Steve Varsano to discuss both of their incredible businesses and favourite places to eat in London. Plus Steve shares with us some crazy stories on; being kidnapped by gangsters, having a gun held to his head during his first business deal, why he uses metal business cards and what foods like on private jets! -------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep11: Jackson Boxer - How He Turned £1000 Savings Into A 6 Restaurant Empire - A Failed Partnership With Vice Media & Why Becoming Sober Saved His Career! | 23 Dec 2024 | 00:46:31 | |
Today we're joined by one of the most famous Chefs in the country in Jackson Boxer, who now oversees an empire of successful restaurants including the multi-award winning Brunswick House and the previous 'Best New Restaurant of The Year' winner Orasay. Starting out as a kitchen kitchen porter for Margot Henderson at the bonny age of 16, Jackson Boxer was no stranger to kitchens by the time he opened Brunswick House with his brother Frank, aged just 24. Having experienced success alongside him the previous year with the opening of Franks Peckham, they decided to team up and turn an antiques showroom into what would soon become London's hottest restaurant. It hasn't all been plain sailing however, Jackson has been very vocal about his alcohol and drug addictions throughout his 20s and how that almost cost him his life and career. He also opens up about some past failed ventures including opening St Leonards with Vice Media in the same month they were going bankrupt and how messy that got. Plus shares his wisdom on the state of play of the industry currently and why it's never been tougher to be in hospitality although if you look hard enough there are always incredible opportunities to be had, reveals some secret Christmas dishes from the Boxer archive and much much more..... ------------ Order award winning meats direct to your door from Swaledale Butchers - https://swaledale.co.uk/ Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Check out Square's an all-in-one restaurant tech solution here - www.square.com Please subscribe and leave us a comment, and if you enjoy the podcast please listen to our audio only podcast that we bring out each Thursday whereby we interview the top chefs in the UK and beyond - https://link.chtbl.com/Vg8g3qpb Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep10: Luca Dusi - Why Most Restaurants Have Such A Boring Wine List - Where To Find The Greatest Food In Italy & How He Created The Coolest Wine Bar In London! | 19 Dec 2024 | 00:55:57 | |
Today we're joined by one of our greatest ever guests in the larger than life legendary wine trader and owner of 'Passione Vino' Luca Dusi to sample some of his gorgeous wines, but more importantly hear his incredible stories from a life eating the best food and drinking the best wine in the world. We discuss; how he fell in love with wine bunking off school as a 10 year old and sneaking into local bars in Verona, where the best food is found in Italy & why he's not a fan of garlic in his food, how he created the best wine bar in London, the trials and tribulations of being a wine trader, why he wants restaurants to be braver with their wine lists, how supermarkets are ruining the wine industry, where to find the best italian food in London, his memories of working with the best chefs in the country, the best restaurant he ever went to in Tokyo which changed his life forever, what we should be drinking this Christmas and much much more.... -------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep9: Gizzi Erskine - How She Became Britains Favourite TV Chef - The Crippling Reality Of Being A Restaurateur & How Spotify F***ed Her Over! | 16 Dec 2024 | 00:51:47 | |
Today we're joined by one of the most recognisable faces in the country in multi-award winning; chef, food writer, TV star, restaurateur & now social media star Gizzi Erskine. Gizzi takes us through her incredible career which has taken in so many twists and turns along the way; from working in some of Londons top restaurants having been inspired by her mother's incredible food, to winning national competitions across the board for her culinary creations, to becoming the most famous lady on TV alongside Nigella, to starting restaurants with her Rock N Roll friends in Pro Green and Libertines singer Carl Barat, to losing her money in failed foodie ventures, to being at the forefront of the pop up movement, to getting abused by famous chefs and much more... ---------- Order award winning meats direct to your door from Swaledale Butchers - https://swaledale.co.uk/ Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Check out Square's an all-in-one restaurant tech solution here - www.square.com Please subscribe and leave us a comment, and if you enjoy the podcast please listen to our audio only podcast that we bring out each Thursday whereby we interview the top chefs in the UK and beyond - https://link.chtbl.com/Vg8g3qpb Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep8: Endo Kazutoshi - How A Third Generation Sushi Master Created The No.1 Restaurant In The UK! | 12 Dec 2024 | 00:34:00 | |
What an honour it is to be sat at the Rotunda interviewing the man who's restaurant's just been crowned the best restaurant in the whole of the country in Endo Kazutoshi. In this interview he opens up like never before talking us through;
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| S3 Ep7: Tom Parker-Bowles - Undercover Chefs, Royal Family Foodie Secrets & Working For The 'Horrible' Mohamed Al-Fayed! | 09 Dec 2024 | 01:04:28 | |
Today we're delighted to be joined by award-winning food writer and critic the wonderful Tom Parker-Bowles, to celebrate his incredibly colourful career and his new book 'Cooking & The Crown'. From getting set up by the Fake Sheikh in Cannes for a cocaine deal, to his raving days in the warehouses to his days working for the 'terrifying' and 'horrible' Mohamed Al-Fayed it's all uncovered in this fascinating interview. We of course mostly talk about food and his love of it from a very early age, including his memories of his mother (The Queen's) cooking, his local chippie, his addiction to chilli aka 'Culinary Cocaine', his favourite restaurants, his books, his travels, the joys of his job as a food critic, the royal families foodie secrets and so much more..... ------------ Order award winning meats direct to your door from Swaledale Butchers - https://swaledale.co.uk/ Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Check out Square's an all-in-one restaurant tech solution here - www.square.com Order a copy of Tom's incredible book here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Crown-recipes-Victoria-Charles/dp/1783256060 Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep6: Chef Ben Murphy - Pierre Koffmann's Protégé on; Sleeping On His Kitchen Floor, Dodgy Bosses & Getting Bullied In France! | 05 Dec 2024 | 00:29:44 | |
Today we're joined by one of London's most exciting young chefs in Ben Murphy, who was crowned National Chef of the Year 2022 by the Craft Guild & who's worked under some of the most iconic chefs in the world including; Pierre Koffmann, Michel Guérard, Éric Fréchon & Thomas Keller. Ben has worked his way through some of the most famous restaurants in the world from London to Paris to New York and today reveals the reality of being an Englishman in a foreign kitchen. From language barriers, to bullying, to dodgy bosses, crazy hours and everything in between. He then went off to set up his own restaurant 'Woodford' at just 24 which won Evening Standards restaurant of the year and received a rare 5 star review from the legendary A.A Gill, but ultimately ended up closing, when it turned out his investors were dodgier than he could have ever imagined. He's recently been Chef Patron at the award winning Launceston Place, but has now left to pursue an incredibly exciting new opportunity! --------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep5: Chef Phil Howard -The Highs & Lows Of Producing 30 Years Of Michelin Starred Perfection! | 02 Dec 2024 | 00:59:44 | |
How do you summarise the impact Phil Howard has had on the London food scene, well it’s impossible to do so! Having earnt his stripes working under the holy trinity of; Marco Pierre-White, Simon Hopkinson & The Roux Brothers, he truly burst onto the scene when he opened the iconic restaurant 'The Square' which went onto garner 2 Michelin Stars. Since then he’s opened two more restaurants in Elystan Street & Kitchen W8 which have also gained a Michelin star each. His story is as incredible as his food, overcoming multiple personal hurdles, addiction and much more to place himself as one of the countries true greats in every sense! Today he shares with us his thoughts on everything from; what he truly thinks of Marco Pierre-White, whether tasting menu's are now outdated, why classic french flavours will always reign supreme, what the secret is to writing a Michelin starred menu and much much more..... ---------- Order award winning meats direct to your door from Swaledale Butchers - https://swaledale.co.uk/ Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Check out Square's an all-in-one restaurant tech solution here - www.square.com Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegoto... Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep4: Nima Safaei aka 'The Duchess of Soho' - The Death of The Long Lunch - Getting Banned From Soho House & Why The Government Are F***ing Hospitality! | 28 Nov 2024 | 00:42:58 | |
Today we're joined by the owner of 2 Soho institutions in 40 Dean Street & 64 Old Compton Street Nima Safaei to celebrate the square mile playground he calls home. Nimah is a wonderful character, hence his nickname 'The Duchess of Soho' and relays some incredibly entertaining stories throughout from; the weirdest sights he's witnessed and tasted at The Box, being banned from Soho House, why the government are ruining hospitality, the death of the long lunch, sleepwalking after a heavy night into breakfast at Dean Street Townhouse and much much more.... ----------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep29: Roberta Hall-McCarron - Tom Kitchin's Genius - The Shocking Reality Of Cooking At A 7 Star Hotel & Witnessing The Rudest Customers Ever! | 27 Feb 2025 | 00:41:05 | |
Today what a joy it is to be joined by a Scottish superstar and Edinburgh icon in Roberta Hall-McCarron to hear about her incredible career that's taken her from the atmosphere-less kitchens of the only 7 star hotel in the world in Dubai to working in the brutal kitchens of Michelin icon Tom Kitchin to now running 3 of the best restaurants in the UK. We hear about sexism in the kitchen, the outrageous extremities of working in the Burj Al Arab, the brutal training of working under Tom Kitchin, her failed venture running a rural country pub in England, the excitment of cooking for Anthony Bourdain, her award winning cookbook and much more..... ------------ Please leave us a great rating and a comment and share it with your friends - it really helps us grow as a show. If you're in the industry and are looking for the greatest POS system in the world than look no further as Blinq are tearing up the rulebook—no long-term contracts, no hidden fees, and no per-device charges. Just £49 a month for unlimited devices and 24/7 UK-based support that’s always there, in person when you need it. Built for hospitality, by hospitality, blinq is the fastest, easiest POS system on the market—so intuitive, anyone can use it. And while others take weeks to get you up and running, with blinq, you’re live in just 2 hours. Join the hospitality revolution today & use the code GOTOBLINQ to get your first month free - https://blinqme.com/ Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep3: Big Has - How Jamie Oliver Changed My Life Forever - Getting Deliberately Burnt By My Psychotic Head Chef & Micro-Dosing On Saturday Morning Kitchen! | 25 Nov 2024 | 00:59:26 | |
Today we're joined by the legend that is Big Has aka Hasan Semay; Ex Head Chef, Sunday Times Best Selling Author, Junior Masterchef Host, Youtube Star & the funniest guy you'll ever listen too. Trust me when I say that this is a must listen to episode, the amount of incredible stories from; his father escaping as a prisoner of war in the Cypriot civil war to micro-dosing on Saturday Morning Kitchen to Jamie Oliver's 'Fifteen' programme changing his life (having been fired as a security guard and plumber) to being bullied in Theo Randall's kitchen to nearly being burnt alive by his head chef to nearly stabbing someone after service it's all in here and is quite possibly the most entertaining hour you'll ever listen too in your life so - plug in, sit back and enjoy! ---------- Please subscribe, give us a 5 star rating and leave us a comment and of course if you've enjoyed it share it with all of your friends! Watch our studio interviews in full on our Youtube channel here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofoodpod Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegotofoodpodcast?r=9kfyt&utm_medium=ios Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep2: Aaron Potter - Opening London's Hottest New Restaurant 'Wildflowers' Having Learnt From The Masters In Phil Howard & Adam Byatt! | 21 Nov 2024 | 00:42:03 | |
Today it's a joy to bring you the wonderful Aaron Potter who having spent years in the kitchen working under some of the greatest Michelin starred chefs in the country, notably Phil Howard and Adam Byatt, has now gone it alone and launched London's hottest new restaurant 'Wildflowers'. Fresh off a 5 Star review from the wonderful Grace Dent, Wildflowers owes much of its inspiration to a few key places; inspiration has, of course, been drawn from Trinity and Phil Howard’s Elystan Street, but the Mediterranean-inspired menu owes a lot to Bar Cañete in Barcelona and the extraordinary Asador-based menu at Porteño in Sydney. We get to sample some delicious food, uncover some wonderful stories and recommendations, so sit back, relax and book yourself a table on the appetite app! --------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep1: Ashley Palmer-Watts - How His 20 Year Partnership With Heston Reinvented Global Gastronomy! | 18 Nov 2024 | 01:01:55 | |
Today we're joined by one of the most important chefs to ever grace this earth in Ashley Palmer-Watts, who alongside Heston Blumenthal, completely reinvented the world of food during his 20 year tenure as Head Chef at the 3 Michelin Starred 'Fat Duck' & 2 Michelin Starred 'Dinner By Heston'. Today for the first time ever, Ashely opens up and reveals all the secrets, accidents and development work that went into changing the way we as humans think about, taste and appreciate food. He also reveals the genius mind of Heston Blumenthal and how he was the first man to break the barriers on fine dining and hence why he will go down in the history book alongside the likes of Escoffier & co. ----------- Please subscribe, give us a 5 star rating and leave us a comment and of course if you've enjoyed it share it with all of your friends! Watch our studio interviews in full on our Youtube channel here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofoodpod Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter here - https://open.substack.com/pub/thegotofoodpodcast?r=9kfyt&utm_medium=ios Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep30: Anna Søgaard - Launching One of London's Most Beloved Restaurants - The Dangers Of Customer Reviews & Is This Finally The End For 'New Nordic Cuisine'? | 07 Nov 2024 | 00:59:48 | |
Today we're joined by one of London's most in demand chefs in Anna Søgaard, recently Head Chef and creator of Bistro Freddie, to discuss her incredible culinary journey that's taken her from working at the best restaurants in Copenhagen, before ending up in London via the critically acclaimed Erst in Manchester. We discuss; how she managed to create one of London's most sought after restaurants, the joys of recreating fish and chips, the challenges of dealing with drunken customers, and why she left so suddenly, the joys of old Danish food, why we're experiencing the death of new nordic cuisine, the culinary secrets to implement during Thanksgiving, where the hottest places in Copenhagen are to visit, how her female led 'Suppher Club' is giving a voice back to females in hospitality, the dangers of giving power to customers to complain and much much more...... --------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Follow Anna here - https://www.instagram.com/annasogaard/?hl=en Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep29: Seema Pankhania- Knackering Shifts Working For Gordon Ramsay - A Terrifying Near Death Experience In Asia & A Preview Of Her Incredible New Cookbook 'Craveable'! | 04 Nov 2024 | 00:58:30 | |
Today we're joined by everybody's favourite chef and food creator and now cookbook author, the wonderfully charming & ridiculously talented Seema Pankania. We discuss her incredible journey from studying neuroscience at University to becoming a chef working for Gordon Ramsay to becoming one of the most followed and loved food creators online! We're also given a preview of her incredible new cookbook 'Craveable' which has the perfect edible anecdotes for any mood/situation you may find yourself in. We also debate a whole of host of ridiculous topics from; pack up lunches, to airplane food, to near death experiences, the risk of getting murdered at Midsommar and much much more..... ------- Pre-Order Seema's wonderful cookbook here now - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Craveable-want-flavours-every-mood/dp/1405957433 Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep28: Jun Tanaka - The Highs & Lows of Working At 8 Michelin Starred Restaurants - A Fire That Almost Ruined His Life & The Challenges of Being Marco Pierre-White's Sous Chef! | 31 Oct 2024 | 00:49:11 | |
Today we're honoured to be joined by the owner and exec-chef of the Michelin starred 'The Ninth' restaurant in Fitzrovia to discuss a career that is almost unrivalled in terms of experience and success. Chef Jun has worked at eight Michelin star restaurants throughout his career (including his own) and has learnt from 3 of the 4 founding fathers of British Gastronomy in; Albert Roux, Nico Ladenis and of course Marco Pierre-White. He's also worked under the guidance of Michelin starred icons Phil Howard and Eric Chavot and in this episode he takes us through all the craziness he has witnessed throughout his years, the highs, lows, tears and sometimes regrets of working at the greatest restaurants this country has ever created. We were lucky enough to also sample a couple of dishes from his genius mediterranean inspired menu at 'The Ninth' and find out in terrifying detail about a fire a couple of years ago that very nearly put his business and career into extinction; plus much much more.... -------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep27: Owen Barratt - Britains Best Sausage Maker & The Rise & Fall Of London's Iconic Foodie Hangout 'Monty's'! | 28 Oct 2024 | 00:39:58 | |
Today we're joined by the wonderful Owen Barratt who was once co-owner & Exec Chef of London's famous foodie hangout 'Monty's' and is now running the incredibly successful 'Owens Sausages & Hams' down in Somerset. Monty's at its height was one of London's most sought after venues but after rapid expansion and the unforeseen arrival of Covid, it was forced to close its doors forevermore. Today we talk about the shocking emotional and physical impact the closure of Monty's had on Owen and how he's managed to fight back with his latest culinary offering. We also discuss how he went from being a signed musician to deciding to quit the industry to pursue his dream of being a restaurateur and how he managed to turn a market stool selling his food into 4 physical sites in London's most enticing post codes. Plus we hear stories about everything from Aziz Anazaris crazy house party in New York to Andy Samberg's favourite Deli and all the craziness you ca imagine in-between..... ---------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep26: Sameer Taneja - Escaping A Tough Life In Delhi To Pursue His Dream Of Becoming A Michelin Starred Chef In London! | 24 Oct 2024 | 00:48:43 | |
Sameer Taneja has one of the most incredible stories we've ever come across; he was born into a working class family who were struggling to survive in Delhi in the 70s and had no connection nor interest in food, bar ensuring they could get enough on their plates to survive. However, Sameer fell in love with food and after finding a magazine with the legendary Pierre Koffmann on the cover, he vowed that'd he escape the country and move to London to become a classic french chef and eventually work for the great man. Well he was true to his word and after working for Chef Pascal Proyart at One-O-One he then moved to the iconic Waterside Inn by Alain Roux before eventually going to work for his hero Pierre Koffmann. However, not long after starting to work for Koffmann, the Chef approached Sameer and suggested that he stopped cooking French food and instead cooked the food of his Motherland, it made Sameer cry as all he wanted to do was impress Pierre; but this advise ended up changing his life and the London food scene forevermore..... --------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep25: Elliott Grover - From Cooking At Le Caprice As A 15 Year Old to Cooking For A List Royalty At The Oscars & How He Created The UK's No.1 Steak Restaurant! | 21 Oct 2024 | 00:53:21 | |
Today we're joined by the hilarious Elliott Grover to take us through his incredible career which has taken him from escaping Cornwall as a 15 year old to work for Jeremy King to go onto become the Exec Chef at the best steak restaurant in the country (The Cut @ 45 Park Lane) and also be in charge of the menu for The Oscars each year. Elliott landed a job working for Jeremy King at The Ivy followed by Le Caprice during it's heyday, before taking on a job at Scott's (London's Best Seafood Restaurant) where he worked his way up over 8 years of service. He then left to head up all of The Ned's 10 Restaurants, before going to oversee operations at Duck & Waffle. He was then head hunted by the infamous Michelin Starred mastermind Wolfgang Puck to run his restaurants at 45 Park Lane and also to oversee the food offering at The Oscars each year. Elliott has got some of the most hilarious stories we've ever heard; from Robin Williams to Kate Moss to Lisa Vanderpamp to Lady Gaga he's seen it all and has worked at some of this countrys finest restaurant's; so sit back, relax and enjoy his incredible tales. ------------ DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep24: David Josephs - Panzers - The Secrets Behind Running London's Greatest Deli/Shop! | 17 Oct 2024 | 00:53:00 | |
If you live in London and ever feel low, then may I suggest taking the tube to St Johns Wood and visiting the most magical place in this city, in the wonderful; Panzers. A refuge of incredible food and mind bogglingly exquisite produce, and today we've the pleasure of sitting down with the owner David Josephs to find out the magic and secrets behind this great store that's been serving Londoners non stop since 1944. We get to sample a whole host of their delicious delicacies, unpack the greatest stories from this stores 80 year history, find out why every celebrity in the country shops here, discuss the challenges of running such an iconic store and then at the end we're entrusted with tasting their new exclusive product......so sit back, relax and enjoy. ------------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep28: Val Warner - TV Regrets, Royal Family Baking F*** Ups & Why 'Grandma Food' Is The Greatest In The World! | 24 Feb 2025 | 01:03:02 | |
Today we’re honoured to be joined by a Chef who’s worked for the greats, a TV star who’s created 9 TV series of his own, an author who’s written 5 award wining cookbooks - but most importantly he’s Ben’s Hero - in the gloriously charming - Valentine Warner! We discuss his crazy upbringing which often saw him sat round the table debating with Harold Pinter whilst sampling his mums genius culinary creations, his tough years at school where he was bullied and called 'Fat Val' which led him to skip sports in the afternoons and instead steal the local trout farmers fish before he was whipped within an inch of his life, his career as a chef working for Alistair Little and getting brutally rejected by Rick Stein, setting up his catering company which became famous in London and catered all the high end fashion parties of the 90s including an infamous incident with Kate Moss one evening at a Rimmel party, ruining a member of the royal families birthday with the worst cake ever invented, illegal fishing trips to India, his regrets on not making more of his 9 TV series, his amazing new spirits company 'Hepple', his new project 'Kitchen In The Wild' where you escape on a luxury week away into Kenya to be cooked food by Jackson Boxer and much much more........ ------- Please leave us a great rating and a comment and share it with your friends - it really helps us grow as a show. If you're in the industry and are looking for the greatest POS system in the world than look no further as Blinq are tearing up the rulebook—no long-term contracts, no hidden fees, and no per-device charges. Just £49 a month for unlimited devices and 24/7 UK-based support that’s always there, in person when you need it. Built for hospitality, by hospitality, blinq is the fastest, easiest POS system on the market—so intuitive, anyone can use it. And while others take weeks to get you up and running, with blinq, you’re live in just 2 hours. Join the hospitality revolution today & use the code GOTOBLINQ to get your first month free - https://blinqme.com/ @valentinewarner49 @kitchenitw www.kichenithewild.org @hepple_spirits Www.hepplespirits.com Valentine Warner Food YouTube Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep23: Melissa Thompson & Pete Hewitt - BBQing Secrets - How To Run A Supper Club & Why 20% VAT Is Killing The Industry! | 14 Oct 2024 | 00:37:15 | |
Today we bring you something slightly different, as when I was uploading our interview with Melissa at the end of last week, we suddenly received a message from Pete Hewitt (Owner 'Everday People' Michelin Bib Gourmand/ Jay Rayners favourite Ramen shop) saying that we need to discuss the real issue that's killing our industry and forcing so many great restaurant's to close and that's the fact we've got the highest VAT in Europe. So I said, can you jump on call and rant at us for 5 minutes about how destructive it actually is and what you want to see changed, he luckily obliged and so that's the starting point of todays episode. We then move into our normal format where we're joined by the award winning writer and chef Melissa Thompson to discuss everything from; dehydrating kimchi to phallus shaped cappuccino's to the racism surrounding fried chicken and the fascinating stories behind some of Jamaica's most famous dishes..plus lots more...... ----------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep22: Chet Sharma - Stress, Sleeping In Kitchens & Taking Home Mise En Place; Why Bibi's Now Changing The Industry's Toxic Culture! | 10 Oct 2024 | 01:08:30 | |
Today we're joined by one of the hottest chefs in the city in Chet Sharma who's in charge of the critically acclaimed Bibi, which last year won the best restaurant in London. In this wide ranging interview we cover everything from; the story behind the incredible food at Bibi, the highs and lows of working in Michelin Starred classical kitchens, being hospitalised for a terrifying condition bought on by overworking and stress and why he's now fighting against that culture, working at the most controversial restaurant in the world, the terrifying physical impact stress can have on the body, redefining working hours and conditions, why it's impossible to find good waiters anymore, sleeping in the kitchen and taking Mise En Place home in order to survive, the best places to eat Indian food in the city, why some older chefs need to stop complaining and get with the times, his plans for future openings, handing over staff meals to AI and much much more..... ---------- Please make sure you leave us a rating and comment - it really helps other people find the podcast and allows us to continue to grow. Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep21: What Willy Cook - Coked Up Head Chefs - A Near Death Experience & Pranking Pierre Koffmann! | 07 Oct 2024 | 00:59:54 | |
Today we bring you a very silly yet entertaining hour with the wonderful 'What Willy Cook' aka William Hughes to discuss his incredible rise to fame over the last couple of years. We discuss; the fallout he's experienced since launching his homeware company 'Pleasant Home', his near death experience working in a professional kitchen as a teenager, a terrifying coked up old Head Chef he used to work for, why Paris is a very disappointing foodie city to visit, pranking Pierre Koffmann in the kitchen, arguing with the rudest Maître d' on the planet, how his sisters hospitalisation inspired him to start cooking, working with the MLB and sampling the greatest sandwich in America, abusive DM's, the secret to viral success and much much more..... --------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep20: Simonetta Wenkert - Risking Bankruptcy To Create London's Best Italian Restaurant, Why Meghan Markle Loved Dining There & How U2 Kept Them Afloat!! | 03 Oct 2024 | 00:34:36 | |
Today we bring you the fascinating story behind London's Best Rated Italian Restaurant 'Ida', as we're joined by owner Simonetta Wenkert. She's a writer by profession, who 20 years ago fell in love with the idea of having her own Italian restaurant and convinced her engineer husband Avi, to risk it all and open up their dream place in Queens Park. She takes us through the incredible challenges they've battled through from; criminal chefs they've employed, to the financial crisis which forced them to sell their house to keep the place alive, to getting ripped off by their corrupt property agents to almost having to close the business forever during Covid! However they've also had such wonderful times through; bringing their families recipes to life for the city to enjoy, becoming Prince Harry & Meghans favourite restaurant, serving U2 for a whole week straight, becoming the best rated Italian in London and much much more... --------- Please make sure you leave us a rating and comment - it really helps other people find the podcast and allows us to continue to grow. Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Buy Simonetta's Incredible Book - Ida At My Table Here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1835011098 Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep19: Michel Roux Jr. - The Real Reason He Closed Le Gavroche - The Death Of Paris's Food Scene & Why He Walked Out On The BBC! | 30 Sep 2024 | 01:02:01 | |
They don't come greater than Michel Roux JR. and so for our 50th Episode we're delighted to be able to bring you such a treat. Michel is on incredible form as he takes us through; his greatest memories of running the 2 Michelin Starred Le Gavroche, what he's missing most from working in the kitchen, what he cooked for the Queen for her 90th Birthday, who the greatest chef he ever worked with was and what made them so impressive, the great hurdles of running a restaurant post covid, how he managed to leave national service in France to go and cook for the French presidents at the Élysée Palace, why French markets are the greatest place to buy produce in the world, why Paris's reputation as a gastronomical capital is quickly dying out, the biggest nightmare days he ever had to face at work, his favourite places to eat in London and the one thing that makes cooking the greatest job in the world plus much much more.... ---------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep18: Tom Booton - Becoming A Michelin Star Head Chef At Just 24 - Getting Brutally Trolled By Fellow Chefs & How He's Modernising The Dorchester Grill! | 26 Sep 2024 | 00:42:16 | |
Today we're at the world famous Dorchester Grill, where we're joined by the Executive Chef the wonderful Tom Booton,to celebrate his incredible career to date; which has taken him from being one of the youngest Michelin starred Head Chefs of all time to now running one of the most famous restaurants. Tom started cooking professionally at just 16 years old and has since worked in some of the finest restaurants in the world from London to New York to Reykjavík. Today we hear about; what it was like working full time as a 16 year old in some brual old school kitchens, the pressures of running a Michelin Starred restaurant at just 24, the shocking abuse he got from fellow chefs upon getting his job at The Dorchester, how he's set about modernising and democratising his offering, his greatest life lessons, his favourite places to eat in London, how to tackle the Chef talent shortage, why he's fallen out of love with multi-course fine dining offerings and much much more.... ----------- Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep17: Alfie Cooks - How He Turned A Mouldy Beetroot Into 5 Million Loyal Followers, Nightmare Memories As A Waiter & Getting Death Threats From Angry Fans!! | 23 Sep 2024 | 00:45:35 | |
Today we're joined by one of the most followed food creators in the world in Alfie Steiner to discuss his meteoric rise which has taken him from almost being fired as a waiter at a high street restaurant for ruining a couples anniversary to boasting more followers than there are Croatians on this planet! We hear about; how discovering a mouldy beetroot in his fridge changed his life, the shocking death threats he gets online and why London is the greatest food city in the world and where to go plus much more..... ---------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep16: Oisin Rogers - Turning 'The Devonshire' Into The Most Popular Pub In The World - Barring Premier League Footballers & The Secrets To The Perfect Guinness! | 19 Sep 2024 | 00:47:31 | |
Today we sit down in the holy grail of pubs in The Devonshire where we're joined by the most famous publican in the world in Oisin Rogers to unveil his secrets behind turning this place into the most popular Pub in the world. We discuss; the secrets behind what makes his Guinness taste so good, what it's like creating an award winning menu with Ex Fat Duck Head Chef Ashley Palmer-Watts, the importance of having an in house bakery and butchers, his favourite pubs to eat in, where are the best places in Soho to party, the crazy lockins he's had with A List celebs, his crazy career which has taken him from rural Ireland to becoming the most famous publican in the world, the premier league footballer he had to ban from his previous pub, why San Sebastian is the greatest food city in the world and why the smoking ban wouldn't 'mean fuck all' for business...plus much more..... ------------ Download The Appetite app now and track your fav spots or places that you're dying to check out and book them easily all through the app - download it now. https://shorturl.at/yFXyK Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep15: Robin Gill - How He Changed The London Restaurant Scene Forever With His Critically Acclaimed 'The Dairy' - Working In The Most Toxic Kitchen In Ireland & Getting Attacked By Customers! | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:59:25 | |
Today we’re joined by a chef who’s had such a huge impact on London’s food scene it’s almost immeasurable, especially with the creation of The Dairy - a restaurant that defined the Nordic-flecked, produce-focused fine dining movement that has become commonplace in London today. He’s worked for the best chefs in the industry from Marco Pierre White to Raymond Blanc to René Redzepi & is now championing the next generation under his own stewardship. Today he takes us through his incredible career starting out in the most toxic kitchen imaginable in Dublin via Marco Pierre White's in London and then off to Napoli to work at the 2 starred Don Alfonso an experience which changed his perception on seasonality and the importance of farm to table eating. This was strengthened by his time cooking from the garden at Le Manoir and reaffirmed beyond belief when he went to work at Noma. Robin shares with us the highs and lows of opening one of London's most iconic restaurants from the critical acclaim to the physical abuse from drunk customers and all in between. We also celebrate his latest genius outlet in Darbys, which is everyones favourite place to eat Sunday Lunch, a revelation which actually angers Robin! Listen in to find out why............. ---------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep14: David Loftus - Internationally Acclaimed Photographer on; Selling 40 Million + Books With Jamie Oliver - Toxic Celebrity Behaviour & Gordon Ramsay's Abuse! | 09 Sep 2024 | 00:44:24 | |
Today we're joined by multi-award winning photographer David Loftus who's worked with everyone from Jamie Oliver to Nigella Lawson and everyone in between and is the most in demand food photographer in the world. He's also shot some of the biggest celebrities, musicians and models and in this no hold barred interview reveals all the craziest sights he's witnessed in his career so far. From A Listers ripping up priceless books to snort cocaine with, to getting nearly killed in New Orleans by a gang who mistook him for someone else, to witnessing Gordon Ramsay's horrendous abuse first hand when he photographed in his kitchen, to getting used and abused and going unpaid by some of the most famous 'instagram chefs' around and much much more..... David is such a wonderful orator and has so many brilliant stories that you're all in for such a treat over the next 45 minutes...... ------------ DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S3 Ep27: Stuart Ralston - Getting Stabbed, Gordon Ramsay's Temper & The Hostilities Of The Edinburgh Food Scene! | 20 Feb 2025 | 00:47:34 | |
Today we're joined by the recently crowned Michelin Star Head Chef and Owner of Lyla in Edinburgh in the wonderful Stuart Ralston to celebrate his success, find out he achieved it and dig out his best war stories from over 20 years in the professional kitchen. Stuart got his big break working under Gordon Ramsay in New York, having grown up in a council estate in Scotland and followed his father into the industry, albeit that was working in his fathers pizzeria rather than the Michelin starred kitchens he found himself in from New York to London to the Caribbean. Stuart shares with us some shocking stories ranging from; getting stabbed, the most shocking sights he's witnessed in the kitchen, slicing off his finger and carrying on his trial, working for Ramsay and what his famous temper is like, the beef in the Edinburgh food scene & how it's grown into a culinary destination (recently labelled the 'Best Foodie City In The UK'), his fathers stern words to him growing up, fucking up a trial at a Michelin starred kitchen in London, his hatred of foraging, the secrets to getting a Michelin star and much much more..... --------------- Please leave us a great rating and a comment and share it with your friends - it really helps us grow as a show. If you're in the industry and are looking for the greatest POS system in the world than look no further as Blinq are tearing up the rulebook—no long-term contracts, no hidden fees, and no per-device charges. Just £49 a month for unlimited devices and 24/7 UK-based support that’s always there, in person when you need it. Built for hospitality, by hospitality, blinq is the fastest, easiest POS system on the market—so intuitive, anyone can use it. And while others take weeks to get you up and running, with blinq, you’re live in just 2 hours. Join the hospitality revolution today & use the code GOTOBLINQ to get your first month free - https://blinqme.com/ Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep13: Ben Marks - Quitting School At 14 To Work In Michelin Star Kitchens - The Hardships Of Noma's Workload & Co-Owning Restaurant's With Phil Howard! | 05 Sep 2024 | 00:20:17 | |
Today we pay Ben Marks a visit at his neighbourhood restaurant Perilla in Newington Green, sadly it was closed for Lunch on the day so we couldn't sample any of his creations, but we did get to hear about his incredible career so far. As a young boy, Ben Marks loved food and enjoyed cooking with his father in London. At 13 years old, he was already working in professional kitchens. and at 15, on the advice of his bosses, he moved to Sweden to become commis chef at the Michelin-starred Operakällaren in Stockholm. A year later he was back in the UK, at a formal apprenticeship with the Academy of Culinary Arts, which landed him at Claridge's, followed by working at Noma for over a year and then rounding off this incredible hattrick of establishments by becoming Phil Howards right hand man at The Square. Ben now co-owns & is head chef at both the award winning Perilla & Morchella. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep12: Melissa Hemsley - Best Selling Author on; Creating A Viral Food Movement - How To Eliminate Deadly Ultra Processed Foods & What It's Like Being A Private Chef For A-List Celebs! | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:54:42 | |
We're honoured to be joined by one of the most important food writers in the world in the incredibly charming Melissa Hemsley, who takes us through her ridiculously successful career as a figurehead in the healthy eating movement, initially with her sister as part of Hemsley & Hemsley and now on her own. From her times working as a private chef for some of the most famous and musicians and actors in the world to becoming a 6 time best selling cookbook author to introducing this country to healthy living - we uncover all of Melissa's incredible stories from her illustrious career. Buy Melissa's Incredible New Book Here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Healthy-Unprocess-everyday-bestseller/dp/1529940257 ---------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep11: Mise En Place - Chef Masaki of Dinings SW3 - The Brutality of Japanese Kitchens - Teaching Cornish Fishermen Ikejime & Learning From Chef Nobu on How To Master Modern Japanese Food! | 29 Aug 2024 | 00:44:24 | |
Welcome back to another episode of Mise En Place and today we're in Chelsea sitting down for an absolutely stunning meal with Chef Masaki Sugisaki at his restaurant Dinings SW3. He's on incredible form as he takes us through his journey from; working as a child for his dad at the family restaurant in the early hours of each day, to moving to London and being disgusted by the state of Japanese food, to eventually becoming Chef Nobu's protégé and putting his learnings into creating arguably the greatest Japanese restaurant in Europe. We also discuss the brutality and hierarchy of a Japanese kitchen, why he fell out of love with the food scene in Japan, how he's improved the level of fish quality in this country by teaching fishermen the ancient Japanese method of Ikejime and takes us through why the Japanese eat KFC for Christmas and love chicken sashimi plus much much more..... ------------ https://www.diningssw3.co.uk/ Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| S2 Ep10: Chef Tom Brown - Bullying In The Kitchen, Michelin Star Closures & Why He's The Most 'Copied' Chef In The Industry! | 26 Aug 2024 | 00:56:44 | |
Having risen from being Nathan Outlaw's protégé to go onto open his own Michelin Starred restaurant 'Cornerstone' & latterly the award winning 'Pearly Queen'; Chef Tom Brown is one of the most respected chefs in London. Today he opens up as he talks about; the struggles he's faced with having to close Cornerstone and the personal identity crisis which followed, bullying in the kitchen, the fight restaurant's currently face to stay competitive yet profitable, the magic of working for Nathan Outlaw, how he's become the most copied chef in the business, what it was like to direct Stephen Graham in the award winning 'Boiling Point' and much much more.... ---------------- DELLI is a food platform, from the team behind Depop, that sells the best independent food and drink products that other shops don’t really know about. Head to www.delli.market and discover the thousands of creative products dropping daily and use the code GOTODELLI for 25% off everything from us. Watch and Subscribe To Our Youtube Videos Here - https://www.youtube.com/@gotofood Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/ Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||